Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-11

waulSce, West Superior and Duluth,
IN anticipation Of what has taken
place, IL henped the docks with
coal, filled the sheds and yards, and
for those who are on the inside IL
dumped ton after ton in vacant lots
AMI covered the product with boards.
This means that the coal barons,
since the miners have refused
to continue work for starvation
wages, will keep their own In
come up to the standard set
by their greed by putting their
hands into the pockets Of Chicago
coal consumers and robbing them of
millions OF dollars"
The price OF con Is now soaring
aloft like balloon, and, by the nd-
mission OF Mr. George Merryweather,
general western agent for Coke Bros.
a. Co., has already reached price
In Chicago (S7 tom which that Of
fetal thought "would be pretty nearly
prohibitiye,"
Third, the trust Is oppressive TO all
competitors. Its motto IL, mo quar-
ter; death to the vanquished," Mr..
Henry ID. Lloyd's book, wealth ys.
Commonwealth" shows that the
Standard Oil trust, TO get rid OF
competing pipe line, hitched graphing
lines to II at night and destroyed il;
and that, TO down competitor, this
Sunday school corporation blew up its
refinery; while, TO escape the detec-
ton of some of its crimes, the oil
trusts deliberately burned It's books.
The modern trust Is the old time pir-
al, n million times magnlhed.
The trust Is oppressive to the pub
lie. TO gain its end II has gone into
politics, The trusts at that time ex-
listing, reinforced by the corporations
that have since blossomcd into trusts,
selected" William Mckinley, 1.-THE syn
dictate president" in 1896 That is,
they got him into the white house.
Figures published by eX-Gov, Altgeld
some weeks after the election proved,
however, that Mckinley was not elect
ed, but that his seat was stolen, as
was Hayes in 1870
In addition to the reckless use Of
the most gigantic campaign fund the
world has ever known, the most whole
sale and colossal frauds ever prnc-
ticed were resorted to four years ugo.
with the trusts now direct issue,
as they were not in 1896, and with
the number Of trusts multiplied many
fold, what may we now expect In
the way of corruption and fraud in
their agent, the republican party,
that they may elect their friends and
defeat their enemies?
Finally, the trusts are a menace to
PROSPERITY, The worklngmNn Is told
that his stomach is full and that,
therefore, he should vote to continue
the trusts in power with the hope
that they may continue to fill II for
him for another four years. A
skilled laborer commanding compare
lively high wages, an employee of
the great federal steel trust, said to
me IN substance u few weeks ago;
"The question with me Is moi, Can
1 liveT The question is, What of
these children of mine? What
opening Is there for them in the
world? Doors Of opportunity are
steadily being closed, have no
guarantee Of other solutions for their
problem than crime or the poor
house"
What OF the future of my children
This is the question that appeals
more strongly to the heart of the
parent than the gross inquiry, Is my
stomach full to-day? And II the
trusts are to be continued In power
the future of the rising generation is
bluck enough,