The record-union., 1899-09-17
powers from the consent of the gov

powers from the consent of the gov
erned.
Such a Government is impossible
under industrial aristocracy. Place the
| food and clothing, and all that we eat
| and wear, and use, in the hands of a
| few people, and instead Of being a
Government by the people, it will be a
Government of the syndicates, by the
! syndicates, and for the syndicateS.
Establish such a Government, and the
people will soon be poWerleSs to secure
| a legislative remedy for, any abuse.
Il am not willing to place the labor
| ing men of this country absolutely at
| the mercy Of the heads of rnonopolies.
| When you control the price that man
| is to receive for what he produces, you
control the price that he is to receive
! for the labor in the production Of that
| thing.
Some people have tried to separate
! the laboring man who works in the fac
tory from the workingman who works
on the farm. / warn the laboring men
| in the factories that, when they join
with the monopolies to crush the farm
| er, as soon as the farmer is crushed,
| the laboring man will be crushed, and
of endurance, the farmer will stand it
! longer than the laboring man.
THE farmer was the first man on the
scene when civilization began, and he
will be the last one to disappear.
But, my friends, why should we try
| to see who could hold out the longest in
| suffering? For 100 years all Nations
have looked to this Nation for hope and
| instruction. Let US settle these great
! questions that we have; let US teach
| the world the blessing of a Government
! that comes from the people and let US
/ show them how happy and how pros
porous people can be-
! At the conclusion the orator resumed
his seat facing a sea of wildly waving
arms and a storm of cheers. Three
quarters of the audience left when he
had finished.
James H. Raymond of Chicago fol-
/ lowed with an address on Patents and
! Monopolies." He argued in favor of the
| patent laws and the monopolies which
they grant and declared that any ma
terial modification of them will widen
the breach between capital and labor,
| and will tend to destroy our mechanical
and industrial supremacy.
G. w. Northrup, Jr., of Chicago
spoke on Practical Federal Remedies
for Industrial Trusts"
Professor David Kinley followed with
a reading of the statistics and opinions
gathered in the answers sent to cues
tions propounded to business and pro-
rfessional men the country over in re-
gard to the effect of trusts on wages
and the prices of trust commodities.
! I. 3. Walker of Minneapolis spoke
on Trusts from a Business Mans
Standpoint
The conference then took q recess un-
til 3 p. m
The afternoon session opened with
! addresses by Attorney General Smith O
Texas and James Dill, who had hand
in the framing of the New Jersey trust
law. A general discussion followed
which resulted in both Colonel Bryan
and Burke Cochran taking the plat-
form
w. D. Foulke of Indiana made short
address, in which he declared that he
failed to see that the remedies proposed
by Colonel Bryan in the latters speecf
| during the morning session could result
in the attainment Of the object sought
for.
Colonel Bryan, who was sitting in the
back part Of the hall, arose, and a'nio
cheering, started to reply. Before he
had uttered a dozen words, however.
cries of take the platform came from
all parts of the hall, and with smile
he did so. Mr.. Bryan said IN part