Show 11 ANTI = TRUST ni t J1iitia COllfll CUIIP ittee on RUlib lions Ipe I H DEBATE A HEATED O Cut and Dried Scheme was Considerably Changed SEVERAL VERY LIVELY TILTS I Many Startling Statements Hade Before Be-fore the Committee Among Thom One by President Loclcwood 1m which He Declared that Before Gov4 eminent Ownership of Bailroada was Finally Secured it Would ba Necessary to Impeach OnoJusticd of the Federal Supreme Court One Delegate from New York Scheduled for a Speech Withdrew from tho Conference Declaring that it Had Become a Partisan Gathering President Lockxvood in an Addresg Regretted Mention of Bryan i Chicago Feb 13After a heated debate de-bate tho resolutions committee of tho antitrust conference decided to report In favor of Government ownership oC railroads and for their seizure on payment pay-ment of actual value and without payment pay-ment for watered stock or other fictitious ficti-tious values There was a sharp discussion dis-cussion in the committee and several tilts between members brought on ban b-an effort to make the platform rcad as it had been drawn up that the Government Govern-ment should seize the railroads on payment pay-ment oC actual value and without payment foivXranchlrfc values TJimnJy mous action wrs finally obtained b cutting out the words franchise values and InsrXtlng the phrase watered wa-tered stock or other fictitious values The committee also unanimously favored fa-vored direct popular legislation as a means of obtaining the result REDHOT DISCUSSION The discussion In the committeeroom far outranked the deliberations oC tho main body of the conference Ignatius Donnelly John P Altgeld A PMc Quirk of Iowa and George Fred Williams Wil-liams urged the committee to strike from the resjlutlons proposed a statement state-ment that any payment for railroads should be exclusive of franchise value ALTGELDS IDEA This Is a long fight said Mr Alt I geld and IL will be years before wo come to an actual discussion oC the proposition on which we are to base I payment Let us not encumber the dIscussion with It now If we encumbered the proposition to free slaves with a statement of whao we would do with them we would never have freed them said Mr Don nellyWANTED WANTED TRUTH PRESENTED Henry George Jr however took tho other side of the question We are golngbefore the people lie said LeD us go with the whole plain truth and let them Judge of iu i Jerry Simpson also favored this view declared that ho had had years of experience ex-perience with this question in Kansas Ills declaration brought on a warul tilt with Representative McQuirk WARM TIFF Youre not the only one who lma4 had experiences said the latter Well Im no spring chicken replied re-plied the Kansas statesman Your feathers 1avc all been plucked already retorted his Iowa opponent STARTLING STATEMENTS Many startling statements were maua before the committee amons them one by President M L Lockwood In which he said that before the Government ownership of railroads was finally secured se-cured It would be necessary to Impeach Im-peach at least one Justice ot the Federal Fed-eral Supreme court The committee also considered a proposition to recommend to the attention atten-tion oi Congress Senator Pettigrewa bill for Government ownership of railroads rail-roads but It was voted down ADDRESS TO VOTERS The platform as agreed upon by Ilia committee on resolutions and as ft V1 be submitted to tile conference for adoption adop-tion tomorrow morning Is 1 preceded by > a long address to the voters ot inn countrY This address urges the people to or aL anise at once to depuvo trusts their power It recites the miuethoda pursued by the trusts and the effectS the people ttt of their operations upon and cites as particularly aggie s large slve the Standard Oil trust the b < > cC trust the elevator trust the anthracite trust tlie new coal trust the sugar tVuHt and the paper trust These great of capital the auuir combinations and all competition declares bear down maintain their powers ovQr tile thus Y discrimination In railway people through t1 way rates and terminal facilities BANK TRUST Aji a continuing the address says of i1 cuimiimatiofl of thIs aggrcgntlofl lobby gmtuitlc trusts 1111 unscruPuloUS et an allnmbiat to thVeatemis up now tiepiands bank trust This lobby Ing iJiMMk MV urir 5 Government wholly that the corporations Its 5ovreIgn to private far a5 0 function of Issuing money In if that function affects paper mCCOY toUld were done a that the vol result which would regUlate urnd ° f lmnper aBility and dictate Interests tOifl ot dlmncounts jn the mnerclul wliielt basIc J all time great trUt nntl to sustaLti a similar I totihi cr5 iii geimeial tlrUdY relatiOui to that wimich groCerS time sugar anti bear 0 the oil trust trust WHAT WILL RESULT Tho trend of this tuimsLmtLkummI p cess 13 unmistakable ITi1t0P j c grcftttrLt governed by afew a f < w crcaf ur0 rupulous men will dlfcc the Iurpr of American Industrie and both I bo-th masterspolitically as well OB Jn rtufriulyof the American people Wthttt themselves producing they drtorinlno tho character and ext si1 i i and will irt f production by others by their own compensation rrro > fure out I arbitrary Will And no power known to th law will thm bo strong enough to shake them off Even revolution II onh1 behopeloRH For In thin Ropub 11 I f theoretically equal when the sln 11pi sourcf of power shall have been pio i Htuurud everything will have been ttured the despotisms of the trusu i I Mlvalice as It la even now ad van e lIg 1 < In tho name and with tim might of the people REMEDY IS SUGGESTED 1 Too only remedy for the trust evil i thf abolition of legalized privilege Of sry kind By legalized privileges i mean power derived from law vMeh some persons or classes enjoy 1 i in exclusion of ohers and which Hi r ffnre create private monopolies It trusts live U I MI suoh privileges that mo and have their being We must rv hack to the fundamental principles of iho Declaration of Independence tho la lulplo that all men are entitled to 4t1lI > i rights under the law Thoro rttun bo no legalized discrimination r anti Biieh as now exists whether by virtu of lawa regulating publlcpollcy PI rr tlioee directly creating privileges imixt Iii abrogated WHAT IS RECOMMENDED legal Th ldijess < recommendsthree I ised privileges as objects for the Initial In-itial attack as follows First the pmllge created by tariffs for the protff tinn of goods by trusts second the privilege created by surrendering the money Issuing function to private airorations and third the privilege created by telegraph and railway fran I C hls AS TO MONEY TRUST Arrnln taklnr up the question of a money trust tim address says Wo dctlar that the problem of trusts is Inextricably Interwoven with the money mon-ey question We seo today the effort made systematically and It would seem with fair prospects of success to turnover turn-over to the banks the control of the circulating medium of the country But the banks In their turn are con trolled by those giants of finance who in common phrase wo tertn Tiust magnate They hold and control blorks of bank stock They sit upon boards ns directors They are In a position po-sition to extend or to deny credit to oaso or to tighten money markets to make prices 6f securities rise and fall and lo enrich or ruin man engaged In great enterprises As trust magnates they compel their banks to refuse assistance as-sistance to competing concerns as hankers they llnance the trusts > in which they arti Interested Since this alliance amounts to a community of Intcrcst3 between the trusts and the great banks It Is I clearly inexpedient that the control of the volame of the circulating medium of the Nation shall be delivered over to banking or other corporations THE PLATFORM T Whereas In the opinion of the national na-tional antitrust conference the Just and true remedy for the combinations Itnown as trusts which consists oC corporations cor-porations and natural persons controlling control-ling legalized special privileges Is the abolition of th so privileges and I Whereas The legalized privilege of the telegraph monopoly the legalized privilege of protection against foieUjn competition wlh American goods controlled con-trolled by trusts the legalized privilege privi-lege of monopolizing the issue of papero money and the legalized privileges Incident In-cident to the private ownership of railways are potent factors In creating and maintaining trusts therefore be It Resolved 1 That Congress take Immediate Im-mediate steps under the power of eminent emi-nent domain or otherwise as may be deemed the most expedient but in any event by paying the Just value lrre spoctlve of franchise value of any property prop-erty taken or condemned to establish the telegraph and telephone systems of the United Slates as adjuncts of the Postofllco department and subject to Its operations v i Second That Congress defeat all measures that have been or may he proposed and repeal all that now have the sanction of law whereby private corporations may acquire control oc the olume of the circulating medium and reate a banking trust Third That the tariff shall no longer L long-er be employed to foster and buttress trusts but that Congress shall place on th free list all articles the sale or which In tho United States is con rolled by a trust Fourth That Congress tnke Immediate Imme-diate steps under the power of eminent emi-nent domain or otherwise ns may be deomod the more expedient but In any vent paying the Juot value Irrespective of franchise value of any properly taken ta-ken or condemned to take own and operate the Interstate rail highways now owned and operated by private persons or railway corporations Whereas The political power of the trusts rises In tlielr frequent representation represen-tation In and control of the houses of legislation we recommend the adoption of tho system known as direct legislation legis-lation to make government once more ns of right it ought to be and as was concoivod alike by Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln a government for the people of the people and by the Pc0hI LIKE A MASS MEETING The night session was In the form of a mass meeting which was held at the Auditorium and brought out some of the strongest speakers among the delegates including John P Altgeld J2 S Monott Samuel M Jones John Crosby George Fred Williams and Tom L Johnson I REIAUKAJ3LE GATHERING President Iockwood of the Anti Trust league said tonight This Is a remarkable gathering in many respects F Every delegate paid his own railroad rar i here and the speakers are all volunteers vol-unteers The league has not spent a dollar in promoting the movement The trelogatcs traveled many miles for a purely unselfish motive This Is not aikc a political convention as we have no promises to make or ofllccs to give We arc hero to fight for a principle I firmly bcllcvo that this gathering Is the beginning of a movement which win wipe out every malevolent trust ilrom the country within a few years p NO POLITICS IN MOVE 1 ill unfair to charge that this is a political scheme planned In the in terest of any one candidate or set of candidates We havo members of all fpaitlea and classes In our ranks and p we are all working with unselfish mo tive for the betterment of mankind President Loekwood regretted that nr T ii W J Uryana name was mentioned in the discussions and declared It was his Intention to keep politics out of tho ° DiVr ° Sc U has been decided to llralt all future addresses in the con ference to twenty minutes In order to gt through with the programme IVICUKXCY I BILL RESOLUTIONS SMHrtly after the conference motto cLiy the following resolutions present ed I y Judge Fleming of Kentucky > r adopted by a rising vote UcToaa There has boon parsed by tho 310 of t Representatives a bill known LI < the currency bill which bill is now pCn1g In the Senate Ot tho United tiLtc nnd Vtlorea Sftffir btil Onli the Son ati nendtnent it i pr000sod 1r X titvored specIal cIas unu and AI law privi to Whereas Said bill and amendment it I enacted into law would dclegat to ine lutlonal banks the governIflti li il rigilt to hiiuo currency bow ait rnn1cnso bonus upon tho bonhi1oldors g1o a bounty ici4t O 0OO to tl of at JSRSKS national baIc do lnolwtizo silver and ihi irnrer lard nmko all debL heretofore money dej and boreal tor to bo Contracted contracted in sold place It In th iiower l ot tile payabi0 1lOflOy holding and money lending clos to Con tract the currency at win and io poss thcmelvo3 of the Property of tho nconn and fa at pleasure short enthrone the oligarchy nV monry establish a oomin bank trust enslave the COlitlflefltni People utid d stroy the republic to iilc end that free government may nerlnh from the luo earth now therefore boh Resolved That tho chnlrmaji xonforcnco IR I Hereby of thIs L point a committee of live Jziniilirs to flp to prepare a memorial asaiast such n itt ITLI raiewlio shall bo iiintcir lo go to the iifptol of the Nation for the purpose ors or-s ihln protect lo both HPUMOS of ongre5S of the Lnltcd States And bo It vfurtn r Resolved That wo warn tin people of th InltciJ Stati8 of tbo ruonaco to their llbtrty nnd call upon thorn everywhere to moot together nt their courthouse and In their lioolhouse nod oilier places and thunder their protest against tbo most audacious danirerouH and pppren jilvo mcrenuro over presented to a legislative legisla-tive body by a sot of connplrulors TORK QUITS CONFERENCE Immediately after Iho adoption of these reolutlors Amazi Thornton of NOW York notified the presiding officer that h would refuse lo deliver thn speech for which he wds scheduled today to-day T Was asHuied he said In an IhtTvlow that this was to be a nonpartisan non-partisan gatlierlng J will not be furthermore fur-thermore IdenUHod I with the conference as I consider that tndiys action makes It a partisan gathering OHIO MAN FOR CHAIRMAN The committee on permanent organ isation reported In favor of Frank S Mnnetl former AtiornevGcncral of Ohio as permanent chairman The report re-port was adopted Several set speeches were then delivered J FRKJ3 HOMES FOR SETTLERS t Delegate Robert A Neff of Oklahoma presented the following resolution which was unanimously adopted Resolved That U Is tho desire of this conference That Congrosfl extend to tho settle upon Govornment land the arnc advantages that have boon given to railroad rail-road corporations and grant lo said Mot tlers free homos by the Immediate pas teigo of the free homos bill now ponding In Congress AFTERNOON SESSION At thq < j afternoon session several ad dreFEes were made Including one by Mrs Helen JI Gougar of Indiana She was the first woman speaker at the conference and she was wildly cheered throughout Chairman Monett read a telegram from United States Senatpr Mason re Sfretting that he eoiild not be present after which an adjournment was taken until evening NIGHT SESSION American Hags were carried by a number of persons In the k Auditorium meeting tonight The stage was filled wiHi nromlnent antitrust men Jiidre William Pivntles called the meeting to order and introduced President Look wood of tho National AntiTrust league ns preuldlncr oillcer who delivered an address Frank Monett former Attor neyGeneral of Ohio was the next speaker Ho was followed by George Fred Williams Mr Williams declared that antimonopoly forces must be organized for tile overthrow of the spirit of greed and commercialism and that if neither of the old political parties was found capable of defending tho rights of the people then a now ono must be formed He declared however his belief that the Democratic party has cleansed and purified itself for this very contest Mayor Samuel M Jones of Toledo O was then introduced and cordially greeted When Mayor Jones concluded JiLs i address he requested the audience lo Join him in singing America I Every man and woman In the vast Iiudilorlum arose and the strains of the anthem filled lie building During the singing of the chorus hundreds of Hags fluttered from the hands of those In the seats and on the ntago John G Crosby of New York was the next speaker He was followed by Tom TJ Johnson who received an enthusiastic enthusias-tic welcome at the hands of the audi once Former Gov John r Altgeld Tiext came forward He was greeted with prolonged applause t In response to calls from the crowd Congressman John J hentz of Ohio made n few remarks He denounced the McKInley administration and advocated ad-vocated the Government ownership of telegraph and telephone lines The mass meeting was then declared ad journed j |