If a trust buys the ordinary voter it cannot be sure that it gets what it buys. But if a trust buys the legislators it can count votes and secure delivery of the goods purchased. Use your influence to curb the power of the trusts by taking away from venal legislators that power to sell to trust managers the Senate of the United States. This subject you should discuss with your neighbors. You should urge it upon all of those voters with whom you come in contact. You should influence legislators in your State to vote for a Constitutional amendment causing popular election of Senators--and no legislator will resent your suggestion if he be an honest man. Everybody knows that the United States Senate to-day does not represent the people. There are exceptions among the Senators, but they are in the minority. Every year the Senate is less and less representative of the nation, more and more representative of organized capital. Good Americans, irrespective of party, will strive to work for this change in the national machinery. Take away from the trusts now the power to tamper with national laws through the Senate. THE PROMISING TOAD'S HEAD The head of a toad, like the head of a trust, is superficially a hideous thing to look at. Sometimes it is alleged that valuable jewels are found in a toad's head, and on this account the hideousness even of the far-famed horned toad of the West becomes less repulsive. The trust toad, as you will find by examining it closely and studying events, has a head equipped with jewels of a very fine quality. Many years from now men will be very glad that the trust toad was born, because of the good that will come from it. ---- Already we see that the trusts are inevitably strengthening labor unions. They are bringing the men into closer relationship and forming them into greater and more closely united bodies of workmen. The trusts organize admirably the great industries and prepare the day when all of these industries will be owned by the Government--that is to say, by the people themselves. The trusts eliminate competition, which is a stupid, out-of-date form of barbarism, leading to cheating, thievery and adulteration. The trusts do away with the vast armies of middlemen, and, by diminishing every day the number of those who live on the work of others, they compel an ever-growing number to enter the fields of useful production. ---- Just at present the jewel that stands out most prominently in the ugly trust toad's head is "FREE TRADE." Men have argued and fought and voted and made speeches and paraded for Free Trade--and all in vain. The more they talked and paraded, the heavier were the duties. But when the TRUSTS want Free Trade, they will have it, for the trusts control legislation. And we SHALL have Free Trade, for the trusts WILL want it very soon. A trust engaged in manufacturing wants to buy as cheaply as it can the raw materials used.