The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-15
GOV. P|NGREE ON TRUSTS
Rousing Cheers Greet His Radi-
cal Utterances.
MIDDLE CLASS MENACED
The Audience Appeared to Be Heartily
With the Speaker-Governor Fos-
ter Says the Trusts Have
Come to Stay

terest and crowded hall put to-night's
session of the conference on trusts
sharply in contrast with the forenoon
and afternoon gatherings. Central Mu-
sic hall was packed with an audience
that represented nearly every class of
people. Governor Pingree of Michigan
was the star attraction. The governor
was received with applause so ferv mt
that 1t was some minutes before ne
could proceed with his address. He was
obliged to rise several times after ,ok-
ing his seat and bow his acknowledge
ments before the audience would allow
the chairman to introduce the next
speaker.
The hall was divided against itself
during the address of the next sneaker.
ex-Secretary of the Treasury Charles
Foster The audience finally became so
demonstrative in interrupting the
speaker with questions and remarks
that delegate asked the chair to clear
the galleries unless the interrup;i3n
ceased
The days session of the trust confer
ence opened with William Writ Howe
ing OIL in attendance of both delegates
and spectators
chairman Howe proceeded at once TO
business by presenting a resolution in
troduced by f. c. Farr of Missouri for
the appointment of an important com
mittee on resolutions. He called for a
committee of Is to be selected by Chair
man Howe. TO this committee, accord
ing to Mr.. Howe, were to be referred
without reading or debate all resolu-
tions. The motion Instantly DEVELOPED
an undercurrent of strife between the
factions for and against trusts, which
yesterday threatened the conventions
harmony
Various speakers vigorously argued
that the resolution should be amended
to allow appointments to the commit
tee to be made by the delegates them
selves, one committeeman from each
state. The original motion was NOT
acted upon. but the amendment in re
gard to the nldGAer of appointment was
carried by a standing vote of 80 to IA
Governor Atkinson of West Virginia.
rising from the far corner, declared ii
was unfair to bind the delegates by
resolution. The debate waxed warm
and delegates clamored for recognition.
Ex-Governor Luce of Michigan ar
gued that reference to the committee
without reading or debate meant that
many well meant efforts would go to
sleep in the hands of the committee
and sleep the sleep of death" At this
sally there was a ripple of merriment
which ceased with the clamor of 9TH
ers who wished to be heard. Taylor of
Indiana, Prince of Texas and Collins |
of Illinois were heard.
The pro-trust and anti forces were
fearful. 1t became evident that one
side or the other would secure control
and bind the minority to something of
which they disapproved
Edward Rosewater editor of the !
Omaha Bee, won applause in an in |
FORMAL speech in which he declared the |
people of the United States had the |
courage of their convictions.
Congressman Updegraff said:
"A monopolstic trust | am against |
Combinations of capital, however large.
II properly managed, l am for As |
said am not fool enough to want to |
Kill the goose that lays daily the golden
egg. l don't care whether the tariff is
the mother Of trusts or not. They don't |
touch the question. If the tariff be in
any sense the mother of trusts, what |
would you do? | will tell you what we
Will do. We will take care of the mother
and save her; we will raise her children
in the admonitinn and nurture of the
Lord, That is the way to manage
trusts. You cannot have a rich soil
without weeds"
A paper by Horatio W. Seymour
publisher of the Chicago Chronicle, was
read by John H. Hopkins. 1t was in
part as follows:
The trusts or combinations which
should be destroyed, and which can he
destroyed, are those which exist by |
reason Of the protective tariff or which
could not exist if there was no protec-
tive tariff, and whether in their organi- |
Zation or in methods since organization |
have adopted criminal practices, and
are therefore amenable to the criminal
laws. In the one case, there is need of
the repeal of unwise and unjust legis-
lation. In the other there is need of the
of penalties which run
against individuals hiding behind trust
as well as they do against
individuals who stand upon their own
These are simply reme-
dies, and the wonder is not that they
are needed, but that being needed, they
are not applied. The reason is to be
found, l think. in a certain Weakening
of the moral fiber of the American pao-
pie, partly as a result of the economic
errors which have been inculcated so
and partly in response to
the tireless propaganda and calamity
which has become in a manner public |
disease, affecting injuriously the entire
body of the people.
The American republic needs a tonic
IF sound doctrine for the instruction of
youth and for the admonition Of The
aged, will show that no abuse of power
S to deeD-seated for correction.
"One immediate and wholesome eff
ect of such tonic would be the i'm
partial enforcement of wise laws
against all offenders and the repeal of
obviously unwise laws, regardless of |
he protests of their benefciaries. No
trust could stand for a day
n the face of a public sentiment so ac-
uated."
The convention then took a recess un-
il o'clock.
The afternoon session was devoted
o the papers on the Relation of Agri- |
,ulture to Trusts" Dudley II. Wooten
lcted as chairman for the session. but |
presided over delegations even thinner
han they were during the forenoon.
w. Bourke Cochran was missed from |
he ranks of the New Workers, but
hese gentlemen asserted that he had |
rot forsaken the conference. An east
I'm delegate slept through the entire