Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-09-17


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this license shall not be granted until the
corporation show that it has not had a
monopoly and is not attempting a monop-
oily OF any branch OF industry or any arti-
Gle of merchandise, and then provide that
If the law Is violated, the license can be
revoked.
Now, 1 may be mistaken, but it has
seemed to ME that this method of dealing
with the trusts would sprove an effective
method. do not say there shall be no
private corporations, but | say that cor,
for the public good, and it shall never be
permitted to do a thing that is injurious
to the public good"
My contention is that there is a vicious
principle running through the various poll
cies which We have been pursuing; that in
| our taxation we have been imposing upon
of government, while we have been voting
the privileges to the people who will not
pay their share of the expenses of the gov
ernment.
| Every unjust tax law is an Indirect
form of larceny.
IF We can secure a government whose
| foundations are laid in justice and laws
exemplifying the doctrine of equality be-
| fore the law and then under such a gov
ernment and such laws wealth is accumu-
lated to point where 1t becomes danger
| GUS, then we can meet that question when
| it arises, and / am willing TO trust the
wisdom of society to meet every question
that arises and remedy every wrong.
Il have faith that these questions will
| be settled and settled right, but / want to
protest against this doctrine that the trust
| Is q natural outgrowth of natural laws. 1t
| Is not true. The trust is the natural out
growth of unnatural conditions created by
| man-made laws.
Won I;r
that II Is here, and you cannot get rid of it.
| believe that the American people can get
RID Of anything that they don't want, and
that that they ought to get rid of everything
Il believe that the Declaration of Inde-
penuence was the grandest document ever
that declaration are condensed into four
| great propositions-that all men are Great
| ed equal; that they are endowed with in
alienable rights, that governments are in
stituted among men to preserve those
rights, and that governments derive their
Just powers from the consent of the gov
erned. Such government Is impossible
| under an Industrial aristocracv. Place the
food and clothing, and all that we eat and
wear and use in the hands of few peo-
| pie, and instead of being a government by
the people. 1t will be a government of the
| syndicates, by the syndicates and for the
syndieates. Establish such a government
ana the people will soon be powerless TO
| secure legislative remedy for any abuse
i am not willing to place the laboring
men men, OF this country absolutely at the
you control the price that man is to re-
ceive for what he produces, you control
the price that he is to receive for the la
DOT IN the production of that thing.
Some people have tried to separate the
laboring man who works in the factory
from the laboring man who works on the
farm. l warn the Iaboring man in The
| factories that when they join with the
| monopolies to crush the farmer as soon
as the farmer is crushed the laboring man
1 nd nr1I l,fc zrr,-
| stroyed; and in test of endurance the
farmer will stand it longer than the labor
ing man:
The farmer was the first man on the
scene when civilization began. and. he will
be ..Iti,e the last last one one to disappear: .
see VINO could hold out the longest in slif-
fering? For 100 years all nations have
looked to this nation for hope and in
struction. Let us settle these great ques-
| tions that We have; let us teach the world
| the blessing of government that comes
| from the people, and let us show them
how happy and how prosperous people can
No Resolutions Adopted.
The crowd which greeted Colonel Bryan
when the doors were thrown open amount
| ed almost to a mob. Central Music hall
was jammed from pit to gallery with ad.
| mtrers of the Nebraskan. When he had
| concluded his speech 50 per cent of the
audience departed, leaving few straggline
| spectators to listen to the remaining speak
| ers and the report of the committee or
4 resolutions.
Ex-Governor Luce, of Michigan, was
chairman of this committee and he rigidly
| adhered to the resolutions passed yester.
day; in which it was resolved that no res
| olutions giving the sentiment of the con-
ference on the trust problem should be
| presented or considered
| MIR. Keashey. of New Jersey, a member
lnf sl,A IL,
! spoken with Colonel Bryan, and that the
latter had given 1t as his opinion that the
nature of the conference made resolutions
expressive exp of sentiment on the problem
| original resolutions be added sometime
| to the effect that the conference had beer
Of Of b benefit @ to the delegates. had cleared
ened their understanding. These sugges.
| tionS Were not considered.
The decision of the committee as sub.
| mitted in Chairman Luces report was
unanimously adopted, as was a motion put
before the house thanking the Civic Fed.
GRAFTON for its entertainment of the dele.
| gates.
Bryan's Reply to FouIlxe.
The afternoon session opened with ad-
dresses by Attorney General r 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.
which resulted in both Colonel Bryan and
Bourke Cochran taking 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
| onel Bryan in the latters speech during
| the morning session could result in the at
| tainment of the object sought for
Colonel Bryan. who was sitting in the
back part of the hall, arose and. amid
| cheering, started to reply. Before he had
| uttered a dozen words, however, cries of
take the platform same from all parts
| of the hall, and. with smile he did so,
| Colonel Bryan then spoke as follows:
IN would not occupy the time again but
| for the fact that the gentleman from In
diana (Mr. Foulke) has referred to a plan
| which l suggested, and l am afraid that
| he does not fully understand. My plan
was this:
"First-That the state should have the
| right to create whatever private corpora
| tions the people of the state think best
| 'Second-That the state has, or should
have, the right to impose such limitations
upon an outside corporation as the people
| of the state may think necessary for their
protection. That protects the rights of the
| people of the state, to say, first what
! they shall organize in their state as n cor
pOration, and, second, what they shall per-
nit as a corporation TO come from other
| states who DO business in their state.