The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-08-24
Written for THE ENQUIRER
THE TRC SIS.
THEIR ORIGIN AND CHARACTER

1t is strange how in the flight OF time
the significance Of words change. The
Psalmist David said: 30 Lord God, Thou
art my trust from my youth" Solomon,
the wisest of Israers kings, said: He that
putteth his t'uxl in the Lord shall be safe.
Webster defines trust as the having OF
confidence nr placing confidence in anoth-
err So that for thousands OF Yeas trust
had only the one meaning, that OF comb
dence 1t still has that meaning used in
one sense, but a new significance is given,
one differing from the old as darkness
differs from light This word inspired
confidence, and so designing men have
"seized the livery of heaven to serve the
devil in" and have made trust" the most
odious designation in the English Ian
guage for it is used to cover up monopoly.
And what is "a monopoly now called
"a trust?" The meaning of that word has
never changed 1t is the same now as it
was when denounced by the laws of Moses.
1t was prohibited by him and by every
law-giyer of the world Monopoly is the
obtaining exclusive control of any of the
necessities of life by any person or cor
poration and thus regulate the price.
Monopoly is crime against the public,
and, as such, was punished. And latterly,
the men who organized monopolies found
themselves in danger and so they called
their monopolies trusts" to enable them
to evade the law.
more, nothing less.
There are hundreds of these trusts now
in the country eating the vitals out of the
people-absorbing all the wealth of the
country and dividing the people into two
classes: Those who have nothing, and
those who have everything.
Let US look at few of them. First,
then, is the money trust, built up by Re
publican legislation. The National banks
now control all the currency of the coun
try but few million dollars in 'legal-ten-
ders'' (greenbacks) and Treasury notes,
and these, under the new currency law,
are being rapidly gathered into the Treas
| ury. No man can enter into any business,
with the promise of success, except tilling
| the soil or as a laborer unless the banks
| are willing that he should do so. 1t is
| true that he can invest his time, skill and
| what money he has, but should the de-
mands of the business require more money
the banks can refuse it and his prospects
be destroyed.
| Then there is the railroad trust. These
control the transportation, and all com
peting lines have entered into combiua-
lions by which they practically take the
largest share of all the products of the
country for carrying them to market,
| Laws have been enacted, drawn up by Il
Democratic Senator, which could control
this trust but these laws are not en-
forced by the Republican Administration
| Look at the Tin plate trust, ii creation
of law which makes every housewife in
the land pay tribute when she buys canned
| fruit or vegetables or tins in which to can
| fruit or vegetables or for her kitchen See
the wire trust to which every farmer who
wants to enclose his land has to pay a
large royalty for the privilege. This is
another creation of Republican law. And
the nail trust and the glass trust, both of
which are "protocted' into existence I'M
der the Dingley tariff law. Not nail can
be driven or a window glazed that does
not pay blood-money into the pockets of
these Trusts.
But why should We select few out of
the hundred Trusts in existence. Each
and all are bad, and every one of them
should be abolished. President Mckinley
has shown how he feels on the trust ques
ton. His first Attorney General was a
trust lawyer, he was promoted to the
Supreme Bench and was succeeded by
another attorney of the trusts. The Re
publican Attorney General of Ohio, Nc
Kinlcy's and Hanna's State, prosecuted a
trust and was bounded out of office Many
great lawyers believe that existing laws
enforced are strong enough to destroy
most of the trusts. Every one knows that
the repeal of the duty on refined sugar,
on tin plate and certain kinds of steel and
iron and on glass would destroy the sugar,
the tin plate, the wire and nail, the steel
and glass trusts. But this will not be done
while the Republicans are in power.
There are great questions besides that
of trusts which divide the parties, but
this is one which affects every man, wo-
man and child living under the flag of our
country. On the one side stand the great
trust Barons like Morgan of New York,
controlling forty thousand miles of rail
road, and to a great extent the money
trust; Carnegie controlling the steel trust;
the Havemeyers controlling the sugar
trust; the Rockerfellers of the oil trust,
whose combined income is sixty dollars a
minute, three thousand six hundred dollars
"a hour, eight hundred and sixty-four
thousand dollars a day or thirty-two mil
lion dollars a year. The Havemeyers by
adding one-eig hth of cent to the price
of sugar take five million dollars year
out of the pockets of the people and put
it in their pockets as additional profits.
On the other side are I'VE, the people
of the United States,' who, when but
three million strong, declared their indie
pendence and detied the power of Great
Britain. There are to-day, living in the
country they made free and Independent,
over forty millions of the brave men 1876,
and thirty five millions that have been
added by immigrants and their descend
ants. Are we not strong enough to free
the country from the domination of these
Trust Barons: JOHN T. BURCH
Berwyn, Md.
There is more Catarrh in this section of
the country than all other diseases put
together, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For great
many years doctors pronounced it local
disease, and prescribed local remedies,