Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-09-17

The trust is the natural outgrowth of
unnatural conditions created by man
made laws.
Government under the four great
principles of the Declaration of indie
pendence is impossible under an aris-
tocracy. Some people have tried TO
separate the laboring man who works
in the factory from the laboring man
who works on the farm. | want to
warn the laboringmen in the factories
that they cannot separate themselves
from those who toll on the farm with
out inviting their own destruction. |
warn the laboring men in the factories
that when they join with the monopo-
lies to crush the farmer, as soon as the
farmer is crushed the laboring man
will be crushed, and his ally will be
destroyed, and in a test 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 u to
disappear. You may drive the farmer
down so he cannot buy coal, but he can
burn corn. But you drive the coal min
er down so he cannot buy corn and he
cannot eat coal.
But, my friends, why should we try
to see who could hold out the longest
in suffering? Why try to see who can
endure the most ~hardShips and yet live?
Why not try to see who can contrib
ute most to the greatness and to the
glory and to the prosperity of this ma
ton? Those who can contribute most
should make this government what
their fathers intended it for. For one
hundred years this nation has been the
light of the world. For one hundred
years the best of all nations have look
ed to this nation for hope and instruc-
ton. Let us settle these great ques-
tons that we have; let us teach the
world the blessing of a government
that m from the people, and let us
show them how happy and how pros
porous people can be. l believe the
doctrine that God made all men of the
same dust and did not make some to
crawl on hand and knees and others to
ride upon their backs. Let us show
what car be done when we put into
actual practice those great doctrines OF
human equality and Of equal rights and
make this government what the fathers
intended so that we shall lead the world
step by step onto higher ground
Facing a sea of wildly waving arms
and a storm of cheers, the orator re-
sumed his seat. T~hree-quarters of the
audience had been attracted by the an
nouncement of his appearance, appar-
emily, for that proportion left when he
had finished.
James H. Raymond, of Chicago, then
: spoke on Patents and Monopolies."
G. ". Northrup, Jr., of Chicago, fol-
lowed on practical federal remedies
for industrial trusts"
At a meeting of the resolutions com-
mittee it was decided that no resolu-
tons should be adopted by the con-
ference.
This conclusion was reached with a
view of keeping politics out of the con-
ference and in the interests of har-
mony.
Edward Rosewater, of Omaha, and
ex-senator Blair, of New Hampshire,
pleaded that the sentiment of the con-
ference be voiced in some way, but
ever the resolution proposed by Keas-
hey, of New Jersey, that the confer
ence had been productive of good, had
given a better understanding of the
subject of trusts and combinations,
] M6IS UIOW1lSu III oil I'LL lldLlFC CnOl Us
answering a motion to adjourn the
committee sine die.
ut was resolved yesterday that the
committee adopt no resolutions eX-
planned Mr.. Keasbey. 81 spoke with
Mr.. Bryan after his address. He said
that owing to the nature of the confer
ence, he had no resolutions to offer"
The afternoon session, opened with
addresses by Attorney General T. S..
Smith, of Texas, and James B.. Dill, who
had a hand in the framing of the New
Jersey trust law.
A general discussion followed in
which Col. Bryan and Bourke Cochran
took the platform. W. d. Foulke, of
Indiana, made a short speech, in which
he declared that he failed to see that
the remedies proposed by Col. Bryan
in the latter's speech during the morn
ing session could result in the attain
ment of the object sought for. Col.
Bryan, who was sitting in the back part
of the hall, arose and amid cheering,
strated to reply.
Before he had uttered a dozen words,
however, cries of take the platform"
came from all parts of the hall, and
with a smile he did so.
Mr.. Bryan said in part:
Il would o occupy the time again,
but for the fact that the gentleman
from Indiana, Mr.. Foulke, has referred
to a plan which 1 suggested, and l am
afraid that he does not fully under
stand.
My plan was this: First, that the
State should have the right to create
whatever private corporations the peo-
pie of the State think best.
Second, that the State has, or should
have the right to impose such limita-
tons upon an outside corporation as
the people OF the State may think nee
eSsary for their own protection.
That protects the rights of the people
of the State to say, first, what they
shall organic in their State as a cor
poration, and, second, what they shall
permit as a corporation to come from
other States who do business in their
State.
Third, that the federal government
has, or should have. the right TO i'm
pose such restrictions as Congress may
think necessary upon any corporation
which does business outside of the
State in which it is organized. In
other words, | would preserve to the
| people of the State all the rights they
now have. and at the same time have
Congress exrcise a %concurrnt remedy
TO supplement the State remedy. When