Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

National Anti-Trust Conference. To The American People: Upon the adjournment of the conference ■Hating to Trusts, held in Chicago in SeptemBerlast under a call of the Civic Federation «f that city, a number of delegates to that conference who were opposed to Trusts met ••ether with the view of securing concerted action on the part of the enemies of private ■sooopoly. appointed an executive committee, st which M. L. Lockwood, president of the American Anti-Trust League, is chairman, and directed said committee, through itschair■san. to call, as soon as practicable, a National Anti-Trust Conference for the purpose of de•tdtng upon an Anti-Trust policy and permanently organizing an Anti-Trust policy and permanently organizing an Anti-Trust Movement. Purauant to this direction the said committee does hereby make the following declaration ■nd caU: Wobelieve the criminal conspiracies in reatoatot of trade commonly known as Trusts, touch so alarmingly characterize the present Bines, are a menace to liberty. They close Bwdoors of business opportunity to all but Bierich and powerful. They impoverish the producer and consumer. They degrade labor. They have seized upon the avenues of transportation and poisoned the fountains of public information. They debauch the elective franchise. They are public enemies. Unless they are overthrown there will be •■nAUahed io free Americas monied oligarch/ on the one hand and a serfdom of the aaasses of the people on the other. They ■Boat be destroyed or free government is lost. The only power capable of successfuly combatting tlie tyranny of these capitalistic mo■opolies is the aroused and organized hosts to the people to whom the government and the country rightfully belong and in whom ail power of right inheres. Our republic was born of the liberty which • 1776 Impelled the fathers to rebel against Ae tyranny of the English monarch and the special privileges of the British aristocracy, and which inspired them to pledge to the oause of human freedom their lives, their for•anes and their sacred honor. The Same love of liberty destroyed the aristocratic institution of slavery, a power •nee fortified in the courts and entrenched in the constitution. That same spirit now will ■office to overthrow the new slavery'and tyranny of the Trusts. In order to restore the equal rights of the people and deliver them from the criminal Beapoiliation of these monopolistic combinations, it is imperative that the special privifrrges which created and foster them be upnoted and forever destroyed. This herculean task can only be accomplished by the origanization of the lovers of freedom in every part of the republic and •rough the president and determined efforts of a united people. To this end a National Anti-Trust Conference is hereby called to meet in the city of diicago on the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, Tebuary 12, li)00. Patriotic citizens from all states and territories duly accredited and in full sympathy with the objects above named, and representntives of known Anti-Trust organizations, are invited to meet together in said conference. Applications for admission to said corfer■nce should be made to the Secretary, Unity Building. Chicago, at an early date, as credentails of delegates must be countersigned My the chairman of the Executive Committee, M. L. Lockwood. Chairman, Pennsylvania. A. M. Todd. Michigan. Dudley G- Woolen. Texas. < A. P. McGuirk. lowa. W. B. Fleming, Kentucky. Alfred Sample. Illinois. Wm. Prentiss, Vice-Chairman, Illinois. P. E. Dowe. New York. James W. Wilson, Chicago. Louis F. Post, Chicago. Weo. S. Bowen. Treasurer. Chicago, franklin H. Wentworth. Secretary, Chicago. Executive Committee.

Beveridge’s beverage seems to | Be very nauseating even to a great many prominent republicans. I' The bubonic plague is raging to Manila but Otis is safe. He | hasn’t caught anything for a coon’s Rge. The surplue is worrying the Treasury department. Why not I abolish it by reducing duties on aome of the protected articles. And now the administration is | seeking to lay the blame of the Philippine war onto Senator Hoar, g aaa of the old stand-bys of their jartyl 1 The only hope against the ( Trusts lies in the Democratic K warty. The Republicans are unK «a> too many obligations to them ■' to give any real relief. The British are disappointed in | tan They thought the entire •osntry was backing them against | the Boers. Unfortunately they I took Mac and Mark for the coun1%. ' . BmjT» I According to Senator Hoar, the I President’s proclamation to the | Xilipinos was toned down by Otis | in. order to prevent a revolt. But | th* Filipinos got hold of a copy of tjt>* the original and it led them to