Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-08-29
COUNTY TICKET.
BRYAN ANDTRUSTS.

Inere Is Such thing as imper-
1alism, for example the imperial
government of China, but imper-
lalism as candidate Bryan applies
it to Americanism is worse than
child's talk, for children don't
know, and Bryan has reached that
age and stage of experience and
knowledge when he should and
does know better. Again, there
are such things as trusts, but here,
as with Imperialism Bryan is off
when he denounces the republican
party as being a party of trusts.
He does not draw the proper dis
tinctiOn. He is not fair enough to
tell his hearers that trusts are bus
lness organizations and not politi-
cal organizations. The trusts are
business rings and the most COM
plete rings that men have ever or
ganized. The business rings are
dominated in part by boards Of
trade who have their head quarters
in the cities where they sit in pal
atial offices and control the prices
of business. Mr.. Bryan has not
enough money to buy seat as a
member of board of trade in New
York city the head center of all
the trust and business rings in the
country. There is no politics in
their business matters. They have
neither politics or religion. They
are like a fish destitute of senti-
ment or affection that will devOur
Its own spawn to accomplish its
purpose. Every store in Juniata
county and every store in the
United States is run by a trust
ring, and SO thoroughly organized
is the trust ring that the store
keepers cannot buy a spool of
thread or yard of calico under the
price list price that is sent there
every few days. That isn't poll
tics. That is business ring work.
You can't buy a tombstone for
your mothers grave OF your
child's grave or your husbands or
wife's grave, that has been exempt
from the clutch of the trust ring.
The business ring fixes the price at
the quarry and your local dealer is
as helpless as you are as to
regulation of first cost. 1t is even
SO with coffins, and when Mr.. Bry-
an has gone the way of all flesh,
the business trust ring will have
received its quota for the coffin
that will be furnished to him by
the local dealer, for the local dealer
must stand and deliver the trust
ring price in the first cost, and
when tombstone is placed over
his grave, it will be furnished un-
der the price of the trust ring
price. That's business and not
politics. Mr.. Bryan is as much
off on trusts as he is on imperial
ism. Sugar, coal oil, gas and ev-
cry other article of large consump-
ton is dominated in its price
by the trust rings. Some
times the price of this or that may
be higher or lower, according to
the supply and demand, but all the
same the business ring gets its divy
and that is business and not poll
tics. When 40 different groceries in
as many different places in Philadel-
phia are run by trust ring that is
business. When a dozen doctors
have organized in Pittsburg, each
for a certain district and a drug store
for each doctor, that is trust ring
work. When a score of dentists
have organized and run the tooth
pulling and ,tOOth-repairing bust
ness In many towns and cities that
is trust ring work for which the
republican party is not more re-
sponsible than the man in the
moon.