The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-09-27
The Plainest and Strongest Pre-
sentation of Facts Ever Made.
ooME REMEDIES SUGGESTED
Trusts Can Be Annihiiateo #
the People so Decree.
Nebraskan Given OVa-
tion by Chicagoans.

N Ch1cag0 closed Us SeSsIOuo w H"'"i
day, September l6, IN blaze Of ora.
tory, in which Col. ". J. Bryan and
W. Bourke Cochran were the central
figures. Mr.. Bryan was introduced by
Gov. Stanley of Kansas, who acted as
chairman ofthe opening session. Wild
applause greeted the Nebraskan: ";
Bourke Cochran listened intently and
Joined frequently in the applause. Mr..
Bryan spoke'in part as follows:
within two years mere trusts have
been organized than in the previous
history of the country, and the people
now come face to face with this Ques,
ton: Is the trust blessing or a
curse? If g curse what remedy can be
applied 70 the curse?
sMonopoly in private hands IS lnce-
fensible from any standpoint and IN
tolerable do not divide monopol:es.
There can be no good monopoly in pri-
Yate hands until the Almighty sends
US angels to preside over US.
There may be a despot who is bet
ter than another despas but there is
no good despotism The defence Of the
monopoly is always placed on the
ground that if you will allow people to
control the market and fix tie price
they will be good to the people who
purchase of them. The entire defense
Of the trusts rests upon money argu-
ment. If the trusts will sell an article
fora dollar less than the article will cost
under other conditions, then in the
opinion of some that proves trust TO
be good thing. In the first place |
deny that under monopoly the price
will be reduced. In the second place,
if under monopoly the price is re-
duced, the objections to monopoly
from other standpoints far outweig5
the financial advantage that the trust
would bring. But l protest against set
ting every question on the dollar argu-
ment.
''In the early years Of Lincoln's ad-
ministration he sent message to
congress warning his countrymen
against the approach of monarchy. He
said he saw in the attempt to put
capital even upon an equal footing
with labor in the structure Of govern
ment, the approach of monarchy. Lin
coin was right. Whenever you put
capital upon an equal footing with
labor, or above labor in the structure
Of government, you are on the road to
aid government that rests not on
reason but on force.
Nothing is more important than
that we shall, in the beginning rightly
understand the relation between money
and man.
''Man is the creature Of God and
money is the servant of man and l
protest against all theories that en-
throne money and debase mankind.
''If you will 60 about over the coun-
try you will see where people have
subscribed money to establish enter
prises, and where those enterprises,
having come under the control of the
trusts, have been closed up and stand
now as silent monuments to the Sodom
Of the trust system. In any case of
local strikes and fires the work goes
on elsewhere, thus preventing serious
loss.
when branch of industry is found
in the hands of one of the great mo-
nopolies so that every skilled man
must go to the ore man for employ
ment, the one man fixes the wages as be
pleases and laboring men will then
share the suffering Of the men who sells
the raw material.
! want to warn you that when the
monopoly has absolute control, brains
will be ata discount We have not yet
had taste of a complete trust. But
when the trust has rid itself Of all
competitors what is going to be the re-
suit? My friends, all you have to
know is human nature God made
man selfish.
''On the farm We used to protect
property from the hogs by pp,itg
rings in their noses. Why? s. chat
while they were getting fat, they wouid
not destroy more than they were worth.
zone of the great purposes Of gov
ernment is to put rings in the noses
of hogs. If were going to try to find
the root Of the monopoly evil would
go back to the Bible for an explana-
ton, and I would find it in the decla-
tion that the love Of money is the root
of all evil.
Failing prices, caused by rising
dollar, and the high tariff, have con-
tributed the desire to secure the fruits
Of monopoly.
''Some have suggested that to put
everything on the free list that trusts
make, would destroy trusts. But DO
not believe that you could destroy al
trusts by putting all tr1st-made ar
ticles on the free list, because if an
article CAP be produced in this country
as cheaply as it can be produced abroad,
then the trust could exist without the
benefit Of any tariff at all, though it
could not extort so much. We cannot
destroy monopoly until We lay the axe
at the root of the tree, and make mono
poly impossible by law.
Discrimination by railroads has aid
ed trusts. That can be remedied By
laws which will place producers or
equal footing. But the remedy must
be complete enough to prevent the or
ganization Of a monopoly. We differ
more in remedy than we dc in our
opinion of the trust. Few people will
defend the trust as a principle. AS to
the remedy both State and nation
should have concurrent remedies. In
the first place every State has or should
have the right to create any private cor
poration which is conducive to the vel
fare of the people of that State. | be-
Ge7e that We can safely entrust to the
people Of State the settlement of
question which concerns them. II they
create corporation and it becomes de-
structive of their best interests they