Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-09-22

Of trust upon employment, with special
reference to the commercial travellers. Then
he dwelt upon the relation of the tariff
TO the corporations, following that with
condemnation of discrimination by rail-
ways.
In order to destroy trusts requires them
to make open accounts and eliminate wa
tered stock he recommended that congress
sional action be taken to wipe out trusts.
He was interrupted by an auditor who
Queried: would that be constitutional"
Would Change Constitution.
81 would have congress take such action.
Immediately" replied Col. Bryan, land If
the supreme court declares such law un-
constitutional / would have the constitu-
ton of the United States SO amended that
1t would give congress the necessary au-
thority."
The speaker then dwelt more at length
upon the powers which should be reposed in
the state and federal government to curb
trusts and prevent the watering of stock.
Mr.. Bryan then produced a copy of cir
cular sent out by the Corporation Trust
company of Philadelphia telling the bene-
fits of the new Delaware stock incorpora-
ton law over the New Jersey law. A plan
OF campaign was then mapped out by the
speaker to bring trusts under federal and
state control. Reference to the income
tax law was applauded as well as passing
reference to the Philippine issue con-
tanned in the statement that IA govern
ment derives its rights from the consent of
the governed"
Got an idea from Hogs.
1--WE get ideas from every source. An idea
Is the most important thing that man can
get into his head. An idea will control
mans life. An idea will revolutionize a
community, state, nation, world, and
we never know when we are going to get an
idea. Sometimes we get them when we do
not want to get them, and sometimes we get
them from sources which would not be ex-
pected to furnish ideas. We get them from
our fellow-man. We get them from mani
mate nature. We get them from the an
imals about u.s. got an idea once from
some hogs that think was valuable idea
81 was riding through Iowa and / saw
some hogs roofing in field, and the first
thought that came to me was that those
hogs were destroying great deal of value,
and then my mind ran back to the time
| when lived upon farm and when we had
hogs. Then thought of the way in which
we used to protect property from the hogs
by putting rings in the noses of the hogs;
and then the thought came to me why we
| did it-not to keep the hogs from getting fat
we were more interested in their getting
| fat than they were; the sooner they got fat
| the sooner we killed them. The longer they
were in getting fat the longer they lived;
| but why did we put the ring in their noses
| So that while they were getting fat they
| would not destroy more than they were
worth" prolonged applause)
Must Recognize Human Nature.
"And then the thought came to me
| 0aughter)-the thought came to me that
| one of the great purposes of government
was to put rings in the noses of hogs. pro
| longed applause) I don't mean to say any
thing offensive (applause). but we are all
| hoggish. In hours of temptation we are
| apt to trespass upon the rights of others.
Primary Cause Is Money.
"Let me repeat that the primary cause of
| monopoly is the love of money and the de-
| sire to secure the fruits of monopoly; but ]
believe that falling prices caused by rising
! dollar have contributed to this desire and
| intensified 1t, because people with their
| plants. seeing the fall in prices and meas
| uring the loss on investments have looked
| about for some means by which they could
| protect themselves from this loss and they
have Joined together In combinations to
hold UP prices In order to protect their in
vestments from a loss which would not
have occurred bat for the rise In the value
OF dollars and the TAN In the level of prices u
(Applause.)
The speaker concluded with a strong APP
peal to human impulse, comparing the
"God-made man" with the 'magnified
man-made man."