The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-19
Ghe Nessemger.
THE TRUsTS-FACTs BETTER THAN
FICTION.

OAN CT hoAAOhr An
You need not to think h a Mr.. Bry-
an is as other with one
or two themes. His variety Is as great
as his physical endurance. He told
his nearer of h trust and its
bad doings. 1t has added in n year
a cost Of 500, 900 to the paper used by
the churches alone. And yet the mon
umental liars-three senators-say there
are no trusts. This is the statement
Of DIR. Jennings. of the Western Metho-
dist book concern Mr.. Bryan said:
The special says the report astound-
ed the ministers and they are talking
more about trusts than assignments.
And yet, my friends. Mr.. Hanna says
there are no trusts. There is a trust
taxing the churches OF this country
800, 600 a year, and the people, who
subscribe to churches have to pay II.
You will either have to subscribe
more money, or do less church work"
1t rs not to be wondered at that the
repacious d~evourers are losing favor,
and some of them are losing patronage.
Their unconscionable greed has acted
like the boomerang-it has returned
and knocked them on their own pates.
The Iron Age reports that mot a few
manufacturers who were induced to
sell their plants to the trust syndicates
regret their ilI-advised action. Some
of the most convincing of the argu-
ments to which they gave heed in
their eagerness to better their condi-
ton have been c~ontradicted with en-
phaSiS by recent experiences" 1t is
really good news to learn from the
Baltimore Sun that there is no doubt
that some trade consultations have
proved successful, but it is equally
fru that other concentrations of in
dustries have beer failures. otherwise
flourish of trumpets would not have
dissolved. professional promoters
and speculative financiers.' declares
the Iron Age, who have made a bust
ness of organizing industrial combina-
tons nave succeeded in bringing about
a great Many consultations which -
resulted in disappointment for all
concerned"
In the interesting campaign the
democrats are pressing in Delaware
some vigorous talk is heard on the
line Of the greedy, oppressive trusts.
The candidate for governor. Mr.. Peter
J. Ford, had some pointed, impressive
Things to say in one of his recent
speeches. He spoke of The Trust Par
-ty-" We copy the following:
Now the leaders of what we might
aptly term the trust party are trying to
juggle the plain citizen of this country
into believing that he is the fellow who
has prospered and that these trusts
are so patriotic and benevolent that
they love h plain citizen. that they
are just going to contribute twenty
five millions of their earnings to keep
him prospecting four years longer. CT
shan't, said a voice. / point out to
che farmer that he pays more for the
wire for his fences, the nails and hard
ware he uses in his buildings. the SUI
gar and groceries he eats, the
ing he wears and the oil and coal he
burns while the prices of his products
have not advanced, but in most in
stances are lowered.
They control both ends of the scale
of prices and they mark yours down
as fast as they mark theirs UP. 1 ask
you how long you think you can endure
his process. 1t is only a matter of a
little time until it will reduce the peo-
pie OF this country to a condition be-
side which the ancient feudal system
OF Europe was as an infant compared
to a devouring monster. You not only
must buy of them and pay the prices
they demand, but a great mass of our
American laborers u work for tn
and accept the wage they offer or be-
come tramps and vagabonds on the
face of the earth"
Mr.. Ford is close to New Jersey where
The huge trusts have been forming and
he is Well posted. Mr.. Langdon Smith,
a. northern democrat, says that Hanna
insults the intelligence of the workmen
with his foolish talk as to trusts. He
says that Hanna lives to deceive by
lies" Writing in the New York Jour-
nal he says:
Devoid of e~loquence and refinement,
he has neither the ability nor the tact
to punctuate his d~iscourses with any
thing more graceful han the oathS of
a bully n the gestures of a boor. Yet
his superior brutality has made him
great in his party.
I'm comparison, the believing n
: cheSt-slapping of Roosevelt, the puerile
and tinsel arguments of Depew, the
sophistries of Carnegie and the plain
misstatements of Manley are prefer
able to Hanna's direct insults to the
Intelligence of workmen.
Hanna believes hat the people are
TO be deceived by SpeciouS lies. He
u that his misstatements will
not be inquired into. He dares to assert
that the common rights and liberties
OF the people should be subjected to
arbitrary will OF a moneyed clique"
We have before US a formidable list
of great trusts, all republicans, with
immense capital, some large dividends,
one as high as 40 per cent, a year, n
NOT nna af thorn ;poraaSal tho waooS
of the employees one cent. The stock of
these huge combines are heavily wa
tered thus increasing greatly their divi-
dends over the reports based upon the
supposed capital, instead OF the actual.
MI. Smith writes:
Whatever prosperity the working
men of he country enjoy is due to
hard work, Unlimited capacity for Suf-
fering and the saving grace of God.
but to the republican party.
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