The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-25
Don't Subsidize the Trusts.

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He is right.
The essence OF a trust Is mo
nopoly. Bat there can be no mo-
nopoly when there is competition
within the same trade area.
Therefore IA trust whose field is
the United States could not he a
monopoly ifthe area in which the
people could trade covered the
whole world.
The Steel and Wire Trust is IA
"criminal trust" which has been
swindliug its own stock holders
and keeping prices mp until it
forced consumers 10 resort to sub
StituteS for its goods. The tariff
taxes all competing wire from
abroad from to > cents a pound
for this trusts benefit.
In addition the trust has pat.
cntS on harbpd wire which. as its
head. Mr. John w. Gates. teSti.
fed before the Industrial Com
mission, give it an absolute mo
nopoly of that product.
The Tin Plate Trust paid
Judge Moore, Of Chicago. the
enormous fee Of ten million doHar$
for organizing the combination.
Tin plate is protected by a duty
of a cent and half pound.
Thus the consumers of 666. 600,
06o pounds of tin plates, or about
an entire years supply, were taxed
to pay a promoters fee.
The Beef Trust has poisoned
our soldiers and pinched the poor
i'll our cities. 1t is protected by
duties of ID per cent. on hides,
2li per cent on cattle, : cents
per pound on fresh meat and %
per cent on preserved meats.
The various steel trusts, CAPT
talized at 1867 $50, 600 in all, are
helded by the government to col
lect taxes of from So. - a ton up
ward on their products.
The Sugar Trust and it's allies,
with their capital of Sl2S. 600. 600,
pocket about $50. 900, 900 year
through the tariff.
The Western Lumber Pool. cap
ital SO, 600, 900. get a bounty of
- per thousand feet for destroy
ing our forests.
The $50, 900, 600 National Lead
Company enjoys the nursing bot
tie to the extent of cent and
half a pound on lead.
The $50, 900, 600 United SeateS
Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Com
pany is allowed TO reach into tie
public pocket to the extent of 80
! worth on every ton of it's goods.
The $1,000 600 B0rax Trust.
which has nothing to do hut to
shovel its material off the ground,
is subsidized 10y the tariff at the
rate of ) cents Il pound
The $50, 5000 Knit Goods
Company and the $50, 600. 900
Print Cloth Pool have the benefit
of duties of 30 per cent and up
ward on the clothing or the PEG
pie.
Almost every one Of the hun
dredS of trusts that are sucking
the substance of the American
nation is directly dependent upon
some paragraph of the tariff tor
its power of oppression. Begin
to read the tariff schedules and
you may imagine that YOU are
reading list of trusts.
''Ir0n ORE" says the Dingley
law, "including manganiferous
iron ore, and the dross or resi-
dunn from burnt pyrites, forty
cents per tom (for Rockefeller
and Carnegie.
"Railway bars, made of iron
or steel, and railway bars made
in part of steel, Il rails and
punched iron or steel fiat rails,
seven twentieths of one cent per
pound" Federal Steel Company
and Carnegie Steel Company.
"Sheets or plates of iron or
steel, commercially known as tin
plates, terne plates and taggers
tin, one and One-half cents per
pound" american Tin Plate
Company.
"Cigars, cigarettes, cheroots of
all kinds, four dollars and fifty
cents per pound and twenty five
per centum adj valorem" (Ameri.
can Tobacco Company.
"Clothing, ready.made, and
articles of wearing apparel of
every description, composed
wholly or in part of wool, the
duty per pound shall be four times
the duty imposed by this act on
one pound of unwaShed wool of
the first class, and in addition
thereto sixty per centum adj va
loren" American Wollen Com
pany).
And so on, al infDitum.
+, There are four hundred and
siXty-three paragraphs i'll the
duty schedules Of the Dingley
law, and it is substantially ac-
curate to say that every one of
them nurses a trust. Some of
them nurse several trusts apiece.
The Carnegie Steel Company
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