The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-09-28
TRUSTISM AND SOCIALISM.
can Honest Confession Is Good for the
Sout'-The People Must Choose Be-
tween the Two Isms.

tween tho Two Isms.
The American republic was built
upon the foundation of individual
enterprise. This old economic order
which has produced what we know
as the American character, with all
its vigor. audacity and self-reliance,
it threatened from two sides. The
avowed socialists would take all bust
ness out of the hands of private citi-
zens and intrust it to public officials.
The trusts would take it out of the
hands of ordinary men and give it to-
a few inonopolists.
In so far as the conduct of the ma
tional industries is concerned, there
is no difference between state social
ish individual enterprise in business.
Both reduce the population to the
position of employees. But there is a
great difference in the distribution
of the product, and the effects on ma
tional happiness and character. State
socialism gives everything produced
to the workers. Trust socialism gives
which they can be induced to labor
and turns over everything else to a
handful of capitalists. Under state
socialism the employee is a self-res-
pecting public official who works for
no man, but for the whole commu-
nifty, of which he is citizen equally
with his superior officer. Under trust
socialism the employe is the servant.
He is working for men who stand on
an entirely different level from his
own.
BY all it's traditions the democratic
party is pledged to the maintenance
of the American system of individual
enterprise as far as possible. The
ideal of it's founders was state of
society in which every man should
be his own master. But due regard
must be paid to the course of social
The tendency toward
the concentration of industries in
many directions cannot be and ought
not to be resisted. Where an industry
has passed beyond the stage in which
go-as-you-please manage
ment can secure the best results for
the public, it ought to be organized
under a single control. But in that
case, as a rule, that control should
be directed by public authority.
In other words. where the progress
of events has made an infusion of So
cialism unavoidable, the democracy
prefers state socialism to trust So
That is the case, for instance. in
the matter of the telegraphs. The
telegraph business is organized on a
socialistic basis. a single
vast system extends it's wires firm Key
West to Puget sound. Competition is
practically nonresident and individ-
ual enterprise entirely so. In such cir
In every respect except
it's management and the distribution
of it's profits the telegraph system
Is public enterprise, and the process
of naturalization ought to be made
So of the railroads. We have not
yet reached the single railroad trust
that is to control all the transpor-
tation routes of the country, but
things are moving that way so rapidly
that the end is plainly in sight. Al
ready we have single men in command
of railroad systems greater than the
whole mileage of important European
Half a dozen men could
get together about a lunch table and
dictate the policy of all the roads in
the United States.
The railroad system has passed be-
yond the competitive stage of organi-
zation, and therefore ought to belong
to the public.
The foregoing is Tin part) an article
which appeared simultaneously in the
New York Journal the Chicago Amer
can and the San Francisco Examines.