Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-02
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF THE TRUSTS
Advocated by R. c. McCaIeb, Socialist
 Organizer frem Wisconsin.

Under the auspices of the local so.
 cialist party there was an open a-
 meeting at Rose place at o'clock l Tuesday evening and the adc<es; by
 Robert c. McCalen attrac>e<s gcs>ti 1 sized audience Mr. Nc .s3 is F
 state organizer in Wiscc.A. and Is a
 national lyceum lectsrGr. He devoted 1 the greater pSrt O. ,hG time to tn
 subject of trrsts on which he advo- | cated goreI3 .7rHnt swnership.
 Pa2j.s. L. -:.! ere Lot dUe 10 oyer production 4s :l1 manufacturers state,
 but to unde4 ->~.. >;.>1aption owing to tht, 1 inability of ta. working men to pur- chase back tf1a which they er.oJuce. 1 Owing to the q d1edltiess encountered | under competition the manufI turers 1 hit upon the ideS of cooperation . controlling production SO that uo bIas, goods would be produced tfA2a >Ae working men could purci,zx-.. FHnd- ing the cooperation SJs=s ~sgzt''si hey secured control of raw material of the machines of production, a,S1 CO.,
 operated In the selling. The result was the modern day trust, which is but centra1izing of the things our fore
 fathers did individually 137 years ago.
 Once the tools were a part of the man
 but the time has come under central , ization, when man is a part of the
 tools with whscb he labors.
 All the political parties appreciate
 the fact that the trusts today lie in
 the hands of individuals. These in-
 dividuals are using the trusts as
 burglar uses gun, to hold up the pub
 lfc and extort from them their money.
 The trust as 8 business combination
 Is 9 good thing, reducing the cost of
 production, but in private hands it is
 bad thing, The trust is misused, The heldup man takes your money without just return and you call
 out the police force The frs5 thing Sf ir fk he him because he has used it in an un- social way Individuals are using the trusts to hold up the people for mil lions, and they must be used as we use the holdHp E1en-we must take away their guns We have tried every other way to settle the question. MT. Mo Caleb spoke at length on the efforts to regulate the trusts in the past.
 The Standard Oil is typical mod ern trust, he said. It is valued at 100 millions earns 50 millions year and Is run by 1s,9o0 hired men. It be- longs to John D. Rockefeller. The man who runs it Is absolutely necessary, while the man who owns 1t is of no service to the public. When the voters get sense enough to vote to own the tools they work with then the trusts can be owned by the people, colIec- lively. Government bonds would be printed to purchase the Standard Oil, as the 500 millions of bonds were printed to purchase the Panama canal In connection with his oil John D. has controlled railroads and when he de- sired a piece of land for his road, the land was taken by condemnation pro- ceedings- So if he did not desire to sell the Standard Oil, the government ! would take over the system as MT. Rockefeller did the land for his rail- road
 MT. Rockefeller has sworn that the cost of producing 8 gallon of oil is two cents. The difference between this l TWO cents and the fourteen or sixteen pr twenty cents which you pay for 1t, ! S the amount which would be saved \ o you. the consumers. This is the so millions profit which the business is | oaying each year.