Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-09-28
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SteDnenS MISSOURI
While these committees were being Sc
lected, Gov Sayers read two kilograms,
as follows:
Official duties make it impossible for
me to go, but 1 am in perfect sympathy
with you. No means must be untried TO
protect the people against st., mon4 I% IH
Governor of Georgia"
II regret very much that official ap-
convention The attorney general is alb
sent from the state. l am in cordial SYM
pathy with the objects and purposes of
tfons may be fruitful of good reslts.
MURPHY J. FOSTER,
Governor of Louisiana"
Atty.-Gen. Smith of Texas offered a
resolution, which he asked to be sent to
the committee on resolutions without de-
bate. 1t was as follows:
Resolved, That We believe that all
combinations between individual partner
ships or corporations to regulate or to fix
merchandise or commodity of any article
and anything whatever, iS unlawful, and
will deprive the people of their funda-
mental rights to sell and buy in an open
market. which should be regulated by
competition, as it existed before the day
and formation of pools, trusts and COM
bines.
Second, That we favor both state and
national legislation prohibiting such COM
oinations and trusts, and in this confer
cnce We emphasize the Importance of Sc
curing as nearly as possible uniform leg
1Slation in the several states on the sub
Ject of the incorporation of private cor
porations, and of doing business by conf
ty in other states than in those where
incorporated, and particularly to the END
that combinations, pools and trusts shall
not be permitted to do business IN any
state
On the request of the author of the reso-
luton, it was referred to the committee
on resolutions without debate.
Gov. stephens Paper.
Following this. Gov. Stephens of Mis-
souri, read a paper. He said In part:
Missouri brings glad tidings to her sis
sway in her jurisdiction. Ever since 1898
the Missouri legislature has been molding
a system of laws which should prove eff
conspiracies.' Like all new laws, intend
ed to check and punish new effenses, the
first attempt proved defective and 1t has
taken four acts, enacted by four different
sessions of the legislature, to evolve a
system able to inculcate a lesson to all
of those who scott at all constitutions
and laws which stand in the way of their
concentrated wealth and selfish pur-
poses The power of the state, the mai
esty of the law and the rights of the
people have been indicated in Missouri.
II am a democrat, and differ with Mr.
Griggs. l believe the federal government
has ample and the only efficient power 70
SO legislate as to effectively stamp out
all trusts and pools. This is self-demon-
strable. The United States and the sew
eral states, in this regard, are like the
human body. The states are the limbs
the arteries and the veins. The national
government is the trunk-the heart. If
disease strikes the body, the heart pumps
the diseased blood through the arteries
to the uppermost parts of the limbs, and
the whole system is affected and witherS
Letting the diseased blood out of the
limbs will not cure the disease, for new
blood will be constantly pumped from the
heart. The remedy must be applied to
the seat of the trouble. So with the trusts.
They have diseased the whole body po
little. One state may lop off its diseased
limb, but it can not force sister state to
do the same, nor, under the interstate
commerce laws of the United States, can
it stop the flow of the diseased blood from
the body aggregate.
LAS Mr.. Bryan said in his late Chicago
speech: When you prosecute trust in
the United States court, it hides behind
state sovereignty; when you prosecute it
in the state court, it ruSheS to cover under
federal Jurisdiction
1.-TWO remedies appear to me to be avail
able for the existing trust evils: First, to
gresS, and the state legislatures who will
enact suitable laws, like the Missouri
statute, to break up, punish and prohibit
all trusts, pools and conSpiracieS: or. sec
ond. to abolish all corporations, and there
by effectually weed out all trusts.
THE remedy is heroic, but the disease is
acute and is fast becoming chronic, and
the trust cancer upon the body polite
must be cut out by the roots"
At the afternoon session a telegram was
read from Gov. McLaurin of Mississippi,
saying that he had been unavoidably de-
taiEed at honfe, and that any action taken
by the conference against trusts would
meet with his approval.
After the committee order of bust
ness had reported, Mr.. Heffner, who rep
resented Washington on credentials from
the attorney general OF that state, COM
menced calling on this one and that one
for speeches
Gov. Thomas of Colorado.
Gov. Thomas of Colorado was the first
speaker He said that. in his opinion,
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as was contemplated in the call for the
conference, would prove beneficial to the
public. He studied trust for 10 years.
and yet did not feel able to offer a remedy
that would destroy them. Trusts were not
new things. Combinations of capital be
gan % years ago in the consolidation of
companies and gradually
evolved into the trusts of the day, which
are but consultations of capital. There
were but two questions to consider: First
Stroy OF control them.
1.-The duty of those in public positions is
greater than ever. 1t is time to call a halt
on trusts, if a halt can be called. / believe
that tEe people have the power to save
from the evil which threatens
their happiness and TO engulf their gov
err ment. The government and the states
should unite.
81 hope that the question of dealing with
trusts may be kept out of politics, for. in
less it can be kept out of politics cooper
alton can not be secured. The whole ques-
scale of American citizenship. But if the
question can not be kept out of politics.
then 1 hope the party that opposes this
great evil may win.
Gov. shaw of Iowa.
Gov Shaw of Iowa next spoke He first
offered the following resolution. which
was tabled when he ceased speaking:
THAT committee consisting of the gov
ernor of Missouri the governor of Ten
nessee and the attorney general of Texas
be appointed to draft and formulate a bill
NI..,fz- r-I,-
be passed by the legisIa-
lures of the several states, and which
will, in their opinion, as far possible
the evil so universally acknowl-
edged
Il, a sarcastic speech of Is minutes, he
attacked the speeches OF Governors Say
to ridicule Missouri's chief executive. He
said that when he left home he did not
suppose that the conference would resolve
itself into a political convention; that in
his opinion it would be best for all con-
cerned if national issues were formulated
in national conventions.
Gov. Jones of Arkansas.
Gov. Jones of Arkansas said he did not
believe it was the intention of any one
present to turn the conference into po-
litical convention. The question of deal
populists and democrats alike. He could
not see how any man who loves his home
and his country could defend these opera
tons He said he was surprised at the irony
and sarcasm that he had just listened
to- and that he would as soon laugh over
the grave of a friend or in the house of
as to make light over this great
question.
This is no time for Ievity, but for Sc
rious consideration. / do not believe that
the Americans have built up civilization
So called, which must be disturbed, even
when 1t threatens the peace and happiness
OF the people. Better let the people live
and civilization go back. If you please
1T believe in annihilating the trusts If
Ii can be DONE"
A Variety of Views.
Atty.-Gen. Crow of Missouri defined
what he considered to be trusts. and said