The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-10

The latest trust announcement goes
farther than any that We yet have seen
to establish the superior moral as well as
economic value Of trust Organization
That announcement relates to the forma-
ton Of trust in gloves.
9he admirable frankness of the chief
promoters of the glove trust is entirely in
agreement with the high moral purpose
Of their organization. They make a num-
ber of declarations. and they are all of
the most hopeful and inspiring kind. The
glove trust, we are informed, is
organized chiefly TO tame the saw
age glove importer and to in
wade the foreign market for gloves
I'm the truly Christian spirit which
ROW distinguishes the foreign trade of all
modern commercial nations. We have
been spending a million dollars year
in buying foreign tfoves All of this is
now to be changed and the unlettered
foreigner is hereafter to wear gloves of
American manufacture alone. "Of
course" says the attorney for the glove
trust. 1.-THE main purpose of The trust is
to reduce the cost of manufacture and
to sell wherever possible. Instead of send
Ing fifty drummers we shall send one"
Then he goes on to say:
The jObbcr. too. has been a source OF
much expense as in many cases the
manufacturers have had TO advance the
capital to carry him along and this has
been a great hardship Profits which
heretofore have gone to the nOn-produc-
ing middleman will be saved and we be-
HeYe that the trust will result in saving
t. the consumer at least 10 per cent in
the price paid for goods"
We are careful thus to quote the ex-
act language of this ingenious attorney.
as lac is reported in the press dispatches.
If the reader of his language will but
sion for moment, he can readily dis
tinguish many of the grand moral results
which are thus to be secured to society.
If he is drummer, he will no doubt at
once acknowledge that the beneicent re-
suit of saving to him at least 10 per cent
on the price of his wife's gloves ought to
be accomplished, especially when it pre-
scnts to him the prospect Of cultivating
the delights of his home for full 965 DAYS
fin the year, and saves him the grievous
necessity of racing around the country
to make common, everyday
living. Inasmuch as this artless
lawyer points out that the I'M
fortunate manufacturer Of gloves has
heretofore been confined to 10 per cent
profit on his labor and outlay, it must
appear very plain to the average 1obber
who, after ALL is nothing more than a
non-producing middleman, that he. too.
Is called upon to do his little share in hast
enins the advent of the trusts, and especial
Iy of this glove producing trust. He has
as we are told, been source of much
expense and has had to De carried so
far and so often by philanthropic manu-
facturers that the adyisability NAV be
brought home to him of getting off the
earth, even if such a course should prove
to be necessary in his case for the efrec-
tuation of the great moral and economic
mission of the trusts. No man likes to
have it said of him that he is source of
much expense or great hardship to other
people. And when he has come, in the
economy of life, to be regarded as mere
interloDing non-producer, it certainly is
time that he should consider seriously
making a great amendment in his mode
of life
OF course there are others besides iob-
bers' retailers and drummers who will in
time reap the blessed advantages which
are thus set forth. And they may, per-
haps' be expected to offer some more or
less unreasonable opposition to the on
ward march of the trust. But even they
in time will come to regard the situation
as the jobbers, the retailers and the
drummers must do, and engage them
selves with the rest of humanity in the