The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-19
MAIL ORDER HOUSES
ARE TRUSTS
Monopoly COUGHING Under the
Cloak of Economy.

Completely engrossed in the strug'
gle for existence, weak and exhaust
ed from the relentless pace to which
he is driven mankind lives in ignor-
ance and disregard Of the steadily
growing strength of monopoly, cal
lous to all the warning of it's danger,
until he is awakened by some SUI
preme imposition to find that he is
held almost entirely in the bonds OF
slavery. But with all its endeavors
and cunning, monopoly has never yet
been able to conquer, for mankind,
when aroused and united. fighting in
the cause Of right as against wrong,
has proven to possess force uncon-
querable and irresistible.
We know monopoly continues to
aggress us, and we are told that its
ways are and that we are fighting
intelligeptly against its success,
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seems ever to be increasing with
irresistible force.
Trust after trust has been attacked
and engaged in battle by govern
ments of the states and nation, and
the din Of conflict may now be heard
on every side. BY timely effort we
believe we may be able to keep 1t
under some reasonable control. but
how futile our efforts have been and
how ridiculous our security seems
when we are told that here Is one
trust or monopoly more powerful and
threatening than any other that has
ever existed, and about which few
OF us have any knowledge, and re-
garding which still less considera'
tion has been given. This monopoly,
crouching under the cloak of econo-
my and fugality, strikes at the very
heart of our national life. and uses
as it's means for the accomplishment
of our destruction the very citizens
who will be the most to suffer.
Equitable Distribution.
Sound economical conditions which
produce prosperity and happiness de-
mand a Just distribution of the pro-
ducts of labor and of the earth. The
more equally and generally are these
products distributed, the more uni
versal is prosperity and happiness.
Those, therefore, to whom the bur-
den OF this distribution Is given are
the ones who should be held strictly
accountable just in proportion to the
amount with which he becomes in
trusted to distribute. Whoever ac'
quires worldly goods and is able to
spend or distribute them should have
some concern for the welfare of his
fellow men. He owes 1t as a duty to
mankind, to himself and to his pos
terity to spend it so intelligently as
to do the most good.
Does man who reaps from the
soil of the locality or receives the
benefits from the labor of the com
munity in which he lives act faithful
ly to his neighbors or to himself, oil
to his children, when he sends the
products of that industry to some
monopolistic concern in a far distant
place to trade for goods which he
could secure in his own town? Does
ne not, by diverting the profits ol
that trade to another source, rot
those of his own locality of theil
rightful share of worldly goods, and
help to increase the plentiful hoard
already accumulated in the lap o
monopoly? Has he not, as a custodi
an of funds intrusted to his care
proven disloyal and unworthy of hi!
trust? II may never have occurred
to him that this Is wrong; 1t ma.
not even be considered crime in thu
eyes of the law, but this dropping o
the pennies into the Golfers of tn,
| Caesars is a moral crime In the eyel
| of right and justice, as brazen ant
| diabolical as Is murder In the eye
| of the common law.
Home trade Is the blessing Of civ
| iliZation and the salvation of man
kind from the claws OF monopoly
You may be working man, who lab
ors all the day or as a Superintendent
or subordinate in some factory, sho
or undertaking, and you return hom
at night bodily exhausted; you ma
be a clerk or manager, who is cor
fined In your employment to the In
doors of your establishment an
leave It mentally fatigued at the en-
of the day; or perhaps you are er
gagged in your own business and fin
you must keep busy every minut
and plan and worry to keep going; O