The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-14
CALL ANTITRUST CONFERENCE
TO MEET IN CHICAGO ON FEB
20, 1900.
Hundreds of Prominent Men From
All Over the Country Sign the
Call For the Meeting.

Chicago, Dec. 13.-The executive com
mittee in charge of arrangements for
the proposed national antitrust con-
ference tonight issued an address call
ing the conference to meet in Chicago
on the anniversary of the birthday of
Abraham Lincoln, Feb. Il. 1900.
The call says that unless the criminal
conspiracies in restraint of trade COM
monty known as trusts. which so alarm
ingly characterize the present times.
I are overthrown' there will be estab-
lished in free America a monied olo-
garchy on the one hand and a serfdom
of the masses of the people on the
other. The only power capable of sue
cesSfully combating the tyranny Of
these gigantic caDitalistic monopolies
is the aroused and organized hosts of
, the people to whom the government
and the country rightfully belong. and
in whom all power of right inheritS.
In order to restore the equal rights
of the people and deliver them from
the criminal despotism of these monop-
olistic combines il is imperative that
the special privileges which created and
foster them be uprooted and forever
destroyed. This hercuean task can
only be accomplished by the organiza-
ton of the lovers of freedom in every
part of the republic and through the
persistent and determined efforts of
united people.
Patriotic citizens from all states and
territories duly accredited and in full
sympathy with the objects named, and
representatives of known antitrust or
CARNATIONS are invited TO the confer
ence.
Applications for admission. it is
stated, should be made to the secretary.
Unity building. Chicago, at an early
date, as credentials of delegates must
be countersigned by the chairman of
the executive committee.
The call is signed by NJ. L. Lockwood
chairman, and the other members of the
executive committee. Among others
who Joined in the call are: Frank S.
Monnett. attorney general. Columbus.
o.; Judge NJ. F. Tuley, Chicago;
Charles \. Towne. Duluth: Senator r.
F. Pettigrew. South Dakota; t. w.
Simms. /. NJ. c., Tennessee; James B.
Weaver, Colfax. Ia; Governor William
A. Poynter. Nebraska; James Hamilton
Lewis. Seattle. Wash: Governor An
drew f. L. Lee. South Dakota; Senator
William (. Mason. Illinois; James r.
Sovereign. Buffalo; ex-Mayor r. Z. Me-
Kisson, Cleveland Ignatius Donnelly.
Minneapolis: Horace Boies. Iowa: Boil
ton Hall. New York; T.. D. Benson,
judge supreme court. Seattle; c. c.
Cole. ex-chief justice supreme court
Des Moines. Ia: William Sulzer, NJ. c..
New York: Samuel NJ. Jones. mayor of
Toledo: General A. J. Warner, president
American Bimetallic union, Marietta.
o.: Governor Sheldon, California; Judge
John w. Willis, St. Paul; Ex-Governor
L. l.. Llewellyn, Wichita, Kan. George
T. Juster. ex-lieutenant governor of
Texas; John w. Breidenthal. bank
commissioner. Topeka, Kan: Thomas
E. Will. president Agricultural college.
Manhattan, Kan; II. II. Swain. profess
sor of political economy, Normal school,
Dillon. Mont: Edward Boyce. president
Western Federation of Miners, Butte,
Mont and 500 others.