Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-10-19

ating in the same place at Sc for
house and SIS for 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.
IT is .ne same VITA all our city mon
opolies. Gas sells at 81 which can
be made for 20 cents and distributed
for 10, 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 thelr
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.
BulIders 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 40 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 trust-S23 Goa, 900 in three months
about 100 per cent a year on the cap
ital, wafer and all. (The oil monop-
oily has been known to make 500 per
cent on its whole capital, and on one
investment 1900 per cent per year was
obtained through railroad favoritism.
w ealth Against Commonwealth, PIP.
CT, SO, 1C0)
Profits of Monopoly.
Steel trust-s42 100000 a year
about so 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, 80 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,OoO,OOo year, As
of its total income.
Telegraph monopoly ION original In
vestment), 300 per cent year.
Bay State Gas Co., 60 per cent a
year.
Cleveland Gas Co., IA per cent a
year.
New York Gas, $300,00O,OOO 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, % per cent.
Philadelphia Tracton-S5, 500, 600
16 per cent on investment.
18th and 18th Street Co.. Go pei
cent.
Philadelphia City 81 per cent.
Ridge Avenue AZ per cent.
Citizens Co., 67 per cent.
I'd and Sd Streets, rs per cent.
| Union, 81 per cent
The excessive charges and exorbi-
tan. profits Of private monopoly are
nothing more nor less than taxation
without representation. You are no
represented in the oil trust, the stee
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 theil
outrageous profits may rouse the peo
pie if 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 or
capital watered to tenfold bulk
Fraud ana extortion are among thu
most prolific, and are quite the mos
deplorable of all the results of private
monopoly.