ROBBER MONOPOLIES; WORLD TRUSTS.
ONE man and the syndicates he represents,—J. Pierpont Morgan,—is said to control twenty-six lines of railway. All the lines between Chicago and New York except the Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsylvania are controlled by him, and it is said that the former of these two will soon succumb, while the latter will offer no opposition. The same trust controls the Northern Pacific, the Oregon Short Line, and it is predicted will soon control the Union Pacific. In addition to its railway interests, it is stated that the same great octopus controls the output of all the anthracite coal of Pennsylvania, thus controlling under one head the heat and warmth of thousands of homes. At a recent meeting of the conservative Massachusetts Reform Club, Mr Byron W. Holt, an expert in tariff matters, made an address on the Sugar Trust. His remarks were strong and radical. Gamaliel Bradford and Hon. John E. Russell were equally strong in what they said against the political power of corporations, and their alleged robbery of the people. Here are some utterances from Mr. Holt's address, taken from the Boston Globe of October 9:— “Of the $18 which the average family will spend this year for sugar in various forms, $10 will go for sugar, $4.50 to the government, $3.00 to the Sugar