Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-09-13
A Trust Burdened Young Couple.

Extracts from George Byrne's
speech accepting the Democratic NOM
ination for Congress at Charleston:
"Let us look for moment at the
demands made upon the average
young man, in a city, who, having
saved up enough money as he thinks
to justify it, seeks to establish a
home of his own. Having married
the dearest girl in the world, and
the conventional honeymoon having
passed, they talk over the matter
and agree that they will stop paying
rent and build home. Having Sc
cured a lot they go about having
their house built, and right there is
where they begin falling afoul of the
trusts. In building the foundation
he purchases stone from the dressed
stone trust and cement from the ce.
meat truat, connecting with sewer
pipe bought from the sewer pipe
trust by means of iron pipe bought
from the iron pipe trust. His lumber
is bought from the lumber trust, his
nails from the nail trust. For roof
the tin is bought from the tin trust,
for window glass from the window
glass trust, and for the wall paper
from the paper trust. In furnish
ing it the chairs are bought from the
chair trust, and carpets from the
carpet trust. When they finally
move and the young wife sets about
getting their first meal, she cooks it
upon stove bought from the stove
trust, in vessels bought from the
graniteware trust, and when they
finally sit down to eat it is at a table
bought from the table trust, covered
with cloth bought from the linen
trust, and making up knife and fork
bought from the cutlery trust, he
carves the meat bought from the
meat trust and helps the plates
bought from the stoneware trust.
The wife pours the tea made from
the product Of the tea trust, sweet
ening it with sugar from the sugar
trust, and pours in condensed milk
bought from the condensed milk
trust. They must even salt their
potatoes with salt bought from the
salt trust. When the clothes with
which the wife left her fathers home
become worn and faded and her
wardrobe needs replenishing, she
purchases white goods from the
white goods trust and wooden goods
from the wooden goods trust, and up.
on a machine bought from the sew.
ing machine trust she sews them to-
gether with thread bought from the
thread trust and needles bought
from the needle trust. Her new hat
is bought from the millinery trust
and her shoes are made of leather
bought from the leather trust. And
when in the course of time and ma
ture a son or daughter comes to
bless their home and brighten their
lives, it is wrapped in swaddling
clothes bought from the flannel trust
and laid in cradle bought from the
cradle trust. When the natural
founts of it's nourishment are dried
up through i'll health it is fed ON
prepared food from the prepared
food trust, and when the doctor pre-
scribes for it in case of illness the
prescription is filled with drugs
bought from the drug trust. And
when, sickened at the hopelessness
Of the continual struggle against
trusts in this world it wings an
early flight to the realms beyond, it
is placed in coffin bought from the
coffin trust, carried to the grave in
hearse bought from the vehicle trust,
and over it's little tomb the grieving
parents erect a modest stone bought
from the marble trust.
Is it not time the government of
the people by the trusts for the bene-
fit of the trusts shall cease2