The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-25

49, 14iiS country that the travelling
men , nave been discharged. and that
LII onoSs now employed have more to do,
SHo many or them receive a less salary.
ana 1t has all come about after one adj
!llhlstratlon that they helped to elect.
y, 20 puI INTO power, because they thought
~ was going TO bring prosperity. They
uiu not see that the principle of monop-
Oily would reach them al last. They see
Il now and they viii see il even clearer
Dy ISe4, II they don't get their work
IN t1ls Iati' ana so you find it wherever
ySu 20 throughout the country, and the
erect or IL IS going to reach you. I be-
lleve il is possible to deetrov trusts and
l DeleVe 1t is necessary that they
should be destroyed. (Applause.)
Lawyers Became Clerks.
l want to ask the young men Who are
k - tonight whether they regard
I Inc future as bright for the young men.
E! hnOW men today who were LAWYERS
IN 1876, and who are now clerks in the
OInces OF corporation attorneys. and
as TINS concentration of wealth goes on
me independent man viii be driven out
Oh business and become q clerk. The
Independent lawyer win become a clerk
III the Office Of some corporation attor-
hey- You viii ind the labor of indie
pehoent meo win decrease. the num-
ner OF dependent men Will increase, and
unoer this industrial despOtism YOU
will find a greater menace to Industry
ana nDerty than you viii find in that
landed aristocracy against which JEFF
ferson fought in his day.
why is IT that this is the greatest
nation on earth? Statisticians tell us
that the people of the United States
produce and consume three times as
much every year as any similar people
IN the world. It's because here they
nave civil liberty, they have hope and
ambition You dare not take hope out
or the young mans breast. It's that
hope, that desire to succeed. that be-
lief that he viii gain success, that
makes him the greatest young man in
the world, and today we are pleading
the cause Of the young men who are
hndlng the opportunities of success in
business diminished
You ask why am interested in this
hght? It's not because l may be a
candidate for some office. 1 am in the
fight whether am ever a candidate or
not, and L rejoice that L am young. for
1 nave more years before me in which
to fight this battle against plutocracy.
| am in this tight because 1 have a son
ana because 1 have daughters Ny
fatner was lawyer, and began the
procession of the law and practiced It
until got so busy prosecuting the Re-
publican party for grand larceny that
didn't have time TO defend people
charged with petit larceny. laugh
teri. But don't know whether my son
VIII be a lawyer or not, and my daugh-
ter5 are so young that I can't yet tell
who my sons-in-law will be, and 1
think If things go on as they are gov
going, it's going 20 be a hard thing for
a young man with only brain and mus
Gle 10 make his way in this world
may not be able to leave my children
money, but want to leave them a
government that VIII protect them in
life and liberty, and the pursuit Of hap
piness, and 1 want W. H. King elected
because l think he will help give that
government to my children.
Remedy For Trusts.
have recommended a remedy for
the trust question, and while 1 have
spoken Of it often, I speak of it again
lest some Republican should saw that
L complained Of the trust and proposed
no remedy. You will find that the
trust has taken advantage of several
things. The trust has taken advantage
OF a high tariff. The high tariff keeps
the outsider from coming in and if the
trust controls the trade inside. it's 60
ing TO plumber the people TO the ex-
tent OF the tariff. Determinations by
railroads have helped the trusts. You
can hurt the trusts by lowering the
tariff, by preventing discrimination
but, my friends, 1 believe there ) a
simple remedy that viii destroy every
monopoly and every trust. Congress
has power TO regulate interstate COM
merce, and every monopoly and private
trust is an outlaw and always has
n ird Of
inence who dares defend monopoly as
a good thing. L believe congress can
provide for such restrictions upon cor
poratiOns engaged in interstate
commerce as may be neces-
sary to protect the people, and
to say that no corporation organized in
any state shall be perIaitted to do
business outside the stare until it Sc
cures q license, and that a license shall
not be given until the corporation shows
that there iS'no water in the stock and
that it is not defending the protec-
ton Of any article of merchandise
Someone has described a syndicate
as a body of men entirely surrounded
by water. Squeeze the water out of
the stock and you will go half way
toward the destruction Of the trust.
You can't expect the goldbug financiera
to help destroy the trust, because every
certificates Of stock. Men who grew
red in the face in 1896 denOuncing the
50-cent silver dollar have their books
full Of trust certificates that don't rep
resent so cents on the dollar If YOU
think these financiers are going to do
anything to destroy the trust, 1 want
to remind you that, one by one, they
are rising to apologize for the trust.
John ]. Mitchell Of Chicago said that
in the long run trusts can do no harm.
In the long run-but what of the man
who is short-winded and can't stand a
long run? (Laushter.) What about
the man who suffers bankruptcy While
the run is in progress?
What about the man who is the vic
tim Of extOrtiOn before the run is over?
And yet all the consolation you have is
that in the long run the trust can do
no harm. Charles r. Flint Of the rub
Der trust went down to Boston and
they gave him a banquet, and the
newspapers there said that as he de-
Tended trust principles he had a SYM
pathetic audience, and then added that
it was composed almost entirely Of Bos-
ton bankers. I went to a town in Ne
braska last fall and l found that
horse had been stolen, and the owner
sent off and got some blood hounds and
put them on the track of the horse and
thief and caught both. and I thought
how different was the treatment. There
is a law making the organization Of a
trust felony. Yet if man steals an
old, broken down horse they hunt him
with bloodhounds, but if he organizes
a trust they give him banquet.
If you want to destroy the trust you
have got to go at it without gloves
You have got to take the extinguisher
out of the hands Of the trust. If you
vote the Republican ticket this spring
in this state you will vote to declare
YOU are satisfied with the administra-
tion's inaction on the trust question.
Question Of Imperialism.
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