The Saint Paul globe., 1900-09-30
Is AGAINST TIE TNJ ITS
RICHARD CROKER'S I-RST AU-
TH0RIZED STATEMENT OF
HIS POSITION
POWER OF THE MoNoPoL1Es
The Young Man of Today Is Barred
Out of Industrial Enterprises
by the Ever-GrewinE
Trust.
Copvrighted. 19OO. by the Cosmographic

Copyrighted. 1900. by the Cosmographic
NEW YORK, Sept. s-(special. )-This
country has become a close corporation,
In which the man with his way to make
IN the world has no part or prospective
place. The president and his cabinet is
a trust. Hanna is the real president, and
the money getter, engaged in destroy
Ing the privileges and rights of the bal
lot. Combined capital dictates the policy
of the present administration This pow
er of the trusts is a present and growing
menace. Twenty-Five men can tie up this
country with their vast wealth. Mr..
Rockefeller has money enough to take
all the gold in circulation. Hanna rec
ognizes the value of these trusts for
political purpose and is now levying
large sums Of money with the intent to
utterly destroy the sacredness of the
ballot, L am told that there are to be
twenty-five million dollars, all obtained
from trusts. poured into the doubtful
states Just before election day. We al
ready have a government by the rich,
If the people are to tolerate this, we
might better have an empire at oncei
Hanna's only issue is the check book.
The young man leaving college or
home to go to work, finds every avenue
closed to him, unless he becomes the
servant of a trust, in a hired capacity,
from which there is little hope to rise
] have received more than a thousand
letters from young men in all walks of
life, asking what they shall do to make
living. 1 am fond of young men, and
would so far to serve the humblest who
earnestly means to make something of
himself: bat l cannot answer these let
tens with encouragement, because there
is no open door through which the young
man of today, without capital, can enter
commercial life with any future prospect.
This fact was recently brought very near
TO me. Several young men came to me
and said they We're ready to go into busi-
ness-to begin the battle of life on their
own account. 1t was the cruelest thing
/ ever had to say when I told them
frankly that all avenues for indepen-
dent ePdeavor were closed; that, strive
as they might, success was impossible to
them WITHOUT the contest of the eonfed-
Grated combinations of capital. I said to
theln-"Iou can't go into business on
your own account The small tradesman Is
doomed-department stores have destroy
ed him. You cannot become coal
merchant unless you obtain the pernis-
sion Of the trusts that control that prod
uct Of the earth"
Every American, however, slender his
own opportunities, wants his boy well
educated, but when that son has re-
ceiFed the best his father can give him,
he llnds every industrial avenue shut
This situation is almost wholly the out
growth of the past four years fostering
care of protective >naonopolies that now
dominate the country.
FIRST VOTERS.
bright hope and a remedy Is found
In the new voters. Each four years pro-
duces l,0oo0G0 young men who cast their
first votes for presidential electors. The
young man Of this hour who votes for
the first time, wields the balance of
power
Do you realize what IS in the imrne-
diate future? All the railroads, steam
and electric. will soon be united into enc
great trusk. Let me illustrate what that
viii mean: The other day a committee
from the Central Labor union came to
see me in this room, and I casually men
toned the good service the public was re,