St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-06

temporary secretary. A motion was
then passed to appoint a committee ON
credentials to decide who were the ac-
credited delegates of the various states.
After a wrangle which consumed con-
siderable time committee was finally
appointed to pass on credentials, Mrs.
Corinne Brown, representing the Wom--
ems Alliance Of illinois, was admitted
as delegate. Marion Harlan, the au-
thoreSs, was also made an honorary
member.
A committee was appointed to select
permanent officers, and the convention
took recess for quarter of an hour.
When it was called to order again the
committee reported recommending Gov.
Nelson as permanent chairman; Ed
ward S. Meaney. of Washington, for
secretary, and j. E. Morton, OF Ken
lucky, for assistant secretary. Ignatius
Donnelly came in to the convention
with series Of resolutions which he
will ask it to adopt as declaration
against trusts. The resolutions are as
follows:
Donnelly,s Resolutions.
"Whereas, Governments are insti-
tuted among men to promote the well
fare of the people and laws are enacted
to protect honest men and punish
rogues; and
"Whereas, 1t is unreasonable to ask
the virtuOuS and Industrious citizens to
maintain by their toll the machinery of
government for the protection OF th0sa
who are conspiring illegally. to plunder
and impoverish them: therefore be it
"Resolved, That we suggest to the
people of the United States, as dernier
resort. should all other measures fail,
the enactment of laws 10 con Dtiscate the
real and personal property OF all trusts
and combinations, to deny them access
to the courts to enforce the collection OF
their claims and to withdraw from their
property the protection of the law, so
that If it shall appear to the satisfaction
of the jury the prosecution of any per-
son for larceny that the property taken
belonged to any unlawful combination
or trust, it shall be the duty of the court
to at once discharge the party accused
of such larceny: and,
Whereas. Many of the grant evils Of
our civilization are the result of artifi-
cial corporations, called trusts, endowed
with immoral life capable of existing in
a thousand places at once, and freed
from all the limitations which restrain
individual action, and that.
Whereas. The supreme court OF the
United States has decided these heart
less and soulless corporations to be"per-
sons, human and endowed with all the
priviI eyes of citizenship" and has au-
thorized them to 20 from state to state
and deyour the substance of the people;
therefore, be it
"Resolved, That we call upon the peO-
pie of the states and nations to seriously
consider this most important subject,
and enact such laws as shall limit and
circumscribe the growth and power OF
those unnatural and irresponsible be-
ings, and provide tor their ultimate eX-
tinction. and thus make this, indeed, a
government of the people, by the peo-
pie and tor the people, and not gov
ernnent of money, by money and Tor
money.
"Resolved, That we view with the
greatest apprehension the steady en-
croachment of the judiciary upon the
legislative and executive branches of
the state government and the
Prophecy of tn on.as , Jefferson
is being rapidly fulfilled that the SUI
preme court of the United States would
eventually concentrate In It's own hands
all the powers belonging to the whole
people, Wlsile no power is granted in
the national OF state constitutions to the
act of congress or of any state legisla-
ture, the judiciary by steady and grad
ual encrOachmentS has brought US to a
condition where the power of the peo-
pie to legiSlate for their own protection
against trusts. combines and other evils
is practically at an end, and anything
in law that does not receive the ap-
proval of the oiigarchy in many cases
selected and appointed to judgeships by
the very offenders and plunderers of the
people. We point to the case of Eng
land, where an act of parliament is ab-
solutely supreme and no bench of
Judges sits above it to bring to naught
the will of the whole nation, and we
call upon the people of this country to
reassulne their ancient liberties and re-
establish the grand doctrine that all
power must ultimately rest with the
inhabitants of the land making laws
through their duly chosen representa-
tives, believing, with the author of
Declaration of Independence. that we
can better endure the legal evils which
flow from too much liberty than evils
resolving from too little liberty"
No provision having been made for
suggested that, as a Republican had
been named for the presiding officer,
some good Democrat should be selected
for that position. This precipitated 4
discussion which threatened to cause
trouble, but it was checked by motion
10 appoint committee on resolutions to
consist of one member from each state.
The motion was adopted. The conven-
tion then elected the permanent officers
recommended and adjourned until 2:30
O'Clock.