Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1888 — The “Trust” Rubbers. [ARTICLE]

The “Trust” Rubbers.

Hereafter every man who shall build a house will have to piy tribute to the Sash, Door and Blind Trust, which controls about three-fourths of the production of these essential articles in New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. How contemptible must a people appear in the eyes of foreigners when they submit without a murmur to wholesale extortion through gigantic combinations in restraint of trade, without the slightest serious effort to curb or control the plunderers. * * * In New York State the trusts have discovered the meaning of proposed legislation against their interests. It means simply that the professional politicians have fqund a new set of victims to bleed. The trusts rob the people and the politicians blackmail the trusts. This is American politics.— Philadelphia Record.