The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-05-05
What Trusts Are Actually Doing.

tlemen at the Mondamin were dis
cnsSlng the Standard Oil octopus,
when one spoke up designating as
scare heads the Tribunc's New
York correspondence of February
9, giving -, 7l0 miles of railroad
as owned by that corporation, and
asking whether it was going to own
all the railroads.
y stranger sitting by said; "Iou
call notices Of what the corporations
are doing IN this country scare
heads, do you2 Let me tell You.
sir, that YOU ARE either lulliug your-
self into Il fatal sleep or You are
wholly uniformed as to what the
trusts are doing
| was IN husiucss in Illinois uu-
I'll six month, ago y combine got
control of pretty much nii the plants
IN the same line. had been dong
well, but foreserlug that | should
be forced to sell or crowded ont ul
the trade, | sold-madc good sale
and was happy for few days
began to look about for some bus.
mess into which could put my
time aud my bit of money. Then
my troubles began. For six
months | have followed one will
o'.the -wlsp after another only to
be met everywhere 10y the same con
dItlonS, and | have just put The
money into Il bank which will nay
me about one fourth rs much ns !
was making out of it IN the bus.
ineaS. Everywhere came up
against the steel fingers OF some
trust. Individual industries ARE ho
more Men of small capital are
crowded out, and there is nothing
left but to become Il cog in some
great wheel-put your money into
its stock with au almost certain
prospect that sooner or later the
mig stockholders will freeze out the
liitic ones and leave them depend
cht upon the wages winch onr own,
ers choose to give, and those wages
subject to continual nice ralrula
ions aS 10 how small a ration will
sustain man IN working order.
Not only the oil and gas Suu
hurh' but the nour you bake, the
mats SHOES ana clothing you wear
everything you touch, taste or hau.
die' The char you SIT on by day
the bed you sleep IN by night, are
controlled by trusts, and while
there may be great margins III then
manufacture yet an individual em.
BARKING therrl' o. soon iearn
TO ms cost that the prohtS are not
ior nun:
"o ih'o your stores ana see now
lhey are SciIlhg this' that ahd the
VIII hhu the retailer
usually hciu WIN hookS oi steel I'M
der u nara ald ias' contract d!
"hicn ne eau ohiS sen S"rh ana
Such goods ana al Si'rh ana such
prices ahu the PenaliS ~ brearh
is that the tfnat Will deprive nm OF
'ts line oil goods,
HOW long VIII your retailers he
allowed even thr poor privilege "l
hahdiihg goods at the meagrr mar.
gin permitted
HOW i"iG before rlght mere III
your own city lle trnst controlling
llnrs Oh cahhed goods Tor instance
WIZ put up warehouse ana Il"
thelr own distributing ana the re-
taiier De sent Whistllhg do"h the
"i.iui
but turning our iriehd lounu
that the oolector 10 scare head
had himseil gone whlStlihg down
the wlhd, ana none seeming dls.
posed 10 dispute WIN one VINO hau
learned win mnch sorrow the les
son ne was trying 10 teach' the
company separated.
but now strangely IN line TINS
mans experience seems TO nave
beeh with What Judge hrosscnp
says III Mc' iure 5 ior feDrnary;
DeposltS III 'he banks OF the
I hited states III looo were aoou'
- 20 ,ooo, o,ooo, ana III i',4, I'LL
ooo'ooo'ooo. Inc erect OF the cor
poratioh under the prevailing pol
icy Is TO uriVe the DuiK oi our peo
PIE out OF business, ana once out
liley keep OUT lheS put thclr
money III some paiik or bohd