The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-02-16
HOW MUCH LONGER WILL
YOU STAND BEING R0BBED?''

as much, earned the same.
And yet today the nine million arc
being told that they can no longer earn
4 per cent-$16O, 900, OOO-because
the times will not allow 1t, and that
next year the earnings will be 500
600, 900 less-$14O,O 100000.
At the same time tho Steel Trust
is assuring the public in its stock
market campaign that the times arc
80 good that next year its easnings
will be $4O,OOO.O 900 more-S2eO, O00,-
600.
There you are. Wall Street.
There you are. Mr.. President and
Congress- and American people; there
you are with the whole question in a
nutshell form.
Statesmen may paw the air. and
jam the wind and continue to make
asses of themselves until the wrath
howlings of the American people
face-to-face them with their assinin-
ity: but their air-pawing and wind
tanning will not alter this high
price fact: IL there had not been ST.
OOO, 100000 of security values
brought into existence last year by
the trick manipulation OF the Steel
Trust and $4,000, 600, 900 more by the
Union Pacific, Reading, and other
similar trick manipulation, the Amer
lean people would be paying just that
much less for their necessities and
luxuries as the dividend requirements
of $1,000, O0O,OOO Of fictitious security
values call for.
As an illustration of the absolute
contempt in which the System holds
the American peoples intelligence
the Steel Trusts own press agents are
spreading: while we, the Steel
Trust, admit we had but $3.50 600. 900
actually invested at the start, we have
since added $370,000,000 which we
have earned outside our dividends"
In other words, while the Steel
Trust was taking away from the
American people $60.000.000 annually
on an investment Of $250,000.0O0. and
paying it out in dividends Of rs per
cent annually, they were taking so
much more on the quiet as to enable
them in few years to put $4,000
600 of the peoples money back into
the business and they now use this
additional pillaging as their reason
for furtner plllage.
The sooner the American people
awake to the fact that the unwar
ranted amounts taken from them an
nually by the Steel Trust and other
trusts and by the Union Pacific.
and other railroads is the
real reason for the high cost of beef,
-four. clothing, rent. etc.. the sooner
they will see the road out of their
present hell-hole.
The sooner the American people
realize that the billions which are be-
ing taken from them annually by the
Steel Trust and other trusts. the I'm
ion Pacific, Reading and other rail-
roads. over and above what they pay
out for raw material, labor and fair.I
dividends and interest on the legti-
mate capital employed in the business.
is nearly all there is to this high
prices" problem, the sooner they will
deposit Wall Street and the System
in the hell-hole which they them
selves now occupv.
Personal Explanation.
l am flooded with Inquiries as to
the reason for my present public ac-
tivity
A few months back. my at-all-
times enormous mail began to in
crease by leaps and Jumps.
The increase was from no one
point, but from all over America.
thought / saw indications of the re-
turn wave of the peoples unrest. and
l Immediately geared up my old Life
Insurance Standard Oil System ma
for wholesaledly lingering the
peoples pulse and--while | am
startle- proof, | was astonished at the
The whole country is alive
as at no time before. not even at the
height of the Life Insu"ance-Stand-
ard l-Roosevelt stir. and this time
they are sure enough making for the
rip roar and smash road, and they
are making for it fast. History shows
that the first great unrest of a peo-
pie brought about by the discovery
of their wrongs can never be relied
upon to reach a result, but that the
second or return wave seldom fails OF
round up.