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agricultural department should recommend to the general 

 o-overnment such chauires in tariff schedules as will furnish 

 equal protection to the products of the farm." 



Then followed a somewhat leno-thy paragraph upon trusts 

 and their evil tendencies, summed up as follows : — 



"By legislation and by the courts we have settled the 

 great principle that the public have a right to control tjiese 

 trusts, and corporations have accepted the principle. What 

 we want is for the national and State executives to lose no 

 time in laying before Congress and the legislative bodies the 

 evils complained of, and suggest such remedies as will check 

 their future growth. 



"We should say to these combinations, Thus far and no 

 farther shalt thou come. 



" AVe should ask for no class legislation; we should de- 

 mand no favors beyond a legitimate protection to the farm 

 interests, and we should be satisfied with nothing short 

 of the same recognition accorded to all other American 

 industries." 



Upon completion of the delivery of the address a com- 

 mittee of five was appointed to examine into its recommenda- 

 tions, and to prepare a memorial to Congress in the line of 

 its suggestions, if deemed advisable. A discussion followed 

 the address, in which many members took part, and lasted 

 until the adjournment for the noon hour, it then being too 

 late to take up new business. 



At the afternoon session resolutions were offered in favor 

 of the upbuilding of our merchant marine in the foreign 

 carrying trade ; in favor of lil)eral appropriations for the 

 improvement of our rivers and harbors ; for Congress to 

 take measures for the extermination of the gypsy moth ; and 

 in favor of international bi-metallism, etc., which were re- 

 ferred to the committee on resolutions, appointed at this 

 session, made up of one delegate from each State, the mem- 

 ber from Massachusetts being Mr. Candage, and from Rhode 

 Island Mr. Stockwell, secretary o-f the Board of Agriculture 

 of Rhode Island, those two being the only New England 

 States represented in the Congress. 



A committee on finance was also appointed, of which Mr. 

 Avery of Massachusetts was a member ; and a committee on 



