Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1900 — NO LIMITS. [ARTICLE]

NO LIMITS.

To the Rapacity of the TarHf-Protect-ed Tract Monopolls. Chicago Tribune (rep.): There seenor to be no limits to the rapacity of corporations which have been built up at the expense of the public by excessive tariff protection, by illegal railroad discriminations, or official favoritism. The men who rule those corporations may not “want the earth,” but they certainly want the United States and the abundanec thereof. They and their allies on land and sea are working at the subjugation of the Government, so that they may add more millions to their present annual revenues of $20,000,000 in the case of the Carnegie Company and $80,000,000 in the case of the Standard Oil. They try to put their creatures in all official places which touch their interests at any point. They demand subsidies for their ships. They insist that the money of the Government be deposited in banks in which they are heavily interested, so they may be able to control the stock markets and to lend to the taxpayers the money which the latter have contributed to defray Governmental expenses. Their demands are usually complied with. “There are three things that are never satisfied; yea, four things say not ‘lt is enough.’ ” That may have been the case in the old Hebrew days. To-day there are the Standard Oil Company, the Sugar Trust, the International Navigation Company, the National City Bank, and other collossal corporations which overshadow the Government itself and are never satisfied. When will they have enough?