The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-03-23
THE MONEY TRUST.
Taking the Life Out Of Lee
gitimate Trade.

Ultimate Trade.
Trusts concentrate wealth and pow
or into a few hands, Imperial govern
ments do likewise. A republic fosters
the diffsusion of both wealth and
power among the many and is the
organized foe of monopoly. An en-
pire distributes the honors, advan-
tages and pcrquisites Of official sta
ton among the few who stand near
the throne. Trusts seek to install
their friends and advocates i'm Official
position and to close the avenues of
advancement against all except their
known a%pologists. To all intents and
purposes an empire is a governmental
trust, and a kindred financial system
and all empires have such-is the
most efficient instrume nt in it's equip
ment of tyranny. The philosophy OF
republics is expressed in the maxinn:
"Equal rights TO all, special privileges
to none IL our republic is to live
il must have a money system not
copied from empires, but equal TO the
broad and generous character of its
fundamental laws. Trusts conccn-
trate into n few hands not alone the
profits of industry and trade, but
sinews of war and political power fall
into their keeping sequent to heart
less commercial conquest. 1t is n
natural connection of consequent TO
a~ntecedent. Having excluded the
many from profitable employment
they find il an easy task to advance
and wrench political power from the
excluded classes.
In their origin and throughout their
development trusts, great and small,
are essentially imperialistic. Their
fruit. however. alluring and tempting,
ripens only in the deadly shade OF
despotism. They are simply intoier-
able in a country whose settled policy
is that Of freedom. y republic whose
! industries are dominated by trusts is
already stricken with a fatal malady
. "a deadly raralysis-and can only he
, rescued by united and heroic action.
Where the leading industries are DOM
mated by trusts the government may
: be republican in form. but it will be
/, found to be monarchial in spirit and
, IN Ull.lalIdtiOi Ht RAFAs ~ -
last analysis and best definition. is
simply organized criminal aggression
in business.
r Conscience and the golden rule
those divine restraints which should
qualify and temper all human trans
actions. are excluded from its bust
Y ness code. It's law is force. 1t holds
- ..~,-x. nth go vfa+frnS II lOols IL
3 a large military establishment ant
not to the affection and support O.
| the people for safety. 1t 'dema nd
that the plundered classes shall b.
held in subsection. The trust is full
brother to militarism. The twain arr
of one blood and both are black witt
y the guilt OF gain. Each in its spher'
destroys human life and lays desolat'
human habitations. The skull ant
cross-bones, or crouching panther
should be blazoned as a trade-mar
across the door Of the council cham
Der where trust ma gnates and bene
fciaric- meet TO plot the plumber 0
mankind.
ale takes my house who takes tn
prop that doth sustain my house. IL
takes my life who takes the mean
whereby ! live"
The East India company was tn
first great chartered monopoly know
among English speaking people !
!. was organized solely for the crimina
exploitations of the defenseless IL
, habitants of India. 1t has spawne
its voracious progeny over all chris
tendon. Edmund Burke says til
company was a state disguised rs
merchant" IL gradually absorbe
: and exercised all attributes of sovel
: eighty belonging to the British en-
pre-.
. Although n mere corporation, yet D
act of parliament il was clothed wit
authority TO levy war and conclud
&c peace. Our trusts exercise simila
n power. They use the government
st their policeman. From the days
ne the East India com any to the birt
in OF its last lineal descendant in Ne
Jersey. in this year Of Our lord. Il
p growth of the Whole trust family h;
ig been one unbrokcn evolution in Grim
Id 1t is simply n highly developed SIP
ed cies of amphibious piracy made pc
III feet by methodical selection and stir
ulated 10 a development which enabl
IL TO act with like efficiency upon 81
ng or land. Piracy was regarded as
Is. Ultimate industry for centuries. ja
on ms trust and trust Expectations a
We now regarded in the opinion OF man
The pirate and the promoter Of trus
lt are related in blood and blood W
lid tell. Their mission is the same
i plumber. The bloody rover OF the $
er cleared from no port. He rcpreser
Ier ed no state or sovereign. His swo
tn and cutlass constituted his m
sion. Finally all nations rose al
drove these frecbootcrs from the set
". They were forced to do so or 81
we render the common highway OF \
he tions TO cut-throats and the domini
re Of the black flag. But the trust pira