Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1891 — The Celluloid Trust. [ARTICLE]

The Celluloid Trust.

There is no falling off in the making of trusts. The Celluloid Company, or trust, has recently bought out the facturers of lithoid and zylonite, and) consolidated them into a single trust.. All the celluloid collars and cuffs made in the country will pass through the hands of this trust. An office has been opened in New York to handle the entire product. The Celluloid Trust is well bolstered up by the tariff. On all manufactures of celluloid there is a duty of fifty cents a. pound and twenty-five per cent, equal to an ad valorem duty of forty-nine per ciyit. Trusts will continue to thrive, and will throttle competition so long as the ppople are foolish enough to vote them the. protection that makes monopoly possible.' The present tendency air.o ig all our industries is in the direction of trust* and> nine-tenths of these industrjps, it is’said,. are already controlled by trusts. A year ago the price of cod liver oil 1 in large wholesale lots was from 32 to 35 cents a gallon. The duty was then 25 per cent. McKinley changed thp duty to 15 cents a gallon, which is equal to an< ad valorem duty of 53 per cent, and; now the price of domestic cod liver oil is i 40 to 43 cents a gallon. It looks as if the tariff is a tax in this case.