The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-15

SPECTATORS Make 1t Uncomfortable
for the Champions of the Trusts
committee on Resolutions Sc
lected After Lively Debate
BourI1e Cochran and William j..
Brvnn to Speak Tonight.
CHICAGO. Sept. 14-Enthusiastic inter
est and a crowded hall put tonight
session of the conference on trusts sharp
lv In contrast with the forenoon and art
ernoon gatherings. Central Music hall
was packed with an audience that repre-
sented nearly every class of people. Gov.
Pingree, of Michigan was the star at
traction. The governor was received with
applause so fervent that 1t was several
minutes before he could proceed with MS
address. He was obliged to rise several
times after he had taken his seat ana
bow his acknowledgements before the au-
dience would allow the chairman to IN
troduce the next speaker.
The house was divided against itself
during the address of the next speaker
ex-Secretary of the Treasury Charles
Foster. The audience finally became so
demonstrative in interrupting the speaker
that delegate asked the chairman to
clear the galleries unless the Interrupt
tions ceased.
The Minnesota delegation present con-
sists of DR.. w w Folwell, chairman;
F. w Lyman, T. B. Walker and S. A.
Harris of the Minneapolis Board of
Trade; E. V. Smalley, ST. Paul Chamber
aro1
las and J. C. Hanley, president of the
Farmers Alliance.
BUSINESS RESUMED.
The second days session. of the con-
ference opened with William Writ Howe,
of New Orleans, in the chair, and fall
ing off in the attendance OF both dele
gates and spectators
Chairman Howe proceeded at once to
business by submitting before the house
a resolution introduced by r. =. Farr, Of
Missouri, for the appointment of an i'm
poFtant committee on resolutions. 1t
called for a committee to be selected by
Chairman Howe. To this committee all
resolutions, according to Mr.. Farr, were
to be referred without reading or debate.
The motion instantly developed the un-
dercurrent Of strife between the factions
for and against the trusts which yester-
day threatened the conventions harmony.
An amendment was Immediately pro-
posed, various speakers vigorously urging
that the resolution be amended to allow
the appointments to the committee to be
made by the delegates themselves, one
committeeman from each state
The original motion was not acted upon,
bat the amendment in regard to the man
ner of appointment was carried by
standing vote of SO to a.
Gov. Atkinson, of West Virginia, rising
from a far corner, declared that it was
unfair to bind the delegates by resolution
The debate waxed warm, and delegates
clamOred for recognition.
EN-GOv. Luce, "f 1I+.vligan thundered
that the reference to a committee without
reading or debate meant that many we'll
meant efforts would go to sleep in the
hands of the committee and "sleep the
sleep of death" At this sally there was
ripple of merriment which ceased tne
clamor of others who wished to be heard
The prO-trust people and the antitrust
people We're fearful that one side or the
other would secure control and bind the
minority TO something of which they dis
approved
Edward Rosewater, editor of the
Omaha Bee, won applause in an informal
speech, in which he declared that the peo-
P4O VI llc | HlleC OldteS HdQ the courage
OF their convictions. He averred that the
conference should adopt such resolutions
as it saw fit.
1t remained for W BOurke Cochran to
repeat his performance of Yesterday.
when he restored the harmony which was
lost in an endeaVor to secure a commit
tee on programme. Upon his suggestion
it was finally decided that the committee
on resolutions should consist of not only
a iXyn nf ooh
ton, but of each national organization.
To this committee it was resolved that
all resolutions be referred without read
ing or debate
TARIFF DEBATE
Lawson Purdy, of the New York Tariff
Reform club. was then introduced, open
ing the tariff debate, speaking in part as
follows:
l do not contend that the only cause
for combination which restrain trade is
the tariff, but the tariff does foster and
assist IN maintaining such combinations
| believe we have passed the point
Where any objection can be raised to the
aoohtlon OF protective duties on the
ground that they raise or sustain wages.
The truth is that the tariff. by shut
ting out foreign competition enables the
trusts to shut down domestic factories
employ less labor, and thereby reduce
wages. Mills make money by shutting
down instead of by the production Of
Byron w. Holt, of the New England
Free Traders club, followed
John F. Scanlan, of Illinois, took up
the cudgel on behalf of the protection
lists. He called forth a storm of mingled
Kisses and applause by declaring that il
was brave man who, after the expe-
rience of the last few years, would ad-
I Vocate policy of free trade. He com
pared the conditions of the country at
the various times to show that prosper
lty was greatest when tariff was highest
Congressman Thomas Updegraff, OF
Iowa. followed. He said in part:
A monopolistic trust am against. An
aggregatlon OF capital, however large,
properly managed, I am for. AS I said
l am not fool enough to want :, XIII the
goose that lays golden eggs 7 don't care
what tariff is the mother of trusts or
not That don't touch the question If
the tariff be in any sense the mother of
YOU what we will do. We will take care
of the mother and save her; we will
raise her condition in the nurture and
admonition Of the Lord That is the waV
TO manage trusts. You cannot have rich
soil without weeds
DEFINITION OF MONOPOLY.
"a Monopoly" by Horatio w. Sew
mour, publisher of the Chicago Chroni-
Gle, was next read by Jacob H. Hopkins.
1t was, in part, as follows:
The trusts or combinations which
should be destroyed and which can be
destroyed are those which exist by rea-
ron of the protective tariff or which
could not exist if there were no protec-
their organization or their methods since
organization have adopted criminal nrac