The Delta independent., 1900-07-20
Tbs Trusts and The People.
II REv. SAM z. JONES.

ahcSos soiHci duI Deing tOfmeu DN
aggresatiops Of capital arc considered
hurtful to The masses and the common
people. This is a theory. Theoretic.
ally thing may be SO, and practically
it may be very untrue. When We speak
OF trusts and combines we think OF tie
Standard Oh Trust. the Sugar Trust.
the Tohscco Trust, etc. When the
Standard OIL Trust was formed / WAS
paying forty cents gallon for kerosene
oil; am getting it now for ten cents
gallon. was paying twelve and one
half cents for sugar several years ago.
but when The comb set in We got it
at five and enc quarter When the
" Whiskey Trust was organized was in
hopes il wouId put up vhiskey where
the poor devils couldn't get it. bot they
have seemed to cheaper it down TO
where tbey can pay the government
el.15 gallon revenue on it and ye, sell
il for u S5i.. which demonstrates that
they are making il and letting the pub
lie have Il at about twelve and one half
cents gallon.
Thers = no doubt about the aggrega-
tion a weslih, with brains controlling
il. that they can manufacture any art:-
Gle cheaper than it is or has been mat.
U aetused on Il small scale. The great
railroad EXAMINATIONS, many think. will
eat ~ up blood rare. Occasionally l
get on . little jerk waller road that is
not II the combination. and watt to
double my accident policies and be sat
fed 9th fifteen mile an hour gait
asd coasole myself with the idea that l
can Tido oil day for dollar. but when /
got % the Penney lyania or Wand, r6ilt
systs0 Il roads. with their schedules
forty 0il<s an hour, Sestibule trains,
with peslor cars. sleeping cars, dining
cars. have hotel on wheels carrying
NO togards my destination. and all THE
for a6put tuo cents mile. Give me
the rno1 that 10 in the CON bine to carry
me vbere I en- going.
PubGe sentiment is the safeguard
vaicA = thrown around all aggreeations
Of vsa114 and all combinations OF inter.
est. 1 Seardsrd Oil. the railroad
combinstioss. the Sugar Trust are as
sensitive 10 public sentiment as the
the uowbaek to the rays OF the sun.
Trusts and eombinc. will not hurt the
public. bat stockhoiiers AMI bondhold
ers may sulBcs later on. when these great
bulky institutions become unwieldy ard
fall with their own weight. Fifty
thousand men in the United States,
perhaps not more. are interested in the
great trusts II the country. Those
5000 men know that there are 10.0o0,-
600 OF other people in Americs. and
their Weldon teaches them where the
boundary lines are. over which they
csnno; 60 Without peril TO themselves
and disaster 10 their business. No
combination TO says dam the public"
but they have their weathercocks out
on every promiuedt cupola watching
how the viDd blows.
OF coursc. political capital can be
made out oe such formations OF wealth.
and social orders may raise the black
flag to fight them: but am a thousand
times more afraid Of dcmagcgues and
politicians than am rfraid Of trusts
and combines. Good goveinmen.-
which means not only the well being
Of the citizen. but the overthrow OF all
that will hurt the ccitizen-depends upon
good men IN ofsice; we'd better pay less
attention 10 What We call trusts and
con binasions and more attention to
those whom wc elect TO Office in the
municipal, state and national govern
menis. M. Stead. in his book Il. Christ
Came TO Chicago." speaks OF the Big
Four Of Chicago and says OF them that
their methods arc clean and their
transactions are honest. but that in the
road Of their success lies the blood and
bones of the victims over whom they
have run 10 success" The successful
m m or co0bination means the downfall
Of other men and other combinations
One preacher is preaching to 5000,
twenty pesachers around him consider
seventy I've . full house. and a hundred
a perfect jam: one physician making
tio,ooo . yeas. and forty little doctors in
the neieA6oetacod not making their grub.
A wansoshes scllins s5o.oo.oco year
means msay little merchants applying
for ciesesAip In his store. II ie the
survival = The nttess. IL may be. When
God msas tAis world He made noun
tsine tcuSstag iato the clouds and valleys
below sbs Dsvel q the SEA; lie made
lake. ed sesass: He sprcad out the
the prsiriss q the west and piled up
mouutsieo aroupd the little vallcys
nLnna III nnnRnn n the R.nrkieu and the