Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-09-21
FOR and AGAINST TRUSTS.
Men of Note State Their Views on
Trade Combinations.
WILLIAM WRIT HOWE H0NORED
Elected Permanent Chairman of the
Conference at Chicago-Prof. jerks
OF Cornell states the Problem of Trade
Observation-Disclosures Delivered.

The trust conference at Chicago
opened Sept. 1S. The first days pro-
ceedings We're as follows
Morning Session-Franklin II. Head
called the conference to order and ex-
planned its objects. Atty.-Gen. Akin
OF Illinois, representing Gov. Tanner,
welcomed the delegates. City Prosecu-
Tor Taylor, representing Mayor Harri-
son, welcomed the delegates to Chi
cago. Prof. ]. w. jerks of Cornell
stated the trust problem.
Afternoon Session. Addresses by
Prof. Fl. c. Adams of the University of
Michigan, Dudley Goodall Wooten of
Texas, William Fortune Of the Indiana
state board of commerce and Prof
John Grahame Brooks, formerly OF
Harvard university
Evening Addresses by Gov.
Atkinson of West Virginia, Atty.-Gen.
Grove OF Missouri, P. e. Dove of the
Commercial Travellers league, Fra. els
b. Thurber of New York and Jose. h
Nimmo, Washington. Election of Will
liam Writ Howe of New Orleans as
permanent chairman of the conference,
with Dudley Goodall Wooten OF Texas,
first Vice-president; Mayor H. v. john
son of Denver, second vice-president,
and S. B. Corliss of New York, third
vice-president.
The second days proceedings OF the
trust conference were as follows:
Morning Session.-Debate on the
subject of free trade and protection,
Lawson Purdy of the New York Tariff
Reform club and Byron W. Holt of the
New England Free Trade league argu-
ing for free trade, and John F. Seaman
OF Illinois and Congressman Thomas
Updegraff of Iowa arguing for protec-
ton.
Afternoon Session. Discussion of
agriculture in its relation to trusts,
participated in by H. S. Greeley, Ma
tional Grain Growers union, Chicago;
]. c. Hanley, National Farmers ALI
ance, st. Paul, and Aaron Jones, ma
tional grange, South Bend, Ind. Ad-
dress by Benjamin r. Tucker, editor of
Liberty, New York, on Attitude of
Anarchism Toward Industrial Com
bination."
Night Session. Addresses by Gov.
Hazen S. Pingree of Michigan, on EFF
fects of Trusts on Our National Life
and Citizenship; ex-Gov. Charles Fos-
TEL of 0hio,on "Desirability of Trusts;
Acknowledgement Jefferson Davis OF
Arkansas, on Arkansas Antitrust
Law; Prof George Gunton of New
York, on Public and the Trusts; At
torney-General George Gather, Jr., of
Maryland. on Maryland Trusts"
Proceedings of the third days session
of the trust conference:
At the morning meeting Louis F.
Post of the Single-Tax league deliv-
cred an address. Thomas ]. Morgan
spoke on THE Trust from the Social
lists Point of View" John w. Hayes,
secretary of the Knights of Labor;
Henry White, general secretary of the
United Garment Workers of America;
Samuel Gompers, president Of the
American Federation of Labor, and M.
NJ. Garland, ex-president of the Anal
gamated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers, delivered addresses, giving
labor's side of the trust problem.
In the afternoon David Ross of the
Illinois bureau of labor statistics and
NJ L. Lockwood of the Antitrust
league delivered addresses. Edward
Keasbey spoke on New Jersey and
Trusts" Prof. Bemis outlined his
views, after which Prof. John B. Clark
of Columbia spoke.
The evening was occupied by an adj
dress by William Dudley Foulke Of In
diana, who was followed by Edward
Rosewater of Nebraska. w. Bourke
Cochran of New York delivered an ad-
dress.
William J. Bryan addressed the trust
conference at Chicago Sept 16. His
proposition for the regulation of COM
binations is summed up as follows:
/. Every state has or should have
the right to create any private corpora
ton which in the judgment of the peo-
pie of the state is conducive to the well
fare of the people of that state.
2. The state has or should have the
right to prohibit any foreign corpora
ton from doing business in the state,
and it ought to have the right to i'm
pose such restrictions and limitations
as the people OF the state may think
necessary upon any foreign corpora
ton doing business in the state.
s. Congress has or should have the
power to place such restrictions and
limitations, even to the point of pro-
hibition, upon any corporation organ
lied in one state and that wants to do
business outside of the state.
Antitrust delegates to the confer
ence formed an organization looking to
concerted action all over the country.