Greymouth Evening Star. AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1901. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 June 1901, Page 2

Greymouth Evening Star. AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1901. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The clangor to which wo alluded some lifctlo time since to bo apprehended from the gigantic American Trusts is already beginning to make itself felt in Great Britain, and British merchants are commencing to take alarm. In an article -which we publish elsewhere, the London special correspondent of the Dunedin Star draws attention to the spread and danger to England’s commercial supremacy in the markets of the world, and already he points out that the multi-millionaires not content with ruling the States, are also endeavouring to obtain a foothold in England itself. Small indeed is the commencement —viz, the tube railway between Charing Cross and Hampstead. Indeed it is an open secret that it is the expressed intention of American capi-

talists to capture the whole of the principal industries of Great Britain, and thus render England Avhich Mr. Clarke expressed some time since in the Contemporary Esview, only the mere pleasure ground for the rich of the England-speaking nations of the earth, and the English people a nation of parasites, producing little or nothing and living from hand to mouth by administering to the wants of the wealthy pleasure seekers. It certainly appears almost laughable, but if the American capitalists succeed in obtaining possession of the principal industries, it is not outside of the bounds of possibilities that such might be the case. They seem evidently determined to capture the carrying and passenger trade between Great Britain and America, and render the big dividing ocean merely an American lake, while they have also expressed the intention of dominating the Pacific trade. Should this be so it may be too late to think of taking measures to prevent the domination of American commercial and industrial power. A Trust capitalist is at any time an unscrupulous individual and should he succeed in realising his dream, pity the working masses.