The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-11-03

- IN uhc0aelng warfare against private
lily approve of this premise. If elected.
avos. 20 fulfill the promise In letter and
ating in the same place at So for a
house and SIS for business place per
year and Is making money. The ex-
orbitant rates of express monopolies
are notorious, and even railroads have
been known to make excessive charges.
Municipal Franchises.
1t Is me same vito all our city mon
opolies. Gas sells at 81 which can
be made for 20 cents and distributed
for Is, as we know from various gas
reports and Investigations.
The above are but q few samples
from an enormous mass Of facts dem
onstrating that private monopoly
tends to extortion.
to enormous profits and the building
Of vast fortunes which become, in theE
turn, the instruments Of further ex-
tortion. The monopolists roll in
wealth, while the working masses and
competitive classes are cheated out Of
their fair share of the worlds wealth.
Those who build palaces do not live
In them.
Builders Enter Not In.
Those who dig coal have little fuel,
Those who make clothes are ill-clad,
Those who grow wheat and corn are
poorly fed.
Those who build railroads do not
travel. 90
Those who do most of the work do
not enjoy-the fruits of their labor,
while those who do little or nothing,
enjoy much; all because privat mon
opoly gives some men the power Of
appropriating what others produce.
Here are some of the profits private
monopoly has made:
Oil trust-$23, 900 600 in three months
about 100 per cent year on the cap
ital, WAGER and all. (The oil monop-
oily has been known to make $40 per
cent on its whole capital, and on one
investment 5000 per cent per year was
obtained through railroad favoritism
wealth Against Commonwealth. PIP
81, 90. 1907
Profits Of Monopoly.
Steel trust-$42,500,00 year
about 80 per cent on water and all.
Sugar trust. 200 to 400 per cent
Wire trust, 60 per cent.
Tin plate trust, 40 per cent.
Pennsylvania coal, 80 per cent.
Fifth Ave. bank (New York;, III
per cent.
Chemical bank (New York;. 200 pc
cent.
metropolitan Telephone Co.. $50 pc
cent.
Bell monopoly, $5.ooo.ooo a year. r
of its total income.
Telegraph monopoly ION original In
vestment), 400 per cent year.
Bay State Gas Co.. 60 per cent
year.
Cleveland Gas Co., LA per cent
year.
New York Gas, $500, 0o0,ooo in te
years, or enough to pay 10 per cent o
the investment and duplicate all tn
plants besides.-(New York Senate In
vestigation).
Metropolitan Street Ry. System, Ne
York, % per cent.
Philadelphia Traetion-$5 500. 900
16 per cent on investment.
18th and 18th Street Co.. G5 pc
cent.
Philadelphia City 81 per cent
Ridge Avenue AZ per cent
Citizens Co., 81 per cent.
I'd and Sd Streets, Is per cent
Union, 81 per cent
The excessive charges and exorb
tam profits Of private monopoly Al
nothing more nor less than taxatie
without representation. You are NJ
represented in the oil trust. the ste
trust, the coal combine, the Lnemic
bank, the gas, electric, street railwa
telegraph, telephone, railroad. beef, 81
gar, copper and tin monopolies. Y
they levy taxes on you.
Watered Stock.
The monopohsts know that the
outrageous profits may rouse the Pc
pie If they become known and SO mar
of those most open to the public ga,
try to hide their gains by waterir
their capital. Ninety per cent on Il
real Investment is only Q per cent {
a capital watered to tenfold bull
Fraud ana extortion are among Il
most prolific. and are quite the mo
deplorable of all the results Of priva
monopoly.