The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-12-18
COLOSSAL WEALTH
Is Tha Crsat Dargsr 70 Ths
United States.
MeN WHO OWN THE TRUSTS
81 Consultations and Gcno'nes
are Doing away With Com
pstislor, Excep' Between
Wage EaYnsTs.

The London Mail tells as soma plain
truths that it would be well for us to
ponder. It says:
The slave drivers Of todsy in America
ere the niilicDaires sed the nep Hho
operate tie trusts. They are the fat
tening ogres whom tie pecp'e will Rave
to destroy OF be destroyed BY. They
ara the Simon Lsgrees Of the hour
They operate within the law, for they
nsks tbs Law.
The American people have soma pct
phrases with which thsy Ike to &c
seTike Eoglsrd. They say it is Ecu
cal, king ridden, helpless tool Of the
sristocTaoy, and that sort Of thi2g.
They do not see the beam in their own
eye. TIE United States is millionaire
ridden.
TIE nillionaires start and operste
uni7er.i1ies, dischargins professors
Who teach economic doctrines Of which
they disapprove. Tbs millioHaires
operate the legislatures, and in some
cases the courts. They run congress,
and they are chartered in the White
House at Washington, where the Presi-
dent, whom they elected, does their
bidding.
Every year a greater p:rcenssge Of
the wealth Of America goes into The
pockets Of the millionaires. l. is a
fact that the second million is mere
easily msds than tho fcss. third than
the second, and so on, b. the force
If attraction, dollar naturally gra7i-
tassa toward the largest pile.
The Rockefellers, Who control tue
Standard Oil Company, are absorbing
the wealth of America ct an enormous
rate. With the wealth come political
power nnd social power. Social prss-
tige is obtained with startling rapid
ty. Thirty years ago the Vanderbilts
hsd no social posision in New York,
and their coancss Of ever getting sDy
were looked upon as poor. In few
short years they have bought e social
prestigs-aent round the corner for it
IS one sends TO the grocers.
This is stated not from any opposi
tion to the Vanderbilts, bat to make
the point that what they can buy any
one else can bug. IF money can be
exchanged for anything on earth, it
is natural that it should be more in de-
mand than anything on earsh. If l.
will purchase dizragard by the people
Of how it vas obtained, what matters il
how it was obtained?
By consolidssions the America an
trusts are gradually doing away with
every competition, except that between
men who want jobs. The result Of
this, Of course, must be \ rsisiog in
price Of the commodities and . lover
ing Of the wsges. What has prevented
both these things being done in excess
has been the force Of public opinion.
Sugar, coal, meat and other necessities
which have been eornered By the tru,ta
have risen in price through artificial
reasons to Al extent that has put ex;Ta
millions into the pockets Of thoss wao
control them and vho have 20 much
prep rty already that they suffer from
. sort Of financial Indigestion.
The sristocra.s Of the Unieed States
are the corporations. They conduct
their forays upon the people as did tie
robber barcns Of old. A corporation Of
large capital is in New York as saored
IS the person Of the sovereign in Lon
don. 1t can rob, burn, or murder al
most with inpuniEy, and if it wants
help all it has to do is to call ont the
state troops to help it.
The last sentence may appear to be
an exaggerstion, but competing REIN
cries have been burned down in the sn-
terest Of the Standard Oil company, and
even such phllanshropiats as the pa1t.
lers Of Andrew Carnegie sent . band
OF civilian dead shots" to Homestead
to shoot down strikers. ! Hss there at
the time and ssR the oozpses.
Il the industrial millionairez can
mike and DEFY the laws, buy azd h-ibe
juries and judges and congessaen, whas
is 20 restrain them. unless there is sore
uprising and some enormous charge 2
The nearest available remedy for some
Of the abuses will be the government
ownership Of what the Americans cali
public utilities." )"
These include the mediums Of trans
portation, the railways and the tran
lines, systems OF lighting and the tefe-
graphs and telephones noE in tie hands
OF private companies.
The Standard OIL Company built 90
its monopoly by controlling the 7a;!
road lines. These quoted prohio;tiva
freight rates to Owners Of Gil wells
and competing refnines spd they
we're driven out Of business, and tie
Standard Uil Coupary got their wells
and plants at their own figures. Tbs
Steel :rzst is nov shLe to pu7sue tta
Same tactics With rivals through iks
ntereat in the railroads and in stes1.
Ships. Gae oppo5ition to the losal
government o~nership Of public u:sl7-
ties is very great, almost insup,rssss
at tno present time. Those viz favor
it are called anarchists"
A man Who thinks that the cor1uuui-
ty should ge: the prcfs from its ''uti!i,
tics is denounced as one who waves
the red hsg Of riot. The sama ep;shes
Of anarchists is applied TO those who be-
lie7e in the income tax and death 6u-
ties. The United States will Tot al
low an income tax because it is ''rs7
olutioasry," and the hishess court Of
the isad denounced it and declared it
unconstitutional, wher it VS. passed.
But although you csnnot have 30 riot
Gus & measure as an income tax, you
may burn negro alive if Sou like. IN
this you SEQ signs Of she money power.
The courts reject an income tax at the
behest Ct tie rioa. Nobody oans the
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