The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-09-28
outside of the State contrary to public

the people OF every St&te snail Hrst
decide whether they want to create q
corporation; that they shall, secondly,
decide whether they want any outside
corporation to do business in the State
and II so, upon what condition and,
thirdly, that Congress shall exercise
tho right to place upon every corpora
tion doing business outside of the State
In which 1t is organized, such limita-
tions and restrictions as may be neces-
sary for the protection OF the public
good.
81 am ready to adopt any method for
the annihilation of trusts. One that [
suggest Is this;
THAT Congress should pass law
providing that no corporation organic
cd In any State should do business out
side of tho State in which 1t is organic
cd until it receives from some power,
created by Congress, a license autho-
rizing 1t to do business outside of It's
own State. Now If the corporation
must como to this body created by
Congress to secure permission to do
business outside the State, then that
| liconso can be granted upon conditions
which will, in the first place, prevent
tho watering OF stocks In the second
place, prevent monopoly in any branch
of business and, third, provide for
| publicity as to all of tho Transitions
and business of the corporation.
If this is unconstitutional, and so
| declared by the supreme court, am in
| favor Of an amendment to the consti-
tntian that will give to Congress
power to destroy every fruits in the
country. In my Judgment, when you
tako from monopoly tho power to
Issue watered stock you will 20 more
than half the way toward destroying
m in thn TTnita1 tntn
You can provide for publicity, and
that annually or At such other times
the corporations shall make returns Of
It's business or It's earnings, which will
go another long stop toward the de.
StruCtiOn Of the principle Of monopoly.
But | am not willing to stop tnere,
| and, therefore, as a third condition, |
suggest that no liconso shall be grant.
cd until Tho corporation shows that it
| HISS nJt had monopoly and is not al
lowing monopoly of any branch OF
industry or &Dy article Of merchandise,
ana then provide that If the law Is
violated tho license cHu bo revoked
| do not hOliuyG in the government
giving privileges 10 be exercised by a
corporation without roScrving the
right to Withdrew them whom those
privileges become hurtfut 10 the pcO.
pie.
"My coptonti0n is thaC wo have
been Placing the dollar above tho m9u,
that wo have been picking cut iavUri-
tcs IN government, chat we nave boon
hostowing upon them special Nrivi
icgus and every advantage wo have
given them nmg bocn glvcn thom ~
the Uetrimcnt Of Other people. MY
contention j. that .hero Is {. vicious
princiulp running &hrou%h tho various
policies which wo have Do0u pursuiuG;
that IN our taEatiOn We have boon no
posing upon the great s.ruEglinr
misses, thD burdens Of Government.
while We have boon voting thc priWi.
legcs 10 the people who DO not pay
their share of expenses Hf yho ruvorn-
mCnt.
Every unjUs5 :aN layv IS an Indirect
icrm o. larceny. tho speaker escorted.
An inCOmc Tax, ne believed, womb
remedy another groal evil.
:" have no fear shat any uan. by
his own brain or his own muscle, vii,
be able 10 secure & fortune 30 s,eat IS
TO he > menace to tho welfare Of MS |
fellow men.
= When God mauC 'ue.u, nu placed u |
limit TO his existence, 90 that if he |
was BAD man he can not do harm |
long, but when we made our NAH
made man, Ono cOrpora,ion) We raised
Ehe unit or his age. |
want TO protest against this doc. |
trlne That the trust Is Il natural out |
gro".h OF natural lawe. 1t is not true. |
The trust is TIE natural outgrowth of
unnatural conditions created by man
made laws. |
Government under the four great |
principles of the declaration of indo-
pcndence Is impossible under an in. |
uustrial aristocracy.
Some people nave tried to separate |
the labOring man who works in the |
factory from the laboring man who |
works on the farm. | want TO warn |
the laboring men in the factories that
tney cannot separate themselves from
those W no toll on the farm without in
Wiling their own destruction. | warn
the laboring men in the factories that
when they join with the monopolies to
crush the farmer, as soon as the farm
er ls crushed, the laboring man will |
be crushed, and is ally will be de-
stroyed and in test Of endurance, the
farmer viii. stand it longer than the
laboring man. The farmer was the
hrst man on the scene when civiliza-
tion began, and he will be the last one
to disappear. You may drive the
farmer down, so ho cannot buy coal,
but he can burn corn. But you drive
the coal miner down 80 he cannot buv
corn and he cannot eat coal.
But, my friends, why should we trv
to sec who could hold out tho longest
In suffering :? Why try to see who can
endure the most hardships and vet
live? Why not try to see who can con-
tribute most to the greatness and to
the glory and to the prosperity of this
nation Why, those who can contri-
butte most would make this govern
ment what the fathers intended IL for.
For 100 years this nation has been the
light Of the world. For 100 years the
best OF all nations have looked to this
nation for hope and instruction. Let
uS settle those great questions that VIC
have before us, let us teach the world
the blessing Of government THAI
comos from the people and Let US show
them how happy aud how prosperous
people can be. J. believe IN the doc.
tripc that God made all mcn Of the
same DUST add did not make some 30