The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-02
FREDERICK, THE GREAT.

when all the different branches OF pus'-
ness have been made the subject OF trusts
q few hundreds OF thousands VIII hoiu
all the streams Of revenue IN their own
hands while the great body OF the people
labor In those lines for, wages, "hich
must go on decreasing as population ana
the supply Of labor Increases. foresee
clearly tina, If the trust Is LETT free to
run It's own course it Will, In time. es-
tablish a condition OF absolute industrial
slavery ali over this land There Will be
n repetition of the feudal system. feu-
DIAL system based upon brains Instead OF
upon the mailed hand, but none the less
n feudal system. In which your descend
ants and my descendants must submit 70
wear collars and be hewers OF wood ana
drawers of water without daring to hope
for a separate business and employment
OF their own. 1t Is vain to tell me that
the trusts rule will be mild and benig-
nant If the history OF mankind teaches
any one thing with absolute certainty,
It Is that unrestrainee power VIII GER
tainly be abused. The trust may be be-
Anignant for time, but In time the
barons OF brains will grind out OF the
population all that can be extorted from
them Just az the barons OF the mailed
hand did when they had the mower.
EXPERIENCES OF OTHERS.
The advocates OF the trust say it IL
absurd to suppose that the trust VIII
ever be able TO reduce the population 70
such q state. do not see the absurdlty.
How was the population Of France ana,
indeed, of all the rest of Europe excep'
England reduced to the state OF slavery
that have pictured? It came IRON .ne
Kings of France and the other Euro
pean sovereigns having standing army
The English people preserved their ND
critics because their sovereign never had
standing army. Even Henry the
Eighth, absolute and despotic as no was,
was forced to abandon an attempt 70
collect taxes from the English pepil'
! that their Parliament had not levied by
| a rebellion that would have tulnpice
him off his throne If he had not apun-
doned the nttempt But the poor lrrHn"n
people had nothing to oppose to the dis-
I.clplned regiments thai were llW'.y'
ut the call of the King, and SO they were
forced to submit to all the exactlonn
that the few thousands OF feudal parons
Imposed upon them. until they came to
l he yeritable slaves, and there had to DO
! m explosion. II,
When the trusts have monopolized all
4 tho branches of business IN the country
I and have completed the organization 9,
i a disciplined army of employees spread
/ out all over the country, they VIII nave
| ali the machinery necessary for holding
| the entire population bound In "a grlI
of IRON. Their employees. permeauns
every nook and corner OF the social or,
ganiaation, are In snpstane that ths sno ,noss
business as this could possibly desire
Tho trusts now have the laws 50 framed e,
as 10 enable them 10 monopol = ~, n,'
business. They now occupy and hold
the ciladel nj The case. Inc new hl.lis
ta,y ~, recently passed by Congress
put s all the military forces Of the eoun,
try, including nc the militia. orgsnizea and nd
norgsnzed az the eoIana ,sd,, ,of ,n the
President. who is sworn to execute .sa o .hpsr
factory TO the trusts, They need NOTHING,
'herefore. to work out their utmost VIII
present laws If the peone seeing seer th na
trap spread out before t,s. , snas t ,nas
laws. the trusts disciplined army Of
employees, supplied with the vast as SUM aran
OF money the trusts can throw INTO elec'