The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-08-24
TRUSTS.

Tor us 10 attempI III d siHSio cui
torial to discuss this question in its
entirety. Americas greatest orators
have spent days and months in
calculating it from public plat,
forms. Americas greatest writers
have filled volumes in delineating
the evils emanating from gigantic
combinations of capital. The
strange thing in connection with
the subject is that this flood OF IN
formation with which the land has
been Illuminated has all been de-
voted to explaining the methods
whereby trusts are formed, the
reasons why they flourish, and the
baneful results that they entail
upon the people, with scarcely a
written sentence or spoken word
suggestive of remedy. 1t does
the country no more good to tell it
that trusts exists and that their
effects are deleterious to the country
and stop there without suggesting
a remedy, than it would to tell a
man that he had boil on his nose,
that it was caused by impure blood,
and that it was hurting him, with
out suggesting to him a cure for
the same.
We once attended a swell ban
quet in the city, of Washington
with a United States senator, whose
name is household word through
out the length and breadth of the
land. We filled our abdominal
cavities with the curious con.
glomeration of eatables and drink
ables people consider necessary to
devour on such occasions. On our
return to the senator's residence he
was taken suddenly sick, and he
commenced to double up like boy
who had been eating green water
melons. A noted physician was
promptly summoned. The doctor
TANNED a thermometer under his
tongue and took his temperature;
he noted his respiration; he did all
the things that modern science
demands that a modern doctor
should do to diagnose patients
ease; then he ocularly proclaimed:
"Senator, you have taken con-
siderable quantities of deleterious
matte into your alimentary canal,
this has produced a gaseous condi-
ton in the intestinal regions and
created disturbance in the diges-
tive organs; you will be all right
when you get BETTER" and he put
on his hat and walked away.
The Senator's mother, a dear,
white haired old New England lady,
hearing the disturbance came into
the room. She put her soft, cool
hand on her sons hot brow and
said, "John, you have filled your
stomach with a lot of trash and
you've got the belly ache, you
need dose of peppermint" She
promptly administered it and in a
short time her distinguished son
YVES sleeping as soundly and sweetly
as freckled faced boy after holi-
day but it was the mothers remedy
that cared, not the learned doctors
diagnosis.
Numerous eminent physicians of
frenzied finance have learnedly
demonstrated that the digestive
organs of business have been tied
into hard knots by over indulgence
in trust manipulations either
voluntarily swallowed or forced
down. The diagnosis is correct
but what is needed is a remedy.
The country must have dose Of
Legislation and the Legislation must
be uniform and the only way this
uniformity can be secured is by
putting corporations under control
of congress. The following is our
trust plank:
( A Constitutional amendment (
) giving Congress control of !
I Corporations both state and I