The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-05
SENATOR LODGES EVIDENT DE-
SIRE is TO ROAST THE COAL
OPERATORS
HIS SYMPATHY is ALL
WITH THE MINERS
In a Speech in Boston the Senator
Emphasizes the Necessity of Putting
Some Restraint Upon Corporations
He Echoes the Party Cry, Don't
Revise the Tariff"

BOSTON, Mass. Oct. 4. - Senator
ity at meeting of the Essex club to-
day, held to ratify the recent state
nomination, to make a notable speech,
dealing with the coal situation, and
also with tariff revision. He expressed
earnest sympathy with and emphatic
support for the president in his efforts
to end the coal strike and confidence
that the party would be with him in
whatever further steps he might take.
He said:
Il feel rather strongly in regard to
the attitude taken by some Of the con-
ferees, but do not think 1t is the part
of wisdom, while the matter is still
pending, to inflame feeling or aggra-
vate the situation, which is bad enough,
but there is one thing which I think
we can all say, and that is, that the
president Of the United States has act
ed In q manner which all Americans,
without regard to party will approve.
"The president will not let the matter
rest. Aside from any economic ques-
ton, the coal companies Of Pennsyl-
vania do not today stand in a position
where they can ask for protection,
even II they needed it.
HiHNS nooSeVeiI fnCOFSeCs
IT think it is painful illustration
Of the wisdom Of what the president
has been saying in speeches in regard
to the necessity of some government
regulation of trusts.
"There is no trust in the anthracite
region. There are certain large cor
porations which it is the fashion to
call trusts, and there are certain large
corporations in the anthracite coal
fields, and this strike shows the neces-
sity Of some kind of supervision and
regulation of these great corporations
which produce the necessities of life,
by the national government. These cor
porations are useful to business. They
are necessary to us in the economic
contests of the present time. They are
as essential to modern business as
anything can possibly be. They are
good servants, but dangerous masters.
There must be some power that can
control them in the last resort.
There is cry to take the duty off
coal-the little duty there is, 81 cents
q ton. I should like to see congress
pass a law authorizing the president
to proclaim the removal of the duty on
bituminous coal coming from Canada,
just as soon as Canada takes off the
duty from our coal going into Canada
Don't Reduce the Tariff.
Speaking of tariff revision he said:
"The removal of the tariff on trust
made goods would be the most destruc-
tive to the competitors of the trusts
and least to the trusts themselves. We
need authority to regulate and super
wise these trusts. The greatest safe
guard in this country Is publicity. Il
there had been power in the hands OF
the president to send a commission te
the coal regions and hear all there has
|. to be said on both sides, and thai
nothing could be done until that was
given to the public, there would be
no strike or lockout. This would stoI
| nearly all the strikes. and lockouts. We
should have a proper accounting from
these corporations that have an all
of mystery about them. To go about
it by reducing the tariff is silly prop
osition.'