The millions of toilers bend lower under their burdens; the Magnates
tighten their grasp on the throat of labor.
In all the United States there is but one man who holds a solution of
the problem of emancipating mankind from commercial servitude. This man
has been a delegate. He has spoken but a few words; he has been present
as an auditor.
His hour for action is soon to come.
CHAPTER VIII.
A STARTLING PROPOSAL.
The special committee has been directed to hold meetings at intervals of
a month and to have a report ready by the first of the following
January. Thirty-seven of the most intelligent and earnest of the
Anti-Trust members have been placed on this committee by its chairman.
The meetings are now secret.
The first meeting is held in the hall that had been used for the big
meetings of the conference. After this the meetings are clandestine.
The comment that was provoked by the conference of the radical leaders
of the Trust opposition died out in the usual way, and then the interest
in the efforts of the special committee was confined to the few people
who realized the earnestness of the men who had decided to take the
Trust problem up and bring it to a speedy settlement.
Day by day the members of the committee met to discuss the phases of the
all absorbing question.
The managers of some of the largest corporations are warned of these
secret deliberations and institute a vigorous investigation.
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