There is a Sugar Trust, which dictates the exact number of cents a pound
you must pay for your sugar. A Coffee Trust, which fixes the price of
coffee. It is the Coal Trust which keeps the price of coal so high in
winter. There is a Gas Trust, a Salt Trust, a Wall-Paper Trust, and indeed
a Trust for almost every necessary and useful article.

You notice probably that the most of the Trusts are producers of articles
that we are obliged to use.

If the Coal Barons, as they are called, asked ten dollars a ton for coal,
we would still be obliged to use it. We could not go without fires.

If a Meat Trust said our meat was to cost a dollar a pound, we would still
have to buy it. Our sugar is another article which we cannot do without,
and for which we are obliged to pay whatever price the dealers choose to
ask.

Do you see now wherein Trusts are dangerous to us?

The Democrats last fall declared that if their candidate was elected
President of the United States, they would make laws whereby the
Government should be able to control and regulate Trusts.

The Legislature in Albany, wishing to prevent these combinations from
gaining so much power that they become a menace to the public, has
appointed a committee to investigate the workings of Trusts.

State Senator Lexow was made Chairman of the committee. He is that Mr.
Clarence Lexow, who was chairman of the committee which looked into the