The age-herald., 1900-09-27

ried on somewhere else. But the Argo Com pany as an independent company could not close down without serious loss; therefore, '-e chances are greater in favor of the local factory being closed down under a trust than under independent management.
 Quoted The Age-Herald.
 "Jnder the trust systems strike in one fao- tory brings no loss to the company but it does brin : great loss to the employes. Les me give ! ou a case in point. Tho Birmingham Age Herald of September 12, contained the fo.- lowing dispaI ch from 3esserner, Alabama:
 ".Work was resumed at the Central Foun- dry Company's plant yesterday, The m,n Who went out on a strike early last week re- turned to work on the company's terms. The management here is not responsible fer the reduction in wages, it having been ordered by the head office in New York, the reduction prevailing through ghout all Inc pipe plants be- longing to the company
 If an order comes from the head office In New York to reduce the wages in all the stafch factories, the men have nothing to do but to submit. The same greed which leads the trust to raise prices and extort from customers will allow it to lower wages and do injustice to the employees.
 The attorney general is seeking to en- force a statute of Nebraska. The law is good law, and ought to be enforced and the people of Nebraska City ought to hold
 
 than condemn him. The fusion forces be- lieye in enforcing both State laws and na- tional laws against the trusts The Kan sas City platform demands the annihilaton of all private monopolies and if the Dem- ocratic ticket Is successful l believe leg islation will be enacted which will make it Impossible for the National Starch Com pany to buy, bully or Weedle the Argo Company into joining a trust, and with the dissolution of the starch trust will come the dissolution of all other trusts which are now plundering the people,"
 Continuing, MT. Bryan congrat atulated the people upon having an attorney general who has courage enough to bring the suit, and said if the United States Attorney Gen eral had done his duty that there would have been no necessity for the State au- thorities to take up the question. He said that if he should be elected, the federal administration would be found moving against all combinations contrary to law. His words on this point were as follows:
 His Exact Words
 My friends, if the United States attorney general of the Republican party had done his>3uty he would have been enforcing this law instead of MT. smyth being down here tonight doing what the Republican national attorney general should do. This Republican administration has brought just three suits in the last three years, and yet more trusts were organized during the last three years than in all the previous history of the coun- try. I want you people to know that if we get control of this government the federal administration as well as the State admin istration will lay it's hand upon the starch trust. heard 1t said that you people down here felt some hostility toward Mr Smyth because of his fight against the trusts, but they do not feel any hostility towards me.
 T want you to understand that l am as