The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
THE TRUSTS AND WHO IS
RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM.

paigns.
The trusts are closely related to and
connected with the protective tariff.
In order he better to understand the |
operation and effect of the trusts or the |
business Interests of the people, it is
necessary to study and understand |
their pu pose and practical operation.
The people do not give 10 the questions
of the arIff and the trusts the thought
necessary to understand them fully.
The object of the protective tariff
AMI the effect of it is, to prevent foreign
nations who deal with the United
) ates fro u selling in our markets any
manuf ctured products that are manu-
factur here by our manufactures, and
the protective duties are made SO high
by the tariff laws that foreign manu-
factories cannot afford TO pay he duty,
a nd hei ce cannot ship anything here
for sale, because they would lose by it.
Tuls forces The consumers here to
buy all manufactured articles, at the
prize hat the manufacturers see fit
TO charge, and they fix the price just
so high as TO shut out foreign impor-
tation.
The r publicans admit this to be
tue, but say, if even it is true, still
the consumer is not IN danger, because
there is cumpetition between the man
ufacturer~ at home Other things be-
ing square there would he some com
pettiou at home, but it would be so
limited as TO be of but little advantage
TO the consumers, because ii would not
be sufficient. But 10y the creation of
tn trus 5, tue home competition is de-
stroyed Mr. Taft In his speech in
Baltimore on last Monday night said
on the tariff that "there was COMPETE
ton behind the wall" AS we have
SAID before. this would be true, if it
were II 1t flr the trusts which destroys
home competition. Mr. Taft's state
ment therefore is not true. because the
trusts absolutely prevents competition
| OChiih tilt wall, anu ttldt 10 tuF NCly
object and intention in the creation of
the trusts. As we have said the pro-
teclive tariff duty prevents foreign
competition, and that being the case,
the next step adopted by the protected
and prl LEGGED classes, III order IT, per-
feet the scheme of piunder, was to pre-
vent home competition and thus place
Inc consumer at the mercy of the priv
LEGGED classes.
30 they formed the trusts. The trust
is simply a combination If all of the
manufacturers of the same article III
this country in one body, and then fix
a pIi"e Oh the product AID all of them
mand tuat price.
Thus we have the manufacturers of
cotton i'll one body, The cotton goods
trust. The tobacco MAJ ufacturers
formed the tobacco trust. The wooden
manufacturers formed the woolen
goods trust. The Sta dald Oil Com
prny controls nearly all of the oil and
the oil wells and products, and is the
Standa Il Oh Trust, aud it controls the
oil ma ket and is in fact gigantic
monopoly. The fact is the trust is d
mon poly. So we have under u high
protective tariff aud 10y virtue of il the
formation of the trusts, and the result
Is PRACTICAL monopoly Of nearly every
tulus that is protected by the tariff
law. a d Learly ever ing is protect
ed that IS manufactured il the United
States. The Republican leaders and
even Mr.. Taft have been duuug the
whole campaign defending and excns-
ing the tariff and the trusts.
The eyes of the people are being
gradually opened TO til. iniqui;ies an
expressions that result fon this sys-
tenn aud 1t is Necessary to deceive them
again, and they are dong all that can
| be sad ana done to deceive the people
They are now saying. even Mr.. Taft,
that the Rrpubticau party sends US
gIod crops, aud accusin. God of being
the Creator of the trus Can the peo-
pie tie beguiled by such boldly false
and vicious Statements The tariff and
the trusts are Hat contradiction to
every tenet of GODS Law, and every
tenet of common homes v.
We do not believe tuat God is pun
ishieg the people of This country, al
though, when we consider the mon
strons oppression of The present system
of our government u der the r. publ
can party, we may deserve to be pun
ished But to punish all of the people,
when 50 many innocent people are AL
ready so generously punished under
the tariff and the trusts, would surely
not be right, and Got would not do
that. Now, we know that Pharoah
was punished by the plauges sent upon
Egypt because of his rong doing, but
We a.e not ia that category surely.
There is one thing TO be admitted,
however, and that Is, that the con-
sumers are almost as badly punished
by the tariff and the trusts, as were
the people of Egypt by the plauge of
lice
No we will not admit that God is