The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-03

| trust will sell to man an article for q
| dollar less than the article will cost
| under other conditions then, It is said
a trust is a good thing. In the first place.
| If under a monopoly the price is reduced
| the objections far outweigh any fiEan-
| cial advantage that the trust could bring
Money is made to be the servant of man.
and 1 protest against all theories that
enthrone money and debase mankind
QUOTES MAKER OF TRUSTS.
Charles R. Flint, at Boston on the 25th
! day of last May, defended trust prn-
ciples before an exceedingly sympathetic
| audience. 1t was composed almost ex-
| clusively of Boston bankers.
1 quote few of the advantages to be
| derived from trusts from this high
authority. First he declares:
Raw material bought In large guam
| titles is secured at lower prices"
This is the first advantage. One man
! to buy wool for all the wooden manu-
| facturers. That means that every man
! who sells wool must sell 1T at the price
fixed by this one purchaser in the United
| States. The first thing is to lower the
price of raw material. The great ma
| jority OF the people are engaged in the
| production of the raw material and III
| tho purchase of finished products. Com
! paratiVely few can stand at the head
| of sSndicates and mo0opolies and secure
| the profits from them. Therefore, the
| first advantage of a monopoly Is to
| lower the price of the raw materials
| furnished by the people. Note the next
| advantages:
''Those plants which are best equipped
and most advantageously situated are
run continuously and in preference to
! those less favored"
TIE next thing after they have bought
| all the factories is TO close some Of them
and to turn out OF employment the men
who are engaged in them If you will
! so about over the country you will see
| where people have subscribed money to
| establish enterprises, anG where these
! enterprises, having come Under the con-
! troll Of the trusts, have been closed, ard
stand now silent monuments OF the trust
! system. Behold the next advantage. Mr.
| Flint says:
''In case of local strikes or fires, the
work goes on elsewhere, thus prevent
| ing serious loss"
| MONOPOLY'S METHODS.
This means that If the people employed
| in one factory are not satisfied with the
terms fixed by the employers and strike
| the trust can close that factory and let
! the employees starYe while work goes on
| in other factories without loss to the man
| ufacturer.
1t means that when the trust has frozen
! out the striking employees in one factory
and compelled them to return to work at
any price 1t can provoke a strike some
where else and freeze the workmen out
there. When a branch Of Industry Is en-
! tirely in the hands Of one great monopo-
| ly. so that every skilled man in that in
| dustry has to go to the one man for en-
! ployment, then that one man will fix the
wages as he pleases, and the laboring
men viii share the suffering Of the man
! who sells the raw materials.
| There is no multiplication of the means
of distribution, and better force Of sales
men takes the place OF large number
! That Is the next advantage named. I
want to warn you that when the mo-
! nopoly has absolute control brains will be
/ at discount, and relatives win 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 an
swer them, because everybody has to
write to the same house for everything
he wants. Mr.. Flint says trusts have an
other advantage:
Terms and conditions of sale become