Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
cAHFlELp COM MEMT.
Reform Press Bureau.

~ Reform Press Bureau.
~ --.,. ST.~PAUL. Sept. 25, 1890
The wisdom of Governor Lind il
''forgetting' to send accredited repre-.
sentatives to the Chicago trust conven.
ton, was more than proven by results
That it fell entirely short of being a
trust excusing gathering out and out,
or failed Of such purpose, was due to the
self.sacrifcing course of Mr.. Bryan con-
senting to appear there. This he did in
his view of clear duty, we'll knowing
the purpose of the trust defenders to in
some manner break the force of public
sentiment against their dear creature.
He also we'll knew that the monopoly
of all monopolies, the Associated Press.
was moro than liable to discriminate
against him, and its performance in
that regard was little moro out
rageous than has recently occurred. The
facts are that while the Associated
Press carried every word of the speech
of Bourke Cochran, making seven or
eight columns, it carried less than two
columns of Mr.. Bryan's utterances,
dropping the most pertinent and effotual
portions. Thus it suppressed entirely
the basic reform principle, that the
root and necessity that have produced
trusts, is our vicious financial policy
which has appreciated money and
lowered prices through long period
of years. Mr.. Bryan's unanswerable
points were carefully eliminated
throughout. The Chicago dailies gen.
orally printed Mr.. Bryan's speech in
full, and this, which is to be regarded
as one of his greatest efforts, should be
obtained by all who can get it and given
as wide circulation as possible.
In the situation that not a paper in
Minnesota will probably print the
speech in full, undoubtedly the best
use of the limited bureau space
is to give as many of the points
made by our great leader as possible.
This garbling and discrimination
misled many we'll meaning men. Tins
our usually fair friend, the St. Paul
Globe, was led to declare the speech as
''stale and unprofitable," while Judge
Canty is still commenting on Mr.. Bry-
ans propositions, based on such garbled
information. The masses are thus to-
tally deceived. How thoroughly to be
despised is the management of this hip
pogat Of hippogats, this monster of
monsters, which controls, garbles and
suppresses at will, the, news of the
worldl An intelligence trust!
1.-THE real cause of trusts is our long
period of falling prices, caused by tho
rising dollar duo to bad financial legisla-
ton. The loss on Investments, declines
in property. proftless business, and the
have forced combinations to hold up or
increase prices. Such losses, declines and
necessities would not have occurred but
for rising dollars and the attendant fall
in the level of prices
1.-THE high tariff has aided monopoly,
for no ono can dispute that an import
duty enables Il trust to charge for its
product the price of a similar product.
plus the tariff"
II want to start with the declaration
that monopoly in private hands is inde-
fensible from any standpoint and intoler-
able" (Applause.)
II make no exceptions to the rule. 1
do not divide monOpolies in private hands
into good monopolies and bad monopolies.
(Applause:) There is no good monopoly
in private hands There can be no good
monopoly in private hands until the AL
mighty sends us angels to preside over
us" (Applause.)
I'm 1869 Abraham Lincoln wrote q let
ter to some people at Boston, and in the
course of the letter he said: The Repub-
lican party believes in the man and the
dollar, but in case of conflict it believes
in the man before the dollar" ZAP
plause.)
MAN is the creature of God and money
is the creature of man. (Applause.)
Money is made to be the servant of man
(applause) land protest against all the
Ories that enthrone money and debasc
mankind" prolonged applause.)
Lincoln warned us against monopoly,
and Lincoln was right"
II protest in the beginning against set
tling every question upon the dollar ar
gunent protest against the attempt to
drag every question down to the low
level of dollars and cents.
"If you will go about over the country
you will see where the people have sub
scribed money to establish enterprises,
having come under the control of the
trusts, have been closed up, and stand
now as silent monuments to the wisdom
of the trust system"
I'VE get ideas from the animals about
us. We used to protect property, down
in Iowa, by putting rings in the noses of
hogs. Why did we do that! So that
while they were getting fat they would
not destroy more than they were worth.
And the thought came to me that one of
the purposes of government was to put
rings in the noses of hogs" daughter
and applause.)
1.-THE farmer cannot initiate tho value OF
his land by watering the value of that
land The merchant in the store cannot
initiate the value of the goods upon his
shelves. Why should the corporation be
permitted to put out stock that represents
I'm my judgment, when you take from
monopoly the power to issue stock not
represented by money you will go more
than half way toward destroying monop-
oily in the United States" (Applause.)
1--WE have been placing the dollar above
the man; we have been picking out favor
ties In governments; we have been bestow-
ing upon them special privileges, and
every advantage we have given them has
been given them to the detriment of other
people"
'When God made man as the climax of
creation he looked upon his work and
said that it was good, and yet when God
got through the tallest man was not much
taller than the shortest, and the strongest
man was not much stronger. than the