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tiailnIsblrough Goes After Harvester
: ! !. -. People In Seathina Speech

Hansbrough Goes After Harvester
!. T. I. People In SeathIng Speech \
q Washington, D. C., Feb. 4.-senator
Hansbrough of North Dakota, who is
feeling the heavy hand of the harves-
ter trust and who is determined that
the international; Harvester trust shall
BE- prosecuted in the courts, unmerci-
fully flayed the makers Of harvester
machinery in speech which attract
ed'a great deal Of attention. He traced
the organization of the trust which he I
stated was formed In August, 1902.
There was some eight or9ten separate
companies engaged III the manufacture |
OF harvester machinery at that aefme |
and an effort was made to get these |
different constituent companies to- |
Egether which was finally successful
land the International Harvester trust
was organized under the laws of New
Jersey with a capital OF 7$120, 000, 900.
About the same time the International
Harvester Trust Of America with a
lcapital of 100000 was organized I'm;
der the laws of wisconsin; by the same
men, the stock of the smaller COM
ipany being held by the largertone. This
Organization the senior senator of
North Dakota says was an evasion of
llthe federal law by having the manu-
! featuring company organized under
the laws of one state and the listribu-
1ting or selling company organized
Iunder the laws Of another state. 81
f. At the time this monopoly was
created, according to Senator Hans
I brough, the average price Of a self,
binder to a farmer in his section Of
1.-THE country was from 1876 to $105,
1Today the same machine costs the
\ farmer s145 and reports are in circu'
2fiation that the price Of machines will
fbe put at $3.50 for the present year.
In North Dakota, which produces over
lone hundred million dollars worth OF
grain each year, wheat, barley, oats,
fax, the farmers are obliged to pur
, chase about ten thousand binders eve,
tyear. 1.-THE price of these binders
he said, has been advanced from
: about 800 in 1902 to about $3.50, and
3 lit was his deliberate Judgment thai
1.-THE International Harvester compah,
;. proposed to extend it's operation tt
g, every class Of farm machinery" HI
.SAsaid that at this hour this monopol!
Twas taking hand in the politics o
Ibis state; that it was laying its wire
81 Through it's trusted political agents t.
acapture and control the delegates VIII
l. will represent North Dakota in tn
8 next republican national convention
t:.And the edict," he said has gon
# Eforth from this monopoly that I al
ID toa be, defeated for the United State
+, senate because = had the temerity I
II offer a resolution Of Investigate
here" - >. =.
le Mr.. President the political TO
10 tunes of the Individual are as b1
lA grain of sand compared with Il
M mountain of injustice that can I
or wrought by an institution Of this kin
IL accept the challenge OF this mo
OF opoly and am ready to enter into 20
,R,I tical combat I'M the state OF Nor
Il Dakota III the people Of my state q
-, sire to have politics controlled by
90 monopoly Of this kind then they 4
80 notzwant me In this body as one
So their senators" .,.:. =:
chs debate on the Information
z Haryester company was precipitat'
"a byS az resolution Of Senator Har
as brough directing that the departing
n ne Of commerce. and labor suspend !
Investigation on the ground that t
OF department of justice had inVestigat
tn the acts of the monopoly and we
ready to proceed against the compal
zal in the courts. W -. # ., = !,