Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-15


presented and report to a general commit
The morning session drew a large audi
euce. but the program was Uvefshadowed
by the announcement that in the evening
William j. Bryan of Nebraska and W.
Bourke Cochran of New York would speak
from the same platform The political
prominence of the two orators gave rise to
general feeling that the night session
would he of more political than economic
interest.
Address by Louis +. Post.
Louis f. Post, the New York advocate of
the single tax was the first speaker today.
Mr.. Post analysed the trusts as, first,
those that are mere combinations of COM
petitive business.
These would be beneficial" he said, but
do not exist
According to the speaker, the real trusts
rest upon monopoly. The trust question is
ut the bottom of the monopoly question
Trusts are buttressed by protection, or
have direct special privileges, like railways,
or peculiar land advantages. In the last
analysis trusts cannot be perpetuated I'M
less they come to own the natural sources
of supply and diStribution-the land
Abolish the tariff" he declared; "abol-
ish all monopolies that can be abolished;
take public highways for public use and
collect from land owners the annual value
OF their special advantages-do that and
you put an end to the trust. You cannot
do 1t In any other way.
His address was enthusiastically cheered
Thomas j. Morgan of Chicago followed
The Trust From the Socialist Point OF
View
Henry White, secretary of the United
Garment Workers of America, followed.
NJ. NJ. Garland, billed To speak "An
rations ana Z L C,iarL, orapd cbiaf nf
the Order of Railway Conductors. We're not
iltscii' "hei ilanil"H lowe called tlie-F
tho knights Of labor vas caI1aa Ne said.
, ,, -
a., ~,-,.,,.. - .-',S'.-
-, us
',e an 'SS'ui. upon 'i'e inherent anu CON
siltutional rights Of the citizens; that the
real and vital advantage TO be gained is the
despotlc control over labor.
Violence is not the cn,v means of maxi
ing couquests and enSlaying the peopIe and
IL can be proved beyond any question that
the methods of the. trusts are the methods
of the invader. and the ends 10 he accom-
plished by the instigators of the trusts are
exactly those intended to he accomplished
by arms directed by military genius TAX
ing this View of the tr1ls.s I assert that
they are the enemies of society and as
such should be destroyed
The trust being an aggressive combina-
ton for purely selfish objects attacks the
Individual and by oyerthrowing his rn,I-
tual rights. seizes upon his field of oppor-
tunity and production. This field having
been conquered and the trust strengthened
i'm its financial mower RI. aggrassiye Snjrit
of selfish greed looks for conouests in AL
lied fields which are soon invaded and
monopolized or other combinations seq
ing the success of the first attempt. enter
1lI,on the same camnait-n rf conouest Soon
he Individual is Overwhelmed and every
field of Droduction is mononolized nv n
trt,st
Anti-frust RESOLUTIONS.
Strong resolutions were drafted today for
nrasap+a,ion ar this af,arnoop.s session of
'' O. -. ''i W
the conference lhes were sisheo py the
following delegates
w L. Grogan Texas chairman: NJ L.
I.ockwood Pennsvlyania. Cecil smith Tey
as: Lawson purdy. New York. n Y Jobn
son, Colorado w H. Claggett, Idaho. and
W, >, MGConnas' Maryland ..
tho sap,irannt of the ,ntiotr,,st daI,Ia,es 70
the conference. who. according to their
own claims, preponderate in numbers over
the conservatives and pro-trust men The
resolutions Will he referred TO the COM
mittee on resolutions without reading or
"tpate- lheS loilo":
Nhereas' trusts ana lnaustral compl-
if tlois nav ne'h Ioliileu LOT the puiPoSe
81 ga i'is sie gu oa .sir pL2noioLs
d tne eArsIse % tle sfiisia! puplc, lne!
t null! me a'toh
~ otie 7,t. ~ % anpp.S anu - We
i-ailu: oepitNe liie "uiIs liieh VI ne touh-
liS " "PPor 'uIlI'' 70 auNalice. taks a"dy
an % ~ NV ~ lol ana lhipioHe
Gnu 4',au ~ ~ az ei ~
Ia sloii am DTS ltilitatioi, iiisplrtu oy no
"tie[ OF H'SHti hloliNt tildi tHe li'satidpIe
steeI Oh ttis!f pi"hlot"ts thtS hou lhe
SiiIali me- ''y M.'ee taIiicI anu toh-
sinner supJect 70 tne-r al .tratS "lc'ates.
lHs4 ar tiie eriI oI tne houi, anu the'i
Suppression - Oh ili"ii'eii'ouS Importance 70
~ ne, Mr. t y ~ p.opts 6.
therefore ne II Resolved hrSl mat we are
uiaiteiapiN oppoSeu u, an trusts ana
II, ut' -, i oi 'ilt tpi'ilph
iISt'' .,eo'ilu, 10 s.eiiiId vi ,ile SCI
arti,n as viii iead 10 Inc nrhIi, 80. hin -
hc'l0ii as VIII leau 10 IlIe N"piic o" hets mp
9. ~. pun " IN
ton as will effectually control the railways