Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-16

lowing Is the dHLl-Lun SpCSsh
cred before an immense audience mere
tonight.
The lament of David over Absalom is
one of the most pathetic passages OF the
Old Testament, and the anxious queIy'
is the young man, Absalom. saIe1 III III
gers in the memory OF all VINO study x .sie
the interest which David felt IN ms son,
Absalom. has its parallel in the more tnan
100000 families which make up the
i would cali the attention of every
father and mother to present pontlcal
and industrial conditions. ! would ask
them to analyze these conaltlons, lnvestiT
gate their causes and their tendencies
would press upon them this question: is
the young man, Absalom. sate?' Are you
satisfied with the posslbllileS anu onr
probabilities which now open before your
son?
Is he safe when foreign or domestic
financiers are allowed to determine tne
monetary system under which he lives?
Is he safe when national banks conlroi
the volume of money with which ne ooes
business?
Is he safe when the bond holding class
determines the size of the national DEBT
upon which he must help to pay Interest!
Is he safe when by means of taxes laid
compelled to contribute according to his
wants rather than according to ms pos
sessions?
Is he safe
when corporate lnterests
influence as they do to-day the selection
of those who are to represent him in the
Senate of the United States?
If he is wage-earner. and you DO not
know how soon he may be, even II ne IS
not now. is he safe when he is liable
TO be deprived OF trial by jury, through
the system known government by in
Junction?
Is he safe, if laboring man, when he
is denied the protection OF arbitration and
n
terms as corporate employer may pro-
pose?
But. I desire to call special attention TO
the growth of the trusts, and to ask you
whether your son is safe under the reign
of private monopoly? ii you cannot leave
him fortune, you can leave him some
tnlng more valuable than money, VIZ:
the freedom to employ his own brain and
his own hands for the advancement of his
own welfare. When there is industrial
independence,
Each Citizen is Stimulated
to earnest endeavor by the hope of being
able to profit by his own genius, his own
energy his own industry and his own viz
tue. But when private monopoly, like the
divine right of rule, will be kept within
the possession OF few from generation
wealth will be condemned to perpetual
clerkship or servitude.. When private
monopoly reaches its full development,
your son will buy the finished product at
sell raw material at the price which mon
opoly fixes; and If he works for wages,
he will work for such compensation and
upon such conditions as monopoly may
determine.
Charles r. Flint. of the Rubber Goods
Manufacturing Co., in a speech delivered
in Boston on the 18th of May, 1899, out
lined the trust programme with great
frankness. In speaking of the advantages
to be derived from the trust system, he
said:
Outline of Trust Programme.
Raw material bought in large quanti-
ties is secured at lower prices When, for
instance, one man buys all the wool, the
price of wool will be lowered and all who
produce wool will sell at the price fixed by
the trust. A large proportion of our peo
pie are engaged in the production OF vari-
Gus kinds OF raw material and they are
thus placed at the mercy of the combina-
lions.
The second advantage is that those
plants which are best equipped and most
advantageously situated are run continu
ously and in preference to those less
favored"
This means that factories can be closed
in the smaller towns and business con-
centrated In the large cen1ers. 1t means,
also, that whenever there is a surplus on
hand, part of the factories can be closed,
and the burden of maintaining prices
thrown upon the wage workers. There
are already scattered throughout the
land idle plants, which stand as silent
monuments to the evils of the trust sys-
TEN.
The next advantage mentioned is that
In case of local strikes and fires the
work goes on elsewhere, thus preventing
serious loss
This Means That Monopoly
can absolutely control its workingmen,
for If a strike ocurS in a factory in one
State, the factory can be closed down in
definitely while the employees are starved
into submission, and, as the trust can do
the work in some other factory without
serious loss, II is quite independent of the
employees, and can absolutely prescribe
the terms and conditions upon which they
shall live. The more complete the mon
opoly the more opposed the managers
viii be to arbitration, because. in case of
any contest between the trust and its en-
ployes. the trust will have every advan-
tage and The employees will be perfectly
powerless.
Another advantage cited by Mr.. Flint Is
that there IS no multiplication of the
means Of distribution and a better force
of statesmen will take the place of a large
number"
Drummers Dispensed With.
This is an intfmation that under the
trust system the travelling salesman will
not be needed When every retail mer-
chant must buy all goods of one class
from a single company. the work can be
done by samples, and no travelling men
will be needed. There will be no COM
petition between different factories be-
cause all are under one management. The
n.
who Will miss the trade of the travelling ,
salesman. The railroad will lose the mile
age paid by the travelling man: the livery
man Will lose their best patrons. and the
newspapers will lose the advertising be-
cause II Will not be necessary TO advar-
use when there is no cOmpetition All
this might be tolerable if the saving thus
made went to the consumer but as a mat
ter OF fact it goes to the monopoly. Nv
attention has been called to prospectus
issued by the International Steam Pump
Company, organized March, 1899. under
the laws of New Jersey, and capitalized
at $215Oo,000 of which
Nearly Half is Preferred
stock. and the remainder common stock
1 call attention to this prospectus because
1t sets forth the plans of the trusts. and
show who are to be the beneficiaries
The International Steam Pump COMPANY
was organized for the purpose of manu-
facturlng steam pumps, and according 80
the prospectus acquired control of the
business of the following corporations.
2lther through the conveyance of the title
TO the properties. and businesses of such
companies, or by the ownership of not less
than two-thirdS of their stock as NAV he
found practicable" Then follow the
names of five pump companies. acompsn-
LED by the statement that these companies
are estimated to transact ninety per cent
OF the steam pump business of the United
states, exclusive of hgh-dutv engines
The majority of the companies also man
ufacture such engines.
sample Cast of Trusts
One of the. companies taken into the
comDanton had assets estimated n I a
little moro than six million dollars. an