Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-17

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 NE same WITH 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 a few samples
from an enormous mass of facts dem
onstrating that private monopoly
tends to eXtortion.
Extortionate charges lead, Of course,
to enormous profits and the building
OF vast fortunes which become, in thei'
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 snare 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.
hose who grow wheat and corn are
poorly fed
Those who build railroads 90 not
travel.
Those who do most OF the work DO
not enjoy the fruits of their labor,
while those who Go 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-S23, 900, 900 in three months
about 100 per cent year on the cap
ital, wa,er and all. (The oil monop-
oily has been known to make $50 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, So, 1909
Profits of Monopoly.
Steel trust-$42, 100000 year
about go per cent on water and all.
Sugar trust, 200 to 400 pcy cent.
Wire trust, 60 per cent
Tin plate trust, 40 per cent
Pennsylvania coal, 80 par cent
Fifth Ave. bank New York;, $50
Per cent
| cent
| metropolitan Telephone Co, $50 per
! cent.
! Bell monopoly. $4,000 600 year, 4-5
| Of It's teal inc ONE.
| Telegraph monopoly ton original in
vestmentl, 300 per cent year.
! Bay State Gas Co, 50 PEI cent n
. year.
| Cleveland Gas Co, IA per cent a
! year.
New York Gas. $S0G. 900 coo in ten
| wears, O. enough to pay 10 per cent on
/ the investment and duplicate all tho
! plants hcsideS-(Sew York Senate In
| veStigationl
Metropolitan Street Ry. System. New
! York, rs per cent
! Philadelphia Tract:oa-S5, 500. G3O-
! ~ per cent on investment.
! 10th and 18th Street Co, C5 per
! cent.
! Philadelphia City 81 per cont.
| Ridge Avenue ~ per CENT.
Citizens Co.. 81 per cent.
I'd ana Sd Streets, p per cent.
j Union, 81 per cent.
| The excessive charges and exorbi-
/ tan, profits of private monopoly are
! nothing more nor less than taxation
/ without representation. You are no.
represented in the OIL trust, the stee.
/ trust, the coal combine. the Chemical
! bank. the gas. electric. street railway,
! telegraph. telephone, railroad. beet SUI
| gar. copper ana tin Ino2oro;ieS. Yet
| they levy taxes on you.
Watared stock.
The monopolists know that their
outrassons profits may rouse the geo
| PIE If they become known aud SO many
! of those most open 10 the pablo gaze
try to hide their gains by watering
their capital. Ninety per cent On the
real investment is only per cent on
capital watered to tenfold bulk.
! FRAUD ana extortion are among the
/ most prolific and are quito the most
| depioTable of all the results of private
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