The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-16
William j. Bryan Says It Is the
Money Trust.
SPEAKS AT DIES MONIES
ON THE EVE OF DEMOCRATIC
STATE CONVENTION.
Party Must Not Neglect Silver to
Pay Attention to other Matters,
Or It Will Rightly Forfeit the
Confidence of the People-Discus-
ses Philippine Question.

Des Moines, Ia, Aug. 15.-Wllliam j.
Bryan spoke for two hours at the
Auditorium tonight to an audience Of
4,5OO people. The house was crowded,
and the audience, which included prac-
tically all the delegates 10 the Demo-
cratic convention to be held tomorrow,
took every opportunity to applaud. MIR.
Bryan took up the silver question say
ing prosperity did not set in until SIX
months after the election, when the
Klondike gold mines began to be heard
from. The Republicans who claim that
times are better because the balance
of the trade is in favor of the United
States give away their own position, he
said. and admit that the Democratic
view of the quantitiVe character OF
money is correct.
The 6.50O, 600 voters of the Demo-
cratic party in 1896 were for silver. The
100000 Republican voters were for a
platform which called for international
himetallism. Only the Palmer and
Buckner voters were for the gold
Sandwiches than / per cent, yet
now the Iowa Republican platform goes
a step farther and is mainly for gold
alCne. Moreover, the Republicans
threaten to retire the greenbacks,
though they have never been before the
people on that issue.
Ilo greatest OIL all
The speaker next went after the
trusts, but said if the Democratic
party neglected the silver question to
attend to the trusts, it would rightly
forfeit the confidence of the people. The
money trust is the biggest trust of all.
he was glad the travelling men were
fighting the industrial trust now, but
sorry they had not seen the logic of
events in 1886 and helped to fight the
money trust then. The men who make
trust speeches and applaud them are
bankers.
A new danger of the trusts has Just
been developed When a trust gets
control of all the factories in given
line and the hands in one factory
strike, the trust will close that one and
make its goods at the other. When the
workmen at that place are starved to
the point of working for any wages
offered, that factory viii be reopened
and a lock out to reduce NageS will be
inaugurated at another factory.
Mr. Bryan closed his speech by a
lengthy discussion of imperialism. The
difference, he said, between a re-
public and an empire, is this: A re-
public needs an army of $4,000 for TO-
O0o. 600 people. An empire needs four
times as large an army when 100000
population IS added This suits the
young men who get fat jobs in the
army but not the people who pay MIL
lions OF dollars a year needed to main
tain the soldiers in the Philippines.
The Philippine Question
Mr.Bryan gave figures to show that
England and other nations do not
coionize rapidly and said that with
twenty people to the square mile in
America and sixty to the mile in the
Philippines, there is no opportunity
there. Even if we succeed in killing OFF
all the natives. you cannot get young
Americans to go there-they prefer to
live in Iowa and Nebraska.
The profit viii not equal the cost, and
the profit viii not go to the right peo-
PIE, but 70 investment syndicates. Even
If any man is willing to trade for pot
tage and does not have taste for
birthright, he had better investigate
the pottage. AS the TagalS are largely
Christians and our native allies are
largely AIohammedan, we ought 70 ask
the sultan to help US subdue the Chris
tan insurgents.
This government ought to make a
declaration of good intentions towards
the Philippines as it did toward Cuba
The president ought to have done 50;
or. If he did not have the power, should
have asked congress for it Now, he
might call a special session to ask Tor
the power Cleveland called a special
session to repeal the Sherman act and
mckinley called one. A special ses-
sion now would cost much money, but
not nearly so much as the continuance
of the war.