The age-herald., 1899-05-26
DEMOCRATS BEGIN THE CRUSADE ON
 CRASHING TRUSTS AND MONOPOLIES
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Ill the foundation of the attempt to de- stroy the greenbacks, but it is the con trolling principle that underlies the cru sade against silver a standard money. Between 1850 and 1SG0-when the production of gold was increasing and the production of silver was small-three nations demone- tized gold and gave silver a monopoly of mint privileges. Early in the seventies the financiers became alarmed al the increase in the production of silver and conspired to destroy silver as standard money and give monopoly to gold, the production of which at that time was stationary.
 ''The standard money trust is not only the parent trust, but is in the hands of foreigners.
 Republicans Poweriess
 "The republican party is impotent to de- stroy the trusts. It is controlled by those who are interested in trusts and it's cam paign funds and sinews of war are sup piled by trusts. The policies for which it now stands disregard the interests of the producers of wealth and give the money a consideration which is denied to the indi- vidual.
 Abraham Lincoln, in the very beginning of his presidential career warned the coun- try against the threatened attempt to put capital above labor in the structure of the government. Modern republicanism is full filling the prophecy made by Lincoln-is putting the dollar above the man.
 "The democratic party is opposed to the principle of monopoly wherever it mani fests itself. It has declared war on trusts. Not a little trust only, but a big trust as we'll Not against one kind of trust only, but against all trusts"
 An Issue That Must be Met
 Mr. Bryan, although he devoted the greater part of his address to the
 trusts, touched briefly upon the silver
 question, declaring that it was an issue
 that must be met The republicans be-
 ing pledged to the gold standard he
 said, were opposed to silver because 1t
 meant the giving up the standard which
 they had adopted.
 He returned to the attack of the trusts
 which he accused of lack of kood faith
 toward the people. "A rich man. he
 declared, "who pays his taxes is as
 much of patriot as any man who
 swims river or climbs up San Juan
 Hill."
 Following Mir Bryan came O. H. P.
 Belmont, of New York, who, in the
 opening sentence of his speech de-
 clared as in favor of the election of
 Bryan as the democratic nominee in
 1S9. He then returned to the foe of the
 evening-the trusts-and hunted them vigorously declaring them the offshoot
 of the policy pursued by the republi-
 can party during the last twenty years. Will Readopt Chicago Platform The Hon. Champ Clark was the next speaker, and said in part:
 Having rendered the platform of 1896 an accomplished fact, it is evidently mete and proper that at this early date Missouri exercising her democratic 9primacy, should | proclaim in no uncertain tone the unyield- | ing principles of democracy stated generally in a single sentence 1 these princi iples may be condensed as fol- 1 lows: Equal rights for all; special pidvll- 1 eges for none; or, in a still brieier form more money and less taxes | 'To be more specifie: In 1900 we will ex. 1 press the unyieldlng principles of democ 1 racy in this wise:
 "1 We will not only reaffirm, but re l adopt the Chicago platform of 1896, worC l for word syllable for syllable. abatins 1 neither tot nor little of that second dec | laraton of independence
 "2 We will put into our platform al strong an antitrust plank as the America ! language can make-the American Ian | guage mark you, not the EDgltsh-whioi 1 will restore to every citizen of this repuD 1 lie the ina lienable right to earn his brea l in the sweat of his face, which will guar | antee to every laborer the enjoyment o | all his wages, and which will once nor | make possible that competition which wa | supposed to be the life of trade until tn | republican party created a countless broo , of trusts which are sucking the life -bloo l of the great body of the people. In m | Judgment, the best way for congress { | smash the trusts is to place upon the ire
 list all things used or made or sold by tn
 trusts. Then let both congress and stat
 legislatures make 1t a penitentiary offenc
 to form, conduct "@ a~ interested in a trus