The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-05
LODGE MAKES SPEECH
DEALS WITH COAL AND TARIFF
 REVISION.
Says There is No Trust in the An thracite Region-Says Removal
 of Tariff Would Destroy Trusts Competitors.

Boston, Oct. 4.-Senator Henry Cabot Lodge took the opportunity at A meet. Ing Of the Essex Club today. held to rati- fy the recent State nominations, to make 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 con- ndcrce that the party would be with him in whatever further steps he might take. Continuing, he said:
 With the matter in the position in "hlch 1t now is, I do not wish to say that think at this instant of the merits Of the case as presented to the country this morning after the conference in Washington. I feel rather strongly in regard to the attitude taken by some of the conferees, but do not think it is the part or wisdom while the matter is still pehoins, to infiame the feeling or aggra- Hate the situation, which is bad enough. put there is one thing which we can all say and that is that the President of the united States has acted in manner which all Americans, without regard to party. approve.
 The President will not let the matter rest where 1t is. Aside from any economic question, the coal companies of Pennsyl- Vania do not today stand in a position where they can ask for protection, even II they needed it. I think it is a painful illustration of the wisdom of what the fresident has been saying in various speeches in New England and elsewhere Ill regard to the necessity of some Gov erhment supervision or refutation of what are commonly called trusts.
 There is no trust in the anthracite region. There are certain large corpora tions which 1t is the fashion to call trusts. and there are certain large corporations in the anthracite coal fields and this strike shows the necessity of some kind of supervision and regulation of these great corporations which produce the neces- saries of life by the national government. These great corporations are useful to business. they are necessary to us in the economic contests of the present time. They are essential to modern business as anything can possibly be. They are good servants, but they are dangerous masters.
 There must be some power that can control them in the last resort. There as cry to take the duty off coal-the little duty there is, 67c a ton l should like to see Congress pass law authoriz- ing the President to proclaim the removal of the duty on bitumnous coal coming from Canada just as Canada takes off the duty off our coal going into Canada.
 Speaking of tariff revision he says: "The removal of tariff on trust made goods would be most destructive to the com petitors of the trusts and least to the trusts themselves. We need authority to regulate and supervise these trusts. The greatest safeguard in this country is publicity. If there had been power in the hands of the President to send a commission to the coal regions and hear all there is to be said on both sides and that nothing could be done until that was given to the public. there would no be strike or lockout. This would stop nearly all the strikes and lockouts. We should have proper accounting from these cor porations that have an air of mystery about them. To go about 1t by reducing the tariff Is a silly proposition"