The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-04

supporting al monopoly lot q
longer period than the precise
term prescribed upon the face of
the statute.
INTERNAL REVENUE LAW MO-
NOPOLIES
The internal revenue laws, by
the restrictions with which they
surround the manufacture of Ii
Quors and tobacco, offer some
great advantages to monOpolieS.
As it is our object in this article
not 10 specify any particular mo.
nopoly now existing. we prefer to
illustrate the point by reference
to the match manufacture. in the
days when there was an internal
revenue tax of one cent Il box.
1t is well known that the result of
that tax was TO destroy immedi-
ately all independent manufact.
ureS. and tO concentrate the huSi-
ness in the hands of two or three
great corporations. When that
tax was repealed in 1888. these
m0nopolirS fell of their own
weight. and it was many years
before they could lie reconstruct
ed. The present great combina-
tionS in the match manufacture
are to he found in other laws en-
couraging mon"polieS, which are
still maintained.
TARIFF THE MOTHER OF AMERI.
CAN TRUSTS.
The tariff is the NEST fertile
source of American mOnopolieS.
During the last thirty OF forty
years hardly an instance has been
/ known iii which an American mo.
nopoly has been denied any part
of he benefits which it has de
manded i'll the enactment of tariff
laws. In 1880 and 1897 this rule
was without any know exception
In 1851 there were but few eXccp-
ti0nS. Tariffs are always made
up 10y the very parties who are in.
teieSted in preventing foreign
competition and in securing f0l
themselves Il mOnopol, OF the do
nestle rrade These facts and
their effects upon the promotion
OF m"nopolieS have been shown SC
clearly by former writer's in this
series of articles. that nothing
more need he said here upon the
point.
Ii is simply absurd to make
any effort to prohibit or to regu
late trusts and combinations,
while their cau>eS are left I'M.
touched. If the American PEG
pie shrink from competition with
other nations of he earth, and
deem themSelNe s Justified in pre-
\enting such competition by
force, they have no moral right
to complain if American capital.
lists take advantage of the laws
which prevent foreign combeti-
ton, to make OF them inStrn.
mentS to prevent domeStic cOmpe
titiOn also Neither have Amrrl
cans, who believe in preventing
foreig competitor by force, any
moral right TO complain OF capi
tallStS, who prevent domestic
competition By fraud. The one
is Just as moral, or immoral, as
the other.
FUNDAMENTAL REMEDY.
And thus we come, AT last, to
the fundamental remedy which is
needed. The fundamental cause
of American monopolles is to be
found i'll the lack of honesty, JUS
tice, business courage and love
of fair dealing, whicn is unfortu-
nately characteristic of vast
majority OF tile hnman race, not
excepting tue people in the Uni
ted States Of America.
Whenever a majority of the
American people demand simple
justice, neither more or less, for
themselves, all there questions
will be speedily settled, and trusts
will dissolve like snow in sum-
mer. For any man who demands
and receives exact justice for him
self, and no more, necessarily
comedies precisely as much to
every one else; and if no man re =.
ceived any more than justice,
every man would receive justice.
No right can be taken away from
any one man, without comforting
more than his right upon another.
1t is impossible to give less than
justice 20 allnmen at once, as it is
to cut off section of the air and
destroy it, leaving blank.
The inconsistency of any man
who demands that competition
shall be free, when it works in
his favor :. h,Lt u, "lhe' eclipse. 'IiteA
government does not discourage these
amateurs, but rather gives them every
encouragement and courts contri-
buttons of photographs and data from
them to add to the government rec
ords. 1t is remembered that one of
the finest sets of photographs of the
eclipse in India in 1896 was taken by
an amateur with homemade camera
but one having an excellent lens. Am