Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-05
Senator BeIabors Rookie
Teller for Plans to Dis
pense Gains.
CLAIMS GOODS STOLEN
Says 100000, 900 Foundation
Is Move to Educate With
Criminal Earnings.

Washington, D. c., May 5.-Enorts
in congress TO incorporate the $780,
100000 Rockefeller Foundation were
scored today by Senator Works, who
declared them proposal to farm
out to John D. Rockefeller and his as
sociates the right and power TO edu-
cate the people of the country with
money accumulated by criminal
means" Senator Works statement
was made in connection with a speech
he delivered in the senate today on
trusts and combination. the existence
of which he blamed TO the high proteo.
tive tariff policy.
The extent TO which this may be
carried out is practically unlimited.
The corporations and institutions of
learning which may be established
throughout the country in the hands of
people who will be subservient to the
interests and views of Mr. Rockefel-
Ter and his associates are without
number and limitation said the sena-
tor
We do not want our children 10 be
, taught the ways nor the methods of
John D. Rockefeller or his kind, nor to
be generous with ill-gotten gains, nor
TO touch, handle, or profit by gold that
should blister the fingers of the man
who has accumulated il, by extortion,
oppression and crime, and is now at
tempting to rid himself of il by giving
! it away. nor to become the receivers
Of stolen goods in the name and under
the guise of charity"
/ LAW HELD INADEQUATE.
The continued existence of trusts
and monopolies. the senator said. was
| due to the inadeouacy of the Sherman
antitrust law, which he declared
should be so amended that specific re-
straints of trade shall be unlawful,
with suitable punishment for those
who violate the law. While he was
not in favor of high protective tariff
which fostered capitalistic combina-
ton, he was in favor of an effort to
protect the wage Garner in his earn
ings and that he believed it would be
"an excellent thing to harmonic the
tariff and wages
The interstate commerce commits
sion," continued the senator, should
be allowed TO determine whether fair
wages are being paid by any concern;
and if not, to compel the employer
employing foreign laborers and paying
European wages to pay the same tariff
on its manufactured goods that are en-.
forced against foreign importations
until its wages are increased to a fair
scale for American .workmen. If a
high tariff did in fact protect the wage
Garner. ! would cheerfully stand for
its continuance, even at, the expense
OF higher prices to the consumer The
evident purpose of the So-called tariff
experts is. so far as progress has been
made, to deprive the farmers, who are
themselves laboring men and wage
earners il most cases, of all protection
and preserve Il 70 the trust and mil
lionaire manufacturers This would
be fatal mistake. In most cases ouI
manufacturers and business men car
compete with the world and make
profits. They can and do sell thei'
goods cheaper in foreign markets thar
at home. With the farmer, in many
cases. it is different
PROTECT WAGE EARNER-
"The wage Garner must be protected
in his earnings and reasonable hour;
of labor. the consumer in reasona blt
prices. and the whole people must bt
protected in their independence anC
liberty. The equality of all men mus
be made a reality and not a theory
! If the democratic party can and viii
accomplish these results, demanded b!
the people, it may live and maintain
itself in power. II il does not, itI
reign will be brief. II neither of th'
old Parties can or will restore the gov
ernment TO the people as our fore
fathers handed il down, then a nev
party will be raised up that will d
the peoples will 1t will be a part.
of the peoples OWL making foundet
on justice, fair dealing, and disinter
ested patriotism. / am ready TO Civ,
the democratic party a fair trial
am willing to wait and see and 10 len
my aid 70 that party or any other U
bring about just and benefcent law
through and by which the whole pee
PIE may be brought into their own an
their Just rights fostered and pre-
tected.'