The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-22

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4th, appears the following article
from Mr. c. c.. Daniels. Of Wilson, N.
The people of the United States
are oppressed by the trusts. The
men VINO furnish the raw ma
terial out Of which trust goods are
made ara held up by the trusts and
made to deliver the product Of their
toll at such figures as the trust ben
eficiarieS fix.
The consumer who is forced to use
the goods sold by trusts is required
to pay Whatever sum these manipu-
latCrS Of charge.
These are the conditions. Is there
no remsdyo Is there no relief?
appeal to the people does not APP
pear to meet with such a response
as to bring relief. OF course, the
people have the power to end these
practices Of the men who control the
great trusts tfat are fattening on the
sufferings of the people, but they
have not realized the real conditions
and wrong that these pirates have
done and are doing on the sea of
An appeal to the people to be eff
fective must have in it IN element
Of seltishness-the people must see
that it pays to listen to those who
cry out against the monopolist-
and then their better natures can be
reused.
They Fear Only Imprisonment and
Loss OF Money.
The men who control the great
trusts that have by the throat the
commerce of the nation. do not care
for denunciation or the contempt Of
the peOD,e-they live beyond the
.'cornmon herd"-surrounded BY the
tinsel Of display and the Bringing
adulation of the "sycOphants' and
'bootlicks." They care only for
only two things: Imprisonment and
loss of money.
TIE Trusts i'm the Doodle.
Under a national administration
that they bought and paid for, they
need not fear Imprisonment.
With q ongress presided over by
Sherman and Cannon, they need lose
no sleep for fear Of loss of money
through governmental intervention.
The trusts are in the saddle. The
independent manufacturer and bust
ness man are $50 far as national
Legislation or the work Of the in
ferior federal courts are concerned)
lambs in the midst of wolves.
Is there no escape for honest in
dustry and independent business?
Is this great country to be the
helpless victim of the less than one
hundred men who, by combination,
prey on business and destroy legiti-
mate industry?
For at least -four years to come we
car expect nothing from h nation
al GOV2rnment-eXcept that all the
power Of the administrator will be
used to more firmly faSten monopoly
on a people who have placed in pow
or the trusts that put up the cleo
ton.
Legitimate Business Paralyzed.
This being so, what can we do to
free ourselves?
Can not independent business men,
honest producers, manufacturers and
consumers. by acting IN concert, do
something to break the strangle grip
that monopoly has on the throat OF
independent business?
manufacturers of goods that com
pete WITH the-product Of the trusts
are afraid to increase their business
because they live in constant fear Of
being crushed by the trusts.
Men Who have money to invest
are afraid to embark in the manu-
facture 81 any article that the trusts
control.
Business men are intimidated. so
that they are afraid to handle ar
ticles that compete with trust made
goods.
the domination of the trusts, will
give the preference t goods manu-
featured by independent manufac-
turers, the independent factories will
multiply with astonishing re- pidity in
the United States.
But the question arises nOW, are
the people to know which are indie
pendent made goods and which are
trust made goods? The trusts do
not hesitate to by up independent
factories and run them under the
name Of Independents and thereby
fool the people. This is a popular
method Of these monpolists to de-
ceive those people who are opposed
t." the rnonopolizing Of the business
OF the nation in the hands of a few.
Let Independent Business Men Or
ganiZe.
Let an antitrust league be or
ganlzed for the r Of informing