The evening times., 1900-10-12
DANGERS OF THE TRUSTS
Strong Speech Against Combines
at BridgeYiIIe, Del.
Chairman of the Democratic State
for His Recent DecIaraIions-Cor-
porations Crushing Ont Competi-
tIon-Door to Enterprise barred.

BRIDGEVILLE, Del, Oct. 12.-Efee-
tive speeches were made at mass meet
ing here yesterday. Those who d hverei
addresses were Peter J. Ford, Democrat
ic candidate for Governor: Alexand + NJ.
DAILY, candidate Tor Congress; John g.
Gray, and Willard Salisbury, Chairman
of the State Central Committee.
Mr. Salisbury, in attacking trusts. said
in part:
Under this great and benefeent Re-
publican Administration certain co-di
tions have assumed threatening
character that the people Of this ecun-
try are beginning to see the effect of those
policies which Democrats have opposed
for many years. No policy Of the Repub-
lican party has zen more strongly as
sailed than that of protection Demo-
Gratis year in ana year out have de-
nounced laws enacted by Republican
Congresses and signed by Republican
Presidents which have given special ia
Yors by tariff protection to special IN
dustries- They have predicted that L tha
natural course of business was interf- re
with for the benefit of favored classes
these favored classes would s5Cn as 5ume
TO own the country and cpSrate the Gov
ernment. And these have been SHOWN TO
be no idle fears.
The American people have trusted the
Republican party so many times and SO
long with the control Of Congress and the
executive branch of this Government hat
manufacturers have been fGstered and en-
couraged beyond all precedent AMI when.
as was natural n lines of business which
were profitable, inordinate competition
has appeared and three factories nave
been built where one was entirely sufh-
cient to supply the needs OF the con-
sumer, it has now come about that the
owners Of the three factories have got
ten together and formed combiEa lSn
The owners of three other factories
somewhere else II the country, CT of 500
other factories of the same kind. have
gotten together, until the production or
almost all those manufactured articles
which have become aecessaries CT life Ea5
been concentrated in a few hands ana
few companies capitalized at hundreds OF
millions of dollars have obtain q p-actf-
calIy monopoies in all branches CT bust
ness.
These are the great trusts of the coun-
try. Mark Hanna the other day said there
were no trusts. and yet his platform,
adopted by his convention at Philadelphia,
denounced trusts and said his party was
opposed to them. 1t took Mark only twen-
ty-four hours to come off his perch, and
he said that he meant in the eyes OF the
law there were no trusts. because the law
was sufficient to deal with them. And If
Mark had wanted TO go little further. he
might have said there were no thieves in
the world because there was law against
them.
Plenty of Trusts.
But fellow citizens there are trusts.
there are monopolies which have been ere
ated by virtue and under the protection of
the laws which Republicans have enacted.
They have reached out and seized upon al
most all the profitable avenues of business
in which men as individuals have been ac-
customed TO engage At almost every sta
tfon along the Delaware Railroad is the
physical sign and emblem OF of the
greatest trusts in the United States the
Standard Oil Trust Near every station
you will see q large tank into which is
pumped from cars the oil which you are
compelled TO have to light and heat your
homes. 1t has only been within the last
few years that these tanks have been
erected. and wherever they have been the
independent dealer who sold oil to your
family or drove around and delivered it at
your house has been forced out of business
This is the great Oil Trust
GO into a grOcer's store and ask him
the price of sugar and he will tell you that
sometimes it Will be up half a cent and
sometimes It Will be down half q cent, but
that he does not fix the price. 1t is fixed
by the Sugar Trust and the merchant gets
only his commission.
"Buy pound of white lead and you con
tribute TO the White Lead Trust Buy a
plug OF tobacco and the Tobacco Trust gets
its profit. Buy bottle Of glue and the
Glue Trust gets its 'rake-off You can
not put a sewer in your house unless the
Glazed Pipe Trust or Tube Trust taxes
you and gets the money in its treasury
Under the tariff law. Democratic orators
have told you that you were taxed from
the cradle to the grave for the benefit OF
private individuals and under the trusts,
as the benef1cent Republican laws permit
them to exist, you are taxed from the
cradle to the grave because when you are
buried coffin trust gets It's share
A Striking Illustration.
"Are there trusts? Is Mark Hanna
right? Why, Mark was simply perpetrating
OF attempting to perpetrate a huge joke
which did not work Is there a coal trust?
One hundred and forty thousand coal min
ers on strike in Pennsylvania know what
the coal trust means. They know that,
work as they may, at the end Of the
month only an average of 81 in cash is
paid to them. They can get things al
store at double prices; they pay
S275 a keg for powder worth SIPS and in
proportion for other things. But the net
result OF all miners work is said to be in
cash at the end of the month about 81.
Mark, who knows the owners and man.
ayers OF the coal trust, which are the
coal carrying railroads in the anthracite
regions of Pennsylvania, hopes to settle
this great trouble, which in ordinary
times would defeat a party. He goes to
his friends not in Pennsylvania, not
WiIkesbarre, or Scranton. where these
miners live, but Mark Hanna goes down
into Wall Street, to the heads and con-
trolling forces of the great railway cor
porations, and at his pleading they agree
to advance the miners wages 10 per cent
provided any reduction they make in their
powder shall be counted as a part of that
10 per cent Then all the trust newspa-
pers gleefully announce that the strike is
settled
''But it Is not. And the men in Penn
syivania, who have been little better than
slaves, insist that their organization shall
be recognized; that agreements shall be