The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-08
NEW MEXICO GROWER
SCORES WOOL TRUST
Johney H. Bearrup of Albu-
querque Urges Building of
Mills in West.
FIGURES PRESENTED SHOW
EFFECT ON SHEEP INDUSTRY
Points Out Way to Obtain JUS
tice and Equality, Crushing
Big Combines.

OGDEN, Jan. 7.-Johney Bcarrup of
Albuoueraue. n NJ, delivered an ad.
dress today on "Home Manufacture of
Wool - Mr. Bearrup. is a prom minent
woolgrowcr of his territory, He is for
the west, first, last and all the time.
In his address today he dealt with the
proposition of building woolen manu-,
featuring mills in the west. He said
that in his own section tins plan is
meeting with success.
Mr.. Bearrup went after the trusts
generally, and the wooden trust In par
ticular. He declared that a trust over
thrown by the courts would only rise
again, mightier than ever. He gave fig.
ures to show the effect on the WOOL
industry of the monopoly. His address
in part follows:
You shepherds of the United States,
you men Of peace, II is well tnat You
have met at ogden, place We'll away
there are places where HE Is counted
cneap where under ground and above 1t
lives ure snuffcd out by the hundreds at
n time and the harvest of death never
ceases.
Profit System to Blame,
am going to make the charge that all
these horrible things are chargeaoie TO
make IT possible for men 20 get some
thing for nothing. to take from others
more than fair labor exchange
direct ownership Of great power ma
chimes. called manufacturing machinery.
upon which we are al dependent lot
Those things. through a natural eco
nomic law of concentration for profits ny
exploitation. has established them In Ger
tain sections OF the country. TO the dis
advantage OF other sections and have
entrcnched themselves behind a system
called the trust" TO better perpetuate
! want to give you my definition OF a
trust. 1t is an organization OF orsaniza-
rons or corporations composed Of men
who have the illumina ton 10 own manu-
featuring machinery (directly or indi-
rectlyr upon which other people are de-
pendent for market FOR their labor, and
dependent for their necessities; who see
the futilitY OF individual effort and the
strength or collective action, who realize
that competition for your patronage is
death to their pronts.
Two Hard ~ Jolts.
The circuit court OF appeals at ST.
Paul handed the trusts two jolts last
week that will make the trusts millions
OF dollars. In the case against the Union
Pacific for discrimination, Judge San
born declares so the press dispatches
say. that corporations have the right TO
select their patrons. and 10 charge diff
ihermoTc, If competition Is stified mere
" incidentally to the formation OF n
combine, no breach Of the sherman anti
trust law has been committed, II must
be shown that the combination was
formed lor the purpose OF doing away
with competition"
There isn't n trust in the United States
that was organized primarily TO throt-
tie competition, For proof of this. we
have only to go to the promoters-and
so there you arc,
The next day the same court handed
down It's decision dissolving the Standard
Oil company This decision will now
fine farce. For a few days the dear peo-
pie will rejoice oyer the smashing Of the
common. enemy and then forget the In
cident. In the meantime. Standard Oil
will quietly rake in valuable stocks.
which have gone down in price as re-
suit OF the decision. and proceed in re-
organizing the Standard and its Coop
Grating companies into one gigantic cor
poration similar to the steel trust.
Please note that there has been no
decrease (npr win there be) in the price
OF crude oil and no increase In wages.
Dividends Will however, continue to
steadily increase.
Danger Ahead.
Now, you thinking men who are watch
ing your herds upon a thousand hills,
how are you watching your other inter
ests? Have you heard of a wooden mills
trust? Do you think there is danger
little protection that you think you have
on your wool? Are woolen manufactur-
ers one Of the dominant interests men
toned In the call for convention made
by the National Livestock association?
Do you know how fast that Industry Is
being concentrated? Let me give you
a few figures;