The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-01-19
NATIONAL ANTI
TRUST CONFERENCE
To Meet in Chicago on
Monday, February IL,
TO UPEO0T DESTROY TRUSTS
These Grim nal Conspiracie- are Neu-
ace tn Libetty. They CInso The Doors
Of Business Opportunity To all bat the
Rich ana Powerful

Following is a brief outline of the call
issued by the Antitrust SO .iety for
conference to be heldin Chicago on Feb
ruary u. The invitation is extended to
all who are in sympathy with the move
ment. To-wit:
"We are entering upon a period the
most critical in the history Of the Nation.
Monopoly has pressed into service, and
enlisted in defense of those privileges
upon which its tyranny is based the
strongest and ablest among that class of
educated men who, at every similar crisis
in the worlds history, have prostituted
their God given talents to obscure the
perceptions and misguide the noble i'm
pulses of the people. Already meaning
less, insufficient and procrastinating
remedies are craftily urged; which,
should they prevail, will only more
strongly rivet the chains of hopeless SER
vitude upon our rural and industrial
citizenry.
THE people, if they can be brought
to act untedly and act now, have still
the power to arrest the encroachments
of monopoly and privilege upon their
liberties; but such action can only be
precipitated by Intelligent ana patriotic
men who, between now and the date of
the conference, shall so stir the enthu-
siasm of the people in their respective
localities as to raise them above all par
tisan considerations and induce them so
to mass their forces at home as to drive
from public life every public servant, ir
respective of party, who shall fail to
declare by his speech and by his action
his integrity, his manhood and his alb
solute freedom from monopolistic in
huences.
"We believe the criminal conspiracies
in restraint of trade commonly known as
Trusts, which so alarmingly character
iZe the present times, are menace to
liberty. They close the doors of bust
ness opportunity to all but the rich and
powerful They impoverish the pro
ducer ard consumer. They degrade
labor. They have seized upon the ave-
nues of transporta ton and poisoned the
fountains of public information. They
debauch the elective franchise. Ihey
are public enemies. Unless they are
overthrow there will be established in
free America monied oligarchy on the
one hand and serfdom of the masses OF
the people on the other. They must be
DESTROYED or free government is lost.
The only power capable of successfully
combating the tyranny of these gigantic
capitalistic 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 inherCs.
"In order to restore the equal rights
of the people and deliver them from the
criminal despoiliation of these monopo-
lstic combinations, 1t is imperative that
the special privileges which created and
foster them be uprooted and forever
destroyed.
"This hercuiean task can only be ac-
complished by the organization of the
lovers of freedom in every part of the re-
public and through the persistent
and determined efforts of united peo-
pie.
ITO this end National Anti Trust
Conference is hereby called to meet in
the city of Chicago on February Il,
1900.
patriotic citizens from all the states
and territories duly accredited and in
full sympathy with the objects above
named, and representatives. of known
Antitrust organizations, are invited tc
meet together in said conference.
"Applications for admission to sald
conference should be made to the Secre
tary, Unity Building, Chicago, at an
early date, as credentials of delegates
must be countersigned by the chairman
of the Executive Committee.