1899-07-27; Saline Observer

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A. J. WARREN, Publisher.
SALINE, WASHTENAW CO., MICH.,   THUE8DAY   JULY 27, 1899.
VOL. XIX.-NO. 40
Miscellaneous
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UNTERKIRCHER, M.   D.
-♦Physician & Surgeon.
at TJnt——Cher's   Pharmacy   Chica
Office
so St.
SALINE
MIOH.
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Office over Citizen's Sank.
KA—tNE, -       - MICH.
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Attorney at Law.
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TRUSTS
The Oration Delivered  by  Floyd
Bennett at Commence-ent
As a nation we shall probably neyer
see the time whea we are not beset
with great and important questions.
Today we are confronted with many
problems of more than ordinary moment, but there is none that threatens
the individual and the general welfare
more than that quiet but monstrous
institution-—at hundred handed oe-
topus-the American corporation or
trust.
It is ex tending its inumerable tentacles in every direction and gathering
into its irresistible power every enterprise that dares to appear. In defiance
of law and public welfare it continues
to grasp and swallow up independent
concerns and individual interests.
Shall this state of affairs be allowed to
continue? I believe the trust should
be brought firmly under legislative
control or be prob.ibit.ed by constitutional amendment.
I need not take the time to describe
in detail the nature of a trust or its
method of operation. You have all
heard of these until you are thoroughly
alarmed and enraged at their power
and advance. Suffice it for me lo give
a definition and to briefly outline the
method of organization.
A trust is defined as a combination of
many competing concernb under one
management which thereby reduces
the cost, regulates the amount of production, and increases* the price for
which the article is sold. It is at once
a monument to American genius and a
symbol of American rapacity.
The mi thod of organization of a trust
is one of its most culpable features. It
is so organized that it Is bold and
powerful in working for its own
interests, but when law and government seek it out it becomes as inacces-
able as the tax-dodger or vanishes.like
an apparition. It is well calculated to
baffle investigation and lo work out its
scheme secretly, silently and .effectively. It bears the wealth and power
of a corporation without any of the
legislative restraints usually placed
upon the.latter.
There are, of course, many, different
methods of organization but they all
have the same result—the lessening
of competition and the driving out of
small dealers. Perhaps the most
common is as follows; The property of
the combining parties is leased to
trustees who issue trust certificates and
sometimes bonds secured by a mortgage
on the property leased. The object
attained in giving to each party mortgages is to give him a lien on his
former property. It will then come
back to him in case the combination
turns out to be a failure. The trust is
thus enabled lo avoid all creditors in
case it becomes insolvent.
Trusts are a product of recent years.
The Standard Oil Company organized
in ISSlwasour first great trust, and
the success of this combination lead to
the formation of the formation of the
American Cotton Oil trust. Since the
organization of these two leaders their
growth has been surprisingly rapid
and during the last sixteen months it
has been something appalling. Trusts
are now numbered by the hundreds and
during the past year the frantic strife
after combination has been scarcely less
thau a mania.
Let me mention a few of tho most
rpcent organizations. Wire nail trust
with a capital of 70 million, Machinery
trust 60 million, Enameled iron ware
trust 10 million, Beer trust 60 million,
Thread trust 50 million, Cotton hose
trust 25 million, Biscuit trust 30 million, Tinware stamping trust 25million,
Rubber goods, trust 50 million, Flour
trust 40 million, and the largest coal
trust ever formed in New York whose
profits are expected to reach §44,600,000
per year. A chewing gum factory has
just been organized with a capital of
9 million. You are all familiar with
their selfish and nefarious methods of
operation. How they are constantly
raising prices and throwing thousands
of men out of employment. Perhaps
many of you know how the meat trust
controlled by Armour & Co. and Swift
& CO. has either purchased or forced
out of business every market in Chicago
and now sella every pound of meat used
in that city. And worst of all when
they, force small stores out of business
they do not give the owners employment but turn them with their families
into the cold world to starve.
On January 1st there were 700 vacant
stores in the heart of Chicago-emptied
by the trusts-stores which a few years
ago were doing a comfortable business
and supporting families. Thus the'
formation of trusts is placing the
wealth of the country in the hands of a:
j few, who are using it to multiply their,
already large fortunes to the detriment
of the people and the nation.
Yet the men forming these combinations are held up to the rising generation as models of big ability and integrity, while at the same time they
are making it most impossible for the
young man of small capital to start out
in business for himself.
Again take the Standard Oil Co. they
are continually forcing their smaller
competitors to the wall. A case happened sometime ago in the city of
Detroit which is worthy of your notice
for it is a fair example for the conduct
of our large trusts.
A small merchant named Peter Roth
who managed to make a comfortable
living by selling oil in a suburban section, was prevented from doing business by one of the most unfair and
unbusinesslike methods imaginable.
The Standard Oil Co. employed a man
to watch Roth's store and to give
tickets which entitled the holder to a
gallon of oil-absolutly free-to all his
customers. The people were not slow
to take advantage of this opportunity
and Roth was soon compelled to close
his establishment.
An appropriate motto for competing
business houses would be "Live andlet
live". The motto of the trusts is
evidently, '-Live and let others go to
the dogs."
The formation of trusts is contrary
to public policy and therefore illegal.
I hold that trusts are illegal because
they are' monopolies and combinations
in restraint of trade. It cannot be
denied that trusts are organized to do
away with competition. Without that
result they are failures. The modern
trust is a monopoly on the largest scale
and as such should be prohibited bylaw.
The trust has so far met with no legal
obstacles. Its supporters claim that it
is an agreement or a contract and as
such is legal. The courts however
have never yet limited their power- so
as to declaim what contracts are legal
because to do so would enable men to
evade the law. Yet it cannot be long
before the people will demand decisions
as to the legality of trusts and when
they are given these decisions will and
must be in favor of the people.
The trusts of such a combination are
literally monarchs of all they survey
their power is absolute. They may
limit the production and close any or
all the plants under their control.
This is throwing thousands of men out
of employment. It has been estimated
that the formation of the recent Tobacco trusts has thrown out 3200 men a
large number of whom were traveling
salesman.
So much has been said (especially in
this state) of the excessive rates and
earnings of the railroads, but their
effect on the mass of the people is slight
when compared with thp effect which
the constantly arising trusts arc producing. The majority of the people
use the railroads but little, consequently they do not affect the masses to any
extent.   .
But the trusts are controlling and
raising tne price of almost every commodity consume! by tbe poorest
peasant or the wealthiest capitalist.
Therefore such an inblitulion should be
prohibited because. 1- It is a monopoly
on the largest scale. 2 It is against
public policy. 3. It crushes out individual enterprise. 4 It destroys legitimate and healthful competition. 5. It
avoids taxation, thereby increasing the
burdens of those least able to pay. In
short alarming the statement may seem
the trusi is rapidly dividing the people
into two classes—employer and employed—master and slave. It needs no
prophet- or philospher to predict whal
effect this will have—indeed is already
having upon the indepenlenee of the
people. Men cannot be machines and
free men at the same time.
The trust creates conditions more
serious than any our people have ever
faced—Slavery and Secession alone
excepted. The regulation of trusts is
of more consequence to the nation than
the question of expansion arising out
of the Spanish-American war.
A trust is a monoply and the most
cruel aud detestable of all monopolies
because it presses hardest upon those
who are least able to bear tho burdeu.
When the great Sugar Trust was formed
it was estimated tbat the combination
would yield a profit of over .thirty
million dollars a year in addition to the
profits which were made __ before the
organization was effected. Iu this one
case alone then there were 32 millions
of dollars taken from the people and
placed in the hands of a few who were
undoubtedly millionaires before. In
the face of such facts as these tbe
opposition of the American people to
trusts Is justifiable.
But how shall the evil be remedied?
Numerous methods have been
suggested but none of them seem equal
to the task. One remedy suggested is
to exclude corporations from  rnercan-
State of Michigan, county of Washtenaw, s. s.
Notice is hereby given, that by an order of
the Probate Court for the County of Washtenaw,
made on the 10th day of July A. D. 1899, six
months from that date were allowed for creditors to present their claims against the estate of
Almacy Donaldson, late of said County, deceased
and that all creditors of said deceased are required to present their claims to said Probate
Court, at the —obate Office in the city of Ann
Arbor, for examination and allowance, on or
before the 10th day of January 1900 next, and
that such claims will be heard before said Court,
on the 10th day of Oct. 1899, and on the 10th day
of Jan. 1900 next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon
of each of said days.
Dated, Ann Arbor, July 10, A. D. 1899.
H. Wirt Newkirk, Judge of Probate.
State of Michigan County of Washtenaw, The
undersigned having been appointed by the
Probate Court for said County, Commissioners
to receive, examine and adjust all claims and demands of all persons against the estate of Eleanor Batty late of said County, deceased, hereby give notice that six months from date are
allowed, by order of said Probate Court, for
Creditors to present! their claims against the
estateof said deceased, and that they will meet
at the residence of Ashley B. VanDuzer in the
village of Saline in said County, on Saturday
the 14 day of Oct. and on Monday the IS day of
January 1900 next, at ten o'clock A.M. of each
of said days, to receive, and adjust said claims.
Dated July 14th 1899.
John —leu
Ed. Hauser
Commissioners.
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tate of Michigan, county of Washtenaw s. s.
At a session of the Probate Court for the
county of Washtenaw holden at the Probate office in the city of Ann Arbor, on Thursday the
13 day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine
Present, H. Wirt Newkirk Judge of Probate
In the matter of the estate of Edwin W. Ford
deceased. On reading and filing the petition
duly verified, of Flavius D. Ford praying that
the administration of said estate may be granted to Flavius D. Ford or some other suitable
person.
Thereupon it is ordered that Friday the 11th
day of August next, at ten o'clock in the fore-
noon,be assigned for the hearing of said petition'
and that the heirs-at-law of said deceased and all
other persons interested in said estate, are
required to appear at a session of said Court,
then to be holden at the Probate Office, in the
City of Ann Arbor, and show cause, if any there
be, why the prayer of the petitioner should not
be granted: And it is further ordeied that said
petitioner give notice to the persons interested
in said estate, of the pendency of said petition,
and the hearing thereof, by causing a copy of
this order to be published in the Saline Observer, a newspaper printel ani circulated
in said county three successive weeks previous
lo said day of hearing. H. Wirt Newkikk
(A true copy) Judge of Probate.
P. J. L——N Probate Register.
Midsummer
tile and manufacturing business.
Another asks the government to levy
a prohibition tax similar to the 10 per
cent tax on state bank circulatiou. And
some urge the repeal of duties on
articles controlled by the trusts. This
however might make trusts international.
Others recommend uniform state laws
limiting thecapital of corporations but
in my opinion the abolition of trusts
rests directly with the people. Our
legislatures will not restrict them until
the people demand it. Therefore to
secure such legislation the people must
be awakened to a full sense of the
danger with which they arc threatened.
And when they become aware of their
position it will be their own fault if the
evil is not rtmedied.
That not all are idle is evident from
the fact that in Texas a bill has passed
the lower house which prohibits tbe
operation of trusts in that state. This
is a step in tho right, direction and
other slates should follow tbe example.
Another method has been suggested
by some of the newspapers who have
begun to agitate the formation of a
"Farmers Trust". The idea is to have
the farmers organize and refuse to
either sell their produce to or lo buy
any —tides of the trust. Let this plan
be extended to all business. Let the
people organize everywhere into Anti
Trust clubs pledged to fight their
common enemy—the trust. While
this alone, might be a slow method, of
fighting them yet in the end it might
prove to be one of the most effectual,
or at least might help to hasten legislation on the subject. It would formulate public opinion and law is effective
only when backed by the whole people.
We live not under a government of law
but of public opinion.
The time has come for the people to
assert themselves and to crush out the
countless combination? formed lo
plunder them. Let us "Take up the
'White Mans Burden' iu Michigan,
Ohio and New York as well as in Luzon.
Let not the roar of our cannon at
Calooean or tho thunder of our navy
at Manila di-own the cries for help of
the small manufacturer, of the struggling young business man, of the laborer
who is willing to become a capitalist,
an employer but who finds himself
crushed by the projectile hurled from
an illegal monoply in —r very midst "
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