Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-09-20

! dens of government, while we have
been voting the privileges to the people
who will not pay their share OF the
expenses Of the government.
i Every unjust tax law is an indirect
! form of larceny, the speaker asserted.
/ An income tax, he belieed, would rem
edy another great evil.
| l have no fear that any man by his
j own brain or his own muscles will be
| able to secure fortune SO great as to
be a menace to the welfare Of his fell
| low man.
When God made him He placed linn
1t to his existence so that if he was
| bad man he could not do harm long,
| but when we made our man-made man
| Ghe corporation) we raised the limit
on his age
| We did not give him a soul. and if
he can avoid punishment in this world
he need not worry about the hereafter.
I want to protest against this doc
trine that the trust is a natural out
growth of natural laws. 1t is not true.
| The trust is the natural outgrowth of
unnatural conditions created by man
made laws.
Government under the four great
principles of the Declaration of Inde-
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 one to
disappear. You may drive the farmer
! down so he cannot buy coal, but he can
burn corn. But you drive the coal min
err 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 liver
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 fer. 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-
! lions That we have; let us teach the
world the blessing of a government
| that comes from the people, and let ua
! show them how happy and how pros
| porous people can be. I 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 can 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 Withdrawing arms
! and storm of cheers, the orator re-
sumed his seat. Three-quarters of the
audience had been attracted by the an
| nouncsment 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. w. Northrup, Jr., of Chicago, fol-
| lowed on Practical federal remedies
for industrial trusts"
| AT meeting Of the resolutions COM
mittee it was decided that no resolu-
tions 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
even the resolution proposed by Keas-
hey, of New jersey, that the confer
| ence had been productive of good, had
given a betterF understanding of the
/ subject of truss and combinations,
were drowned in an affirmative chorus
answering q motion to adjourn the
committee sine die.
1T was resolved yesterday that the
committee adopt no resolutions" ex-
planned Mr. Keasbey. Il 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 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 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 not occupy the time again,
but for the fact that the gentleman
from Indiana, Mr.. Foulke, has referred
to plan which l 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