The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-10-18

MUSE anu 9lo IOr d business place per
year and is making money. The ex-
orbitant rates of express monopolies
are notorious, and even railroads have
been known to make excessive charges.
Municipal Franchises.
| 1t is me same with all our city mon
opolies. Gas sells at 81 which can
be made for 20 cents and distributed
for Is, as we know from various gas
reports and investigations.
The above are but few samples
from an enormous mass Of facts dem
onstrating that private monopoly
tends to extortion.
| Extortionate charges lead, of course,
to enormous profits and the building
of vast fortunes which become, in their
turn, the instruments of further ex-
tortion. The monopolists roll in
wealth, while the working masses and
competitive classes are cheated out Of
their fair share of the worlds wealth.
Those who build palaces do not live
| in them.
Builders Enter Not In.
Those who dig coal have little fuel,
Those who make clothes are ill-clad,
Those who grow wheat and corn are
poorly fed.
Those who build railroads do not
travel
Those who do most Of the work do
not enjoy the fruits of their labor,
while those who do little or nothing,
enjoy much; all because privat mon
opoly gives some men the power of
appropriating what others produce.
Here are some of the profits private
monopoly has made:
Oil trusts $23, ,O00.O in three months
about 100 Fer cent year on the cap
ital, water and ALL (The oil monop-
oily has been known to make $40 per
cent on it's whole capital and on one
investment 1900 per cent per year was
obtained through railroad favoritism.
Wealth Against Commonwealth, PIP.
81, 80, 1907
| Profits of Monopoly.
Steel $42,50O.0O0 year
about 30 per cent on water and ALL
Sugar trust, 200 to 400 per cent.
Wire trust, 60 per cent.
Tin plate trust, 40 per cent.
| Pennsylvania coal, 30 per cent
Fifth Ave. bank (New York;, $50
per cent.
Chemical bank New York;, 200 per
cent.
Metropolitan Telephone Co., $50 per
cent.
Bell monopoly, s5,00O,OOO a year. As
Of It's total income.
| Telegraph monopoly ION original in
vestment), 800 per cent year.
Bay State Gas Co., go per cent a
| year.
Cleveland Gas Co., IA per cent a
year.
New York Gas, s3OO,OOO,00O in ten
years, or enough to pay 10 per cent on
the investment and duplicate all the
plants besides.-- New York Senate In
vestigation).
| Metropolitan Street Ry. System, New
| York, 2S per cent.
Philadelphia Traction-$5. 500, 600
| 16 per cent on investment
18th and 18th Street Co.. 65 per
| cent.
Philadelphia City 81 per cent.
Ridge Avenue AZ per cent.
Citizens Co., 67 per cent.
I'd and Sd Streets, 25 per cent.
Union, 81 per cent.
The excessive charges and exorbi-
TAM profits of private monopoly are
nothing more nor less than taxation
without representation. You are no.
represented in the oil trust, the steel
trust, the coal combine, the Chemical
bank, the gas, electric, street railway,
telegraph, telephone, railroad, beef, SUI
gar, copper and tin monopolies. Yet
they levy taxes on you.
Watered Stock.
The monopolists know that their
outrageous profits may rouse the peo-
pie II they become known and so many
OF those most open to the public gaze
try to hide their gains by watering
their capital. Ninety per cent on the
real investment is only 9 per cent on
a capital watered to tenfold bulk.
Fraud and extortion are among the
most prolific, and are quite the most
deplorable Of All the results Of private
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