Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-08-23
MOTHERS ARE WARNED.
Trusts Deny Business Opportu-
mites to Their Boys.
INDIVIDUAL ENTERPRISE sTIFLED

HarDer's Bazaar Declares That wo-
men Have q Vital Interest In the
, Trust Qaestion Young Men De-
frauded of Their Birthright-Prin-
eipIe of Liberty Violated.
In a recent issue Harper's Bazaar, for
many years devoted exclusively to
women, gives editorial expression to
thoughts on trusts for wives and moth
ers. This expression is surprising.
first, because the Bazar ventures at
all into the domain of politics, and,
secondly, because Of the stand II takes
against an EVIL of Republican origin
and growth-a stand so contrary to the
policy OF all other Harper publications.
The Bazaar truthfully says that the
mothers of the country have q personal
Interest in the trust question because,
following upon the formation OF trusts
In the several Industries. there has been
a rise IN prices Of all these articles OF
household consumption" Figures are
presented to prove this statement, and
1t is justly argued that the low price of
sugar and oil does not Offset the adj
vance in other articles of daily use.
Continuing, The Bazaar says: ut Is
human nature for men 10 make money.
and when few persons control 80 or
% per cent Of a business supplying the
needs Of a whole country they will put
up the prices just as high as they dare,
and they dare do just about what they
please, because they are 50 strong they
can crush out any individual resist
ance."
But The Bazaar recognizes the serious
truth that the increased cost Is not
the most dangerous feature of the
trusts. Far more serious Is the fact"
points out The Bazaar, that the field Of
opportunity for the growing boy IS
almost entirely removed, the chance for
individual effort reduced to a mini
mum. Take the Standard OIL company,
for instance. The profits OF this con-
Germ for the current year are estimated
at $92, 100000. Would not Mr.. Rookie
Teller smile II your son set out to es-
tablish a business that would snatch
the power to fix prices out OF Mr.
Rockefeller's hands? Precisely there Is
where trusts have mothers by the
heartstrings. 1t Is not so bad about
prices-we may struggle and meet this
but trusts impose upon our sons a
future serfdoIn.
1.-The individual enterprise that is pos
slble under n reign OF trusts is n resort
20 the economic conditions of the bar
bariaD. The alternative is serfdom-a
Clerkship. If you will. a managerial po-
sition, at n handsome salary in the
trust concern perhaps. but he is the
mInion OF the sugar king. the coal
baron-the trust that employs him. He
Is creature OF the trust. with no hope
no future in which lie may be master
OF himself.
"This IL woman's cause for hating
trusts. for fearing monopolistic tenden-
cies OF every sort Her boy, yours, and
yours are defrauded of their American
birthright-liberty and Independence
while trusts operate TO create a royal
descent of money kings 10 rule the
common people. Woman's enmity
against trusts Is not on economic
grounds II stands on the American
principle OF liberty and equal rights,
and the strength OF il is the force Of a
mothers pride in her son"
This is a view of the trust question
to which The World Herald has more
than once called attention. but II can
not be emphasized too often, and espe-
cially are we gratified TO see The Bazaar
impressing IL upon the mothers OF the
land, for. after all man may do or
attempt TO do. the hand that rocks the
cradle Is the hand that rules the
world" II the present generation does
Eot prevail against the great trust
curse, the rising generation will do so,
II mothers so decree.-Omaha World
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