The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-05
Great Democratic Wigwam Celebrated with
Formal Exercises.
SPEECHES MADE BY DEMocRAcY's LEADE
The of William Bryan Cheered and Appauded to tn
A cathing Criticism of Agei-The Day Observed
TT roughont the United States and in England.

was known to the Roman and Greciar
, peoples 1000 years ago, and to our English
French and German ancestors hundreds @
years ago. But 1t Is laid the trusts bench
humanity by reducing the price to the con
sumer of the article manufactured. Re
cent experience in the formation OF trust
prove this not true, but the reverse is
This can not be true, t1r what is saved II
the expense by consolidation Is more thai
lost in the interest charges on the waite
in the stocks and bonds which Is alway
injected into the trust as profits 40 the pro
moters and brokers who float the scheme
and to pay for Improbable plants which
must be shut down. or course the Interest
on these watered bonds and stock must T.,
added to the cost of the article, and re-
cent experience in nearly every instanc,
has shown the price of the article was i'm
mediately advanced over former prices.
II this bo true. then the only plausible
argument yet advanced by the trust IL
found to be unsound, and they serve nc
purpose except to crush labor and pluck
mankind. II Is impossible for an indi-
vldual to compete with them, for ii would
not only be to engage In a struggle with a
competitor having superior capital, burt
with one clothed by law with privileges
and franchises he did not possess II
| would be an individual attempting TO fight
a system. with the result in no doubt what
| ever
This fear OF monopolies on the part of
the American people is no idle fear. No
man OF sense wishes to return to the day
of the shoemaker with his anvil his pegs
and his last for supply OF shoes, and yet
there are thousands of good citizens who
would view with alarm the sight of one
trust controlling the output of every shoe
factory in the United states. No sensible
man wishes to 60 hack TO the days of the
old and cumbersome stage coach as a
means of transportation, and yet there are
several millions of voters and good eiti-
zens, too who would protest vehemently
against one trust controlling every mile
of railroad In our country There is a
conservative middle ground between lack
of progress on The one hand and gigantic
monopolies on the other and we plant our
selves uron this solid ground.
What has become OF that vast number of
tradesmen ~ cur cities who n general ion
ago owned their own shops-men of Md
crate. Independent means who did business
Tor themselves They have either mad 20
quit bueln ase or have taken employrent in
the Zig stores wrere all indivldualite ia
destroyed and servility is expentsd
What will become of these Thousands Of
men and women who are being thrown out
Of employment by the formation of the.a
gigantic trusts? 1t is no consolation for
them 10 know If II were trne which ia moi
that a certain article is belng manufac,
tured and sold chuapar than h, fore Man
kind to live must work and on,st have an
opportunity to work. II is said the accu-
mutations for tho I,s. civ thonsand ,e,,s
Did not sustain the world in ,dle,ess for
three.
MIR. C. Il. Dove of this CITY nresIdent OF
the Commercinl Travellers, Nation.l too,y,o
has stated before the industri,l con,mission
that through the orpanization AZ ,r,s,s
ever % 900 travelling anlasmen havn Icen
thrown out of employment and % Ooo ,nora
had ,hcir SALARIES reimraI 49,, Nv, -,
Tho hest netron ~ hsS5 o,a ", uinaiei
the man who is always to he found IN the
siroNlhg room on the sleeping car with The
memess johe ,hat out VINO knows
nat,,re j. nh ~ ,barjt,, 80, Ini,,, mHo,e
who. all In all. is The hest fellow Ia the
world. 1t begins to look like his DAYS are
n n'i ana me trust is the only thing
Fellow citiyens tharo ~ ,r roo' o,ho. o
tions which win engage our attention and
one IS the right 10 raise large armies to
eonee, ooiohies, govern them without tteir
Cbristanitv into tha Nv, S.v'', ,l i ahu
, i"n'r, ih'o the niiiVes py pan ana
oa'onet' we must 10 these things, let
fsna or urS ho not ov hgposrites ana not pro
these thing In lie ,,a NY p'oivs 's, 90 10
for ne 10 1n,,aIoh n a ~ WIZ 'oC 40
notbimc hn. ,nd, as ,ni trusts, "hieh is
~, ou' inuus'riai imperialism, and
NV somueih eoIohiai imperialism they
az, poth iouiueu ON tine same principle,
is i w us inp. must ever condemn that
is, the right OF the strong to crush the
weah Mnile we an take Just pride in
.ne serehsen Oh our government aud its
,,,a,ho ' nn, ny iahu ana sea- we must re-
sian4,s :, on, II excellent 70 have
IAN ~, s'lenstn, out II is tyrannous TO use
II 'Ae giant
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mr. Wh'e'ts reference to Judge Au
gustus Van Wyck and his remarks about
trusts were tho occasions of outbrrs,s =,
cbeer,,o hv NE o,,,t. "
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mention OF the name OF William j.
Bryan also brought out burst Of ap-
plause.
Just before tho c,oso =, ~.
yu,a,. ,,,.r. N''' VI "'s speeeh' Mr.
"'"e'' uNe'seu from the speech as given
out and said: II see that Mr.. Alger is
running for senator from Michiyan ~ ~
anti-trust n,at,orr, =, 4, -. W. ."
M ,.,1, 'nat ricn Anger,
Eagan Va marx mama, OF Armour. OF
$3.50 o.. running on an antitrust plat
M wm.,, 90.
who "'netl .oiu OF the southern negro
farm 10" for ' "a so INTO selling his masters