The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-21

young. They pursue a course of spolia-
ton among the people. They stifie the
voice of the press. They loll within the
portals of the courts. They nominate,
elect and own many of our legislatures.
They ill the Republican campaign
treasury to overlooking with cOrrup-
ton fund. They are a danger and u
menace to liberty. They are inimical
to the principles of free government
They create the money barOns who are
launching this nation upon career OF
Imperialism when the cries of distressed
labor viii be drowned by the drum
beats OF a great standing army.
TRUST MENACE TO LABOR.
Let me quote paSgraph from the
report of the Indiana labor commission
Of 1S97-1S9S:
NO propositions involving settlement Of
labor controversies involve as great OBJ
stacles as those in which trusts are par
with me trusts the WorNins men. however
Just his cause, emecges from the conflict the
greater suuerer. neIr opportunities VITA
regard 10 wage Reductions Stfe eAceP-
tiOnal. and their desires are always equal
to their OppOrIunities- They are n0I
federal authority. These combines are
created by the association into one cor
pOranOn- nj UuUer one control OF a num-
Der of factories in the same industry
usually located in different states Al the
time of their formation they generally
present diverse wage conditions. The hrst
thing sought by every well regulated
trust is uniformity ia the condition %
iuS+inent o. wages. The singular uni
fOrmitV OF method adopted by all CON-
bires in such efforts makes il little less
than a marvellous coincidence me wage
conditions in the different factories OF the
combine are minutely analyzed, and the
various methods OF PRODUCTION ara StUulea,
then the leddJuStment begins Singular
as IL may seem. this process never nro-
ceedS upward but always downward I'M
{ wa gfS is chosen as the standard by which
an lne Others must be measured If u
[ protest against reduction is filed il Is
not needed. If d strike follows all prop
ositIons aiming at ,coacIiiation or aroi-
the scene of the disturbance Is located Is
closed down tor repairs. ana the work
men are starved into submission. If, per-
chance. this method Of suo5USatlon proves
ineffective. then, with readiness and
convenience that seems TO be born of the
eterHat ntneSS OF Things, the power ara
authority of the federal courts are in
yoked- Blanket inJunctions are prayed
for TO restrain strikers from moleSting the
illegally constituted combines in doing
those things which the law prohibits. The
ca gerness with which injunctiOnS are
sought is only equaled by that with
which they are granted Thus these I'M
Ia ,,-f1II institlltiOns feast to safety uDoT
despoiled labor. destroy honorable 1II-
petition, stifie legitimate enterprise, apoTe-
ciate the price of their products TO eS-
tOrtiOn and levy unjust tribute upon the
consumer, all in violation and defiance OF
the law
TALE OF A TRUST-KILLED TOWN.
The effect of the trusts upon the
small towns is we'll evidenced by the
case OF the City of kearney in the
state OF Nebraska Ten years ago there
was no more prosperous little city IN
the nation. 1t has an almost unlimited
water power and it had created and
/ built manufacturing institutions which
We're running with profit and which
( gave employment and good wages to a.
I faF. of (.
/ came along and they wrecked those en-
/ terprises as completely as the wind and
waves destroyed the homes of storm
swept Galveston Go to the city of
| Kearney today, and visit the paper mill
where thousands of dollars was invest
! ed. You viii find its windows and
doors barred and boarded up and the
| mill closed by the paper trust. You
/ Will find the cracker factory closed by
/ the American Biscuit company, the
/ cracker trust. The pIow factory, which
/ once employed many hands and which
paid good wages, was closed by the
/ pillow trust that leVieS its tribute upon
/ the farmers of the land The cereal
/ mill that once was in operation there is
/ deserted-closed by the cereal trust
! The Kearney Foundry company, which
! in addition to making castings was also
/ engaged in manufacturing locks was in
/ a hourishing condition, until the lock
trust took-cOntrol and closed its doors.
/ The Kearney Wooden mill. which was
a huge building, was closed by the
\ wooden trust. The electric supply
works were closed down by the electric
7 trust and the bicycle factory was clos
/ ed by the bicycle trust Thus l have
/ enumerated eight factories that ten
/ years go were in a flOuriShing COndi-
| ton with their operatives helping TO
build up a thriving city that have been
! closed, and the buildings deserted. by
/ the power and influence of the trusts.
Their silent walls make mute protest
/ against the Industrial feudaliSm which
/ is driving humanity to the wall and
painting the future, with the colOrS of
: midnight. a more eloquent and d more
powerful protest is that which is told
! by the life story of a man of kearney
named Hecht, whose name is marked
! by a modest monument in the Kearney
| cemetery. HeCht was butcher by
trade. He was bright, industrious and
/ enterprising. He had been successful
/ and had accumulated a competence. He
established in Kearney a packing
! house. That was an industry with
! which he was thoroughly familiar and
under his direction it fourished for a
] time and made a market for the farm
I ers of that vicinity. His enterprise, his
labor and his capital were building up
j his home town. They were helping TO
1 create that which the Republican party
says we need so much-a home mar
+ ket- One day the packers trust that
! had been watching his successful eff
/ forts concluded that it had allowed
/ him to go far enough and that It want
! ed for itself his life earnings and want
! ed out of the way this independent in
stiJutiOn that babe fair to become a
/ competitor; SO with its heartless and
cruel manner it proceeded to crush out
/ his financial life He made d brave re-
! sistance-' He struggled as only man
! can struggle in the battle to the death,
but he was in the folds of the anaconda
/ and there was squeezed from him
I every dollar that he had. Then his rea-
son fled and he. became a raVing ma
! MAC, taking with his own hand the life
1 which the good God had given him and
! sending him into his grave as poor as
4 when from the ,steerage of the ocean
! steamer he looked with youthful eyes
and with heart Of hope upon the land
/ of freedom where every man is sup
posed to have an equal chance and
where industry and honest toll ought
not TO be made the slave of money
The pathway Of the trusts is paved