The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1899-09-16
of Various Shades Of Belief
Address the Chicago
Conference.
Problem in Its Relation to
Workingmen Under Dis.
cusSiOn.
bnors Denies That Unions of
! .hor SAVIOR of the Nature
of Combines.

,c.oo. Sept. 10. -Workingnen.
IN.,s advocates Of the single tax
and students Of political econ.
wsrs heard At tho morning session
. civic federation conference on
{ and com binations.
majority Of the speakers spoke In
tous opposition to industrial. ansn.
and transportation combinations
nroblem in ito relation to the work.
ban was discussed. The commit.
resolutions named by the con.
4, held its 6rst meeting at 9:3O a.
(ui organized by electing ex-Gov'
q Michigan chairman. and Ralph
esslev. secretary.
bre than an hour was spent in dis.
Inc plans for committee work.
he adoption Of q definite plan was
v postponed. and later In the day
N. Howe Of Louisiana moved the
Eminent Of subcommittee OF five
kceive and consider resolutions that
b, be presented aud report to gen.
committee.
he motion was carried and Chair.
Luce was authorized to name the
konmittee. He said II would bt
bunced later in the day.
Rs committee on resolutions ad'
hel 10 meet again at 2 o'clock.
De events on the program for the day
len were overshadowed. however
D. announcement that in the even
Colonel William Jennings Bryan OF
raska. and w. Bourke Cochran. thu
ren, head of the New York delega
would speak from the same plat
The political prominence OF th'
orators gave rise to q general feel
taat night session would be o
political than economic interest
De crowd that greeted Louis r
the New York advocate Of tn
le tax. was the smallest Of the ses
SO far. lis address was enthus
eally cheered. the applause ceasinI
when Thomas J. Morgan rose ant
keon "Trusts from a Socialistic Poin
lew."
!. Morgan was followed by Henr.
lie, secretary Of the United Carmen
Ae!s of America.
Assault on CoustttutlonsI Rights.
N. Garland was billed to speak O
Iron and Steelworker's View @
oina'ions." and f. +. Clark. gran
! Railway Conductors. on the pre-
u 'or an address, were not presen
the chairman called their names
Joan ". Hayes. secretary OF tn
sats Of Labor, was requested to d.
his address. In part he said:
maintain that these great co,nbir
Us are an assault upon the inherer
institutional rights of the citizen
'ae real and vital advantage to /
'ea Is the despotic control owe
can be proved beyond any que
wat the methods Of the trusts al
methods Of the invader and the enc
accomplished by arms directed B
vary genius.
assert boldly that trusts are tt
'aiss we OF society, and as such shoul
~ 'rrss'soyed as any common enemy.
uHe , trust being an aggressive con
a.n : M for purely selfish objects, q
s,'' Tue Individual, and by overtime,
oa mutual rights, seizes upon his fie
,r;portunity and production, appr
,as ans them to his own personal .
1r, Ises. Soon the individual is owe
a' "nea and every field Of productit
'0A0pol'zed by q trust"
Labor Unions Not Trusss.
aruel nue. Gompers. president Of Anne
:, Iteration Of Labor, followed Sc
!, : J. hhayes. He said in part:
t,, las oeen said that organised lab
.,,.' us' and ! want to say in come
Ihsa ',n this, that to our minds that
pws s'u'e misnomer. Organised lab
w. open its doors to all who wo
'ses' and ask them to come in o.
~. a The benefits. You cann
into a trust.
y nave seen the enactment OF {
'o"n as the antitrust law and t