The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-21
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committee on resolutions. reported that
the committee had only met to organize
and was not yet ready TO report A meet
ing Of the committee would be held at
night, he said. There being no further
business befoS the conference. speeches
were called for.
Governor C. S. Thomas of Colorado, was
the first to respond. He prefaced his
remarks by saying emphatically that he
did not agree with the expressions voiced
by Governors Stephens and Sayers at the
morning session, and then launched out
on a discussion of the trust proposition.
He contended that the consolidation of
business combinations in a few hands was
injurious to the people as a whole. He
assumed that the question of the threat
ening character Of these gigantic combi-
nations portended evil for the people and
said it was time to call halt. He argued
that concurrent action between the states
and the national government was neces-
sary to control the operations OF the So
called trusts. He concluded his remarks
with a vigorous attack upon the Standard
Oil company, exemplifying his onslaught
by the recital OF a number Of specific
cases coming under his observation where
in the oil company made enormous profits
on its product in Colorado and adjacent
states TO the detriment of the consumer.
He said the company avoided taxation
on its property and business in Colorado
and paid dividends in New York Public
opinion, he said, governs this country.
and when it is finally awakened 10 the
evil of the trusts, then the public opin-
ion is going to have It's way. He hoped
that the trust question would be kept out
of the domain of partisan politics and
that it would be considered from the lofty
standpoint Of American citizenship. II
this question, he said. is not met properly
the result will not only be a menace to
the people of this, but the next genera
ton.
Governor Leslie Shaw OF Iowa, then
took the floor and, as seemed to many,
facetiously derided the remarks OF Gov
eTnor Stephens at the morning session.
Before delving into his subject he paused
and made motion that the governors Of
Missouri, Tennessee and Texas be ap-
pointed to draft and formulate a bill such
as, in their opinion, may be safely and
advantageously passed by the legislatures
of the several states, and which will, IN
their opinion, as far as possible, remedy
the evil so universally acknowledged.
The motion was tabled.
In his speech Governor Shaw said, in
part: Il regret that the call for this
conference did not include all that is in
the mind of him who issued it. 1t was
evidently the purpose to make it not only
an antitrust conference, but an anti-ex-
pansion and free trade and free silver
convention. I say. evidently the pur-
pose from the tone of the remarks Of
the chairman and from the speech of the
governor of Missouri. Had this been gen
erall known II is quite possible a larger
attendance would have been secured for
certainly, 1t would then have embraced
subjects upon which there are greater
differences of opinion than upon the ques-
tons of trusts alone.
II was interested and diverted by the
address from the governor of Missouri
Interested for he stated that his state
had triumphantly exterminated the oc-
topus. I was diverted, as he told OF the
downfall of Rome caused from evils such
as now confront us. l was made to re-
gret that in the expansion policy of old
Rome she did not acquire some territory
as productive Of statesmen as the Louisi-
ana purchase, and which might then
have produced a governor of sufficient
foresight legislature of sufficient wis
dom, an attorney general of sufficient
Of nj /
erudition and fairness to have success
fully COPIED with ulti-miilionaires and
bankers which, It was claimed, infested
the empire to the great damage Of the
common people
"I prefer a formulated bill, such as I
may safely submit 10 the general assem-
bly, Of my state, rather than resolutions.
think 1 am politician enough 20 draft a
set of resolutions so drastic that, II
needed, all trusts and combinations would
Immediately take their departure from
the commonwealth of which I have the
honor to be chief executive but I am not
so confident that I am statesman enough
TO draft bill which will compel their
everlasting exit providing they are deter
mined TO stay. II the committee, when
appointed. shall draft a bill which seems
10 me comprehensive and effective. I will
very gladly recommend It; for I desire.
here and now. to say that I have no sym
PATTY with any combination Of capital
which rests in monopoly.
Il desire that the governor Of Missouri
shall serve upon this committee. for the
reason that he reports the statute Of his
state adequate to meet the demands OF
the hour; and I hope. II he shall con-
slider It essential to this end. That he in
corporate the law recently approved by
him, which, * may trust the verbal
testimony Of citizens OF his state per-
mitted the competing lines OF street rail-
way in this city 20 combine. And I de-
sire that the governor Of Tennessee may
serve upon this committee. FOR, in private
conversation. he advised me. with evil
dent pride I thought. that very extern
sive deposits OF phosphate had been dis
covered in his state from which great
fortunes are now being made, and he re-
ported that many OF the producers of
phosphate had been thereby driven from
the market. I desire him 70 incorporate
IN the bill. II ne shah deem II advisable.
such provisions as viii prohibit capital
lists of Tennessee from monopoifzing the
phosphate business Il Will be neces-
sary 20 direct the proposed bill with great
accuracy: and. Ike the Kentucky hunter.
50 aim q as % bit & = il be q deer and
miss & y 9, be a calf
The remedy suggested by Implication
IL The two speeches II the forenoon SEES
sion-that OF the repeal q a.! tari- pro