The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-09
TRUSTS TO PEOPLE
CALLS 1T ONLY REMEDY.
BOASTS HEARST.
Newark Socialists Cheer Speech of Henry
Laurens Call, Who Raps
B@an, Too.

William Jennings Bryan and William
Randolph Hearst were raped by Henry
Laurens Cal at a meeting of the local
Socialist party. held In Washington street
last night. and his raps were repeatedly
.applauded by his audience.
Mr.. Call was in the limelight some years
ago as a Middle-of-the-Ro Populist, and
his talks on socialism have attracted at
tention since then. His subject last, night
was the Concentration of Wealth"
E.. S. Egerton was chairman of the meet
ing. He said that for sixteen years he
has been In the service of the New York.
New Haven and Hartford Railroad, when
his salary had varied between $50 and
Si25 a month. at present being $S3.83. He
said that recent developments in the official
investigation of Standard OIL showed that
John ID. Rockefeller income Is as much
In q minute as his is in a day; as much
in an hour as he makes in a month, and
in a day more than he has earned in six
teen years of continuous labor.
Mr.. Call delivered the same address as
was given before the Scientific Associa-
ton last December at Columbia College,
and which was criticised by many news
papers. He said that while labor pro-
duces eight times as much wealth as
fifty years ago, it is paid no more, be-
cause Oh tl6 surplus SUNS nto ln6 poChtle
of the capitalists. The means employed he
defined as the manipulation Of railroads,
through the bribing of legislatures n vio-
lations of law. through monopolizing valu-
able realty holdings, through the compress
sion of the money market by the means
of banks and trust companies.
He attacke the principles of the Repub-
lican party, and said that William Jen-
nirgs Bryan advocates liberty of the indi-
viduaI' as the great correcter. He re-
ferred to the Democratic leader and Will
lam Randolph Hearst as follows:
Another of this school of self-styled in
dividualists is William Randolph Hearst,
although In other respects the antlpode OF
the suave and yielding Bryal. His appeal
is not alone to class consciousness. but to
class hatred. His one cry Is to smash the
trust. and his aim seems to be to smash
things generally. This 1t is that makes
him a distinctly dangerous factor in
American politics.
But he i5 discreetly silent as, to this
abuses by means of which his WI enor-
nous possessions nave been gained, nota.
bly, of inheritance and land monopoly. Hel
any remedy for existing conditions, IL II
be any other than a mere farce, will TAKE
fro m him his own ill-bestowed millions just
as surely as II will take from John d
Rockefeller. Edward II. Hartman ano
others of their class the unsavory millions
Oh WHICH Vney dre pOSseSsSu.
Both Bryanism and Hearstism are bu'
other names for Populism. And the
Populist movement. like SO many Other
movements in American politics, was nevel
more thar a temporary political agitation
rather than a consistently scientific polfti
cal doctrine. The remedies It proposed wert
thus but partial p~alliatives."
Mr.. Call said that the only way by
which the people can come into and keel
their own Is by taking over the trusts ant
running them.
what impulse of Industrial liberty car
thrill the breast Of the employee of the
| steel, oil, Oh other trust?" said the speaker
In conclusion. And what opportunity or In
| centive is there for individual development
| upon the part Of such employee? But, lie
all the employees of these trusts take pos
| session of them, and each have a voice II
choosing the managers and heads of sucf
corporations. as also of our railways ant
financial institutions. and they would on
and oil have the same freedom. and in
centive to exertlon, as though they wer'
each individual partners In some smaliel
concern. They would each have a voic
in the management; they would each re
ceive his just share of the profits. instead
of. as now, being subject to the arbitrar!
dlctation of the present owners, and CIV
ing all his labor but to swell the enor
NOUS fortunes Of the trust, railway, ano
other multi-millionaire magnates. Theii
positions would then be that OF masters
instead of servants. with all the impulse
of liberty, incentive to action, and oppor'
tunity for development, that such indie
pendence, just reward and responsibility
assure"