The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-05
GRosVENoR TALKS OF
TRUSTS AND EXPANSION.


Winfield, Kan, July Charles H
Grosvenor of Ohio was the principal
speaker at the Chautauqua assembly
here this afternoon. addressing a large
crowd at the park grounds. he said
in part:
One Of the results of the evolu-
tons which have followed close upon
the dying hours of the old century and
which seem to bid fair 10 find a fuller
development in the northwest, is the
growth of sO-calIed trusts in the bust
ness Of production in the United
States. The people of our country
must learn to distinguish between
injurious combinations and beneficial
combinations, and 1 lay down this
proposition:
SO long as the managers Of two
or more industrial institutions who
have combined into one greater or
ganiZatiOn produce the following re-
suits, no harm can come pTedicate1 Of
their action. First, that the cOmbi-
nation employs more men than did
the constituent members, second. that
they pay as high or higher wages 10
employees, third, that they do not adj
vance to an unjust figure the peDducts
OF their industry.
As to expansion. the position taken
by the present administration is one in
which 1 most heartily concur and which
believe the dominant sentiment of
the people of the United States. / do
not believe that our forefathers made
d country, or attempted to make
country, and designed that ii should be
shOrn of the great powers and pTerOg3-
tives incident to a first class nation.
with peace. the blessings of our
grand system Of government will be
rapidly diffused over the millions of
people that viii bow to our flag in the
far away Orient, and America. enlarged
and glOri6ed by her adherence to the
great principles Of equality and lib
erty and justice to all men. will shine
brighter as one Of the grand galaxy
Of states in the constellation Of the
world
The question of greatest moment
to the future of the United States and
to the people thereof has grown out
of the question OF the elective fran
chise within the states of the union
The basis of our government and its
admitted claim of right 10 live is based
upon the consent of the governed The
law of the country, it seems 70 me, and
I think there is no dispute about that,
is very plain and simple. If a state OF
the south sees fit 10 say that the col
Ored men of the south shall not vote
because he is a cOlored man, it has a
perfect right to do so. but such state
must submit to a deduction of repre-
sentatiOn in congress and in the cleo
toral college.
'-Ail the glorious results have been
worked out from the first by the great
ness and glory of the education of the
country or BY the cooperation and
patriotism of the illiterate men of the
country. If 10y the latter, they should
not be punished for they have been
true and patriotic. II BY the former,
there is no need Of this legislation.
You cannot have disfranchised
class in free government without
making of that class enemies Of the
government. The cOlOFed race has re-
duced the condition Of iliiteracy a pei
cent and that, too, under all the trOu-
bles and turmOils under which they
have labored. and If left alone and
encouraged the CRY. Of illiteracy among
the coIOred men viii gradually and in
deed at last rapidly diminish