The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-16
BIGGEST TRUST OF ALL
That Is Bryan's Opinion of the
Money Trust.
REPUBLICS AND EMPIRES
Mckinley Should Call an Extra Session
OF Congress to Give Him Power to
Declare His Intentions Toward
the Philippines.

Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 15.-Hon, W.
j. Bryan spoke for two hours at the
Auditorium tonight to an audience of
$500 people. The house was crowded
and the audience which included prac-
tlcally all the delegates to the demo-
cratic convention to be held Tomorrow
took every opportunity to applaud. Mr..
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 quantitative character of
money is correct.
The 6,500,O0O democratic voters of the
democratic party in 1896 We're for sill
Yer. The 100000 republican voters
We're Tor a platform which called for in
ternational bimetallism. Only the
Palmer and Buckner voters were for
the gold standard-less than 1 per cent.
Yet now the Iowa republican platform
goes step farther and is mainly for
gold alone. Moreover, the republicans
threaten to retire the greenbacks.
though they have never been before the
people on that issue.
The speaker next went after the
trusts, and said if the democratic
party neglected 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 We're nghting the indus
trial trusts now. but sorry they had not
4 hn Of
helped to fight the money trust then
The men who make trust speeches and
applaud them are bankers. A new
danger of the trust has just been de-
Veioped. 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 Will be reopened and lockout
to reduce wages will be Inaugural ted
at another factory.
Mr. Bryan closed his speech by
lengthy discussion of imperialism. The
difference, he said, between a republic
and an empire is this: republic needs
an army of $4,000 for 100000 popula-
ton, an empire needs four times as
large an army when 100000 popua-
ton is added. This suits the young
men who get fat jobs in the army, but
not the people who pay the 81 500 a year
needed to maintain each soldier in the
Philippines.
Mr. Bryan gave figures to show that
England and other nations do net col
onize rapidly, and said that with 20
people to the square mile in America
and 60 to the mile in the Philippines
there is no opportunity there. Even if
we succeed in killing off all the ma
tives, you cannot get young Americans
to go there; they prefer to live in Iowa
and Nebraska. The profit will not
equal the cost, and the profit will not
go to the right people. but to invest
ment syndicates. Even If any man is
willing to trade for pottage. and does
not have a taste for brthright, he had
better investigate the pottage. AS the
Tagals are largely Christians and our
native allies are largely Mohammedan,
we ought to ask the sultan to help us
subdue the Christian insurgents.
This government ought to make a
declaration of good intentions toward
the Philippines as it did toward Cuba.
The president ought to have done so.
or if he did not have the power, should
ask congress for it. Now, he might
call a special session to ask for the
power. Cleveland called a special ses-
sion to repeal the Sherman act and Nc
Kinley called one. A special session
now would cost much money, but not
nearly so much as the continuance of
the war