Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1889 — HE JUMPS ON TRUSTS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HE JUMPS ON TRUSTS.

Congress will be required to lessen the taxes on the necessaries of life. Free whisky and free tobacco will not meet the demands of the people. The merchants say they never knew of so much grumbling on the part of their patrons as now over the increased and increasing tost of the necessaries of life. It is very probable an ;xtra session of Congress will be called this fall to take some action toward relieving the country from the the distress occasioned by the republican tariff, and to loosen the grasp of the “Trusts.” Bro. Marshall refuseth to be comforted since the defeat of the Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. school book monopoly. He this week giveth his readers about one and one-half column Indianapolis Journal slush. Can it be possible that our neighbor receiveth a remuneration?

Our neighbor this week appros priates to his readers “a grain of comfort” from the South Bend limes, and highly eulogizes John B. Stoll, the editor. But then neither Mr. Stoll nor Bro. Marshall will succeed in their efforts to convince their readers that “the chances of getting along were never better than they are now,” under' the vicious legislation of the republican party. The condition oi labor is bad, and cannot be remedied except by the application of Democratic theories*

The State Board oi. Education a majority, we beleive, republican -examined and accepted the series of books offered by the Indis ana School Book Company. Bro. Marshall referring tc the cost of the books: An entire set of the newly adopted books, consisting of five readers, two arithmetics, two geographies and one copy-book, will cost, under pricesj established bylaw, $3,10. The corresponding bcoks in the series now in use in Jasper county cost $5,85, a differ „ ence of $2.80 in favor of th* new Koks. Now let our neighbor give his readers his opinion of the books from personal examination of their contents.

Scratch a Russi !’■ an i you will find a Tartar.” Stir up &tris j and yo i will scare ou> a democrat. The Anthracite coal -rust, the Standard Oil Company, the sugar trust and ail the otbei great inid oppressive combinations of that kind are controlled by Democrats and th * furnish bushels of boodle for the Democratic campaigns.— Rensselaer Republicans. Trusts have their being, live nd thrive by virtue of Republican legislation. There are, no doubt, Democrats connected with them—some believing with Jingo Blaine and the Republican party that “Trusts are affairs’ others, again, who know good thing when they see it, and do not believe that republican money sharks alone shbuld be benefited by republican laws. But they know the Democratic party is opposed to and will crush them out of existence so soon as it secures the power. Mr. Cleveland desired to accomplish this beneficentobject hutFthe republican Senate was the obstacle in the way. Smash the Trusts! (

“Terror of Trusts” is what the Rev. F. J Brobst talked about last Sunday night at .the Westminster church, Chicago. “The organizers of trusts,” said the reverend gentleman, “are sagacious thieves and remorseless highway robbers intrenched behind the certain technicalties where the law can not reach them; relentless, blood-thirsty devil-sis ', with their hideous tentacles clasped about helpless humanity, sucking its life-blood crop by drop. “When we visit the central mart of this great metropolis of the west and study the system by which it is managed, and when we 'ry to comprehend its wonderful details and its possibilities we are thrilled. The entire globe is ransacked in search of the go d things of life and for the benefit of man. (Jur hearts are thrilled when we consider the vast amount of business energy necessary to do this, but the thrill escapes and our sensibilities are jarred when we see a desire on the part of a few to own the earth and reap the profits accruing therefrem. We are grieved and alarmed when we sec this spirit of injustice that has taken possession of trade.

“At first the appearance of trusts appeared on the horizon of trade in a small cloud no larger than a man’s hand, but it grew and assumed proportions until now we crouch like little chickens in the presence of danger. And the terror has grown from a speck until we are appalled. This awful shadow 7 is rising, growing larger all the time, and it has taken the name of trust. “Trust! Oh, what beautiful sentiment is embodied in that little word. Tru tin the Lord and you will be saved. That is one meaning of the word. The other signifies an attempt on the part of the rich men of the period to get control of the necessities of life and like the highway robber or the footpad they say to the poor; ‘Your money or your lif°.’ “Look at the sugar trust. It already controls $14,000,000, and has put the price up 150 per cent. They are robbers who say ‘Your money or your life,’ so far as sugar is concernod. The milling trust has done the same thing with flour, stealing the very staff of life from the mouths of the poor. We are amazed at the growth of the terrror It includes zinc, iron, steel, lead, flour, copper, jewelry, oatmeal, twine, cattie, cotton bagging, sugar, cotton-seed, oil, whisky, petroleum, patent leather, caster eil, coffins, and school books.

‘Of all the outrageous, inhuman actions of the terror the schoolbook trust is the worst. The. heartless robbers w t re not consent with a profit that would satisfy a Shy lock. No, they bear down ujon the children of the poor, squeezing from the puny bodies the last drop of blood left by other remorseless trusts. They were not satisfied with a profit of 200 per cent, over and above the original cost, but said to the poor children: ‘Tour money or no education.’ “Trusts are trampling out the commandment ‘thou shalt not steal. ’ Some time ago the oatmeal people formed a combine and jumped the price of their product • rum $3... u to $5.60 per barrel, ». ■’•ear steal of $2.10 on a b irrei. Jus ice is supposed to huk in th° business office and lie counting oom, but tire organizers of trusts have kicked justice out and installed the presiding genius of robbery. “The twine trust s -cured control of tire flax fields and the mills so that it could get its hands into the pockets ot 60,000,000 people and steal their money That is all right in the eyes of the law, but a man who takes a jimmy and cracks a safe is sent to orison. “Another act of the ghouls was in the formation of a trust controlmg the market in undertakeis’ supplies. We go to the grave with our beloved dead and return home harrassed by the feeling that cur dead has been robbed. In this and ihe school-book trusts the rapacity of piartes on the high seas does not compare with the criminality of the trusts. “But thejeffect of the trust sometimes strikes the other wky, as in the case of the official in Fra> cp who was deeply interested in the copper trust. When the combine was broken he went out and killed himself. There is over $1,000,000,000 locked np in trusts in this

country. What will be the effect on coming generations when they realize that th» moneyed men of the country are robbers. Is it any wonder that we have socialists and anarchists? The terror is a menace to the destinies of 60,000,000 people and their descendants. It is God’s ordained law of trade that there shall be competition. The bible says that ‘if thou sell to or buy ought from thy neighbor thou shalt not oppress him.’ “The trust’s evil effects are felt even in the politics of the country. Lobbyists are on the increase, millionaires are augmented, and all for the purpose of furthering the interests of criminal combinations. There is a dark future coming for our country which needs no prophet to predict it.” We think the closing prediction will not be fulfilled. The peaceful, quiet ballot, in the near future, will drive from power and into obscurity the men who legislate solely in the interests of monopoly. Democratic success, followed by tariff reform and legislation fjr the welfare of the masses will solve the problem. The chief magistrate who in words and action has declared that the employe has no rights the employer should respect, and that a dollar and less a day is plenty for the laboring man and his family will be retired to be succeded by one who believes that ‘the laborer is worthy of his hire,’ and who will oppose monopoly class legislation.

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