The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-12
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN STU
DENTS HEARD WILLIAM JEN-
NINGS BRYAN
THEY RBMAINED TO CHEER HIM
AGAIN DID HIS CONVINCING ORA
TORY WIN THE ADMIRATION
OF HIS OPPONENTS
ON THE SUBJECT OF TRUSTS
The Round Bale Cotton Trust Con-
trolls Five Per Cent of the Out
put, the Salt Trust
Ninety-Ftve.

| ANN ARBOR, Mich, Oct 11-Consid-
erable disorder characterized w j. Bry-
ans visit to Ann Arbor this afternoon.
The students of the state university,
| which is located here, were at the meet
| ing In large numbers, and each one made
his presence felt platform had been
! erected On the south side of the court
house building, and the entire south side
of the square as well as the adjoining
street, was covered with a solid mass of
| humanity, majority Of those nearest the
stand being students.
Mr.. Bryan had no sooner shown his
face than the boys began a clamor that
did not cease for ten or fifteen minutes.
Even after Mr.. Bryan advanced to the
front of the stand the noise continued,
but it ultimately subsided sufficiently to
allow him to begin.
II am glad to talk to YOU he began,
IF you are willing to listen.''
A few voices responded, I'VE are will
ing
"If 1 were an imperialist," Mr. Bryan
went on, II would call out an array to
suppress you, but am not This sally
seemed to please the young men, and
most of them laughed and cheered. Some
of them jeered to such an extent, how
ever, that an officer was compelled to en-
ter the crowd and arrest several of the
tions We're frequent, they only took the
shape Of questions.
By the time Mr. Bryan had concluded
the confusion had ceased entirely, and he
closed amid cheers.
AT the time of the arrest of some of the
students Mr.. Bryans attention was not
called to the fact, and he did not know
of it until after the close of the meet
ing. When informed of what had been
done he Immediately sent the following
letter:
%BOYISH HTHOUGHTLESSNES
'Hon M J. Cavanaugh, Ann Arbor-
My Dear Sir: If it be true, as am in
formed, that some of the college boys
We're arrested for disturbing the. meeting,
please ask for their discharge. l am sure
II was the result of boyish, thoughtless-
ness, and not malice. w. j. Bryan.
Mr.. Bryan took up the trust question at
the beginning of his speech, and asked:
Are you willing to defend system by
which a few men control great brancn
OF industry, and sell to the. people at
trust prices, buy of the people a trust
prices. and then employ labor on such
terms and conditions as the trust may
fix? You young men don't want "a gov
ernment that can punish horsethief, but
cannot punish a trust magnate, do you?
That is the kind of a government you
have now.
Il shall stop now long enough to dis
cusg the ice trust Now will you explain
to me why every Republican knows that
there is an ice trust and no Republican
knows anything about any other kind of
a trust Every director of the ice trust
| is a Republican Mr.. Croker is not a
director. He is simply stockholder.
The governor Of the state of New York
is a Republican, and if he were in New
Ytfrk Furnishing the ice trust instead of
making speeches there would be no Ice
trust. There is a Republican legislature
| and Republican governor in New York
and yet the ice trust fourishes. We
had an ice trust in Omaha last spring,
J but we have Democratic attorney gem
eral. and he commenced suit against the
! trust there and it dissolved on the ist
| day of August, but they do not do it in
! New York that way. The ice trust in
of New York, and the Republican gov
eTnor and legislature can protect the
people of that state if they want TO.
I But the Standard Oil trust covers the
trust. SO does the oil trust. So does the
/ barb wire trust So does the wire nail
trust"
A voice-How about the cotton trust?
THE COTTON TRUST"
Mr. Bryan-The gentleman speaks Of
the cotton bale trust. Now let me tell
you the facts The Cotton Bale company
| has a patent for making round bales
the cotton of the United States, and yet
you Republicans say nohing about a salt
trust that controls 95 per cent of the out
! put, but you howl about a cotton trust
| that has one-twentieth Of the output.
Were you honest? (Cries. of ''yes'l. Then
| you must have been ignorant For no
+! honest man would condemn a 5 per cent
cotton bale trust and defend a 95 per
cent salt trust because it was Republi-
can. Let me call your attention to the
| fact that your party has no remedy. for
! the trusts. Your president, in his letter
of acceptance, spent more time in telling
! you not to hurt the good trusts than he
did in telling you how to hurt the bad
ones Your candidate for vice president
spent more time denouncing those who
denounce the trusts themselves.
4 voice-What would you do?
Mr.. Bryan-We have a remedy, ana
our remedy is first to put every trust
| made article OIL the free list; second,
We propose that congress. shall provide
that before any corporation does busi--
ness outside of the state of its origin it
shall take out a license from the federal
government, and this license shall only
it has no water in its stock and that it
Is not attempting to monopolize any
branch of business. believe that it
would be a remedy for the trusts 1 be-
lieve that no private monopoly could
exist.
Mr.. Bryan then discussed the standing
army, reiterating his declaration that the
! president had asked for an army of 1OO-
against the United States. Mr.. Bryan
admitted his advocacy of the peace
treaty, saying:
az said ratify the treaty and declare
the nations purpose to give the Philip
pines independence and protection, and
if this nation had given that promise to
the FiIipinos, not an American boy would
have died in the Philippines. But that
reso1ution-the Bacon resolution-was de-
| feated by the vote of the Republican vice
president, and from that time to this
the Republican party has not had time
to do anything. on the Philippine question
It has had time to give the banks con-
troll of the paper money: it has had time
to protect trusts while they extort from
the people. but 1T has not had time to
stop the war and bring the boys home
and stand again on the declaration of in
! dependence. My friends. II we have an
| imperial policy, we will need a large
| army.
IMPERIALISM
Continuing on the subject of imperial
ism, he said: Read the Porto Rican
| bill and you will find that it is framed
on the same. policy as the English acts
| of parliament, against which our people
rebelled, and if England was right, then
the Republican party is right, and II the
colonists were right, then the Republican
party is wrong, and is simply standing
on the same ground that England oc-
t..1t~. .saSt y