Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-05
SENATOR LODGE ON THE NEED
Tie Tells Essex club There should he
More Publicity Given Affairs of
Corporations.

BOSTON, oct. A.--Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge took the opportunity at a meeting
Of the Essex club today. held to ratity the
recent state nominations, to make a notable
speech. dealing with the coal situation and
also With tariff revision. He expressed
earnest sympathy with and emphatic sup
port OF the president in the latter's Efforts
TO end the coal strike. and confidence that
the party would be with him In whatever
further steps he might take. Continuing,
be said:
with the matter in the position in
which IL now is. / do not wish to say what
l think at this instant OF the merits OF
the case as presented to the country this
morning after the conference in Washing
ton.
II feel rather strongly in regard to the
attitude taken by some Of the conferees,
but { do not think it is the part Of wisdom,
while the matter is still pending. to IN
flame feeling or aggravate the situation,
which is bad enough. But there Is one
thing which l think we all can say and
that is that the president OF the United
states has acted in a manner which all
Americans. without regard to party, APP
prove. The president will not let the
matter rest where 1t is.
aside from any economic question the
coal companies of Pennsylvania do not to-
day stand in a position where they can
ask for protection even il they needed Il.
! think II is a painful illustration Of the
wisdom Of what the president has been
saying in various speeches in New Eng
land and elsewhere In regard to the neces|
sity Of some government supervision regu-
lating what are commonly called trusts.
There is no trust in the anthracite re-
gion. There are certain large corporations
which It 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 necessaries Of life, by
the national government. These great 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 they are
dangerous masters. There must be some
power that can control them in the last
resort. There is a cry to take the duty
OF coal-the little duty there is 81 cents
a ton. ] 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 of the duty on our coal going into
Canada"
Speaking of tariff revision he said: THE
removal of the tariff on trust-made goods
would be the most destructive to the com
p~etitors Of the trusts and least to the
trusts themselves. We need authority to
regulate these trusts. The greatest safe
guard in this country is publicity. II there
nad been power in the hands Of the presi-
| daOt N oand q rOrnnfaaion In fhA onaI ~
gions and hear all there was to be said
on both sides, there would be no strike.
This would stop nearly all the strikes and
lockouts. We should have a proper ac-
counting from these corporations that have
an air of mystery about them. To 20 about
it by reducing the tariff is a silly PROPOSE
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