The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-24
Chicago Tribune.

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 Rope and Twine Trust.
 Paper Box Trust.
 White Lead Trust.
 Bolt Combination.
 Rivet Combination.
 Betting Ger Leathcr) Compinttio1.
 Lumber Combination.
 Paint Brush mbinatinn.
 Link Chain Combination.
 Spring Cotter Combination.
 Emery Wheel Combination, Electrical Machinery Comb:nas.on. Foundry Core Flour Combination.
 Borax Combination.
 Salt Combination.
 File Combination.
 Window Glass combination.
 Rubber Combination. Woodworking Machinery Cambina-
 tion.
 Pig Iron Combination.
 Steel Spring Combination.
 Wire Tube Combination.
 Screw Combination.
 Steel Saw Combination.
 Sand Paper Combination.
 Solder Combination.
 Steel Wheel Combination.
 Coal Combine.
 Railway Combine.
 The harvester combine. known in the business world as the International Har- vester Company. which is composed of the Deering, Mccormick. Plano. Champion and Milwaukee Companies. and which. by its own claims. produces over 90 per cent of the harvesters and mowers made in the United States, occupies a neutral po- sition. It has succeeded in escaping from the tentacles of it's thirty-three fellows and can now watch the thirty-three squeeze the other concerns. Officials of the harvester combine admit that they were forced to open mines. build mills. buy forests, operate saw mills and pro- duce all their own raw material before they could issue declaration of inde- pendence to the steel trust and it's fel- lows.
 Indeed. so officers of the harvester trust declare. they were forced to form a trust" or combine to save themselves from the grasp of the thirty-three trusts against which the independent manufac- turers are now protesting to the Presi- dent. They declare they have not and will not lift the prices of harvesters and other implements They declare they are safe and that they cannot be forced to in crease prices no matter what action may be taken by the thirty-three trusts that the independents say are squeezing them. Becoming Mere Brand Boys. The great manufacturers of wagons, harvesters. blows. etc. as we'll as the small makers, declare that the thirty three octopf have put up prices on every bit of material used in the manufacture of these mnlamenfS-fOread Ip fha prioas steadily and arbitrarily until, as they say. the manufacturers have become mere CT rand boys for these great combines" forced to do their bidding and to advance prices to save themselves from loss, thus throwing the burden on the agricultural 
 The manufacturers who signed the peti- tion set forth that, aside from heavy losses toF themselves. the crops of the United States have been curtailed by the action of the trusts. They claim that in prefer ence to paying the increased prices or dered by the thirty-three trusts, the far mers are using old implements long out of date, and that because of these crude the agricultural advance of the United States is being checked, the ag- ricultural supremacy of the nation threat ened. and the proportion of increase in agl icultural products to the increase in population falling of. Besides, the manu- lecturers point out government reports showing that the exports of agricultural implements have already shown a de- crease.
 Popular Error About Trusts. opularity-especlally In agricultural the manufacturers of farm implements are supposed to be in a trust. and most farmers believe that they are not only in a trust but that they are
 
 steel trust The manufacturers fin their petition. explode this idea by declaring that the steel trust threatens the life of every metal using manufacturer in Amer ca and does untol ! injury to the commer- cial progress of the country. What President Roosevelt can do in the way of relieving them the manufac- turers do not state in their petition. They simply pray for relief and leave the rem edy to him. making no suggestions in the way of antitrust legislation, but express ng confidence that some relief will be afforded by the government
 Text of the Petition. The petition which is now being circu- ated and which has been signed by dog sns of manufacturers is. ITO the President of the United States of America, Washington, D. C.-Honor- able Theodore Roosevelt: Believing the present existing situation of our country's agricultural implement factories to be improperly and inaccurately that no one line of industry alone is pointed to with greater pride by he people, as. owing to the farming ma ,fhnery manufacturers our prosperous fertile farms of the great West and South. North and East Believing that the feelings of the peo- pie for the life and success of these far