Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-07-24

their business. No combination now
says damn the public" but they have
their weather cocks out on every pro-
minent cupola watching how the wind
blows.
Of course, political capital q be
made out Of such information Of wealth
and social order may raise the black
flag TO fight them, but am a thousand
times more afraid Of demagogues and
polititions than am Of trusts and
combines. Good government-which
means not only the well being Of the
citizens, but the overthrow OF all that
will hurt the citlzens-depends upon
good men in office, and we had better
pay less attention to what We call
trusts and combinations and more at
tention to those whom we elect to
office in the municipal, State and
national governments. Mr.. Stead, in
his book "If Christ Came to Chicago
speaks Of the Big Four and says to
them that their methods are clean and
their transactions honest. but that the
road to their success lies In the blood
and bones of the victims over whom
they have run to success. The sue
cessful man or combination means the
downfall of other men or combinations.
One preacher is preaching to 5000,
twenty preachers around him consider
seventy-five a full house and a hund-
red a perfect jam; one physician is
making $4,000 a year, and forty
other little doctors in the neighborhood
not making their grub. A Wana-
maker selling $50, ooo,o 900 in a year
means many little merchants applying
for clerkship in his store. 1t Is the
survival Of the flttest, It may be. When
God made this world he made mount
aims towering into the clouds and val
leys below the level Of the sea; he
made lakes and ocean He spread
the prairies Of the west and piled up
mountains around the little valleys
along the ranges of the Rockies and
the Alleghenies. In the ocean water
we find whales and some very small
fishes, and when the whales come the
little fishes have to hide out. have
travelled over this country from OCEAN
to ocean and from Montreal to Gal
weston annually for twenty years.
have watched the process Of events
and the professions as they marched.
| have yet to know Of a single instance
where combine and trust hurts tine
masses or permanently raised the price
Of any product. | am a thousand
times more willing to deal with the
trusts and combines and purchase
their product than | am to put my
money into their institutions and i'm
peril my holdings. conscious Of their
wants and stability and fearing their
final downfall.
OF course these great combinations
affect legislation. If they do not control
1t in many instances. but while they
procure legislation in their own inter
est, yet they have one eye upon the
public sentiment all the time, conscious
that they al just go so far and no
farther. Here and there they closed
down a manufactury or closed up an
institution and effected some individ-
uals, but we are not looking from that
standpoint. When we look at the
7o.ooo.o 900 Of our people, we say they
procuring cheaper and buy for less
money these products than they could
have done under other circumstances.
With the final dlsintrigation OF trusts
and combines-which will inevitably
come when financial disaster and
shrinkage Of values shall come of
course the surplus Of their product will
be thrown upon the market, and only
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