Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-01

The only trust having the impudence
to openly assert that 1t is going to elect
It's own trust representatives to public
Office is the Labor Trust.
The election therefore will determine
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 control,
for each trust whether of labor or cap-
ital is in business to gather every dol
lar possible and divide up among the
members az the managers leave any.)
And where do they gather all this
extra money?
The Meat, Steel, Oil and other Capt.
tai trusts raise the price of their pro-
ducts.
The Labor Trust does the same thing
by boosting the price OF the plumber
meat chopper, ironworker. shoemaker
baker etc, ETC., and by filming them for
breaking rules and also fning en-
ployers.
The particular shoemakers, 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 ssern to handle heavy sums.
Now to get back to the question
where does all this money come from,
this extra money both labor and capi-
tai trusts are striving for. There is only
one place for them to get it, my friends,
and that is from the pocket of the
common citizen not a member of any
trust. He is the long suffering work
man who pays to add extra dollars to
the earnings of both Labor and 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 common citizen thin
ner. The non-trust citizens are heavily
in the majority and protect themselves
easily when aroused, but they often al
low designing, men to manipulate poll
ticians and laws until the common
people are helpless.
Why do. you speaN of the Labor
Trust?" someone asks.
1t has been clearly defined as a
trust i'm the fullest sense of the word
by the best lawyers in America includ-
ing Clarence barrow the Attorney for
the American Federation of Labor and
by the United States Supreme Court it
self
You see all trusts are formed to ac-
complish certain things.
Control production. Control prices.
Control members of the trust.
Get the highest price the public will
stand.
The Meat trust controls and sells
meat, the Labor Trust controls and
sells labor both feed off the public,
and it 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 the people will give
them.
Everyone agrees that combinations
of capital or labor i'll the formation of
trusts are legal and produce an uncer-
tain amount Of good.
The Oil trust greatly improved the
quality Of oil and sells 1t 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.
But what would this trust do TO the
people if given unlimited power?
The Labor Trust has supplied good
paying positions for several hundred
officials of the trust and has paid out
a good many thousand dollars to sup