The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1900-07-14

that they arc making it and letting the
public have il at about twelve aud one.
hall cents a gallon.
There is no doubt about the aggrega-
ton OF wealth, with brains controlling
it. that they can manufacture any
article cheaper than il is or has been
manufactured on a small scale. The
great railroad combinations, many
| think, will eat US up blood rare
Occasionally get on little jerk-water
road that Is not in the combination,
and want 10 double my accident poll
cies and be satisfied with i5-milean.
hour gait and console myself with the
idea that | can ride all day for dollar,
but when get on the Pennsylvania or
Vnnderbu;lt system OF roads, with their
schedules forty miles an hour, vcstibule
trains, with parlOr ears, sleeping cars,
dining cars, | have hotel on wheels
carrying me to my destination, aud all
this for about two cents u mile Give
me the road TINT is in the combine to
carry me where am going.
Public sentiment is the safeguard
which is thrown around all aggrcgations
~ ,.ooltb orI c,,, l;nat;,.. 80 &. to.o..
The Standard Oil. the railroad combina.
tions, the Sugar Trust arc M sensitive
TO public sentiment as the snow-bank 20
the rays OF the sun. Trusts and com
hines will not hurt the public, but stock
holders and bond holders may suffer
later on, when these great bulky irstitu-
tious become unwieldy and full with
their own weight. Fifty thousand men
in the United states, perhaps not more,
are Interested in the great trusts Of the
country Those 10000 men know
that there are 20 900, 900 OF other PEG.
pie in America. and their wisdom
teaches them whore boundary lines are,
over which they cannot go without peril
TO themselves and disaster to their bust
ness. No combination Now says
damn the public" but they have their
weathercocks out on every prominent
cupola watching how the wind blows.
or course, political capital can be
made out OF such formations Of wealth,
and social orders may ruise the black
flag to fight them but ] am thousand
times more afraid Of dcmagogucs and
politicians than | am afraid OF trusts
and combines. Good government
which means not only the well.being Of
the citizen, but the overthrow OF all
that will hurt the acknowledgements upon
good men in office, and we had better
pay less attention TO what we call
trusts ind combinations and more at
tention to those whom we elect Co Office |
in the municipal, state and national |
governments. Mr.. stead. in his book |
III Christ came to Cmcngo,V speaks OF
the Big Four Of Chicago" and says OF
them That their methods arc clean and
their transactions are honest, but that /
in the road OF their success lies the
blood anl bones al the victims over
whom they have run TO SUCCESS The
successful man or combination means
tho town'all 81 other men and other
One preachcris preach.
Ing TO 5,00), twenty preachers around
him consider seventy live "A full house,
and a hun lrcd perfect JAM ono
physician making $4,000 year. and
orty little doctors In the ncighborhood
hot making their grub, A Wanamakcr
selling SOC, 900 900 year means many
little merchants applying for clcrkship
n his store. IL is the survival Of tho
lttest, il may be. When God made
his world lie made mountains towering
nto the clouds and valleys below the
eyei OF the sea; lie made lakes and
'ceans: lie spread out the prairies Of
he West and piled up mountains
round the little valleys along the
anges Of the Rockies and the ALE.
hcnics. In the ocean's winters we find
ihalcs and some very small fishes. and
lhcn tho whales como along tho little
sh have to hide out. have Travelled