The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-29
Another Trust Nobody Would See
Dissolved.


Dissolved.
Let me give you another and simpler exam.
pie Of the trust. There is in this country a
great railway system called the big Four
Railroad" great deal Of It is in the state
OF Indiana, and most OF II Is in that state
and in the state OF Ohio. I remember the time
when the railroads that formed what is now
the Big -Four Railroad system were little short,
separate lines The service on each of these
lines was poor. The were bad. The tracks
and road.bed were far from safe. The passenger
Who wanted 20 travel any considerable dis.
tance had to get of the cars at one end OF a
line and get on other cars of another line and
the longer he Travelled the more he had 10 do
this. jtc had to pay higher fare and to buy
many separate tickets. The employees OF those
various lines were less in number than they
now are and were paid smaller wages. Free
Quenty the lines went into the hands Of recciv.
crs and the workingmen had trouble in getting
their wages at all. 4 great manager combined
those lines into system. What was the re.
suit? More trains faster time, better cars,
cheaper rates and through trains You can get
Oh OF that systems trains and, without
change go to distant points which before re.
nired two three changes and two or three
tickets. The system employs many more men
than the separate lines employed before the
consolidation. The service is greatly improved.
parison, but a contrast with what il used 10
be- Therefore, there il more travelling more
business. You are carried cheaper in palace
cars; Your grain is hauled at lower rates OF
freight, more safely and more speedily. And
So it is that great miracle is wrought; better
service and cheaper rates to the public on the
one hand, and more employment and higher
wages to the employees on the other hand; at
the same time more profit to the stockholders
who own the road Dare Mr. Bryan say that ne
would have that system broken up into the lit.
tic companies from which it was formed! II
he darcs not, he has abandoned his position on
the trust
Trusts and Young Men.
Mr. Bryan declares the trusts prevent young
men from rising in the business world. On the
contrary. the active heads OF most of these
corporations are young men who have risen
without influence any other aid than their
own ability to their high position. The preSi
dent OF the Carnegie Steel company is still
young man, and rose to his position from boy
in the works What the trust is looking for
what any combination OF capital is looking for
is fresh and vigorous ability. Unless they get
that, they cannot succeed | will venture the
assertion that more than ninety'hve per cent Of
the active management of the great combinl
tions of capital, is in the hands of young men
without wealth, influence or position, hut whose
worth and merit have been recognized by the
directors of these great concerns. II the trust
does not have such ability at its command con
stantly, it will break down, just as trusts often
and for exactly this reason, are breatEg down.
Keen, bold, daring minds will see that the
trust is not managed with ability, and they will
organize another trust which is managed with
ability A trust can only exist when each and
every department of IT, to the smallest detail
Of its business, is conducted with mathematical
and machne.lkc accuracy. And the chief de-
mand in this country today is for talented, in.
dustrous, honest and brave young men to ald
the mighty work which this industrial develop.
mCnt Of our civilization requires
As no woman who listens to me would have
the department store dissolve into the little in.
convenient high-prCed shops, sclliug poorer
goods in a more nconyenient way; not a
man in this republic would have any Of Ous
great railroad lines, which were formed cut
Of dozen SMALL poorly operated, hghpriced,
miseraby'equipped, inconvenient lines, broken
up into those little roads again, just so not a
man in this country is against the industrial
development of trust when il Is honestly and
Tighteously conducted, What we are all against
is the dishonest operation Of these trusts, just
as we are all against the dishonest conduct OF
any man. But the sensible thing is not to do.
sIoy them; the sensible thing is 20 remedy
them The right road is onward Coward 90,
upments are suggested the right solution viii,
certainly BE- found), and not backward toward
the day when the farmer reaped his grain with
a scythe, instead of with the self.binding har-
yester; not backward to the day when he
thIeshed il with a fail, instead Of with a vibrat
ing thresher; not backward 10 the day when
| the stage.colCh did the business OF passeng,r 4
transportation. instead OF the travel of the
country being carried at fraction of the price
the stagc.coach charged, and in ralace.cars,
with all the comforts and Injuries OF this won,
deriul civilization, The road to the true solu.
ton is Onward, and not backward and the
elements that are required in our statesmen in
dealing with this tremendous problem of human
| society," this natural industrial development, is
earnest thought, thorough study, fearless justice
and moderation, instead of violent and ignorant
assertion, inGamed prejudice and mad resof,
tions not to remedy, but to destroy,
Common Sense and Justice Required.
My friends, what we need is not so much
| sweeping declaration one way or the other
against the trusts Of labor or the trusts Of cap
| ital What we need is conmon sense and jus.
| tice. Common sense, in order that we may see
what is just; and the spirit of Justice IN order
that We may do what is just, on his dying
he'd Rcheieu, who created France, Was asSed
what was the secret Of his power, He answered;
Some say il Is cunning--that | am fox,