Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-26
thousands of people curious to see the
Democratic candidate.
SPEARS no ,rrrr, rr-Ap, +,

Il am glad to be able to stop a mo-
inent IN this city and l am more de
iiShted to speak to you from the build
ing where this paper Is 80 inteiligently
edited for American as against Euro
| pean ideas. | believe the only reason
our principles are not as strong in the
East as i'll the West is because the
East has not the same opportunities
party of the few but the marty of the
masses. 1t seeks no special privilege
Tor some. but equal rights for ALI The
Democratic party is making canvass
on platform that states it's position
on every question, but the Republican
party is conducting u campaign on a
platform that conccals every issue. II
does not reveal its position because it
knows that If it makes its principles
plain the people would repudiate them
Just remember. When that party met
here III the early days of our fore
fathers the Declaration of lndepcn-
dence was its platform. But when it
met here this year the Declaration OF
| Independence WAS ignored altogether
The Republican party stands for
despotiSm in the Philippines. The
Republican party has no RENE
dy for any evil that confronts
the farmer. Instead it congrat
ulateS the farmer on the good rains;
the laboring man on his full dinner pail
as if he WAS all stomach. L want you
TO know that the full dinner pail argu-
| nent does not meet Il response from
those who carry the dinner pail. They
want something more. They want re-
lief from taxes and from government
| by injunction; they want representa-
! ton in the Presidents Cabinet; they
want settlement of DISPUTES by arbi-
tralion; they want laws that make it
an ofense TO organize trusts. | rec
ommcnd that YOU read the articles by
that DISTINGUISHED Pennsylvania Demo
| GRAFT eX-t;overnor Pattison. who has
| just returned from Porto Rico. and YOU
will find that the Porto Ricans can
write complaint that will rival the
complaint our people had against Eng
land before the revolution.
TWO SPEECHES IN TRENTON.
Trenton. n. j.. Oct. 25.-Alr. Bryan
made two speeches in Trenton, the
first in Taylor Opera House and the
second mt an open-air meeting, He
was splcnlidly received at both places.
Responding to the Opera House meet
ing. where the Democratic clubs Of the
state were holding their annual con-
veniion Mr.. Bryan sails:
The Republican party says every
thing is all right; that the farmer is
happy: that the laboring man has II
full dinner pail ana that nobody ought
to complain of present conditions. Our
reply is, all right. Let every man who
is satisfied with his condition, who be-
lievcS he is enjoying his fair share of
the earth's blessings and the govern
ments protection, who thinks that
things are all right vote the Republic
can ticket. am perfectly content to
draw the line and let all those who
think that there is no necessity for
better things vote the Republican
ticket If / can have the votes of all
those who believe things can be made
better by better laws"
PRIVATE MONOPOLlES.
Mr.. Bryan denounced private monop-
olles as both dangerous and contrary
to the moral law. lie added:
The trust maCnatc who uses n mo-
nouoly as u means of cXtortion is upon
the same moral plane as n highway
! man who goes out ut night with his
club and brains men and takes their
| money away from them. and when the
| Republican party permits the monop-
| oily to exist it amends the Command
mcrt and makes ii read: Thou shall
not steal-on n small scale The trust
is wrong from an economic standpoint
! for If you will examine you Will find
| thai the first thing that the trust does
| when IL gets control of an industry is
TO raise the price. Then the consumers
suffer. The nest thing is TO shut down
| the factories to reduce production be-
cause high price lessons the IemHnd,
and then the trust throws on TO the la
| boring man, who Is idle, waiting for II
| job, the eXpense of keeping UP the
| high prices"
ANOTHER REASON.
| 1T is wrong economically for another
| reason. 1t discourages inventive gen
| ius for if all men who have skill In
one oceupation are under one man
| then they hang upon him. IT is the
| hone OF Independence; it is the hope
| that YOU can some day be your own
master. that stimulates people to high
! est endeavor; ana when you take this
hope out OF the human breast and
| plant despair in its place, YOU start
| downward toward the level of the dark
ages. And it is bad for the iaboring
man, for if . laboring man has genius
! and skin and his employer does not
recognize his skill and genius, another
! employer viii. But when there is but
| one employer then genius is At a dis
| count. and a son-in-law VIII do as we'll
as Il genius
REMEDIES FOR TRUSTS.
Referring to his remedies for the
! trusts, Mr.. Bryan said:
IL am almost afraid to suggest the
remedy down here, for If we succeed In
squeezing the water out of the New
| Jersey corporations You viii have q
| tidal wave greater than that at Gal
| weston. You Will have a flood for
while. but You will have honest cor
| pofations afterwards.
why should corporations organized
| in New Jersey be permitted 20 prey on
| the whole country? Why should n cor
porat;on organized in this state he per-
mitted TO enter into state commerce
until it first shows that Il is going out
| TO do legitimate business aud not
| going out as highwayman? ! believe
that If yors VIII provide, first that
corporation shall have the water
squeezed out. and second. that it shall
show that it is moi trying TO mono
polze any branch OF business, and then
provide for n rpyOeafiDr n tho licnnc..
If the conditions are violated-I believe
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