The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-08-16
z. D Lander, Editor.
TRUSTS AND COMBINES,

f-..tAl recent editorial III Jne IleIdlu' III
which we said that this paper would go
10 almost any limit in the effort first
to control railroad and-other. corpora
tions, trusts ana combines, and falling
lin that then to destroy them, has been
criticised by some of our friends as
being anarchistic. We take no excep-
ton to the criticism that is privilege
which belongs to the public. But we
are willing. to defend that position
against any and all corners,
Corporations are creatures Of law,
They have certain rights and privi-
leges under the law. To that extent
they should be protected. But when
they ignore the very law of the land
that gives them existence; defy its
officers, courts and commands, and
trample upon the rights of communi-
ties and individuals then they should
be confscated and destroyed.
An organized band of capitalists
seeking by undue and unlawful means
,Nto destroy individual enterprises and to
@'afbitrarily fix the price of the necessi-
ties of life should be treated with no
more liberation under the law or by
the people, than an organized, defiant
band of red-mouthed anarchists. Not
one, but both these bands of outlaws,
should be warned to dispense and stop
their nefarious practice and teaching
and upon failure to obey they should
be destroyed; utterly annihilated; by
the law if the law can and will by an
outraged people if, the law,.cannpty ro1
will not. ~ $50
There, absolutely no sense or Safety
lin. closing our eyes to the real situation,
The encroachments organized capital
has made uponthe rights, opportunities
and liberties of the people, is enough
to warn and stir the heart of every
man who loves his fellow man.. Tossit
~ supinely down and permit these giant
corporations to own and rule and ruiz
this rich and free republic, is intoler
81 able 10 think about. To defend our
u selves from their inhuman greed t.
strike from our business enterprises ant
ourselves the shackels they would pu
upon us, is the natural impulse of ev
cry true son of brave, American re
evolutionary sires.
Corporations are one thing Trust
are another. Trusts have no lega
status at all Their property shoulC
be contiscated and destroyed, with a
little ceremony and with no more hest
tation, than the illicit still of moun
tain wild-catter, or the tools of tn
counterftter They have no right t
appeal to the law or to expect protec
ton under the law, because they ar
conceived in sin and born outside tn
law and live in open defiance of it
Their money gives them a tremendou
and most dangerous power, and enable
them to make individual alliance
which give them sort of quasi re
spectability. But they are outlaw
nevertheless, and the most powerful,
dangerous, and deadly enemy to thi
government and the individual right
and happiness of the people, that hf
ever threatened this republic; and ;
v,such they should be dealt with. The
have no legal existence, and ought 4
be uprooted exterminated destroyed
and whatever means may be necessal
% to that end-whether by law or rev
lution--the Herald records itself -
favor Of p = --y
We feel confident of our position
this extent: That either the Tru
magnates will see the hand writing
the wall and retreat in fear and trer
bling from the wrath of the people,
else the country will soon come to u
derstand the real danger that threa
ems, and what seems extravagant ia
now, will sound tame then; for t
common people of this country, SO 10
Injured to freedom and individual Ii
erty, will not abandon their Dirt
rights withoutT'a struggl9 e..
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PIERRE oGLEsBY INSANE.
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