Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1900-02-15
PEOPLE MUST ACT
Or the Trusts VIII Soon be the
Whole Thing In the United
States.
Resolutions Adopted at the
4 Antitrust Conference
Note of Warning.
%..fusal of Passes Advocated
In All Candidates For
Public Office.

Chicago, Feb 14.-The anti trust con-
ference which is now in session IN Ch''
cspo is attracting wide attention. Al
the conference are the leading men OF
the country, trying to devolve remedies
for the great octopus that ls raising the
pr,ces of neoessarles Of life, while farm
ora and laborers are not at the same
time benefited. The opinion prevails
that government ownership Is the only
remedy for the abuses, not hight TO
destroy wealth, or dlsarrangement or
the great advantages wh'ch accrue TO
the people IN the ECONOMY OF produotlon'
but move to transfer the ownership
and benefits of public utilities from the
posseesion of the few to that OF the
many. As one speaker says:
ut ia plain to me that. having permit
tod a few men to take all but an exist
ence from our farmers and laborers 10
exchange for the use of capital, until the
few find themselves overloaded WIN
money and the means of money making
and the many find themselves with no
money and no means of making living
there is but one way out Of the difficulty
and that lies 10 transferring the owner
( shin and control of mines, machines ano
Nmeans of transportation and distribution
from the few to the many. VI one thlng
I am certain. We shall never 60 back
over the pact to get ont. Monopoly's
forts can never be taken by flank move
ments. They can never be reduced oy
COMPROMISE. They must be taken by 8
forward movement, based on common
sense and justice.
1--WE shall not turn to the stage coacn'
nor to the little rich man, nor 10 the
stnb railroad, nor to any Of the instltu
tions of 80 years ago. We shall go
ahead. We could not 90 back 1t We
would and We would not IT we oould'
once the people understand the promise
OF plenty, of liberty involved in the prop
or use of tho knowledge which they pos
$685."
The antitrust law OF 1890 which has
hsen held constitutional by the supreme
court can be enforced it the officials OF
the government so desire, SAID anotner
apeaker. Every trust by Its nature Is q
restraint against trade aud commerce
and ia in violation Of law. The trusts
: grow and wax fat by special Legislation
and governmental favorltism. and Will
continue to do SO as long as the people
consent to stand 1t.
The resolutions adopted by rising
vote denounced the currency OIL no"
: before Congress- They say, II the Dill 10
passed into law 1t will give national
hanks the right Of the government, TO
issne currency and gives them bounty
of at least S5OOOO0,OO0. 1t will besto"
an immense bonus on bondholders, de-
monetize silver and paper money dol
lars; make all debts heretofore contract
ed and hereafter to be contracted pay
able 10 gold; place it in the power OF the
monev.holding and money-!endlng class
to contract the currency at will and to
,ssess themselves Of the property OF the
people at pleasure; and in short, en :
throne the money ollgarchy, establish "
continental bank trust, enelave the peo-
ole and destroy the republic, TO the end
that free government may perish from
the earth.
The resolutions were ordered tele-
Qraphed to She members OF the U. >.
Senate. and conclude with the following
paragraph: ....
Resolved, That we warn the people or
the United States OF this new menace to
their liberty and call upon them every
where to meet together at their court
houses and IN their schoolhouses and
other public places and thunder their
protest against the most audaclous
dangerous and oppressive measure ever
presented to a legislative body by set
OF conspirators.
Another resolution declared that all
candidates for office should publicly de-
Glare that they would not accept or use
passes from railways or steamship COM
panies before being endorsed and voted
for by the people.