Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-05-24
Stanley On MonOpOlies.

AhC AAOiAs "a W. Obhuicy vi iook
Monday delivered a speech at Glas-
gov. KY, to an immense audience.
The Henderson papers will doubtless
publish the speech in full.
Stanley knows, no man better. Of
the despotic and destructive power
OF monopoly, and Stanley can pic
ture as few can infamies of monopo-
ly.
Following is an extract:
Property is obtained by one Of
two methods-by production and by
plumber, by making it or taking it
away from another who has made it.
All wealth created by industry should
be preserved and protected by law
that is the sole province of govern
ment in its relation to it.
IF all men were honest and each
were permitted to exchange the
fruits Of his own toll for some more
desirable thing. produced by his
neighbor, the effort necessary to
produce commodity would be the
true measure of its value. The
amount produced would determine
in measure its force, ingenuity
would aid in industry in an endeav-
or to secure maximum of the pro-
duct at minimum of labor. In
other words, you have competition
in production, for a market control
led by the law Of supply and demand.
Were all men willing to produce
something of value or to perform
some useful service in full and fair
exchange for the property of others,
the trusts would be unknown and
monopoly an impossibility. Such q
condition in all fiscal and industrial
operations is prevented by a swarm
of social parasites-creatures prey
ing on the substance of others.
These commercial vermin have
always been regarded by honorable
men with adherence and contempt.
Their activities are invariably con-
fined to some form of larcency.
Sometimes they resort to stealth and
pick your pocket, or to fraud and
falsehood and obtain your money by
forgery or false pretense or to some
form of duress and hold you up en-
the road at the point of a revolver,
or what is just as criminal and per-
nicious, corner market and by the
duress Of circumstances by stealthlly
shutting off all other means of sub
sistence. extort an exorbitant price
from the hungry for food or from
the naked for clothing. or from the
homeless for shelter-this cunning
device by which the victim is forced
to sell his birthright for a mess Of
pottage' is called the duress of mo-
nopoly. These various methods diff
fer in unimportant details, but in
their essence they are indentical;
they are all essentially larcenous, all
have the same purpose and produce
the same result-the obtaining Of
property without fair or adequate
consideration. And the law Of the
land justly and wisely provides the
same penalty for ALA felony's in
fanny and felon's cell.
"a civilized and highly organic
ed society no longer fears the medic
val marauder; we have driven the
pirate from the high seas and the
bandit from the mountain passes
The celebrity by which information Is
conveyed from place to place, and
the efficiency of police protection
render US comparatively immune
from the sneak thief, the footpad
and the burglar. The problem
which confronts US today is not the,
protection of society from the vio-
lence. but the chicane of the lawless.
I'VE are at the mercy of the sim
ian cunning of powerful coterie of
money-mad crooks. possessed of en-
ormous wealth and aided and abet-
ted by the most subtle and powerful
legal intellects Of the continent"