Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-12-17
THURSDAY, DECEdBER l., 1903.
BREADSTUFFS TRUST NEXT.

trusts. What tueN eat. drink, wear IS !
controlled b. trusts. One trust dea.s
out heat during the winter-another
purveys cold storage throughout the
heated term The meat trust is per.
ennial and sundry other trusts ever
about everything from needle to an
anchor" The necessities Of life are
rapidly becoming the luXuries OF exist
ence.
AS though prophetic Of the future the
founders of this great republic. the
men who pledged their lives their
fortunes and their sacred honor TO the
maintenance of the government, and
trust" stamped upecl the dollars of
our dads "a wise provision for in
these days of boasted American (trusD
supremacy the motto. In God We
Trust is about the only thing the
American people have left
The trusts have come to stay, at
least until such time as the people re
member once again that the greatest
good for the greatest number is the
corner stcne in the foundation of this
government.
Volumes have been written about the
trusts their records are spread in the
courts; trust operations are matter
of history.
The indubitable signs Of the fine
Italian hand" that engineered the other
colossal combinations that now run
with such precision :lave not been
wanting for a decade and the aggres-
sive methcls now being pressed are
combinations strong as proofs in
holy writ
The axiom that the greatest strength
lies in simplicity is incontrovertible.
Apply it how you will-to LANGUAGE, me-
chanics, commerce-it proves itself.
The trust method, the first and last
step to absolute CONTROL is suppression
Ct competition. 1t was the method in
the great oil fields of Pennsylvania.
Speculation was throttled and $4,000
persons in that region were driven out
of business. Suppression of competi-
tion, in the blending of railway and
mine, materialized the coal trust. Sup
preston of competition in the alterna-
tion II days for purchases at the union
stock yards and other live stock cen
ters evolved the meat combine, and
now the control of the breadstuffs of
the Countrywide most colossal and IN.
iQuitouS combine of them all-is pro-
grained by that simple method, So po-
tent and irresistible the suppression OF
mpetition-namely by the killing OF
speculation in cereals.
The close market student can find
confirmation of these sinister designs
all the way down the line. ever since
the first real endeavor-the Hatch anti
option bill-when grain dealers only
escaped class legislation through the
inalienable right of contract" Ever
since that time the systematic placing
of unlimited blocks of money against
conditions has been matter of mar
ket comment, and notably SO during tn {
past few months, when the huge ope-f.
tions Of an important house On the
Chicago board Of trade have led to the
belief that said house has been acting
as agent for the real power behind ths
thrcle the power that has sapped ~
life out of the country's industries, rail
ways and commerce and now aims tt
control the bread Of the people.
To kill speculation is the only va.
to suppress competition in the grar
trade, for so long as an open market ii
maintained control of grain supplies il
temporary at all times, and out OF th'
question as an ultimate. But once xii
the "open market" which is maintained
by the interest of speculation, where
the producer and consumer now NEE
+ upon an equal footing, and the mine
/ can compass in a moment the oppor
tunity offered for the mcst colossa
trust the world has ever seen.
A trade authority has we'll said
/ with no trading in futures. long ago {
/ great trust would have been formed t.
control the grain trade
Hand in glove" Chat same fine
I, Italian hand" the syndicate of million
aires) the railway and the eletato
systems could bid the western farme