The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-02

rom editorial articles in Mr. uorto,,s
CONSERVATIVE showing hostility to trusts
said: DiSah
Il the people of Nebraska City de-
lend the starch trust they must he nre-
pared to defend all the other trusts for
II Is impossible for them to DESTROY trusts
located elsewhere and defend a trust To-
GATED IN their own city. Are the neonle
OF Nebraska City willing to subiact
themselves and their countrymen to the
eAtortlon practiced by all the trusts in
order to maintain one trust which has one i
factory in their city? AS a matter of
TACT the people of Nebraska CITY are
more interested in the dissolution of the
slalch trust than the people of other
parts of the State. When the Argo was
an independent company it was controlled
by citizens of Nebraska City and Nebras-
ka City interests could be considered by
its management. But if the National
Starch Company, with headquarters in
New York is allowed to absorb this in
dustry the control will be removed from
Nebraska City to New York and the
wishes and interests of the people of
Nebraska City will have little considera-
ton.
POWERS OF THE TRUST.
Mr. Charles R. Flint, Of Boston, is one
Il the directors OF the United Starch
Company, and Mr.. Flint made a speech
IN boston a year ago last May in which
he summed up the advantages of the
trusts. One of the advantages mentioned
by him was hat the raw material could
be bought at a lower price because there
would only be one purchaser. Is this to
the interest of those who sell raw ma
ter1al to the various starch companies?
Ahother advantage was that the least
productive plants could be closed down
and the work done at the more r-oduc-
tive plants. The people of your town have
already seen a distillery closed down by
the WhiSkey trust. What is to prevent
the Argo Company from being closed
down by the Starch Trust? When all the
factories belong to one corporation the
closing down of one factory does not bring
loss to the corporation because the work
can be carried on somewhere else, but
the ArgO Company as an independent
company could not close down without Sc
rlous loss, therefore the chances are
greater in favor of the local factory be-
ing closed down under a trust than I'M
der independent management. Mr.. Flint
also suggested as another advantage tina
in case of local fires or strikes the work
could be done elsewhere without a loss.
If the employees of the starch company are
uiSSu " OupPGil NE IIuSl LOT lear Oh
losing their employment, let me remind
them Of Mr.. Flint's speech. The Argo
Company as an independent company
could not afford to close down and turn
off its employees but when the Argo Com
rany becomes a member of the National
Starch Company the employees have no
way of protecting themselves, because the
work here can be suspended while the
employees are starved into submission.
A CASE IN POINT.
"Under the trust system a strike in one
factory brings no loss to the company,
but it does bring great loss to the en-
ployes. Let me give you a case in point.
The Birmingham Age-Herald of Septem-
Der 18th, contained the following dispatch
from Bessemer. Ala:
Work wcs resumed at the Central
Foundry Company's plant yesterday. The
men who went out on a strike early last
week returned to work on the company
terms. The management here is not re
sponsible for the reduction in wages, 1t
having been ordered by the head office in
New York. the reduction prevailing
throughout all the pipe plants belonging
to the company
IF an order comes from the head office
in New York to reduce the wages in all
the starch factories the men have moth
ing to do but to submit. The same greed
which leads the trust to raise prices and
extort from consumers will allow it tC
lower wages, and do injustice to the en-
ployes.
DEATH 70 ALL TRUSTS.
1.-The Attorney General is seeking to en-
force a statute OF Nebraska. The law is
q good law and ought to be enforced, and
the people of Nebraska City ought to hole
a mass meeting to commend him rather
than condemn him. The fusion forces be-
Iieve in enforcing both State laws and Ma
tional laws against the trusts. The Kan
sas CITY platform demands the annlhila-
ton of all private monopolies, and it the
Democratic ticket is successful, | believe
legislation Will be enacted which vii
make it impossible for the Natlona
Starch Company to buy, bully or Wheedle
the Argo Company into joining a trust
and with the dissolution of the starcf
trust VIII come the dissolution OF al
other trusts which are now plunderlng the
people,"
Continuing, Mr.. Bryan congratulated
the people upon having an Attorney cen
cral who has courage enough to BRING Inc
suit and said that if the United States
| Attorney General had done his duty there
{ would have been no necessity for the
state authorities to take up the question
He said that if he should be elected, TN
Federal administration would be foun'
: moving against all combinations con
| trary to law. His words on this pom
were as follows:
"Nv friends. if the United States At
torney General of the Republican part
had done his duty, he would have bee
enforcing this law instead OF MI. SlhJt
& heing down here tonight do what the Ike
nuhlican National Attorney Genera
v should do. This Republican Admlnlstra
n ton has brought just three suits IN Jus
i three years, and yet more trusts "eI
: organized during the last thlce seal
than during all the previous history 0 70
aa,ptrv want you people to know ina
If we get control of this Government
n tho Federal Administration as we'll a
8 the State administration VIII ias !
bands upon the Starch Trust. l near
- eaid that YOU people down here re
8 somc hostility towards Mr., smyth DC
); canse of his fight against the trusts b'
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