Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-21
He Expresses His Faith in Sher-
man Antitrust Law If Ad-
ministered Honestly.
CASE OF STANDARD OIL TRIAL
IN Ohio He Says lie Whipped ii In.
til II Elected Friendly Members
OF the supreme Court.

With storm wind whirling the
seasons first snownakes above the
pavements. and u large AUDIENCE In tho
well warmed and lighted theater. salt
Takers last night heard the closin,.
speech OF this campaign BY nationa!
committees speaker, in Utah.
Francis S. Monnett, whose reputa-
ton has recently been enhanced by the
publication OF the Hearst STANDARD on
letters, told how he had fought this
company and how this company WAS
in his mind one of the greatest men
aces TO the country His experience
with its ability to adapt the supreme
court OF Ohio to its needs he also out.
lined. and told how, because Of this
fact he switched his national political
view point in this campaign. The
Standard Oh company he directly
charged with naming the personnel
of the Ohio supreme court in return
for having made large Republican
campaign contributions.
State Chairman samuel a. King call
ed the meeting to order after which he
introduced Q. w. Powers as temper
airy chairman. Judge Powers intro
duced Mr., Monnett as the first man
who had ever forced John y. Rock
efeller into court to testify at the bar
of Justice.
Mr., Monnett, in opening his address,
referred to the pleasure it gave him
to realize that in Utah the people were
educated and owned their own homes,
and were a class of home-loVing,
hoine-ma king citizens. Hereafter, he
said, he should 50 refer to them.
BANK DEPOSIT GUARANTEE
Taking up then the campaign Is.
sues, he spoke first of the bunk guar
antee plan for bank deposits. He point
ed to the fact that the government,
IN spite of its ready access to bank
accounts required gilt edge security
for All It deposited with the banks. He
then asked how people, who know
nothing of the workings Of the banks
could be expected to deposit money in
them, when the government, knowing
all their workings, refused to do 1t ex-
cent from the most favorable terms.
He read a letter from tho treasury
department TO bank officials urging
better enforcement of the law and
from this argued that II the federal
officials for II years had been unable
to enforce the law, 1t would be Il good
Ting to turn them all out and put in
an entirely new force. Calling attcn-
ton to the locks bars, BURGLAR alarms
and steel vault necessary to protect
the banks from urglars on the out
side, he demanded that something ba
done to reach the burglars already on
tho inside, and afford protection from.
them.
AS TO TRUSTS.
Passing from bank deposit guarantees.
u the railroads and the trusts MI
Nlcnnctt began the portion Of his adj
dress which seemed most. Intimately q
1lait of his personal history After
reading the Sherman anti-trust law 10
the audience, Mr.. Monnett declared
HAT it had been in existence for 1S
years, that it had been declared CON
in the Mckinley admins
tration, and that in spite of decisions
rendered by courts, railroad companies,
representing in one case 81 railroads,
md in another case more than AZ
chad ignored the courts
action and We're today ameIahle y
for contempt Of court and
for criminal violation of the sherman
nnti-trusht Law. He pledged his party
to bring these railroad companies into
court March on these charges.
NORTHERN SECURITIES CASE.
In describing the Northern Securities
merger, Mr.. Monnett described meet.
Inc in the offices of Mr.. Morgan, at
Which he declared $3.50 ,0o0O00 in iio-
titiuus values had been added to the
property of the northwest,
which the people using those railroads
In their commerce must pay.
''If these men, he continued, have
The right to enter on our property. tear
down our houses and build railroads
across our farms, paying us for that
privilege whatever a jury may decide
upon, then we have the right to in
sisi that5thos same men operate those
for IL reasonable profit on
their actual investment, and that the
rates which they fix for freight and
shall not be exorbitant. Or
that, 4 thay are exorhitant, that the
lakes shall be on the earning capacity
nf tie road and as the rates increase
SO should the taxes.
They have declared that Mr.. Bryan
rculd not do anything. If he We're made
because the senate Is hope
icssly Republican. Does he need the |
to enforce the laws now exist
Ing" With prosecuting officers In every
district of the United States appoint
RI Er Mr.. Bryan, with grand juries
hosen from the great common people,
In, laws would all be enforced, and |
no Partially shown to any trust be-
rtyuse, of its contribution TO tho Re-
publican campaign fund"
LABOR UNIONS.
Labor unions Were treated as the
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