The copper era., 1904-08-11

!. Every udv since then the Trust ha
 continued to ignore and defy that in
 junction. It has defied it openly, i
 has made no secret Of its contempt
 It has continued, day after day, to dc
 the identical things the court forbad,
 it to do, and for this violation of the injunction not a hand has ever beer
 raised against 1t.
 Let us suppose that this same Beei Trust should obtain from Federal
 court an injunction res estraining strikers from coming within certain distance
 of it's works, and let Us suppose that some of the strikers should get over
 the dead line. Judging by past ex- | pericnce in such matters. 1t is con- ceivable that the injunction would be
 dead-letter against such law break CTS? Or that they would be allowed
 to rrample upon and defy the solemn authority of the courts?
 Why. then, is the Beef Trust inn
 mune? How does it happen to be out side of the operation of the laws?
 Why should there be justice for. one class of offenders and not for another? What are injunctions worth if they are to be enforced upon one class in the community and not upon others?
 Here is the plain truth of the case No one can deny it. For eighteen months this injunction has been q dead letter; for eighteen months these men have trampled upon it while they have continued to violate the laws that the injunction was issued to sustain.
 In the course of this violation they l have robbed the consumer on the one 'rdEu ana the prodr~-- S" 'he o1uer' They have forced every household | in the United States to pay more for meat; they have forced every cattle raiser to accept less for his cattle. Holding absolute control of both | they have plundered both nm partially in the cause of ''frenzied | ii 6nauce.'
 The whole western country has sui | fe.ed from the blight Of this lawless | In Iowa the loss O. the cat tle-raisers in the last year has been es- timated at Sl5 for each head Of cattle. In other western states the disaster | has been almost as great. In Iowa since January l the operations of the | and the suicide of seven bank officers. |
 All through the cattle-raislng west the trust has brought back the farm mortgage. More mortgages on west ern farms have been filed in the last nine months than in the four years proceeding.
 While in three years the trust has reduced the price of cattle S3 a hum drcd pounds it. has raised the price or meat 10 the consumer about IS per cent.
 And for eighteen months all of the operations of this iniquitous concern have been under the specific ban Of d Federal court, just d, its existence has always been in violation Of the nations law.
 And nothing is done to bring it to an accounting fOr it's lawlessuess. nothing to curb it's monstrous and criminal rapacIty. lt lays it's tribute upon every family, rich or poor. It is in all truthfulness just as much of d criminal and thief as any highway man or burglar. It has not one shadow of right to exist. It is absolutely revolutionary and Il standing menace to the fundamental idea of free gov ernment.
 But nothing done to suppress it O. vindicate the law upon 1t.
 nrh l.. | lowed to violate with impunity the mandates Of the courts. Why should | these be independent of and superior to the laws of the land?
 We know that in 1896 one of the | firms composing this piratical band | contributed St00,0 to the republican fund. Shall the country. | understand that there is any connec- l tion between this subscription and the | Beef Trusts license to plunder?- Examiner.