The evening world., 1908-10-01
A Dangerous Trust.

The only trust having the impu-
dence to openly assert that it is going
10 elect its own trust representatives
to public Office is the Labor TRUST
The election therefore Will deter
mine whether the Common Citizens
retain control of public affairs, or
allow the Labor Trust magnates to
govern.
The common man loses his liberty
when he and his fellow citizens ALLOW
any organization or trust to get CON
troI for each trust whether Of labor
Or capital is in business to gather
every dollar possible and divide up
aiming the members or the managers
leave any.
And where do they gather all this
extra money?
The Meat, Steel, Oil. and other
Capital trusts raise the price OF their
products.
The Labor Trust does the same
thing by boosting the price OF the
plumber, meat-chopper, ironworKer'
shoemaker. baker, ETC.. etc, ana oy
ining them for breaking rules anH
also fining employers.
The particular shoeInakers. bakers
etc, etc. who happen TO be members
OF the Labor Trust may not get much
extra money out of it but the trust
Managers seem to handle heavy sums.
| Now, to get back 10 the question
where does all this money come from,
this extra money both labor and capt.
raj trusts are striving fpr. There Is
only one place for them TO get II, my
friends, and that is from the pocket
of the common citizen NOT a memoer
OF any trust. He is the long surfer
ing WOTNman who pays TO add extra
dollars to the earnings OF Doth Labor
cnd Capital Trusts,
We all admit that both trusts are
right enough in trying TO earn all
they can, but the citizens they are
feeding on, absolutely must Keep
awake and protect themselves at the
polls and before the courts or the
trust members get fatter and the com
mon citizen thinner. The non.trusI
citizens are heavily in the majority
and protect themselves easily when
reused. but they often allow design,
ing men 10 manipulate politicians ana
laws until the common people art
helpless.
Why do you speak of"the Labor
Trust?" someone asks.
II has been clearly defined as a
trust in the fullest sense of the worn
BY the best lawyers in America, In
GLIDING Clarence Darrow, the Attor,
new for the American Federation of
Labor, and by the United States Su'
preme Court itself.
You see all trusts are formed 10 ar'
complish certain things.
Control production, Control prices
Control members OF the trust,
Get the highest price the public wall
stand,
The Meat trust controls and sells
meat, the Labor Trust controls and
sells labor, both feed off the public
and 1t is perfectly safe to assume that
the managers of either or any trust
will soak" the citizens for every dol
lar they can get. only limited by the
amount of power Tue people VIII give
Them
Everyone agrees that combinations
OF capital or labor In the formation OF
trusts are legal and produce an un'
certain amount of good,
The Oil Trust greatly improved the
quality OF oil and sells il at about one
half the price It was when the trust
was formed. Members OF this trust
have given several million dollars for
Colleges, Churches and other public
works,
I.ut what would this trust do TO the
puople il given unlimited power"
The Labor Trust has supplied good
! paying positions for several hundred
oiieials OF the trust aud has paid out
a good many thousand dollars to sup