The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-16
GAMBLER is DOWN ON TRUSTS.
HE AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
WILL GO TO ST. LOUIS.

They Have Accepted the Invitation
Governor Tells why He Doesn't
Like Trusts and Why They Are Had
Things-ShOuId he a Uniform Law
That VIII Strangle Them-They
Keep Down Young Men.
Atlanta, Ga, June l5-Gov. Gambler and
Attorney General Terrell, VIII go to St
Louis TO attend the convention of COVER
nors and attorneys general Of the several
states on Sept. 20, this meeting having
been calIed by Gov. Savers of Texas. for
the purpose of taking some action having
for its object The limitation of the powers
of trusts and monopolies.
Gov. Gambler is taking special interest
an the convention, and in a talk about it
with some OF his newspaper friends to-
day, took occasion 10 deliver an arrsign-
ment of trusts and combinations. that indi-
Gates his determination 10 throw some hot
shot when the ST. Louis convention gets
together.
There should be a uniform law that wiz
stransle trusts and make il impossible for
them to exist he said. This as as L I'M
derstand it, the purpose for which the con-
vention OF the Governors and attorneys
general of the states has been called, and
II VIII be good thing if the mission for
which il meets is accomplished.
THE trust is the master, and the young
man who is ambitious and who would sue
coed if he entered business for himself
becomes the slave TO the trust Where is
the young man who can establish a bust
ness competing with the powerful trusts
and carry il along successfully? He is not
to be found, for no Individual can compete
with the millions Of money that back the
trusts and strange and crush OUT the
lives of those who would raise an opposing
voice. The young men of the day are
slaves to the trusts They have no indi-
Viduality when it comes 20 a business. and
they must slave for the trusts and the
mtlltonaires, and work for a salary, doing
whatever the trusts dictate.
There is the situation which confronts
the young men OF this generation. and
something must be done to bring about an
opportunity that will handicap the trusts
10 their greedy operations and give an
avenue to the willing, energetic and am
bilious young men who would succeed, if
they were given an opportunity
They Are had in Amy Light.
81 am against a trust wherever I see
one. A trust is a bad thing wherever
you nd one. 1t matters not with me
whether the price of an article is lowered
by the trusts or not, the trust has crushed
out the individual and has made CON-
petition impossible.
Take the oil trust. If there were no
Standard Oil trust there would be many
competing companies selling oils. and the
price would be lower ADMIT that the
Standard Oil trust is correct when ii
makes the declaration that oil is cheaper
to-day than it was when the trust was
organized, what about the millions ana
millions of dollars that have been made
for the stockholders? Who has paid this
great surplus into the treasury of the
company? The people
''Now the organization of the plow
trust with $50, 600. 600 That trust can raise
the prices of plows Just whenever IL
wishes, and there are none who can pre-
vent it, The men who use the plows win
be the people who will make miliionaires
out of the stockholders"