The trusts will soon own all the industries, all the manufactures, and they will want freedom from the duties which are now paid on the material.
Already there is in process of formation a great Clothing Trust.
The small man who makes clothing now must pay a duty on wool to protect the American farmer who raises sheep.
How long do you think the Clothing Trust will tolerate this duty on wool?
How long do you think the Trust engaged in making cloths in America will tolerate a duty on wool that makes the industry so expensive?
Some of the duties will be retained, of course—at least until the trusts shall be powerful enough even to despise foreign competition.
But one thing after another the trusts will want free from duty, and these things will be freed as fast as the trusts' order is given. ——
The trusts are going to do a great deal of good to the masses of the people in time. They will end by forcing universal Government ownership of monopolies upon the people.
TRUSTS WILL DRIVE LABOR UNIONS INTO POLITICS
A workman should use the best tools at his command—the workman's best tool is his ballot. Everything that men want it can give them if used intelligently. The reasons urged against its use by labor unions are conscientious but not strong. They are based upon the fact that labor men fear to trust each other, and fear especially to trust their leaders. They will not vote as unions because they fear that they may be sold out—that is the plain, unpleasant fact.