The Taney County republican., 1899-09-28

stood the attacks of the octopus
Some. doctor full of phase and fame,
To shake his sapient head. and give
The i'll he can not cure name
broad one. We can assume comparative
ly little. Concurrent action, mutual CO.
operation between federal and state gov
ernments." he said. lis demanded" He
spoke Of the obligating statutes of New
Jersey and Delaware. the breeding
grounds of the big trusts. Corporations
BILE to nobody. They wipe out commercial
morality. great evil. he said. is the
facility by which corporations can evade
their just taxes, thereby burdening the
individual taxpayer beyond wnat was fair
and just.
Suppression" continued Gov. Thomas,
can only be by combined action of feder-
al and state governments. hope the
question can be kept out of the domain
out of the atmosphere of partisanship
and considered in the lofty realms ot
patriotism"
Gov. Shaw of Iowa regretted that the
call for the conference did not include
all that is in the mind of him who is
sued it. 1t was evidently the purpose
to make it not only an antitrust con-
ference. but an anti-expansion and n
free trade and free silver convention.
Il say evidently the purpose from the
tone of the remarks of the chairman, sub
mitted from manuscript, and from the
manuscript speech of the governor of Mis-
souri,, of which our chairman stated he
had knowledge, and which was read at his
suggestion. Had this been done. 1t is quite
possible larger attendance would have
been secured; for certainly 1t would have
then embraced subjects upon which there
are greater differences of opinion than up
on the question of trusts alone.
address from the governor of Missouri.
Interested for he stated that his state hat
triumphantiy eXterminated the octopus. |
was diverted, as he told of the downfall
of Rome, caused from evils such now
confront us. l was made to regret that in
the expansion policy of old Rome she did
Of statesmen as the Louisiana purchase;
and which might then have produced q
governor Of sufficient foresight. legisla-
ture of sufficient wisdom. an attorney
general of sufficient courage, and su-
preme court of sufficient erudition and
fairness to have successfully COPIED with
multf-mflliOnaires and bankers. which ii
was claimed, infested the empire to thu
great damage of the common people. J
also regretted, as l listened to the read
ing of a letter which he claimed to have
been written by Abraham Lincoln, that
not have foreseen is claimed to have been
done in Missouri. and thereby Rad his
fears alayed.
II prefer a formulated BILL such as 7
may safely submit to the general assem-
bly, of my state. rather than resolutions
think 1 am politician enough to .lraft q
ed, all trusts and combinations would i'm
mediately take their departure from the
commonwealth of which have the honcl
to be chief eXecutive: but am not so con-
fident that l am statesman enough 10
draft a bill which will compel their ever
lasting exit providing they are determined
to stay. If the committee, when appoint
ed, shall draft bill which seems to me
comprehensive and effective, l will very
now to say that have no sympathy with
any combination of capital which results
in monopoly.
II desire that the governor of Missouri
shall serve upon this committee, for the
reason that he reports the statute of his
the hour; and 1 hope, If he shall col..ider
it essential to this end. that he incorpor-
ate the law recently approved by him.
of citizens of his state, permitted the
competing lines of street railway in this
city to combine. And l desire the COVER
nor of Tennessee may serve upon this
he advised me. with evident, pride. i
phosphate had been discovered in his
state from which great fortunes are now
being made; and he reported that many
thereby driven from the market. l desire
him to incorporate in the bill. if he shall
prohibit capitalists of Tennessee from mo-
nopoiizinS the phosphate business.
The bill, to meet my approval. must
purpose of advancing the price of labor.
for we all believe in these: but it must
prohibit organizations by the consumers
product. for none of thus believe therein
1t must permit the southern planter
bine to limit the output of cotton and of
wheat; for We all believe in such organi-
fective; but the bin must prohibit com
binations by manufacturers of cotton
goods and of flour for the purpose of linn
iting the output of their plants. for none
OF us De.leve therein, L labor unions
must be protected; for. to my mind. no
one lives beneath our flag. regardless of
party Affiliations. who does not sincerely
symeathize with, and who will not, in
any reasonable way, encourage these or
was recently stated in Chicago by one of
the aioleSt men who met there pursuant to
the call OF he Civic Federation, that the
time Is not far distant when consumers
of labor will insist that their employees or
ganize.
and like the Kentucky hunter. so aim ii
as to hit If it be deer and miss if it be
a calf.
1.-The remedy suggested by Implication
in the two speeches of the forenoon ses-
sion-that of the repeal of the tariff pro-
visions and through the free coinage of
break the back of every trust in the Unit
ed States. It would accomplish this mucn
t,a,d In the anoe. same WAY WAY that fire in wheat
ties; but l have learned from obserya-
ton that these pests will spring up again
so soon as conditions are favorable to the
growth of another crop of wheat / had
hoped that this conference would evolve
some method of effectively dealing with
the evil without resorting to a prairie fire
so soon upon the heels of the last.
THE defeated presidential candidate of
the fusion forces in 1896 recently spoke in
the capital city of my state. In the course
of his remarks he stated. in effect, that
his remedy for existing evils, so vividly
portrayed by him, was the enforcement of
the laws they now exist which h.,
seemed to think were sufficient
He further states however that IL
these were cound defective. he should
then ask his attorney general to make
further recommendation. doubt not