Bisbee daily review., 1903-09-24
THE TRUSTS STILL IN THE SADDLE.

The trusts are still in the saddle
 The anthracite coal trust is advancing
 the price Of coal again, thongh it is
 reported to have mined and stored some millions Of tons more than can
 he sold this year. and vet this tusts
 has such a monopoly that il can put
 up prices as it pleases. The meal
 trust also files notice that it in.
 tends to raise the price of it's prodrcts
 70 level more in accord with he
 times and permissive of the earrer.
 ing of larger profits. Congress las.
 winter.when the coal trust was live
 issue, appropriated a special fund of
 s5o0.0o0 for the department of justice
 10 use to prosecute trusts. Congress
 also provided for number Of assist
 ant attorneys general to prepare
 cases against the trusts. Many
 months have elapsed since this money
 and those attorneys were placed al the disposal of the administration but no action has been begun. There is on file with the attorney general more than one case against trusts. prepared
 by private enterprise. such as the case against the coal trust prepared by William R. Hearst, and the case against the tobacco trust has been on file for over two years. but il has re posed in a pigeon hole in the depart ment and even the extra money and the extra help have been unable to drag it into court.
 There seems to be nothing that can stop this unsuitable greed of bloated trusts. except busiuess depression. ! That with it's resultant reduction in l -he reople's purchasing power, will ! prove the only effective means to | bring prices down again to a reasona- | Dle limit. so long as the republican party remains in the saddle. So far IS legislatures and courts are con they are. apparently unable | ,r unwilling 10 do anything to protect he consumers. Antitrust laws ,assed by the law sivers are. as ule. promptly and neatly knocked out " the judges who seem 10 be exceed nely anxious to protect what they onsider the constitutional rights of corporations. Did you ever hear of be constitutional rights of an individ- al? Never in your life. Some lonths ago. newspapers were full of statements to the effect that the fed ral government wouldn't do a thing , the pernicious. rapacious coal trust Yell what has been the result? f othins. The coal trust is still dos lg business at the old stand and de- l ermined to give prices anotAer boost V lis winter Vers!y, the consumers is an un. {, lppy lot He pays double prices for , !e things he needs, and al the same me looks in yain for redress for v -ievances innumerable. -.- N' s He boasts of constitutions which dd ! 't protect him, and sf courts which Il 'nsider it great sport to set al nnught ? WIS designed to safeguard the rights ',
 the people. Extortion is the watch :, ord all over tbis broad land of ours. here is none among consumers who n escape its arrogance and tyranny, I me who can devise means to bring
 td an end Oh, prosperity. what T s ,-'ustires are committed in V name. And these will hesesi op a0ul n republican party is cked off the face of the earth, the lholy alliance between that party Id the cormorants of the country is ilverized, and the democratic party lowed to ri the rocks of the tariff all that grants special privileges to . e favored few.