Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1912 — Students of the Trusts. [ARTICLE]

Students of the Trusts.

The lawyers in the packers’ case in Chicago say they find that the farmers have a much clearer idea of the anti-trust laws than the people of the cities. » , Why shouldn’t they have? The farmers have been the ones to suffer most from unregulated industrial trusts, trade associations, middlemen’s combinations and windy statesmen. They have had chance to learn—at a price, Now at the time the faripers are forming traie agreements, selling associations, middlemen-eliminat-ing schemes and protective organizations of their own, the government Is demanding that the “crutch of combination be thrown away.” We suspect that the farmer is thinking it is about his turn.