The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-08
JEROME LIFTS LID
ON TRUST EVILS.
Declares Corporations Corrupt
Others but Are Not in Them
selves Wicked
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
Ottawa, Kan, July 8.-District At
torney = erome made many sensational
declarations when he addressed the
Chautauqua. Speaking Of his own case
and Charles F. Murphy, Mr.. Jerome
"Who is Murphy and what am I
Please Mr. h II may have ana s t5e
nomination to again serve in New
York ~ am not of that breed of
pups. Or that I should go to the leader
OF the republican party, that grand and
good prophet, Odell, whose fingers a
dishonest dollar has never touched-and
gotten away, Rather than do this I
would prefer to go with Grover Cleve-
land into innocuous desuetude.
He Lifted the Lid.
Mr.. jerome lifted the lid SO far as
the Chautauqua is concerned. His is
the first real live speech the assembly
has had and it rather liked it. He was
frequently interrupted with applause,
and when he finished there were
loud cries Of "Good, go on. Talk
Hamlet like La Toilette; only go on
MI. Jerome in opening his speech
referred ironically to the remarks on
Hamlet made by Governor La Toilette,
himself talking some shakspere to
them. was going to do Much Ado
About Nothing, - he said, but I un-
derstand Mr. Lawson follows me here
tomorrow and I will leave that for
him.
Where the Trusts Are Bad.
combinations were bad, Mr.. Jerome said
they were bad only in that they de.
bauched public life.
"Wall street has it's legitimate uses
in business he said. els not that
the great yawning cavern in which all
who enter are devouredY 1t furnishes
| the money with which to carry on the
business of the country. I know this
kind Of talk will not please all of you
but I came out here just to say some
thing that would tickle some of YOU
! He said that in debauching the public
| officials, trusts and great combinations
| lowered the tone Of The country.
| "These trusts buy our legisla tors
our judges and our public men, Mr.
Jerome said. 'sAnd by this they at
tack not only our policies all the time
but our ideals and our life.
II wish I could turn the wratl
which the people are willing to pou
out upon the trusts, upon the heads O.
y
the real roots Of the evils. "s2
jerome and Personalities.
| "There is Murray Crane, now sen
ator,o he said; "a better man thai
Crane never lived. When he want
anything in Massachusetts there ar
no democrats or republicans. They ar
all Murray Crane 8 men. But Cabo
Lodge! Does anybody believe he woul
be elected to any office in the state i
the people 8 wishes were consulted
He is not as broad as a knife blad
standing on it's edge. God made hi1
for a man, and suppose we will hav
to let that pass. He is the republica
boss and controls the machinery Of hi
I party. That is why he is elected to tn
United States senate.
fThen take my own state, Me-
4 York, represented in the senate b
: Thomas G. Platt and Chauncey N
4 tDepew. Think harshly Of us peopl
in New York if you will, but don
think for a moment that we woul
ever be represented in the senate b
such men as Thomas G. Platt an
Chauncey M. Depew if we we're above
J to exercise our own choice.'
Mr.. Jerome coIltended that addition
al laws were not needed to cure trus
J evils, but the enforcement of existin
, laws. ~ HE sG