The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-14


and the industrial combinations which in
many cases seem to be to the advantage
of all.
Prof jerks followed. with paper
under the caption Problems Before tho
Conference"
1t was 1 o'clock before the paper was
finished, and an adjournment was taken
until o'clock
Chairman Head requested the delegates
to remain few minutes in order to or
ganize more completely, and to decide
upon the committeeman.
The afternoon session opened with
paper by Prof. Adams on the same SUBJ
ject as his predecessor, Mr.. jerks.
These addresses were received atten'
lively but it remained for Dudley
Wooten, of the Texas delegation, to stir
up enthusiasm of the camp meeting
variety. He was frequently interrupted
by cheering. He spoke in part as follows:
Accepting in good faith that amend
ment which the heroic legions of the
South resisted unto death on thousand
battletields, We believe that neither sla-
very nor involuntary SerVitude, except as
punishment for crime, shall exist within
the United States or any place subject to
their jurisdiction And we confidently
assert that the commercial and industrial
bondage being rapidly imposed upon the
toll and talents of seventy million Ameri-
can citizens by the syndicated wealth Of
a few great corporate monopolies, is more
| dire and dangerous than the slavery
| which bowed the heads and burdened the
backs of 900 Southern biackmen.
And above and beyond these great un-
| written guarantees of equality and JUS
! tice, we look to the lessons of history and
| appeal to the authority of experience.
| When we are told that commercial COM
bination promises golden rewards to the
present tendencies of our economic syS-
TENS, we remember that no republic has
ever survived the mercenary desp.o9tlsm
of merchants and money changers"
STICKLER FOR FACTS.
John Graham Brooks of Cambridge.
| Mass, in Sticking Close to Facts" as
he prefaced his address, spoke in part a.
follows, and was received with consid-
cradle applause:
I'VE do not say a corporation is good
or bad until we know what the corpora
ton is or does. If the business is prop
erly safeguarded the corporation renders
a social service as essential as the coll
lege, the library, or the church. If the
larger combinations now under discussion
can be so far controlled as the Bos on
street railway and indeed, most Massa-
chusetts roads are controlled, l should
say the trust is not to be feared, but to
be welcomed. The supreme question that
cOnfronts US is that of possible regula-
ton.
Il submit that the time is at hand for
some kind of wide thorough and effect
i've organization Nor do 1 believe it open
to doubt that the immense pressure of
| this necessity is producing the so-called
! trust 1t makes itself far more than 1t is
made. Men will fight it as they fought
! Mckinley and with precisely the same re-
! suits. I believe il to be the beginning Of
| practical sense to understand that the
new combinations can in no sense be per-
manently smashed. The party which pro-
poses to do this, in the sense of abso-
lutely checking them, will have plenty of
leisure to regret it. The real problem,
immediate and imperious, is how to regu-
lot cr,,il +l,O hot cta dc
merely for the latest stage of industrial
growth
Mr. William Fortune, of Indianapolis.
president of the Indiana state board OF
| commerce, made an earnest plea for con-
Servative procedure as a more hopeful
course than the application Of revolution
ary or too radical measures to an eVolu-
tionary problem He indicated a grave
doubt of the usefulness of the doctrnaire
in arriving at rational solution of the
question. He guardedly suggested the
danger capital may bring to itself by
needless abuse of its power, and indicated
the Importance of 1t of seeking proper
regulations which will make trust
methods acceptable rather than obnoX-
ious to the people, by whose permission
and liberation only can their existence
continue His speech was a plea for the
practicable rather than theoretical ap-
proach to the subject, which, in its pres
ent stage, the speaker believed to be too
immature to give basis for conclusive
judgment as to the extent Of either its
| harmful or beneficial effects.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
The committee on permanent organiza-
! tior met after the adjournment Of the
| conference The committee, consisting of
! one delegate from each state represented
! ard each organization of general scope,
/ was as follows:
! District of Columbia. DR.. Joseph MINI
/ mo; Delaware Charles o. Richard; Ne
/ braska, Hon. r. D. Sutherland; New Jer-
sey, Edward I. Ke&sby; Texas, Hon. ~
B. Davidson; California, Charles Dwight
Willard; North Dakota, A. w. Edwards; 4;
Iowa, I. D. Healy; New Mexico, Frank
Springer; Michigan, George w, Mcbride;
Florida, John Franklin Forbes; New
Hampshire, Henry w. Blair; Colorado.
( H. V. Johns Arizona, J. .. Adams,
! South Dakota, Freeman Knowles; Wyom-
| ing, C. B. Arnold: West Virginia, ]. B.
Harris; South Carolina, B. &. Kaufman;
Ohio. Charles Foster: Maine, a. F. Rog-
ers; Mississippi, ]. w. Culver; Minnesota,
/ W. W. Folwell; Louisiana, W. W. Howe;
Massachusetts, Clarke; Missouri F. c.
F2rr; New York, S. j. Corliss; Pennsyl-
vania, II. w. Palmer; Maryland, Maj.
John P. Yelot Wisconsin, A. NJ. Jones;
National Sociaistic league, ~. NJ. Sim
mons; tariff reform committee of the re-
form club, Lawson Purdy; American So
cial Science association, w. A. Giles; Ma
tional Grain ard Provision association, R.
il. Greeiy; National grange, H. F.. Hulk
ley; Association of Western Manufac-
turers, Prof. George 3rickner; National
Alliance Theatrical Stage Employees of
America, Lem Hart; New England Free
! Trade league, Byron Holts; American
Edmund James; Illinois Comnisson Mems
association, George Holden: Order OF
Railway Conductors E.. z. Clark; Broth
erhCod of Locomo i've Firemen, ". S. Car
ter; Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen,
P. II. Morrissey; National Association Of
Manufacturers, Theodore c. Search; Ma
-tional Millers' association, F. f. Made
burg; National Single Tax league, Walter
\. LartZ; American Antitrust league.
M. L. LOCKWOOD Bricklayers and Masons
of America, NJ. r. Grady: Northwestern
TraveIingmen's associa ton. George Fl.
Reed; United Garment Workers of Amer
ca, Henry White; Commercial Travellers
National league, P. e. Dove; ex-officio.
Franklin II. Head and Ralph NJ Easiey.
William VIII thowe was selected chair
man Of the meeting and after a hot dis
cussion was selected permanent chairman
of the conference though three
vice chairmen sch to preside during one
day were selected. 1t was happy solu-
ton Of what at one time promised to be
Il split. No one was willing to allow a
permanent chairman to be appointed 10
preside at all such sessions, least he
should favor some faction. It was urged.
that the craftsmanship should change al
each of the nine sessions. The chairman
and vice-chairman method of disposing
Of the question was hailed with applause
The vice chairmen selected wore:
Thursday-Dudley Woten, Texas.
Friday-Mayor II. B. Johnson, Colorado