Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-12

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MORGAN PLANS UNIVERSAL TRUST.
No wonder Mr.. Mckinley in his
last inaugural address firmly express
ed the intention of the administration
of maintaining the position OF the
United States ASA world-power, tax
ing occasion to promise that we would
not only hold with mailed hand what
we have, but would extend the
bounds of freedom wider yet"
In this he spoke for the patron
saints of the administration, j. Pier
pont Morgan and the Standard Oil
Trust, who, having control of about
everything worth having in the Unit
ed States are reaching abroad for 9TH
er lemons to squeeze.
From preliminary sketches of the
proposed world-conquering industrial
enterprises which these arch-pluto-
Gratis have in view, it is to be surmis-
ed that industrial consolidation, the
combine, or the trust, Is only in its
infancy. Certainly non Of our pres
ent vast m~onopolies, not even the bill
lion dollar combine just financed by
Mr.. Morgan, approaches in vast COM
prehensiveness the universal combine
which Mr.. J. P. Morgan and the mighty
Rockefeller interests of the Standard
Oil trust, are said to have in view.
The Standard Oil trust has already
powerful connections in Germany and
shortly Mr.. Morgan is to visit Europe,
it is stated, with a view to including
in an industrial alliance important
manufacturing interests of Germany,
now the greatest commercial rival of
the United States, and thus forming
an International combination that
shall set the pace for the world. 1t
is stated that Mr.. Morgan will sail
March 9th on the Steamship Ocean
ic for Liverpool. He will hurry at
once to Berlin, where he will have a
conference in April with the manufac-
turers of the German Empire The
bankers of Berlin are already figuring
on plans for financing this universal
trust.
While before, the Spanish war such
a scheme as this would have seemed
ehimerical, it is now deemed quite
feasible, since it will have the close
support and backing of the United
States government, which under Mr..
Mckinley, whose powers are those of
an emperor, is practically at Nor
CAMS beck and call. The money pow
er of the Morgan-Rockefeller combine
Is almost beyond the finite mind to
comprehend. The Standard Oil banks
have deposits equal to one-fourth of
the money in circulation in the United
States, and it is stated that they can
control one-half of the money in circu-
lation in the country. The New York
World says:
Combined with ]. P. Morgan's great
Bank of Commerce. the Mutual Life and
New York Life Insurance Companies,
James Stillman, President of the Ma
tional City Bank, and fiscal agent of the
Standard Oil Company, can command at
any time about half the actual cash
available for business enterprises in the
United States.
The money power of the Standard Oil
Trust in Germany is scarcely less than
1t is in the United States. For many
years the Northumberland Petroleum
Stock Company, which is the German
representative of the STANDARD Oil Com
pany, has had as complete a monopoly
of the German oil trade as the Standard
Oil has. had of the American oil trade.
By an agreement with the Noel Bros,
who control the Russian oil fields, the
world mas been divided among the three
comprehensive Standard Oil, Mannheim
Bremen Stock Company, and Noel Bros.
Asia has been reserved by the Noel Bros,
while all the rest of the world has been
apportioned to the two Standard Oil COM
panies. In order to carry out its great fl
nancial schemes in Europe, the Standard
Oil Company keeps always on deposit in
the Deutsche Bank of Berlin at least $780,
300, 900.
These are the vast interests that are
planning an international trust that
will dominate the world.
AS plutocracy rules the United
States and Mr.. Morgan is the power
behind the throne the proposed in
ternational trust will be backed
by the bayonets of the army and the
guns of the navy of the United States
under the absolute command of Pres
ident Mckinley in it's efforts to reach
out and control the earth. In other
words, all the of the Ameri-
can people in their government are at
the disposal of Mr.. Morgan and the
Rockefellers In their private scheme
of world monopoly, together with their
" enormous wealth and resources.
And what will the American people
get In return? What do they always
get in return for the favors granted by
their government to special in~t4rests?