Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-15

mercial interests Of the South and West
That being Your object, | pray YOU God
speed.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS or BOSTON
wrote that il would not be profitable for
him TO prepare al address such Us he had
been invited 10 present 10 the e0ngreSS
His views. ne said We're so radical as We
is positive that they would not prove &c
ceptab!e 70 such 4 body As the congress
proposed would necessarily demand. While
ne recognized the hardshipS in the West. he
C!d not believe that any action except iuu.-
vIlual action WAS necessary for re remedy.
Continuing, the Adams leJte" stated. The
very general popular idea which uow exists
tnat the government Is i grand pateruul 10
al'-to-rrotcct everyone and everything.
anu - provide remedies tor every
i'll that the bOdy polite Is
subject 10, I 10 not Symuathize in. On the
contrary am SO ont or date aud antiquateG
in ny opinions as to think that the world Is
governed altogether 700 much, and that il
has RAJ, y been governed So much or 50
badly As II mas been in this century within
the last twenty-five Years
What our country needs most Of all, IL
NY Judgment, Is, in matters legIS.a-
tive. to be severely let alone and that III"
industrious and thrifty people thereof
b. permitted TO work out their and its sd.
vdtiuu in their own way. II 50 left that
Will work oUt that salvation a great
de!. quicker and - great deal more salts
factOriiy than they VIII ever succeed ia
doing while the government iuCesSaut-y
.urUwbcrS them with lis Sccll-Iut ant, but
most i.-advised assistance in 50 doing.
Dealing siugly with the subjects prepared
for discussion b. the con EresS. Mr. Adams
wrote that he didn't believe that there was
any general business and agricultural dc
preston except that due to natural and TEN
rorarE causes that he did not believe am
.fr.-.
ClaI tranSp crtdtIou and finance, that hd
thought improved transportation by land
and water would provide for itself under
the laws Of supply and demand. and if the
government does uot continually mcCdla
with us. He thought Western produce
wuuld find markets soon enough if the gov
erumeut would leave matters alone; that
rcncy is the excessive trickery,
and II the government would leave Il
absolutely alone the internal currency OF
the country would regulate itself just -
perfectly as International currency does,
that the manufacturing interests OF the
country always had been most successfully
promoted by individuals when the govern
mcnL left them alone. and that every liz
reference of the government il TINS
matter, so far rs he knew from
The bcginnin" To the Mckinley bill, hAd
been detrimental 10 the public interests;
that the irrigation ot ARID lands Is setting
ijSc1 in Idaho and in Colorado, ana in other
states where Il IS being left alone by the
government: that the fewer commercial
laws We have, in his judgement, the
better and that if there were no CONNER
ciIl laws the community would be far moro
prosperous to-day than il is: that in the
matter Of taxation, that which is
the simplest and most direct, WAS
the best. He did not See
why the Western mineral lands should not
be best developed like the Western corn
lands, or the Southern cotton lands OF tho
Eastern coal lands, 10y being left alone to
those who 90 into their development as
a matter of profit.
John '. FARwELL OF CHICAGO
wrote hat the cause of business combina.
lions was that individual capital was SC
limited and so timid that a.
enterprises requiring large capital
could not proceed without them. The et.
fects of such combinations, which have
probably been the chief cause
of the congress are the abnormal
use of this power of concentration oi
wise legislation on the part OF the govern.
ment to prevent it by unwise and imprac-
ticable supervision.
ORGANIZATIoN.
The convention then proceeded to effect
permanent organization. G. Francis OF
Missouri was chosen rs president and
Temporary Secretary Springer was re-
tanned as permanent secretary.
TWenty-four ice-presidents. one from
each state represented, were appointed.
The usual committees were then selected
and the congress adjourned until tomorrow
morning at 80.