The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-12-07
Great Non-Political Organization to
Battle Against New
Danger.
AMERICANS MEET. IN COUNCIL
Full Text Of an Address Issued to The Peo-
pie Of The Country Urging Them to
Re-establish Equal Rights.


Immediately upon the adjourn.
ment of the Civic Federation Con-
ference recently held at Central Mus
ic Hall, Chicago, there was held at
the club rooms at the Sherman House
a meeting of the Anti Trust dele
gates who had attended said confer
ence. At said meeting the following
executive committee was appointed:
Hon. M. l. Lockwood, of Penn
sylvania; Judge VIM. Prentiss, of
Illinois; Hon. A. NJ. Todd, OF Mich
lgian; Hon. A. P. McQuirk. OF Iowa;
Judge w. B. Fleming, OF Kentucky,
P. 4. Dove, of New York. with
authority to add to the number)
Said committee after celebrating,
instructed its chairman, Hon. NJ. L.
Lockwood, to issue call in his Of
fetal capacity as president of the
American Antitrust League for a
national convention of antitrust peo
pie, in order that such action may be
taken as will best protect the people
against the aggregation of corporate
monopolistic power.
Mr.. Lockwood then proceeded to
issue the following call:
Now. therefore. as preliminary to the
call of such convention, l. by authority
and direction of said Antitrust Confer
ence, do pow call upon all the true friends
of the Anti Monopoly, Antitrust move
ment in the different states and territor-
les to forward to me the names of such
men in their states or territory respec-
lively as they may deem best fitted for
the Office of vice president of the conven
tion for their respective states or terri
tory, in order that through him suitable
delegates TO the convention, truly repre-
sentative of the antitrust people, may be
appointed. Auxiliary to this ask every
worker in the cause to call together four
or more of his friends and neighbors who
are opposed to all encroachment of cor
porate power upon the rights of the peo-
pie and organize an American Antitrust
League in his township or voting pre-
cnct
The Antitrust League is non partisan.
| "a Ca1 oil A ,ario n.
if a democrat, if populist, or republi-
can, public man has shown himself to be
subservient tool of this great corporate
power, then all the united power of all
the men of the American Antitrust
League will be used TO crush him and
drive him from public life. We will
adopt the tactics of our enemy until we
have created a legislative. judicial and
executive power IN sympathy with the
public welfare. And we call upon every
American citizen who loves his country
and the great principles Of popular goy-
ernment, better than he does his party,
to join us in the work of establishing
the equal rights and equal opportunities
of American citizenship.
All communications touching organiza-
ton OF leagues should be addressed to H.
3. B.Martin, national secretary, at national
headquarters, 1929 Pennsylvania Ave-,
Washington. D, G, All communications
with reference to the National Anti-Trus;
Convention, should be addressed to Rob-
ert w. Boddinghouse, secretary execu-
tive committee of the Antitrust Confer
ence, Room 344, No 70, Dearborn Street,
Chicago, III.
By authority of the executive commit
tee Of the Antitrust Conference held at
the Sherman club rooms, Sept. 16, 1899.
M. L. LOCKWOOD,
President American Antitrust League.
Following upon the heels of the
foregoing, the following address to
the American people was issued:
"The object of the American Anti
Trust League is to drive from public
places the subservient tools of the trusts,
monopolies, combines, and corporations,
and to establish the equal rights of
American citizens in the commerce and
industries of the country.
To-day in every legislative hall, both