The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-12
Arkansas Senator Redsens His Promise TOLGt People Hear
 Something Drop
FLEA FOR BILL WHICH
 WOULD KILL ALL TRUSTS
Senator Davis Also lndulges In Thrust at the White House Expendi- lures and Contrasts "OId lick.
 ory' With Roosevelt.

Washington, December u.-Passonate oratory marked the proceedings of the Senate today. Senator Jefferson Davis of Arkansas, who, when elected, declared that he would attack the trusts imme- diately after taking his seat, fulfilled hls promise although he was few days late in doing so. The speech was filled with sensational declarations, and was given much vigor, for which the Arkansas Senator Is famous in his own state. Quaint phrasing, pointed denuncations, and evi- dences of intense emotion characterized his remarks. He was given a careful hearing by Senators, and the galleries were well filed Beginning shortly be- fore 1 o'clock he spoke for little more than an hour At the close of the speech the Senate went into executive session, and at 2:10 o'clock adjourned.
 The House was not in session today.
 Jeff Davis Speaks. Senator Davis began by declaring that it was not his purpose to retain his seat in the Senate until his hair shall have grown gray before taking up his work actively in that body.
 
 He proposed to present quickly. | fearlessly and as intelligently as he might some of the living, burning l questions before the American people. l l. was for that reason he mad deter- mined to speak upon his bill to sup- press trusts, pools, combinations and conspiracies.
 "I undertake to say he continued. l that if this bill is enacted Into q law | and faithfully and honestly executed. trusts will be wiped from the face os | the earth and no longer will. we feel their grinding and destroying grip on the arteries of trade and commerce." A domestic corporation found fixing the price of any article would, by nis bill he said, have it's charter forfeited and a foreign corporation guilty of such an act would not be allowed to do business in the United States "The trust evil" said Senator Davis, "is a cancerous sore upon the body polite just as upon the human body. The only remedy. the only successful treatment. is the surgeons knife. Cut 1t out by the root destroy the virus before the whole body polite is af- fected and destroyed.
 Destroy the Trusts. "Congress should not hesitate in it's work of destroying the trusts because
 
 continued. He spoke of the sherman antitrust law. Has it proven ef- fectual?' he asked. Has it destroyed single trust under it's operation? Have they not grown strong, defiant and arr rogant? For almost IT years the Sher- man antitrust law has been upon our statute books, more than four times as long it took the north 10 wear out the south upon the bloody fields of battle. Nearly seven years of MT. Roose- Velt's strenuous term has passed with all the machinery of the government at his back with the great power of the oh ief executive In his hands Yet l ask, will some republican Senator on this floor tell me one trust that he has even tanned, much less destroyed?
 "Ah, MT. President, it was stated by the metropolitan press before I entered this august body, nippantly. too, that before l had been in the Senate six months the trust ~lagna>es would have me feeding out of their hands. l may share crumbs with a Lazarus, but I swear to you today, by every god In the calender that I never shall eat from the hands of mammon.
 Corporation Rights.
 q want to say to you sir, and to the members of this Senate that you need not lose any sleep about a cor pcration getting its right? You need not lose any sleep about unjust dis elimination against them. They will take care of themselves, but rather should our solicitude be for the man who bears the bitden of the govern ment. This is age when men have gone mad in tn cir frenzied efforts for the dollar. This Is an age when money Is placed above man; when gold Is placed before God when we would taaf DIlr a for one bright smile from the god of mammon. What is money. MT. Presi- cent that 1t Is held so priceless' You cannot eat 1t; you cannot wear It. your shroud has no pocket in 1t and St. Peter will not receive [ for admission into the golden gates.
 When we look to the leading cause Tor this great wealth upon the part of these great corporations and the causes lead- ing to their formation, to the formation of trusts, we are compelled to go no further than republican authority Itself and take the sworn testimony Of MT. Hayemeyer, the great sugar king who has gone to his reward, be it good or bad, who has gone to that land and cline where St. Peter does not take sugar in ahis' and. where money Is of no value
 He recalled Mir. Havemeyers statement before the industrial commission that "ths tariff Is the mother of trusts
 Few Men Own 1t All.
 Under the operation of this system of government" he said, "ifty-one men Tn the United States, multi-mililonaires if you please. have amassed a total fortune of S, ,295. .O00. .000 Of this ffty-one. John D. Rockefeller, the oil king of the world. leads with $500, GOO. eco; Andrew Carnegie. the steel king of the world, follows with half this amount"
 The Secretary of Commerce and Labor had calculated, he said that all the prop erty owned by S9. 900 citizens Is SCHOOL oO0, GOO. so that these fifty-one men own
 
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