The sun., 1900-10-25

for the people OF Porto Rico to be heard upon the
klnd aud the amounts of taxation To be levied
upon the efficient classes OF property and OF
industry in their island. We have got the best
men We CoulI ind IN the country there helping
them 10 devise good tax law and when II has
been devised and adopted by their Legislature.
which will he elected ncNt month then 1t will take
more time to imp r~c the taxes ana realize money
upon them. la the meantime their means Of
supporting their government ~ this temporary
IL per cent Of the DlHgl"y 0uties which was LETT
ON by Congress for not exceeding two years
for that express purpose.
Mr. Bryan SAYS that trusts have grown TO
an unpreocdentcd degree during tho present
Administration ic, the great industriPl
world IL American markets, which are send
INK near five hundred millions OF American
manufactures uOTuud during this year. 10
pay the wages and swell the savings bank
accounts Of American ldhorcrs have grown
heyoud precedence Some of them are mo-
of them have Hu element Of monopoly what
ever except that which comes from. selling
/, not monopoly but competition. Most OF
them are conducting tie business which l.
gcncc and the skill to conduct manufacture.
Would he destroy them all2 Would he close
all the furnaces and all the factories and all
the mine, b""nu~" ne secs no difference be
tween those enterprises which are, and those
which are not, mouppOI'~, OF would he
consent that some one should sit
aud ascertain which are good and which Ar"
bad and attack only the bad lie has been
out of Nebraska. Their" can no more be u
monopoly In the mtLul1Cture of starch than
there can he "a MONOPOLY IN the consumption
Of corn Nobody can make starch who does
not know how. and any one can make starch
who knows how and can St corn To make II
with. The trouhleiwth Mr. Bryan's treatment Of
Of trusts j. that bo treats Them not as n matter
of business, but ~ u matter OF politics, and he
thinks that q general and lndlscriwinate de-
nuUCatIon Ot th"S" great indus rial enterprises
which arr employing the labor aud increasing
the wealth of America b. 20 good C1mppign CrV
lie has proposed two remedies for trusts,
one i an amendment 10 tho Constitution OF the
United StatcS placing the control OF them In the
ding any business concern manufacturing Ia
one Stat" from selling or trIu,uttlug any bust-
ness connected thrrrWlth in another state
without license from HuthoIIirS IN Washing
these 10 bc prcIChrd ~ tlE uauo This i
I'M crsll~m indeed 90 This W.uli concentrate
In the Government a' Nl-hIu.'. % entire md
absolute control over "'"N bu-I'n.s interest
nifty Of the retail -'ur" .- 60. .iurI viii In tho
limit~ Of any a." H." summary Judgment
ui the uNlrr Who IH-. l-~I' Hr Wl.hhuId tho
license would constitute" power iuI iavoiism
such dest uIc'Io o' ~i.'rur''-, such ochtiiug
OF power H. ths IrIrrIl DpvrruW"ut has never
before br"u -'ISE'-n,d t'mug nom tho
Democratic ltTIy o. l- -lHt,~t." and absuTd
hut tho crude and lr.,'..0d'rItc -uEGesiou ut
a campaign orator designed for orat"rical uses
only
It's charged hat rao present Administration
IL ~ favor ~ tu,r rI-ln- tie Regular army.
and thi~ j. said tu hr l. If0ftStg, u crime that
endangcrs the liberty of tho republic. tits said
that the President, In his n c-~uge 10 CoHgfess
Ia the fall of lNgs asked that the number -
fIed at one hundred thousand. Thai
was a reduction, not an increase. On the ist