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Says Ii Is Not q Trust, Yet Admits II
Is n "Cinch" Monopoly of
the Rankest Kind.
IT CONTROLS A PATENT RIGHT
THEREFORE,, 1T SHOULD NOT BE
CLAsSED AS A TRUST, HE SAYS.
1t Prevents Competition, Yet He As
scrts 1t Is No More Trust
Than n Firm or Farm.
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CHICAGO, Oct. Observation-Disclosures
Jones-the dreadful Jones-Rainbow Chas-
er Jones-James K. Jones, who is manag-
ing w. ]. Bryan's campaign and hopes to
land him in the White House on the trust
issue, is at it again. Jones is developing
into great humorist, and If his spark of
genius continues to burn to the end of
the campaign he will be qualified to edit
the funny columns Of one of W. r. Hearts,
humorous papers. In coaching Bryan to
blank the trusts Jones forgot to mention
that he himself is an officer In so-called
trust, just like he forgot to say that the
Tammany tiger had its tail frozen in the
New York ice trust and that Boss Croker
didn't propose to thaw it out SO long as the
trust yielded profit of Is per cent. by
squeezing the poor people of Gotham.
Jones is an officer in the American cotton
with it he does not like to have the con-
Germ alluded to as a trust He is perfectly
willing, however to have every other in
dustrial combination in the country called a
trust. Jones's trust is what is known as a
''cinch'' combination. 1T owns a patent. as
do many other concerns, and is virtually
master of the cotton baIing industry. 1t
has, it is presumed, destroyed competition
in every possible way. Here is what Jones
says about it in formal statement:
THE American Cotton Company, with
which am connected, is no more trust
than any commercial house, any stock
farm, any cotton plantation. any other in
dustrial enterprise in the United States.
The company, ss have, heretofore ex-
~
and steadily seeks to extend its business.
Roosevelts allegations that am connected
with a trust is menGacious as the Re-
publican charge that the Democratic party
Is composed of Anarchists and that Demo-
preme Court of the United States. Roose-
welt might just as well denounce me for
growing cotton on my land as to denounce
me for being connected with the American
Cotton Company. If Roosevelt is ready to
move for the abolition and prohibition of
all patents and copyrights / will make
ready to consider the question The Gus
toners of the American Cotton Company,
operating under a patent, have as many
rights, or ought TO have, as the customers
of the company operating under a copy
works published by Roosevelt. Because
the Democrats oppose trusts and monopo-
lies is no reason why Democrats should
not engage in legitimate business. Because
We advocate equal rights and oppose spe-
cial privileges Rough Riders like Roosevelt
seem to think that ought to abandon
INDUSTRY ana business altogether. ThlS
alone shows the degrading influence of the
trusts now controlling the Republican
party. They would spread this spirit of
the trust over the intellect and political
thought IL they had the power"
This is truly dreadful. II Jones had
frankly admitted he is connected with a
trust and told the public to be BANKED
he could not have made clearer case
against himself. Every man, woman and
child that knows anything about trusts
knows that the Cotton Bale Company is a
monopoly as cast iron as any in the coun-
try. Jones knows it and indirectly admits
il in his statement, yet he has the audac-
ity to denounce Colonel Roosevelt for call
ing attention to the matter. AS before
stated, Jones is a humorist, and, strange
to say, contrary to the rule with new be-
ginners, diagram is not needed to find the
joke.