The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-14

serve, and that end its own profit by ex-
tortion. / submit this proposition that the
of to-day as organized and operated
impose an additional burden upon the con-
sumner. These so-calied Industrial
corporations are trying TO float four
billions of watered stock. A 5 per cent.
earning on this water would mean a total
of 500, 000,o 600 per annum Il Is a heavier
burden thrust upon the consumers OF this
country than that imposed upon the peo-
pie OF Germany in supporting a standing
OF nearly 100000 men. This mountain
or fictitious value opens up an economic
question which makes the relation OF the
travelling man TO the trust sink into IN
significance. The attempt TO earn S3O'oW'-
600 annually upon something which never
existed is virtually a tax LEVIED upon the
of trust articles
c. j. Buell.. of Minnesota. arraigned
monopolies. concluding thus: The only
way TO treat monopolies and trusts Is 10
destroy them. and this can only be done
by repeating all statute laws that grant
privileges or favors TO some at the expense
of others"
AN AGE OF TRUSTS.
c. A. Windle. of Illinois. said: This is
an age of trusts. Trusts are triumphant.
If you sweeten your coffee you must pay
tribute to the sugar trust. When you
strike a match it is by grace of the Dia-
mond match trust. If you read your Bible
by night you must burn incense TO the
Standard Oil trust. The tin-plate trust
will now furnish tin cups at an advanced
price, while if you want to drown your
sorrows in strong drink the whisky trust
n beer syndicate will accommodate YOU
The paper pom which the news of the
day. is printed is a product of a trust that
not only controls the mills, but the spruce
and pine timbers from which the paper Is
made. Should you become disguised with
trust rule and want to hang yourself the
National Cordage trust will furnish the
rope and the coffin trust will make you a
box in which to stack your bones. 1t is
lucky for the people that Shylock has no
influence with Almighty God. else there
would be a trust in rain, air and sunshine
as soon as the authorities of New Jersey
could issue the charter. Gigantic COM
bines are robbing millions of their right
to the pursuit of happiness, and this VIII
be followed by centralized power which
will deprive them of their right to life and
liberty except the life of a slave and the
liberty of a dog to eat the crumbs that fall
from the masters table"
Prof. Alfred b. Westrup, of New York.
delivered an address entitled, Free Money
the Remedy for the Trust Evil" The main
feature of the address was a proposition to
establish a system for the supply of paper
money, which EMBODIED the mutual coop
erative feature as it is in life or fire in
surance.
NJ. C. Wettmore, the tobacco manufac-
turer of st. Louis, addressed the conference
on his personal experience with trusts Mr..
Wettmore declared that the trust promoter
is the worst enemy of the human race. The
protective tariff, he declared, was the
foundation of the modern trust and its
concomitant evils. The farmers. he assert
ed, now feel safe from the encroachment OF
trusts. but there is nothing to prevent the
monopolies from entering agricultural fields
when the other avenues of industry have
been exhausted.
Rev. S. w. Sample, of Minneapolis, said,
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the radical trust evil? The abolition OF
private monopoly. Here is the taproot OF
the whole trust growth so far as that
growth is poisonous or cancerous. In so fai
as trusts are simply cooperative associa-
tions or partnerships possessing monopo,
lislic power or special privileges, they are
not harmful and need not be dreaded
Monopoly must go"
Gen. +. Il. Finley, of Ohio. said: o the
whole brood of trusts. the most hurtful
perhaps, is the combination of railroads &c
control the carrying trade and prevent
competition in freight and passenger traf,
enough to control practically the entire
freight and passenger traffic east anc
west, if not already effected. is in process
of completion. . The remedy that oc'
ours to me is the enforcement of the law:
now in existence. We need little, if any
new legislation. The federal law is broad
enough and strong enough, If enforced, Il
reach all trusts affecting interstate com
merce."
HELEN NJ. COUGARS REMARKS.
Helen NJ. Cougar, of Lafayette, Ind.
spoke on ''The Trusts and the People
sac said Il nave no patience with tn,
statement that trusts are superior to tn,
will of the people, that they annot bt
abolished, but must be regulated.
Laws must De enacted to make trusts
multi-millionaires and tramps impossible,
in this land of liberty, vast undeveloped re
sources and comparatively limited popula
ton. . . . TIL leading causes for trusts
the trust of all trusts, is the money trust
Ever since the civil war a handful of mon
ey co~nspiratorS have been comprising tn,
absolute control of the blood, of industry
trade and commerce, the money. They wei
knew that whoever can control the volume
of money of a country can control thu
wealth of that country. One by one thii
small coterie of men has brought the othe
nations to adopt the gold standard, an,
they are now about enacting the law plac
ing this country under the ban and bligh
of the single gold standard. TIL only thins
these pirates fear is the freedom of TIL
people and their action at the ballot box
. As a lover of my country and o
home. 1 beg the men of this Nation t
arise to the great occasion confronting u
and vote, not as blind partisans, but as in
telligent patriots; then will the people ris.
superior to monopoly n trusts"
Gen. j. 3. Weaver. of Iowa, said in part
''The trust in its last analysis and best def
milton is simply organized criminal aggres
sion in business. The trust is full brothe,
to militarism. The twain are of one bloc,
and both are black with the guilt of Cain
Each in its sphere destroys human life an,
lays desolate human habitation. The skull
and cross bones, or crouching panthe
Mould be blazoned as a trademark acros
the door OF the oun chamber wher'
trust magnates and beneiciaries meet L
plot the plumber of mankind" Genera
Wheeler then briefly examined the outlin'
of the great central money trust. which
Is just now in process of final development
in Congress-" Continuing, he said: "Unles
we deliberately surrender this citadel of on
liberties, We have in our own hands tn
| power to protect ourselves. But IL we ar
going to surrender this to the king of al
the trusts, what is the use of erecting pail
sades against the swarm of pests that will
issue from the parent hive? Let US see [
ii that we elect a Congress that will stan,
by the plain letter and spirit Of that ad
mirable, comprehensive and blood-bough
instrument, the Constitution"
THE ONCE SOCKLESS JERRY.
Representative Jerry Simpson, of Kan
| sas, said in part: 1T is one thing to de
nounce trusts. but quite another 10 poin
out adequate remedies of the evils I'm them
"In this great problem is involved tn
| safety of the Republic and the perpetuity O
| human liberty. 1t behooves US, therefore
to make no mistakes in the beginning. FRS
of all We must know the causes of the trou
| BILE and then devise means TO remove them
IL toad-stools grow out of a rotten los
clearly, you must destroy the log in orde
TO rid yourself Of the toad-stools. Wha
| supreme folly it is to try to rid yourself @
| place, remains.
THE tariff is therefore a loaded GU