Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-29
THE TRUSTS WIN
The Hon Geo L. Lilley Forced To
 Go Out of Business.
HAS TIME FOR POLITICS NOW

INV OTu dnu tue heySIOhS VI thc A-ea'~J1
 Swift Go in This City Must Abide
 By It's Decision-If There Are Any
 Congressional Honors Floating
 Around, Mir Lilley Will Have Time
 to Interview Thems
 George l.. Lilley, whom we hear so much about with reference to the res publican nomination as candidate for congressman at large, is said to be a victim of conditions which his party has done much to make possible in this country, and unless the people rise up en masse and put stop t0 the business it would be hard to tell what it would lead to- No wonder many of our Connecticut republicans who are back of the trusts and com pines felt rather uncomfortable on ac- count of the presence of William Jen- nings Bryan in this section and are
 wishing that he'd shut his mouth and
 go home leaving them to carry on their devilish work without word or protest.
 | long yearned to get entire control of
 the beef output and with this end in view they have been carrying on
 systematic scheme of weeding out the
 managers of the several houses i'll the east with which they are connected
 and the thing has been worked so clev- erly that MT Lilley of this city and Joseph R. Andrews of New Britain are the only ones left and they have been asked to vacate and in all probability they will have to step aside. While Mir Lilley's personal friends will feel sorry for him, still when one stops to | consider that himself and his party are largely to blame for the kind of Legislation that has enabled trusts and lcombines to rule the country and reg- lulate the price of everything that man leats and wears. it looks as if the Chi cago fellows are serving him and oth-
 CTS whom they have been using for the last quarter of century, just right It is the old story of chickens coming home to roost The nabObS
 of the republican party have been Laughing in their sleeves for some Itime past at the clever manner in which they succeeded in Gornering Ithings for themse1ves and leaving the democrats out in the cold, but now 1t turns out that there is not enough to Igo round for those on the inside and
 they have started to do some house.
 cleaning in their own camp.
 About twenty-five years ago the wes- tern packing firms began to establish
 commission houses in the east, taking
 bright, energetic young men into their
 confidence who shared in the profits of the business in the territories over
 which they had Jurisdiction. Through the push and shrewd tact of men se7
 cured in this way a large and profit fable business was secured all through line New England states Cunningly
 enough, one and sometimes more of the western men held interests in the eastern commercial houses and shared lin the profits This was the link . which bound the New England houses , l. to the western corporation and 1t IS , now being used as the lever by which , Ithe local managers are to be tossed laside so that one corporation may reap ltbe whole reward. George Lilley was
 one of the victims. He came to Wa lterbury twenty one years ago and aid- led by that indomitable will and mark led go aheaditiveneSs which has dls- Itinguished his business career i'll this flown. he built up trade here and in 5 other places that went a good ways } towards making up the millions or tne ! Swift Brothers of Chicago. He was . the pioneer wholesale meat dealer in . this section and if his wings hadn't !. been clipped by the western sharpers 9 some time ago he would be master oi 3 the situation in his line through the t Naugatuck valley to-day At first ! he had a wide field, but according as ] the trust found it to it's own advantage
 they established other houses here and
 there until finally Lilley was practi
 caIly limited to Waterbury ana now
 they don't want him at alk
 f At the beginning beef was the prin- |, cinal output by Lilley Swift & Go, but lIatterly other things have been added
 ST that at the present time beef forms
 2 little over one-third the business oi the house, cheese, butter, eggs, lard
 nork. hams and other things in thai l line making the rest of the business This last mentioned stock was not pur
 chased from the Chicago people, Du Z thev shared in the profits just Int l same but even then they were no'
 satisfied and it is hinted that the fac !, of I,illey and others perSiStlng m max n ino purchases from others because they
 could do better was the real reason
 why the trust decided to become abso /. lll1te master of the situation itself. I wanted to be in a position where
 could regulate the prices and hndins
 if ont of the question to do this while ! if had competitors it. determined upol , one grand effort to drive out the sey eral managers and man the ship itseil r And it might be said that it has sue
 ceeded. Out of hundreds or mana b gers all over the country it has shaker q iself loose from every one of them eX e cent George l.. Lilley of Waterbur: e land Joseph R. Andrews of New Bil S ain If the New Britain man IS mau q of the same kind of stuff as Georg
 I,ilIey there will be a fight, but wna l. will it amount to? If they refuse '
 sell their interests in the business tn f trust won't give them any stock an : they'll find themselves powerless ' V belp themselves. A Democrat repor' q OF was informed to-day on excelien '. lonfhority that the Chicago corpora 1, lion has requested MT Lilley to put a nrice on his interest in the business l V Waterbury, but whether he had don - so or 1,ot is something which proeapl h nobody outside himself and those WI ' Iare very closely associated With nll
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