The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-05-11


mary eh when the members from the
Delta I'M dong this, they we're surrender
ing its yhuence. TINS atrack is being
made besDelta has not now over 5000
votes, amid that it is not patriotic for
any one ito array one section of the state
against know; this audience knows, that
each one can didates for governor can NOT
be electesry one of US can, if we will,
render a Re to the people of the state, and
We can telling to the people just the
simple t1Py advocating those measures
which woSt helpful to every part of the
state, ar1k to build up in the state,
strong, Hakhy public sentiment. The
Delta todpied and controlled almost ex-
clusively tship which came from the hill
counties i We are of your own kindred.
We wenfllta when it was practically
wildernes4th and malaria were presumed
to stalk 1.-THE land and during the days
OF negroI By Our courage, patience
an efforts reclaimed this country and
made it alon for any one Are we now
to be co4r doing for Mississippi that
which otdpt ready or willing to do? If
IN order I'D governor, l must be guilty
of ingrat1 people with whom | live, [
shall chee.nt that some other one may
have the bst5 just that much too much
for me. land wherever any system of
Mississippi, there shall be one man in
the race I'd and ready to say what he can
whether bnce he makes votes or not.
TRUSTS
Perhapl serious economical problem
with whic1 nfronted is the one springing
from the }ersa1 tendency of the monieG
interests tllndividual competition by the
organizatid and combines. The old
adage thadon is the life of trade" is re-
garded noitlquated for the age in which
we live anhoctrine, that the product of
the field alarm, of labor, and of capital
and of eveImust be controlled by gigan-
tic monopEested in its place. The re-
suit is weheat trust, the oil trust, the
steel TRUST, lrust and every other kind of
trust whicHenuity and human greed can
suggest. IS now boldly assert that
they can the people better than the
people cam of themselves, and that the
people Owl to permit them to dictate
what they what they shall drink and
wherewitha be clothed. 1t is true that
they have bic people by feeding them on
poisoned I'd is argued by the ingenious
representatle nefarious institutions that
American It be paid living wages, and
that to dol film industry must be pro-
1oted, and lie people must be killed to
find mari coffins. In the meantime
while the de being killed by eating the
impure mefers who furnish this meat
product an -sh the collins in which to
bury those are killed by overwork and
the impure Ey are compelled to breathe
1t is also tltrust fund provided by the
sweat, enerf:ry of the laborers of every
field farm, Ihop in this country for the
benefit of us after they are dead, has
been used fnce companies to corrupt
the voters. suggest that this must be
done in orbit wildcat legislation in the
interest of r, the people. 1t is further
true that thoads of this country would
not furnishEr the products of the coal
mines, not }she trust, for the consump-
ton OF thei needed cheaper coal to
protect the1 shilly blasts of the winter
winds, but I'll sure that if this were done
the ralroadb1 the trust magnates could
not spend troad, worse still for this
reason theyP able to buy their daugh-
tiers an ItaHt some kind of nobleman,
and the syshs kind of thing.
1t is tho of these monopolies to
grow. If TIN the individual a large
share of th& his honest industry and
give it to 1.-the way of rebates and
cheaper trafflese trusts can get their
products to- hore quickly and cheaply
than the ind cause of this the individ-
ual must bekhe servant of the trusts,
or quit bust he the trust is compelled
to grow bo1hd power.
I wish, II to sound this note of
warning: Uni e realize the danger with
which we ak and arouse themselves
from their 1H.hildren, children of the
plain, clean, r. of Mississippi and the
children of IN, honest people in our
sister states Twill be waging the same
fight for lifel gainst a corporate aris-
tocracy that ,dden, weary and long
prosecuted eussia is waging today
against the btnich has cursed that land
for centuries.k
In 1893 TN of Mississippi passed,
what it consid mt antitrust law. After
the passage representatives of the oil
mills of Missi fhe city of Jackson and
entered into ehe terms of which were
formulated, ptEnd agreed to, by which
agreement theOmpetitive prices for cot
ton seed. Thd:as $I2oo per ton. The
Attorney Genf sippi in proper pro-
ceeding instid cause forfeiture of
their charters. IS did not deny the ex-
istence of thel bination, but they de-
INJURED to the as a ground for the
demurrer that Eion had to be. sued at
its domicile. burt and the Supre me