The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-22
The PENIS Grove Record
FRIDAY, AUGUST %, 1899.
WIN, j. BRYAN'S GREAT SPEECH
ON TRUSTS.
His Remedy 10 Kill Them Given,
..rhc Idea Make Thc NAM

"The idea Makes The Man
AT the great antitrust conference III
Chicago last week many speeches ana
addresses were given on Trusts, their
cause and cure, but no person drew a
bigger crowd or gave a speech That was
more heartily received with approval
than that of William }. Bryan. lie
spoke last Saturday morning ana al
ternoOn in part as follows;
81 am glad l live in a country where
people can differ from one another, dlf-
fer honestly, express their convictions
boldly and yet respect M another and
acknowledge one another'sright, am
not vain enough, however, tothink that
n good will which has been expressed
by the people toward me is due to any
personal merit.
''If l have political friends it is be-
cause people believe with me in certain
ideas or rather that l believe wlththem
in certain ideas. II Is the idea tGt
makes the man. The man is only i'm
portapt as be helps the idea.
"The trust question has grown IN I'M
portance because within two years more
trusts have been organized, when we
come to consider the capitalization ana
the magnitude of the interests mYolye0,
than were organized in all the previous
history of the country, and the people
now come face to face with tins ques-
tion.i
SIS the trust a blessing or acurseE If
a curse what remedy can be applied to
the curse?
81 want to start with the declaration
that monopoly in private hands is indie
fensible from any standpoint and lntOl'
cradle, | make 10 exceptions to the
rule. | do not divide mon0pOlies in
private hands into good monopolies and
bad monopolies. There is no good
monopoly in private hands.
"There can be no good monopoly in
private hands until the Almighty sends
us angels to preside over us.
"The defense of the monopoly is al
WAYS placed on the ground that if you
wifi allow people to control the market
and fix the price they will be good tc
the people who purchase of them. The
entire defense of the trusts rests upOr
a money argument. 1t the trust vii
sell to a man an article for a dollar Ies'
than the article will cost under otheI
conditions, then in the opinion OF somt
that proves a trust to be a good thing.
sin the first place / deny that unde.
a monopoly the price will be reduced
In the second place, if, under Il mo
nopoly the price is reduced, the objec
lions to a monopoly from other stand
points far outweigh the financial ad
vantage that the trust would bring,
''But l protest in beginning agains
settling every question upon the doIla
argument. l protest against the at
tempt to drag every question down t
the low level of dollars and cents.
MAN BEFORE THE DOLLAR.
"In 1859 Abraham Lincoln wrote
letter to some people at Boston, and
the course of the letter he said: I'm
Republican party believes in the ma
and the dollar, but in case Of coniliC
it believes in the man before the dollar
"In the early years of his administrS
tion he sent a message to Congress, an
in the message he warned his country
men against the approach of monarchJ
And what was it that alarmed him
He said it was the attempt to put cap
tai upon an equal footing with, if nc
above, labor in the structure of govern
ment. He saw the approach of moi
archy.
"Lincoln was right. Whenever yo
put capital upon an equal footing wit
labor, or above labor in the structuI
of government you are on the road I
aid a government that rests, not upo
reason, but upon force.
"Man is the creature of God an
money is the creature of Mone
is made TO be the servant of man, All
l protest against all theories that el
throne money and debase mankind.
"God made men selfish. | do III
mean to say that He made a mistal
when he did it, because Eellishness
merely the outgrowth of an instinct
self-preservation. 1t is the abnorm
development of a mans desire to pr
tect himself; but everybody who know
human nature, knows how easy it is
develop that side of a mans being.
R~ING-NOSED HOGS AND TRUSTS.
I'VE put rings in hogs noses not
keep them from getting fat but tn
while they are getting fat they do NJ
destroy more than they are worth, '
are all hoggish. In the hours of TEN
tation we are apt to trespass upon t
rights of others.
"But while / wish to see every pt
son secure for himself a competency
don't want him to destroy more th.
he is worth while he is doing that.
''And | believe that the principle
monopoly finds It's inspiration in the {
sire of men to cur by monopC
what they cannot secure in the op
field of competition.
Sin other words, if | were going
try to find the root of the monopC
evil l would do 80 as / have often b
occasion to do-go back to the Bill
for an explanation, and l would find
in the declaration that the love of me
ey is the root of all evil.
THAT RISING DOLLAR.
"Now, certain things have added
and aided this desire for for the prof
of monopoly, and ] am going to suggt
some things which l think have co
tributed, / will not ask you all to agT
with me, but we have not met here
a body of men who agreed, We ha
met here as a body of men who we
seeking light, and each n ought to
willing to hear what every other o
has to say, and each n of us shou
desire the triumph of that whichistr
more than the triumph of that viii
we think may be true.
''The primary of monopoly
the love OF money and the desire to
cure the fruits of monopoly; but l |
lieve that falling prices caused by
rising dollar have contributed to Il
desire and intensified it, because peoI
with their plants, seeing the fall
prices and measuring the loss on inye.
ments, have looked about for sol
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