Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-04

plisheac trimarily;I tninh, IL is Work
for ycfl slau,7r-rTz G'dn' c1urse, by
every cit.--. Just now
your admission " -,-..--IoA can De
brought about the Lord knows, and he
has way of helping those only who
help themselves. 1t is easy to specify
how the longed-for event will not hap
pen.-~It will rot happen through aca-
demic discussio!rs of abstract rights
among yourselves. 1t will not happen
through a serene contempla ION of your
thumbs however long continued. You
viii not fall into the Union as a SOM
uambulist sometimes falls into a barrel,
with ease and unconscious dignity. l
have not been resident of Chicago long
enough to learn how that dynamic mu-
nicipality does things, but l have an
abiding faith that If Chicago wanted
Cook county to be admitted to the
Union as separate state, Cook coun-
ty would be admitted. Why? Because
everybody in Chicago would go ait it,
and keep going. Every state legisla-
lttoti. in favor of the project; every
newspaper in the county would be
wheedled into advocating it, Chicago
furnishing the editorials and paying for
their appearance if need be; every or
ganzation in Chicago would deluge the
world with literature on the subject;
every doctor, lawyer merchant, broker,
manufacturer, business man, would
have his demands and the reasons for
them blazoned on his stationery SO that
even private letters treating of person.
al matters, would treat first and fore
most of the public matter nearest the
Chicago heart. One way to break down
opposition is to beat it down, to weary
it in actual conflict"
An eloquent tribute to the law and
lawyers closed the brilliant address of
Mr.. Estabrook. which was warmly ap-
plauded, and constituted an able argu-
ment for statehood for New Mexico.
Neil B. Yield, Esq, of Albuquerque,
was the second speaker, and addressed
the audience upon "The Relations Of
the Bar and the Bench" He stated
that he had lost his manuscript this
being the first address he ever contem-
plated reading from manuscript. He
said that the fundamental principle of
American liberties lies in the truth
That all men are equal before the
law" When this is mo longer true then
hi tinp ;c. tn
is the bar and the bench more than the
statesman and the warrior who have
made this nation great and free, and
the brightest page in American history
was written by the courts of the coun-
try. Mr. Field then dwelt eloquently
upon the relations that should exist be-
tween the bar and the bench.
Upon the topic. Modern Trusts
Judge Freeman spoke entemainingly,
giving history of trusts, showing that
they had existed almost from time i'm
| memorial in different forms, and that
in very many countries there had been
legislative efforts made either to con-
troll or to abolish them. Trusts were
not per Sc wrong; combination OF cap
tal was not a necessary evil; the only
good that could be accomplish by leg
islation was to prevent trusts from i'm"
posing any burden or restriction upor
competing interests; that so long as The
people are left free to contract 70,
themselves, no serious injury coulC
grow out of them. Contracts made II
restraint of trade are unlawful, anG
| could be so declared by the courts. HI
was of the opinion that a great deal Of
unnecessary political capital was be-
ing made out OF the subject; that party
conventions would declare against then
more for the purpose Of catching votes
than for anything else. He did not ap
prehend that trusts would ever serious
ly impair the prosperity Of the country