The Winslow mail., 1900-04-26
THE MONEY TRUST.
Fosters the MOnOpOIies Which Are
Taking the Life Out of Le-
gitimate Trade


gitimate Trade
Trusts concentrate wealth and pow
or into few hands. Imperial govern
ments do likewise. A republic fosters
the diffusion of both wealth and
power among the many and is the
organized foe of monopoly An en-
pire distributes the honors, advan-
tages and perquisites of official sta
tion among the few who stand near
the throne. Trusts seek to install
their friends and advocates in official
position and to close the avenues of
advancement against all except their
known apologists. To all intents and
purposes an empire is a governmental
trust, and kindred financial system
and all empires have such-is the
most efficient instrument in it's equip
ment of tyranny. The philosophy of
republics is expressed in the maxim:
Equal rights to all, special privileges
to none" If our republic is to live
it must have money system not
copied from empires, but equal to the
broad and generous character of it's
fundamental laws. Trusts concen-
trate into few hands not alone the
profits of industry and trade, but
sinews of war and political power fall
into their keeping sequent to heart
less commercial conquest. 1t is the
natural connection of consequent to
antecedent. Having excluded the
many from profitable employment
they find it an easy task to advance
and wrench political power from the
excluded classes.
In their origin and throughout their
development trusts, great and small,
are essentially imperialistic Their
fruit, however, alluring and tempting,
ripens only in the deadly shade of
despotism. They are simply intoler-
able in country whose settled policy
is that of freedom. A republic whose
industries are dominated by trusts is
already stricken with a fatal malady
"a deadly paralysis-and can only be
rescued by united and heroic action.
Where the leading industries are dom
mated by trusts the government may
found to be monarchial in spirit and
in administration. The trust, in it's
last analysis and best definition, is
simply organized criminal aggression
in business.
Conscience and the golden rule,
those divine restraints which should
qualify and temper all human trans
I
ness code. It's law is force. 1t holds
no parley with its victims. 1t looks to
large military establishment and
not to the affection and support of
the people for safety. 1t demands
that the plundered classes shall be
held in subsection. The trust is full
brother to militarism. The twain are
of one blood and both are black with
the guilt of gain. Each in it's sphere
destroys human life and lays desolate
human habitations. The skull and
cross-bones, or crouching panther,
should be blazoned as n trademark
across the door of the council cham
ber where trust magnates and bene-
ficiaries meet to plot the plunder of
mankind.
''He takes my house who takes the
prop that doth sustain my house. He
takes my life who takes the means
whereby 1 live"
The East India company was the
first great chartered monopoly known
among English speaking people. 1t
was organized solely for the criminal
explorations of the defenseless in
habitants of India. 1t has spawned
it's voracious progeny over all chris
tendon. Edmund Burke says the
company 'was a state disguised as
merchant" 1t gradually absorbed
and exercised all attributes of sover-
eighty belonging to the British en-
pire.
Although a mere corporation, yet by
act of parliament it was clothed with
authority to levy war and conclude
peace. Our trusts exercise similar
power. They use the government as
their policeman. From the days of
the East India company to the birth
of it's last lineal descendant in New
Jersey, in this year of Our Lord, the
growth of the whole trust family has
been one unbroken evolution in crime
1t is simply highly developed spe-
cles of amphibious piracy made per-
feet by methodical selection and slim
ulated to a development which enables
it to act with like efficiency upon sea
or land. Piracy was regarded as le-
gitimate industry for centuries, just
as trust and trust depredations are
now regarded in the opinion of many
The pirate and the promoter of trusts
are related in blood and blood will
tell. Their mission is the same
plunder. The bloody rover of the sea
cleared from no port. He represent
ed no state or sovereign. His sword
and cutlass constituted his commits
sion. Finally all nations rose and
drove these freebooters from the seas.
They were forced to do so or sur
render the common highway of ma
tions to cut-throats and the dominion
of the black flag. But the trust pirate
of to-day carries letters of marque is
sued by states which are members of
the federal union, and in some in
stances by the federal government
itself. Wherever they exist they are
always managed by the conservative
classes of society" who constantly
dote on Flaw and order" They de-