Here is one trust already talking as though it
controlled the army and all the other forces of Government. The
trusts believe themselves already in control, and their national
power is very great.
The crisis of trust development has not been reached. The
present power of concentrated, organized money is very great, but
it is nothing to the power which money will exert in the
future.
This future development of the trust force should be discussed
and studied calmly, rationally and dispassionately by all
Americans.
There is no use in denouncing or in hating the trusts. It is
true that they are entirely selfish; it is NOT true that they
represent evil, pure and simple.
The trust is a necessary development in humanity's journey toward
organization, concentration and the simplifying of industry.
The first locomotive ever built was a trust. It performed the
work of a thousand four-horse teams, deprived four thousand
horses and a thousand drivers of a livelihood.
The railroad trust is simply an extension of the concentration of
labor, the simplifying of industrial operation, represented in
the building of the first locomotive.
THE TRUSTS IN THE END WILL DO INFINITE GOOD.
They will destroy the mean competition which for centuries has
made liars, swindlers and slavedrivers of men.
Pages:
231
232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
254
255