Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1900 — SOME DEMOCRATIC TRUSTS. [ARTICLE]

SOME DEMOCRATIC TRUSTS.

(From the Chicago Inter Ocean.) Merely to expose the sham of Mr. Bryan’s present anti-trust campaign, we cite below a few of the trusts—-only those with $lO,000,000 or more capitalization — organized before Mr. McKinley’s inauguration, and protected and nurtured by the Democracy between March 4, 1893, and March 4, 1897: Shares When and formed, bonds. Am. Sugar Co 1887 $37,936,000 Con. Icr-eo 1895 11,255,000 National Salt C0...1889 12,000,000 Nat. Starch Co 1890 11.605,900 Sperry Flour Co. (Cal.) 1892 10,000,000 Chi. Beef Combine.lßßs Unknown Am. Spirits Cd 1887 36,935,300 Cal. Winemak’s C 0.1894 10.000,000 Chi. Brew. & Malt. Co 1891 22,080.000 Mil. & Chi. Brew. Co 1894 25,050,000 Am. Tobacco .... 1890 51,080,000 Nat. Wall Pap. <'0,.1879 35,431,500 Standard Itope C0..1596 22,412.000 U. S. Leather C0...1893 130,388,000 U. S. Rubber Co. . . .1892 52,191,000 Am. Sob'! Fur. C0..1892 11.500,000 Central Lumber Co. (Cal.! 1896 70.000.000 Am. Win. Glass Co.. 1890 30.000,000 Pgh. Plate-Glass C 0.1891 10.090.000 Am. Cotton Oil Co.. 1883 33,593,700 Am. Llns'd Oil C0..1887 28,500.000 Agr. Chem. Co 1890 50,000,000 Stand. Oil Co 1872 97,250,000 Fuel & Iron Co. (Coi.) 1592 20,857,000 Coal, Iron & R. R. Co. (Tenn.) 1887 30,000,000 Lake Superior Con. Iron Mines 1893 28,722.000 Am. (Sewing) Mach. Co 1895 10.000,000 Union Xvpewriter Co 1893 18,015,000 Am. Elec. Heat. Co. 1893 10.000,000 Elec. Stor. Bat. Co. .ISSs 18.450,000 (Jen. Electric C 0.... 1892 26,543,000 West. Electric C0...1891 16,483.950 Abac. Copper C 0,.. .1891 30,000,000 National Lead C 0... 1891 29.822.003 Brooklyn Wharf A Warehouse Co 1895 30,000,000 West. Elev. Assn... 1887 15,000,000 Diamond Match C0..1889 11,000.000 Aggregate capitalization $1,093,881,353 Here are thirty-seven great corporations price-fixing combinations or trusts—-with aggregate capital of more than $1,000,000,000, all of which lived, prospered and waxed fat—unopposed and unassailed—during one to eight years of Democratic rule. l’et Mr. By an has the impudence to tell the American people that trusts are fostered by the Republican party and fought to the death by the Democracy.