ity.

"Let me give you an illustration of the methods, by which these results
are accomplished. Take if you please, the case of an average city,
factory-worker; receiving an average wage of one dollar and fifty cents
per day. On this wage, he has a family to support. In the country,
thirty miles away, he can have a comfortable house, with a nice large
garden, for the moderate rent of five dollars per month. A most
desirable home! But, here comes the opportunity for the railroad! A ten
cent fare each way, six days in the week, would pay the railroad a
handsome profit. But, a handsome profit does not satisfy a monopoly! The
handsome profit must be doubled six times, before it will consent to
serve the public! As a result, this workman, not having the ready cash
with which to purchase a monthly commutation ticket, must pay to the
monopoly, at its lowest rate (two cents per mile) the gross amount of
one dollar and twenty cents per day for transportation. Subtract this
sum from the workman's daily wage; there will remain the scant trifle of
thirty cents, with which to pay bills for food, fuel, clothing,
medicine and other family expenses. Utterly impossible! Even if the
owner of the country house and lot, should consent to reduce its price
and its rent one-half, the workman would still be prohibited by the
railroad, from taking advantage of the reduction. He would gladly pay
the ten cent fare, for then he would be able to pay ten dollars per
month rent, for the luxury of occupying such a desirable country home.
This would be a blessing to all interested parties; still, it cannot be,
because the monopoly says no! Being a monopoly under the protection of
the competitive system, its dictates may not be questioned.

"Although, the case cited, may be duplicated a thousand times, every day
in the week, in every large city of the republic; yet, everywhere, on
all possible occasions, the common sense of the people is outraged, and
their ears offended, by the loud shouts of the competitive leaders, who
praise without stint the great usefulness of the monopolistic trust.
Solemn as owls, with an air of great learning, they assure the people
that these beneficent trusts, are the natural outgrowth of high-grade
business methods, which must be let alone. Do the poor people, the
farmers, the country land owners, and the working men, join in these
shoutings? Obviously and most assuredly, they do not!

"Let us now follow our factory workma