The times., 1899-07-25
Fighting TIE TRUSTS
Preparing for the Political Cam
paign of Nexi Year.
The American League Passes Strong
Resolutions - The Administration
Severely Criticised I'm Its Conduct
Toward thc idaho Miners - Presi-
dent Lockwood Makes Speech.

An enthusiastic meeting of District of
Columbia League. No. l. OF the American
Anti Trust League, was held last night at
the headquarters OF the organization, 1923
Pennsylvania Avenue northwest, and steps
were taken for the opening Of the cam
paign against trusts and monopolies. The
meeting was well attended, and sixty new
members were received. President NJ. L.
Lockwood, OF Pennsylvania. delivered
pointed address and a set of resolutions
condemning the authorities who were
guilty of the atrocities in the Cosur d'Alene
section of Idaho, were unanimously
adopted.
II was decided to appropriate a sum OF
money for the purpose of relieving the
needs of the families of the imprisoned
Idaho miners The cash will be forwarded
at once. Speeches were delivered by many
OF the members. and it is believed that
over 100000 men will be organized into
the league before 1900.
President Lockwood delivered the ad-
dress of the evening. in which he scored
the Interstate commerce law and monop-
olies in general. He spoke in part:
President LocIsuood's Address.
u am glad to meet the men who have
the honor of forming the first antitrust
league of America. l have talked with
many of you. and / am glad TO find men
here whose hearts are in the work; men
whose patriotic impulses have been
aroused: men who recognize that human
liberty and equal rights can be maintained
only by the earnest and active cooperation
of the common people. Eternal vigilance
is the price OF liberty, said jefferson. and
Jefferson only uttered an s.srDal .trutl.
In 1881 Crittandsn and Peter Cooper,
John H. Reagan, and other magnificent
men organized the Anti Monopoly League
of America. The thoughts and impulses
and purposes of that movement were crys-
talized and recorded in the interstate Com
merce law of the land-a law to contro.
and regulate the great railroad combina-
tions and corporations, and force them TO
give TO every American citizen an equal
opportunity in the transportation OF the
products of his labor. Seventeen years OF
a test of this law has demonstrated that
with the enormous revenues wrung from the
commerce OF the country by these railroad
companies, revenue based upon the prop
osition OF charging all that the commo1itiaa
of the people would bear We find that with
corporations they control not only them
selves. but that they control the Govern
ment also. Seventeen years OF a test has
demonstrated that Government control is
a feilure: that in spite of the Government
these great railroad combines discriminate,
create, and build up monopolies and trusts.
and destroy the equal rights OF the Ameri-
can people.
Government Ownership.
when the thoughts and purposes and
impulses in the hearts of the psople who
make up the American Antitrust League
shall have become crystallized into law
and have become operative then the rail-
roads of tha country. through which az!
trusts have bsen created, and all telegraph
and telephone lines. viii be owned and run
by the Government, and the people wil
then be safe and Will have TIE same equal
advantages in ths department Of transpor-
tation and information as that which is EoS
enjoyed By them in the Department OF the
Postcfice IN the transportation of theis
mails. And the street railways which have
been the source of nine-tenths Of all cor
ruptioa in our municipal life will be OWNED
by the cities and with the national owner
ship Of our steam railways and the city
ownership OF our street railways, We will
then have destroyed the corporate corruptef
of our icty councils and the cOrruptar OF
cur public men. We viii have taken the
tempier away and out of our political life.
When the thoughts and impulses which
are behind the Antitrust League have
been crystalized intoa Law, then every man
living under the Stars and Stripes will
have an equal show in the contest for
bread and the good things O: this life,
Just in proportion as God and nature has
prepared him.
The Peoples Fight.
My friends, the most important thought
that must go out to the people is that this
is their fight, that it is their right and in
terest, and the rights and interests Of their
children, and their descendants that are at
stake. They must recognize that there
is nobody way up on the upper end OF the
ladder Of human society who can fgnt
their battles for them. but that IL they
will be freed, If they will regain those
equal rights bequeatEed 10 them by the
fathers then they must BUCKLE on their
armors themselves. No man can DO it for
them, they must do il themselves- This
IS the slogan, this is the peoples battle
and II they do not fight it, 1t viii Lot ht
fought # they DO not fight ii, then tn
great tree Of liberty planted by the sacri-
fees Of our fathers. viii be cut down and
destroyed, and human rights and human
liberties as founded by our Revolutionary
s.res will have passed from OF the earth.
Hon can we as an organization prevent
this? By srousing the patriotic impulses
OF the people, ana by calling them to ac-
ton This circle will grow broader ant
broader its infiuerces will reach farther
and farther. until with one common pur-
poEe the people will speak, and the trust
and Tnonopolies and the wrongs and inius
tices which ihey have peIpetrated, will b
2 thing Of the past. and the equal right
OF the people will again be established
And your children and my children car
start out upon the highway of life lookin.
up into the morning. looking up into th'
smiling face of nature and natures Go,
with the consciousness that there's moth
ing but God-given advantages standing
between them and the highest ring Of tn
ladder OF human attainments. Let Us no
faiter let rs go forward, each of u.s. Wit
the zeal OF Peter the hermit preaching
The doctrines OF the Antitrust League
preaching the Goctrine OF the oyerihTo'
OF trusts and nonopolies, preaching tn
doctrine that these obnoxious weeds whic!
absorb all that they touch have no plac
in The garden Of liberty, no place in thi
Government. whose foundation stone is th'
equal rights and opportunities OF man"
Resoiutfons Adopted.
The following resolutions were thel
unanimously adopted:
wlcrtas ilcrr ROW exists in the Occur d'Aen
miulrg region o. idaho q condition wherein th
Regular Army 81 The United States, through %
c0nIliyance II Governor St1Unenberg and the Aa
tioral Administration. the STANDARD Oil Trust
which Owls the Bunker iiill AMI sullivan mine.
= able unlawfuily aEd uHrightgously Ovei
throw tie entire structure of civil government an
establish system Of military dcspotsm. Nearl
1000 innocent and iaE-abid!ng extzens. withou