The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-05
Effort to Incorporate $780,
100000 Foundation
ROundly Scored
MONEY ACCUMULATED
BY CRIMINAL MEANS
Said Senator Works, in Speech on
Trusts and Combinations, Which He
Blamed to High Tariff PoIicy-Not
to Become Receivers of Stolen Goods.

WASHINGTON, May Efforts in
Congress to incorporate the 800. 600. 600
Rockefeller Foundation were scored to-
day by Senator Works who declared
them n proposal TO farm out to
John ID. Rockefeller and his associates
the right and power to educate the peo-
pie of the country with money accu-
mulated by criminal means Senator
Works ; statement was made in con
nectlon with a speech ne delivered in
the Senate today on trusts and cOmbi-
nation, the existence OF which he
blamed to the high protective 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 af
the people who win be Subservient to
the interests and views of Mr. Rookie
feller and his associates are without
number or Imitation said the sena-
| tor.
" We DO not want our children to be
taught the ways nor the methods of
I John ID. 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 ii by extortion,
/ oppression and crime, and Is now at
tempting to rid himself of it by Civ
/ ing it away, nor to become the re-
ceivers of stolen goods I'm the name
and under the guise of charity.
! The continued existence of trusts and
monopohes, the senator said, was due
to the inadequacy of the sherman anti
trust law which he declared should be
so amended that specific restraints of
trade shall he unlawful with suitable
punishment for those who violate the
law. While ne was not in favor of a
high protective tariff which fostered
capitalistic combination, he said he woul
be in favor of an effort to protect the
wage Garner in his earnings and that
he believed il would be IAN excellent
thing to harmonic the tariff anc
wages
''The interstate commerce commits
sion, - continued the Senator, "shoul,
be allowed to determine whether fall
wages are being paid by any concern
and if not, to compel the employer EN-
ploying foreign laborers and paving Eu
ropean wages TO pay the same tariff oI
it's manufactured goods that are en-
? forced against foreign importations IN
til its wages are increased to fai'
, scale for American workmen. If ;
higher tariff did in fact protect th'
, wage Garner I would eheerfullv stanC
, for its continuance, even at the eN
, pense of higher prices to the consumer
The evident purpose of the so-ealle'
! tariff experts is, so far As progress ha
O. been made, to deprive the farmers, VIII
2 are themselves laboring men and wag
- earners i'm most eases, of all protection
/ and preserve ii to the trust and mil
lionaire manufacturers. This would b
p a fatal mistake. In most eases on
G manufacturers and business men ca
5 compete with the world and make
profits They can and 10 sell thei
good cheaper in foreign markets tha
Mt home With the farmer, in man
cases, it is different.
''The wage Garner must be protecte
t in his earnings and reasonable hours G
labor, the consumer in reasonabl
prices, and the whole people must b
5 protected in their independence an
o liberty. The equality of all men mus
e be made a reality and not theory.
4 the Democratic party can and viii a
q complishe these results, demanded b
e the people, it may live and maintai
-e itself in power. If it does not, i
FL reign will be brief. If neither the q
c parties can or will restore the goverl
e ment to the people as our forefathe
=. handed it down, then a new party vi
t. be raised up that will do the people
will. 1t viii be party Of the people
own making, founded on justice, ia
dealing, and disinterested patriotisl
q | am ready to give the Democrat
II party fair trial. am willing to wa
e and see and to lend my aid to tn
he party or any other to bring about ju
" and beneficent laws through and
7. which the whole people may be broug
ne into their own and their just righ
lg fostered and protected.
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