Arizona silver belt., 1900-06-07

That ls the next advantage named. | want to warn you that when the mo- nopOly has absolute control brains will | be at discount and relatives will be found to fight for these positions. When there is competition every | employer has to get a good man to meet competition, but when there is no competition anybody can sit in the office and receive letters and answer them. because everybody has to write to the same house for everything he wants. Mir. Flint says the trusts have another advantage:
 Terms and conditions of sale be- come more uniform and credit can be more safely granted"
 The trust can not only fix the price of what it sells, but it can fix the terms upon which it sells. And the pur- chaser must trust to the managers generosity as to what is fair.
 THAT IS HUMAN NATURE"
 What is the first thing to be expected of a trust? That it will cut down ex- penseS. What is the second? That it will raise prices. That is human na- ture. God made men selfish. l do not mean to say that He made a mis- take when He did, because selfishness is merely the outgrowth of an instinct of self-preservation. It is the abnor- maj development of a mans desire to protect himself often wish we might have condition in which every adult who died might leave to his widow and children enough property | for the education of his children and the support of his widow. Society would be benefited, because if man I dies aud leaves no provision for his wife and children the burden falls on society. But while wish to see every person secure for himself compe- tency, don't want him to destroy more than he is worth while he is doing that. l believe the principle of monopoly finds its inspiration in the desire of men to secure by monopoly what they cannot secure in the open field of competition. If were going to try to find the root of the monopoly evil would do as 1 have often had occasion to do-go back to the Bible for an explanation; and l would find it in the declaration that the love Of money is the root of all evil.
 Another thing that, in my judg ment, has aided monopoly is higt tariff Nobody can dispute that . tariff ian import duty-enables a trust to charge for its product the price of 3 similar foreign product plGs the tariff
 Now. some have suggested that tC
 put everything on the free list tha
 trusts make would destroy the trusts
 do not agree with this statement as
 it is made so broadly.
 It has been suggested that discrimi
 nation by railroads has aided th' trusts. No question about it. If ont
 man can secure from railroads bette
 rates than another man. he will b able to run the other man out of busi ness. But even if we prevented sucl
 discrimination by placing every pro ducer upon the same footing and abso , lutely preventing favoritism. monop oiy might still exist.
 THE REMEDY.
 ! The remedy must go further, l f must be complete enough to preven
 the reorganization of a monopoly. , think men differ more as to tn
 remedy than they do as to their opir
 ion of the trusts. I venture the opir f ion that few people will defend mo f nopoly as principle, or trust ol :, ganization as a good thing, but ther |, are great differences of opinion as n the remedy.
 e We have dual form of governmer f "a state government and federi Q government. This dual form of go'
 ernment has advantages which ca if hardly be overestimated, yet 1t als v has it's disadvantages. When yc = prosecute trust in the United Stat
 court it hides behind state sovereignt n and when you prosecute it in the sta ,o court it rushes to seek federal Juri .. diction and we have some difficult n in finding prison for 1t.
 ,run WAYS oF DOING IT, Ia Every state has, or should have, u h right to create any private corporate r. which, in the judgment of the peor ol of the state, is conducive to the WI ,a fare of it's people. The people Of st state are able always to settle qu' O tion which concerns them alone
 they create corporation, and It ,a comes destructive of their best int if. ests, they have power to destroy tt
 corporations; but if the corporatl
 which expresses them is foreign e n. poration, created in another sta ,d they cannot destroy it. They shot rs have power to exclude it. In otf ,c- words. the people of a state shot ve have not only right to create the e = .,t;ona they want but they ShoI