Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-04
BUSTING THE TRUSTS"

Macon News: Did Mr. Roosevelt with all his noise, ever really ''bust" trust? We never heard of it if he did.
 No, Mr. Roosevelt never ''busted'' a trust. Neither did MT. Taft. Nor will either of these statesmen, or any other statesmen or group of statesmen, ever tbust" a trust
 Mr. Roosevelt didn't "bust'' any trusts, and MT. Taft isn't going to ''bust" any trusts, not only because it is impossible to ''bust" trust but because it is silly to try it.
 Do you remember when labor saving devices began to come in and take the bread out of the mouths of workingmen"? There was about as much uproar about that as there is now about the trusts. People wanted to ''bust" the labor saving devices, too, and in some cases they did But 1t was foolish attempt doomed to failure, and laborsaving devices have triumphed and will triump. In the printing business, for in stance, they introduced machine that could do the work of three men with one man handing it. Obviously, each one of those machines threw two men out of their jobs But the cheapenng of composition produced such demand for the output of the printing press that there are a very great many more printers employed now than there were in the days of hand compost tion.
 The ''trust" is a labor-saving, waste-elim- mating device. It is a combination of capital and enterprise doing work that couldn't possi- bly, be done under the old system. The big com binations of capital could no more be broken up and the old system of individual and partnership enterprise re-established than the linotype could be etfaced from the earth and hand composition restored
 The trouble with these big combinations of capital called 'trusts" is that they have grown sc suddenly vast that they have forgotten that they serve the public and have come to believe that the public serves them. To maintain that position they have corrupted politics, defied the sources of the peoples law, suied the er- mine of the bench, and reduced whole people to 3 position of economic slavery as insufferabe as that which produced John Brown and Sumter and Lincoln and Gettysburg and Grant and Ap pomattoX.
 The impulse to strike and to destroy is nat ural enough, but it isn't wise.
 These overbearing combinations can't be de- stroyed, and nobody should try to destroy them. They should be unseated from their usurped mastery over the people and made the people $ servants. That is all that needs to be done with them.
 They are cabaple of serving the people, and the reason they haven't done it better is be- cause they have consumed too much time mak ing the people serve them.
 That has been the situation about long enough. The time has come for clear under standing of the people s position and of the po- sltlon of the trusts. The trusts are here. and they are going to stay, Sherman law and trust busters' notwithstanding. Not much progress can be made until that fact is recognized
 Then 1t will be comparatively simple matte, to deal with them as they should be dealt with which IS to take them by the ears and lead them down out of their usurped seats of mastery. and command them to serve the people humbIy, eff clently and gratefully.