Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1908-10-22
trusts VS.. the People.

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Trusts VS.. the People.
1t is hardly necessary to define
what trusts are. Every one seems
to know what they are and their
objects. They are organized greed
and legalized robbery, and like
chattel slavery of old they have
their existence in laws that create
and protect them. Like the same
slavery they must have their de-
struction in laws that prohibit
them. The political demagogues,
such as our present Republican
stump speaker will say that trusts
are superior to law, to the will of
the people, and cannot be abolished
but must be regulated. The laws
that make trusts possible and pro
tect them should be re.egated to
the lists of wrongs which made the
auctioneer's block for the sale of
human chattels, possible.
The trusts are a far more danger
Gus form of slavery than that of
old, for they know no color, no
creed, section or flag. The dollar
mark is their fetch. Their lash is
dreadful, their tax-master relent-
less. They should be abolished,
not regulated. No excuse can be
had for them that is not founded
on organized greed and avarice.
President Roosevelt has said
that there are good trusts and bad
trusts. 1t has been said that when
one sees good Indian he is a dead
one. l am of the opinion that
whenever one sees good trust il
is also a dead one. Perhaps be
considers those trusts that are con-
tributing to the Republican cam.
paign fund as good ones.
Trusts and tramps were born in
1878, and they are the offspring OF
the same parent; the Republican
party. AS one has grown strong
so the other has multiplied; they
are concomitant parts of one whole
Trusts cannot exist without pro.
ducing tramps. They are comb
nations of few men to take pos
session of the products of the tot
of the masses without adequat,
compensation to the toilers. The
multi millionaire has stolen three
fourths of his wealth from its legj
innate producers, Laws must b'
enacted to make trusts, tramp
and multi millionaires impossibl,
in this land of liberty, vast unde
veloped resources and compariti
vely limited population.
The nation is SO controlled b,
these modern freebooters that al
most every thing a man needs il
his march from the cradle to tn,
grave is controlled in labor, outpu
and price, by a few multi-million
aires and monopilists, in the nam
of trusts. The legislation of tn
Republican party, in the shape o
high protective tariffs has laid tn
foundation for the building o
trusts. Knock out the foundation
} and the structure will topple an,
fall. The Republican party will
never undertake the task for it j
the trusts that keep the party il
existence. That party would b
foolish to even reprimand its bes
friends. The people of thes
United States need never look t
the Republican party for relief i
the way of Graduating or even re
gulating those domineering trusts
The most laughable and at til
same time the most impudent al
sertion of that party is it's claim {
protection to American labor,
} when every one knows or at lea'
ought to know that the laborer ha
no protection, but is at the mere
ef-the emfpA4ee~rs, tfionghous Il
!, nation. The trusts that control a
manufactures are protected again
9 all competition and therefore f
their own prices on all goods place
upon the market.
Reader, have you ever picked ,
, a Republican paper and read
editorials, in which the trust sy
tenn was condemned and asking (
: it's suppression? No, when Il
: leaders Of the party take par
= snuff all the editors of trucule
: press give general sneeze all ov
the Union. Such being the fact l
one need look for a change in co
!, ditions should the Republic;
party be retained in power,
il 1t is roundly estimated that Il
j capitalization of all the trusts
i the United States amount to s1E
4 900 600 600 or RI 80 for auaru M a