Statewide-Polk County IA Archives News.....Iowa Anit-Trust League  January 19, 1900
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The Daily Times (Davenport, IA) Fri Jan 19, 1900 January 19, 1900

             AGAINST THE TRUSTS
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      There are 72,000 Men Organized in the State of Iowa.
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      IOWA ANTI-TRUST LEAGUE.
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   Its Growth has been Somewhat Phenomenal 
      President Rozelle Makes a Characteristic Populist Address.

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   There are nearly 72,000 men organized in Iowa to antagonize
the trusts. All of these are members of the Iowa American Anti-
Trust league, so declares the president of that organization.
Charles MacKenzie has charge of the local organization
in West Des Moines, while Co. Warren M. Walker will look after
the same in East Des Moines.
           Preparations Being Made
    Preparations are being made for meeting of the American league,
which will be held in Chicago Feb. 12, 13 and 1 4. One hundred
and sixteen delegates will be sent from Iowa-- one from each
county and seventeen at large.
        The Officers of the League.
   The officers of the state league are as follows:
     President, Colonel N. W. Rozelle; vice president, S. C. Cranxe;
secretary, H. G. Carpenter; and treasurer, Warren M. Walker. The
executive committee is composed of N. W. Rozelle, J. W. Muffly and
H. D. Bummer.
               Colonel Rozelle's Statement
    In discussing the matter of the organization Colonel Rozelle, 
who seems to be a very good Populist, said:
   "This is distinctly a non-partisan movement. It will have nothing
to do with politics whatever and anything looking towards the
introduction of politics into our work with be frowned upon by the
officers.
   "We are merely a band of men who do not believe in trusts and 
who intend to make ourselves such a force as can nominate men
and elect to every public position men who are known to be
against the combination of capital for the benefit of the few.
We have men in our ranks from both the Democratic and the
Republican parties. We are really a non-politcal party. We are
against the  trusts and intend to do all in our power to wipe
them out. We will  not try to attain this end by asking the
legislature and congress for statutory action, but will 
endeavor to place in the positions of public trust men who will
 do the right thing without being asked. Nothing will be asked
of the Iowa legislature or of congress this winter."
                   Rozelle's Address.
   The concluding part of Colonel Rozelle's address, which will
give an idea as to the alleged non-partisan character of the 
league and where it will be found, was as follows:
   "The great trust of all trust at the present day is the
money trust. For ages civilization lanquished for the reason 
that commerce was hampered for the want of a medium of exchange.
Men cannot prosper, neither can the arts and sciences advance
very rapidly when all business is done by barter*** A little
band of men in a secluded room in New York City can by their
edicts and through their control of a medium of exchange make
the commerce of America totter and tremble from shore to shore,
and the financiers of Lombard street and Wall street can sound
destruction throughout every land and deprive the ships of
commerce over every sea in the world.
           The Control of Money Issue.
   "One of the things that amazes me from day to day, and 
from year to year as I advance in years, is the strange
and incomprehensible fact that the people will tolerate
for a single year the control of the issue of money by
corporations. If I can't get what I want I am willing to
work with the Anti-Trust league. If the masses of the
Anti-Trust league wish to restrain Joseph Leiter and the
Rockefellers and the greed and avarice of Armour, I am
still with them, but, oh, how much more glorious it
would be if instead of wasting our time on the little
petty marauders like Leiter and Armour we would aim our
guns on the citadel and the bulwarks of the great giant
monopoly and of all monopolies--the money trust. The years
of my own life are stretching out towards three-fourths of
a century.
                  In Conclusion.
   "I have been on the battle field of every great war 
that my country has had since I was old enough to shoulder
a musket. I have seen brave men slaughtered in defense 
of the flag. I saw the beleagued heroes of Gettysburg 
riddled by the bullets of the rebellion, I saw the flag
of my country. I saw the liberties of the republic tossing
mid the battle smoke of many of the great battles of the
rebellion and of the Mexican war, but in all these cases,
the issue was clearly drawn, and brave men understood the
problem, but today, without bloodshed or carnage, without
the terrors of war and its devastations, the emissary and
venal tools of the corporation and the trust are thronging
the precincts of legislation all the way from city council
to state capitol, and from state capitol to the nation's
capitol and today the liberties of mankind are more in
danger than they were when the battle of Gettysburg was
fought."



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