The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-25
Don't Subsidize the Trusts.

He is right.
The essence of a trust is mo
uopoly. Bat there can be no mo-
nopoly when there is competition
Within the same trade area.
Therefore Il trust whose field is
the United States could not be a
monopoly if the area in which the
people could trade covered the
whole world.
The Steel aud Wire Trust is IA
''criminal trust" which has been
Swindling its own Stockholders
and keeping prices mp until it
forced consumers 20 resort to sub
Stitntcs for its goods. The tariff
taxes all competing wire from
abroad from to > cents pound
for this trusts benefit.
In addition the trust has pat
cntS on harbed wire which. as its
head. Mr. John W. Gates. teSti.
fled before the Industrial Com
mission, give it an absolute mo-
nopoly of that product.
The Tin Plate Trust paid
Judge Moore, Of Chicago. the
enormous fee OF ten million doHdr$
for organizing the combination.
Tin plate is protected by a duty
of Il cent and half a mound.
Thus the consumers of 666. 900,
0Go pounds of tin plates, or about
an entire years supply, were taxed
to pay promoters fee.
The Beef Trust has poisoned
our soldiers and pinched the poor
i'll our cities. 1t is protected by
duties of ID per cent. on hides,
274 per cent ON cattle, 2 cents
per pound on fresh meat and %
per cent on preserved meats.
The various steel trusts, capi-
talizcd at $780,, 800, 900 in all. are
heIded by the government to col
lect taxes of from So, - a ton up
ward on their products.
The Sugar Trust and it's allies.
with their capital Of SIS. 0D0. 600,
pocket about 100000. 900 wear
through the tariff.
The Western Lumber Pool. cap
ital SO, 600, 900, get a bounty of
50 per thousand feet for destroy
ing our forests.
The $50, 000, 600 National Lead
Company enjoys the nursing bot
tie to the extent Of a cent and a
half pound on lead.
The $50, 10000 United SeatpS
Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Com
pany is allowed TO reach into the
public pocket to the extent of -
worth on every ton of its goods.
The $1,000,0O Borax Trust.
which has nothing to do but to
shovel its material off the ground,
is subsidized by the tariff at the
rate Of ) cents a pound
The $50, 900 900 Knit Goods
Company and the $50. 0OO. 900
Print Cloth Pool have the benefit
of duties of % per cent and up
ward on the clothing OF the PEG
pie.
Almost every one of the hun
dredS of trusts that are sucking
the substance of the American
nation is directly dependent upon
some paragraph Of the tariff for
its power of oppression. Begin
to read the tariff schedules and
you may imagine that You are
reading list of trusts.
''lron ORE" says the Dingley
law, "including manganiterous
iron ore, and the dross or resi-
dunn from burnt pyrites, forty
cents per tom (for Rockefeller
and Carnegie).
"Railway bars, made of iron
or steel, and railway bars made
in part of steel, Il rails and
punched iron or steel fiat rails,
seven twentiethS of one cent per
pound" Federal Steel Company
and Carnegie Steel Company.
"Sheets or plates of iron or
steel, commercially known as tin
plates, terne plates and taggers
tin, one and one half cents per
pound" american Tin Plate
Company.
"Cigars, cigarettes, cheroots of
all kinds, four dollars and fifty
cents per pound and twenty five
per centum ad valorem" (Ameri.
can Tobacco Company.
"Clothing, ready.made, and
articles of wearing apparel of
every description, composed
wholly or in part of wool, the
duty per pound shall be four times
the duty imposed by this act on
one pound of unwashed wool of
the first class, and in addition
thereto sixty per centum adj va
loren" american Wollen Com
pany).
And so on, al infiDitum
There are four hundred and
siXty-three paragraphs in the
duty schedules Of the Dingley
law, and it is substantially ac-
curate to say that every one of
them nurses trust. Some OF
them nurse several trusts apiece.
The Carnegie Steel Company
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