MONOPOLY OF TRADE TRUSTS. 639 



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$41,700,000, and by its grasp on the business it can control 

 the prices and make money at both ends. It is absurd to 

 pretend that working men who combine to injure the busi- 

 ness of a single bakery can be sent to the penitentiary as 

 conspirators against trade and commerce, and that capital- 

 ists who combine to injure the business of every honest 

 dealer outside of their own ' pool ' and to pick the pockets 

 of the people, cannot be reached by law." 



A bill declaring these trusts and combinations illegal, 

 was defeated in the New York Legislature by Republican 

 and Democratic votes. It is useless to continue, in detail, 

 a description of the infamous schemes of these powerful 

 and blood-sucking vampires of trade. The history of one 

 is the history of all. They are represented, and have 

 their interests protected in the Legislatures, and have their 

 well paid tools in the judicial courts of our country. 



The New York Times says: 



" There are sitting in the Senate of the United States, 

 sixteen Senators who owe their election entirely to the 

 indirect use of money and the exercise of corporate 

 power and influence of their respective States. Why 

 mince words? The Democratic party cannot throw stones 

 at the Republican harlot; they are not without sin. n 



The Chicago Tribune says: 



" Behind everyone of half of the portly, well dressed 

 members of the Senate, can be seen the outline of some 

 corporation interested in getting or preventing legislation, 

 or of some syndicate that has invaluable contracts or 

 patents to defend or push." 



Below we give a table of profits of some of the 

 numerous trusts. The first column of figures represents 

 the profits in $100 worth of products, and the second col- 

 umn represents the labor in $100 worth of products: 



