The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-08-23
CRITICIZED YALE'S CHIEF
SOCIALIST KROLL COMMENTS ON OSTRA CISING TRUST MAGNATES.

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 Advises WorIingmen to "Cut" All Such | and Not to Invite Them to Thetr Hom es
 Called the Philadelphia Convention
 Senator Stewart Political Acrobats =
 Ratification Meeting on Green Last
 Evening.
 Charles Kroll of Providence R. l., a
 very fiery young speaker, addressed about 200 workingmen at a ratification meeting of the socialist labor party on
 the green last evening. He said some very enthusiastic and some very sting ing things, but aside from occasional laughter, when their sense of humor was aroused by the speakers sallies, he had most unappreciative audience. For the most part they sprawled in the grass or stretched themselves at ease on the nearby settees, and all maintain ed an attitude of listlessness, although
 
 MT kroll started off very amusingly by describing the Philadelphia conven- ton as a great spectacular drama in which the chief actors had their parts arranged and their speeches in type in the newspaper offices before they went on the stage. There they were prompt ! ed by that able stage manager and scere shtfter, Mark Hanna. The only difference between this convention and the democratic one, he said, was the greater applause with which Bryan's name was greeted when put in nomlna- 1 tion. It showed said the speaker, that the Bryanites were louder prayers and stronger lunged than the republican asses.
 ! But MT. Kroll soon branched off into more serious talk. He attacked every thing and everybody from the saw i dust institution controlled by capital is.s," which he designated by a wave of h!s hand towards College street, to the democratic and republican plat forms and from President Hadley to Mckinley and Bryan.
 President Hadley had evidently arous- ed his ire by his utterances on the trust question while at a banquet in Colorado last fall. After quoting the suggestions of Yale's president that the bad trust magnates be ostracsed by society with a view to solving the trust problem, the speaker ironically advised those pres ent to tile their cigars in their mouths and refuse to recognize q trust magnate when they next meet him on the street. Bar him from your homes, and cut his name from your reception list" he said, lard let us see if we can't shame them someWay"
 He next held the democratic party up to derision, saying that in some cases it stoops even lower than the re- publican party to crush the working man. Rryan's famous declaration that if elected to the presidency he would strangle the trusts, he laughed at, and said tha. Bryan was elected by men of equal wealth with those back ing Mckinley. As examples, he refer red to MT. Jones, who he claimed is president of the Cotton Bale trust; Per ry Belmont. and w. C. Whitney. An drew Carnegie he denounced for saving that he was a democrat when all his rpathies are with the republicans and who stays in Scotland, he said, so as not to get too prominently mixed up with the party. MT Carnegie, he said, twen- ty years ago. was among the loudest criers for a protective tariff, because he feared England's great iron and steel productions; now when he can undersell any firm in the world he needs protec- tion no longer. Men like Senator Stewart, he termed the great political acrobats, beneath the notice of even a music hall audience. "They are paid for so much flop he said
 On the trust question MT Kroll quot ed Russell Sage as saying that there were good and bad trusts. He explain i ed, that MT Sage evidently meant by this that the trust was good when he was in and it issued good dividends, and bad when it froze him out Mark Hanna's declaration about trusts, he said in order to be believed, needed the i faith of a Christian scientist. Just try to think that there are no trusts" he said, and there will be none When you have your wages cut keep on think ing so and they will always stay cut. If you only think there are no capital ists, that you are doing we'll in the world, you will do so, and in time may become as bloa.ed as Mark Hanna himself"
 MT Krol's audience evidently approv- ed what he said at this point, for it roared with laughter. With those pres ent in good humor the speaker appeal ed tc them to stand together under Joseph Francis Maoney, the socialist nominee for president, until they have destroyed the capitalist system
 At the clcse of his address the speak, er was asked questions by several in the audience. Among others who question: sd him was President Martin of the Union league and the two entered into l friendly discussion, MT. Martin claim ng that MT Kroll was too theoretical md did not confine himself strictly to acts.