The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-26
FEARS TRUSTS
INDUSTRIAL ARIsTOCRACY.
Speech at the st. Louis
Love Feast by Democracy's
Standing Candidate.
ALL "COMBINES" CONDEMNED
DIFFICULTY OF REGULATING THEM
ADMITTED TO BE GREAT.
Control the COuntry's Issue of Pa
per Money Also Denounced.
CHAMP CLARK'S PLATFORM
BRIEF ADDRESSES BY o. II. r. BEL
MONT AND OTHERS.
No Future Policy Outlined at the Con-
ference of mitteemen, hut the
Chicago Trouble Aired.
Alleged Effort of National Bankers to
per Money Also Denounced.
CHAMP CLARK'S PLATFORM
BRIEF ADDRESSES BY O. Fl. y. BEL
MONT AND OTHERS.
No Future Policy Outlined at the Con-
ference of mitteemen, but the
Chicago Trouble Aired.

ST. LOUIS, May 25-Promptly at 6:45
o'clock this evening the caterers direction
bell rang, the band struck up THE Stars
and Stripes Forever" an army Of walters
ladened with viands appeared and the man.
moth Democratic antitrust banquet was
on, while the LAS banqueters seated at the
tables broke into tremendous cheer, ris-
ing in a body and waving the small hand
flags that had been provided at each cover
The vast arena of the Coliseum was filled
with long tables, tastefully decorated with
roses lilies of the valley and carnations
The table of honor was placed on a raisei
platform at the north side of the arena,
and at it were seated Hon. w. ]. Bryan,
Ex-Governor John p. Altgeld, o. III. p. Bel
mont, NJ. c. Wetmore, Harry b. Hawes,
PRESIDENT of the Jefferson Club, under whose
auspices the dinner was given; Hon. Champ
Clark, Hon. David A. De Almond and "A
| number Of other prominent Democrats. The
Coliseum was decorated throughout with
flags, and In the center of these was fixed
large silver shield.
The dinner was concluded at s o'clock.
No speeches were made during the banquet.
1t was strictly love feast. BY the time the
tables were cleared the 5000 seats of the
amphitheater were filled with spectators,
representing the society of st. Louis, and
the speaking began. The first speaker of
the evening was Harry b. Hawes. president
of the Jefferson Club, who delivered the
address Of welcome. President Hawes was
followed by Hon. Champ Clark, of Missouri,
who presented the State and district BAN
ners in the name of the State committee.
Mr.. Clark was greeted with tremendous
| ovation. Concerning what the Democracy
CHI 40 he he n.
'First-We will not only reaffirm, but re-
adopt, the Chicago platform of 1896 word
| for word, syllable by syllable, abating nei-
| ther jot nor little of that second Declara-
'Second-We will put into our platform
as strong an antitrust plank as the Amer
| lean language can make-the American
| language, mark you, not the Englsh-which
Will restore to every citizen of this Republic
| the inalienable right to earn his bread in
| the sweat of his face, which will guarantee
| to every laborer the enjoyment of all his
wages, and which will once more make pos
sble that competition WHICH was supposed
to be the life of trade until the Republican
| party created a countless brood of trusts
| which are sucking the life-blood of the great
bes besy wav U n for Congress- to Smash the trusts
| is to place upon the free list all things used
or made or sold by the trusts. Then let
both Congress and State legislatures make
| it a penitentiary offense to form, conduct
| or to be interested in trust, and these
| cancerous excrescences will be Topped from
"Third-We viii declare emphatically and
| unequivocally in favor of the preservation
of the Monroe doctrine In all Its vigor ana ana
| and destroying our institutions by making
| American citizens out Of ten millions hea-
enSn wi deeaTe ae U in unmstakable
| language that we will put a sudden stop
| to the wicked and wanton waste, OF the
rrecklessness Of the Fifty-fifth Congress.
| amounts TO practical confiscation.
"Fifth-We will proclaim cur everlasting
| hostility to government by the sword and
government by injunction. both of which
are being foisted upon the country for the
benefit and at the, behest of the trusts and
| jobbers of every degree.
1.-The platform that have outlined will
| give lovers of freedom and good government
| form we will place a man who is plat
| form within himself-whose name / am
happy to state is execrated by every monop.
olist in America and loved by every patriot
| betwixt the two oceans-and land him in the
| White House-the foremost statesman OF
| our age-William Jennings Bryan. of Ne
| braska and of the United States at large
| When he sits in the chair OF washington
and wears the mantle of Jefferson. there
| will be another Andrew Jackson come to
| Judgment. In times of peace he Is civ.
| ilian: in times of war he is a soldier: at
all times ne is the ideal American citizen
| and patriot
TRUSTS and Democracy" occupied Col. NJ
C. wetmore. of st. Louis. but a few min
utes. His remarks were greeted with cheers
He was followed by Hon. David Dearmond
of Missouri who spoke upon Trust and Its
Parents" The parents of trust, according
to the speaker. are the protective tariff IA
vored by the Republicans and partially
which. he claimed, that party had eveI
shown to corporate interests.
MIR. Bryan's Address.
When Mr.. Hawes arose to introduce Mr.
Bryan he was greeted with applause, and
the applause which met Mr.. Bryan was OF
the most fiattering description. The cheers
drowned the music of a band which struck
up Hold the Fort" as he advanced to the
front of the rostrum. Mr.. Bryan said:
AN actor who visited Nebraska recently
| upon learning from a Republican that con-
fidence had been restored, remarked that he
had examined Websters dictionary TO learn
| what confidence meant, and found conf
dence defined as trust, and then he un-
| derstood that confidence had been really re-
stored. More trusts have been formed dur
ing the last two years than existed at the
beginning of the present administration,
and the nominal capitalization OF the trusts
now in existence, approaches. II II does not
equal in amount, the worlds total supply
of gold and silver. The influence of these
people without respect to party, are ask
died.
1.-The purpose of the trusts Is TO control
the product of some article of merchandise,
ard the methods employed are, first, the
union OF all individual factories under one
management or in one corporation, and
second. the crushing out OF new rivals. A
monopoly, when once complete, not only
dictates terms to those who buy the prod
| uct but IL also dictates terms to those who
sell the raw material and TO those who fur
nish the labor. IL trusts are permitted "a
continue we shall find industrial aris-
tocracy growing up in the United States
which will prove as destructive OF our ideals
as a landed aristocracy would
THE principle Of monopoly Is incompati.