The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-12-20
5C'OL0SS SAL WEALTH
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MEN 'W'Ho OWN THE TRUSTS

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MEN WHO OWN THE TRUSTS
by Consultations and Combines
arc Doing Away With Cons
petition, Except Between
Wage Farmers.
The London Mail tells us somo plain
truths that it would be we'll ior us to
ponder. It says:
Tho slave drivers OF today in America
are tho millicnaires and the mon who
operate the trusts. They arc tho fat.
tening ogres whom the people will bavo
to destroy or be Destroyer by. Thoy
are tho Simon LegreeB Of tho hour.
They operate within the Law, for they
make tho law. 5ls. n RI
The American pooplo have some pet
phrases with which they llko TO do
ecribe England. They say it is feu.
dal, king. ridden, helploss tool Of the
aristooraoy, and that sort OF thing,
They do not see tho beam in their own
eye. Tho United States 10 millionaire
ridden. s g M
The millionaires start and operate
universities, disohsrging professors
who teach economic doctrines Of which
they disapprove. Tho millionsires
operate tho legislatures, and in somo
cases tho courts. They run oongraos.
and they are quartered in tho White
House at Washington, whore tho Prosi-
dent, whom they elected, doeb their
bidding.
Every year greater percentage Of
the wealth Of America goes into tho
pockets Of the millionaires. It is q
fact that the second million ID moro
oaBily made than the first. third than
the second, and so on. By tho foroe
Of attraction, q dollar naturally grayi-
tates toward tho largest pile. ,.4 II
The Rookefellors, who control tho
Standard Oil Company, are absorbing
the wealth Of America at an enormous
rate. With the wealth come politica,
power and social power. Social pros
tigo is obtained with startling rspidi-
ty. Thirty years ago the Vanderbilts
had DO social position in New York,
and their cbanoos of ever getting any
wero looked upon as poor. In q few
short years they have bought social
proDtiga a--aent round the oorDor f., it
as one sends to the grocer's.
This is stated not from, any opposi
tion tothe Vanderbilts, but to mako
the point that what they can buy apy
one else can buy. If money can be
eXchsngod for anything on earth, it
10 natural that it should be more in de.
mand than anything on earth. If 1t
will purchase diyregard by the people
of how it was obtained, what matters i,
how itwas obtained?
BY cancellations the American
trusts arc gradually doing away with
every competition, exoapt that between
mon who want iobs. ..,h IIiss result oee
this, Of course, must be raising in
price Of tho commodities and love
ing Of the wagon. What has prevented
both these things being dono in exoess
he's beon the force Of public opinion.
Sugar, coal pae eat and other necessities
who have been cornered BY the trusts
have risen in price through artificial
lreaaens to an extent that has put extra
millions into the pockets Of those ~ ilos.
,;uon sr8li them M, ,oS d }aS s1HSufs
prop srty5 alread ~ that they suffer from
"a sort 4of financial indigestion.
ss Tho ariBtocrats Of the SUnieed States
5are i'9I. the ltlg corp porationas They conduct
their foyay b u pom the people as did the
| ;fobboys barons Of old, "A corporation Of
large capital ig in New Yoik as sacred
as the person OF the sovereign in u IN 4
don. 1t oan rob, burn, or murder al !.
most with impuuity, and If 1t wants
help ell 1t has to do is to call out the
etato troops to help It. 4 as l a.
The Last sentence may appear to be
on exaggetation, but competing ref a.
cries have boon burned down In the in
toreat Of the Standard Oil company, and
even suoh philanthropists as the part
ners Of Andrew Carnegie sent band
Of civilian "doad shots" to Homestead
to shoot down strikers. I was there at
the time and aaw the corpses. ...i
II the ipdustrial millionaires oan
make and defy the laws, buy and bribo
jurios and judges and oongosemen, what
is to restrain them, unless there is somo
uprising and some onormoua changer
Tho nearest available remedy for some
Of the abuses will be the government
ownership Of what tho Americans ! call
public utilities" !" 'I
Inebo lnolu09 the mediums or trans
portation, the railways and tho tram
llues, eystems Of lighting aud the tele-
graphs and telephones now in the hands
Of private companies.
The Standard Oil Company built up
it's monopoly by controlling tho rail.
road linea. These quoted prohibitive
freight rates. to owners tf oil wollp
and competing refinines and they
were driven out OF business, and the
STANDARD Oil Company got their wells
aud plants at their own figures. The
Steel trust is now able to pursue the
Same taotios with rivals through itp
interest in the railroads aud In steam
ships. The opposition to the local
government ownership Of public utili-
tiee" is very great, almost ineupsrsble
at tho present time. Those who favor
it are called .'anarohists." 8
| A man who thinks that tho commupi.
ty should get the profit from it's ''utili
ties 10 denounced as one who waves
the red flag Of riot. The sam, epithet
Of anarchist 10 applied to those who be
lieve in the income tax and death du-
ties. The United States will not al
low an income tex because it is s'rsv
olutionary," and tho highest court Of
the land denounced it and declared ii
unconstitutional, when It was passed.
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