Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26
REMEDY FOR TRUSTS
William ]. Bryan's Plan for De-
stroying the Combines.
Republican Policy Reducing valaes
and Paralyzing Individual In
dustry-His Answer to
Critics..


and Paraly.inE Individual In
dustry-His Answer to
Critics.
In his speeches through Illinois
during the past few days Mr.. Bryan
has devoted most attention to trusts
and imperialism and his addresses
have been warmly received by im-
mense outpourings of the people in
the various towns. At Quincy Tues
| day, October 9. in the course of q
lengthy address he said:
.sThe republican party is not prepared to
defend its policy on any question when You
challenge it to defend itself; it talks pros
perity to the farmer and full dinner pail
to the laboring men, and that is all II mas 20
say. If the republican party were to at
tempt to show In what respect IL mas
brought prosperity to the farmer it would
| fail But a republican said the other day
that the republican party was in partner
ship with the Almighty. The republican
party claims to be a silent partner with
Jehovah, but the trouble is that instead OF
being the silent partner the republican par
ty makes all the noise and Jehovah Is the
silent partner of the concern. From the
way the republicans talk you would lmag-
| inc that the republican party was RESPONSE
BILE for a large crop when you have large
crop and If the crop fails 1t was warning
Il
party.
Republicans point to the fact that
money Is being sent to Europe to be loaned
and say that this is q sign OF prosperity
But does it not really mean that oppor-
1 tunities for investment are being iessened
| in the United States? Why don't they buy
| American lands instead OF sending their
surplus money abroad? Because the re-
publican policy is reducing values. A pri-
vate individual cannot put his money. In
manufacturing enterprise for fear his con-
| Germ will be sold to a trust and that he VIII
| be squeezed out would destroy all pri-
vate monopolieS, for / do not want to see
the doors of opportunity closed against the
| boys of the country. Give the boy chance
1 give him an opportunity to exert his owr,e
Industry and his own ability and he Will
make his own way, for we have the pest
boys in the world.
| lone trust of which the republicans seem
| ignorant DR.. Jennings, of the Methodist
church, can tell them about Dr. Jennings
says that the increase In the price or paper
| caused by the paper trust Is costing ene
Methodist church no less than $lOOOO
while all the churches are paying fully ST.
| 600, 900 more for the paper on which their
publications are printed than they would
have to pay but for the trust But the re-
| publicans seem more afraid of hurting the
good trusts than they are that the bad
trusts will hurt the people Why is thiss
| Because of the campaign contributions or
the trusts.
Cure for Trust Evil.
1--WE democrats have plan to put an end
| to trust rule. It is a simple one. First, put
| every trust-made article on the free list.
| SO that it will not be able to plumber people
at home while they sell abroad in compeu-
ton with the world. But we are not sa It's
fed to simply stop extorti1n, we want to
| destroy the whole principle of private
monopoly When you find man who says
there are good trusts and bad trusts ques-
ton him and you will find that for the life
| of him he cannot tell you the difference be
tween good and bad trusts. There are no
i les IN
| There never was and never Will be- Coo
never made a man good enough to stand at
the head of private monopoly.
1--WE want to strike at the root OF the
evil. We want to make it impossible fora
private monopoly to exist in the United
States 1t is possible for a state to protect
its own people, but congress must: act If
we protect the people of all the states.
I'VE propose this legislation that every
corporation engaged in interstate cou-
merce shall be compelled to take out a Ii
| cense from the federal government; that
license to be given upon conditions which
will make monopoly impossible. Then
squeeze the water out of a stock of the COR
| poration: you will have a flood for awhile.
| bue there will be honest corporations aft
erward. Second. require that the corpora
ton shall show that 1T is not attempt
| ing and has not attempted In dhs
| past to monopolize any branch of bust
| ness or the production of, any article of
merchandise and then provide for revoca-
| ton of the license If the conditions are not
| compiled with.
Answer to Critics. 90
'I have been criticised sometimes for go
| ing before the people presidential can
| didate and discussing the questions before
| the people, but according to my under
| standing of politics the citizen is the SOW
| ereign and the office-holder is the servant
| of the people. and the citizens have right
| to know what the candidates think Of pub
| lie questions. They have a right to come
| into contact with their public officials, and
| If candidate loses votes because the peo-
pie get acquainted with him he ought moi
| to complain, for it is better to find out be-
| fore the election than afterward IL he Is
| bad.
1.-The right to participate In government
is one of the inalienable rights. right that
| you republicans recognized when LincolI
| was your leader and a right that you never
| repudiated until you fell from Lincoln
| down to Hanna.
IF you hear that am In favor of inf
perialism, just because 1t is a good issue to
get votes with / want you to remember
! that on the 14th of June. 1899, when YOU
papers said that everybody wanted expan-
| sion, protested against imperialism ~
| that time democratic friends told me thai
| my course would be unpopular. but M,
| answer was that when the declaration. Q1
independence was repealed would be on
| of politics, and 1t did not make any par.
| ticular difference about the. time Of my
| going OUT
Mr.. Hanna was more ingenion
than honest in his attempt to damag,
Mr.. Bryan by declaring that he wa
pledged, in the event of his election
to permit one, if not two, members o
his cabinet to be selected for him bi
Richard Croker, the Tammany leader