The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-06-08
The Meeting and Explosion Of thu
Wind Trust.

Some years ago one OF favorite pair OF
companion pictures was entitled. ITO
Pixies Peak, or Bust" The other was
Busted" Tho great Convention which
lately went to Chicago to bust" trusts Is
busted" That is. thirty delegates have
bolted. And why not ? The first day OF
this Convention was essentially comic
Governor KYuTE NELSON OF Minnesota,
the great antitrust State and caller Of the
Convention. was elected to preside over
the deliberations and extravagances OF the
delegates. ut is for u.s." said KNUTE In his
grea: act OF ordering the ocean not to wet
his feet. "to devise plan to fight this worst
form OF the modern Antichrist." The man
who brings to the consideration Of trusts the
calm and philosophic spirit displayed in his
comparing them to the Antichrist. is perhaps
better fitted 10 thrive as a commentator on
the Apocalypse than as aGopher economist.
Governor NELSON having impaired a
humorous turn to the show. humor, con-
scious or unconscious. continued to flow
Mr.. CoHcoRAN Of Utah proposed that coal
lands and railroads should be owned by tho
people. Thinkers from Kansas and Min
nesota approved the CoRcoRAN plan. but
Mr.. BROWN OF Illinois wanted the protective
tariff wiped out. and the land tax set ND.
Mr.. BROWN is q HENRY GEORGE Democrat.
we suppose but in convention containing
Republicans and Populists he ought to be
more careful Republicans will never admit
that protective taxes have anything
TO do with trusts. or that trusts can
be abolished by carrying out the Demo-
cratic declaration In favor of tariff for
revenue only; and the Popnlists have SO
many panaceas for saving the country and
have gone in 80 heavily for trusts on their
own account that system Of Government
railroads through every Populist's farm will
be much more attractive to them than a
mere cold proposition to lay out protective
taxes. Besides, who knows what profound
remedies for plutocratc combinations may
be found in those Populist notions. the
income tax and tho agricultural Sub
Treasury? BROWN should have stuck to
Government railroads.
But then loquacioas rose the great IGNA-
TITUS DoSNELLY. the Genius OF Ciphers, q
man OF Farmers Alliances and libel suits.
When Mr.. DoNNELLY gets hold of the
plough he never turns back. He IL logi-
clan. and carries things to their conclusion.
He said that. II worst came to worst. the
people should make laws confiscating the
real and personal property OF trusts and
combinations. and forbidding them legal
remedies. He would declare that trusts and
combinations should not DO the subject OF
property. and he would allow JOHN Doe
and RICHARD ROE 10 take such propertv
and not be guilty Of larceny Such is Mr.
DoNEELLY's conception OF trusts and com,
binatlons. He would make them nithings
and outlaws. He doesn't say so, but it is "A
fair deduction from his expressed views, that
the erring plutocrats In tho trust business
should be hunted down rs enemies Of the
human race, and their steam yachts given
to Popuist statesmen.
Mr.. DE WITT CLINTON DE WITT Of Penn |
sylvana cast an evil eye upon gold mines
and silver mines. and said tho people should
have the monopoly Of furnishing money,
furnishing 1t out OF other peoples pockets, |
wo presume. Mr.. DE WITT also said that |
whiskey and insurance companies governed |
the country. but failed to make the obvious
suggestion that the whiskey OF the Whiskey |
Trust and the assets OF the insurance |
companies should be divided among the |
people either pro rata or according to the |
square mile. Mr.. COREY OF Pennsylvania.
evidently descendant OF GILES COREY. |
yeoman. offered resolution asking for the |
names Of trusts which have violated the |
law. whereupon Chairman KNUTE NELSON |