The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-24

read. Thou shalt not steal on a small
SCALE
In every state there is a law on the
statute books against horse stealing and
If man steals a horse he will be put
IN the penitentiary. On our statute DOCKS
there is a law against the organization
Of the trust or the monopoly to control
the price of any article of merchandise
and the penalty Is fine or imprisonment;
but L a man steals a horse they hunt
him with blood hounds; if he organize
a trust they give him a banquet
Mr. Bryan then took up the question
of prosperity, denying that the laboa1ng
man was having his share OF It. He
asked why the people who are lending
money In Europe do not invest In this
country and answered it by asserting
that the trusts made it dangerous to DO
so. From this he passed to a discussion
OF the standing army, employing the
same argument as heretofore used by
him.
The Republican party. he said, has
amended another commandments and
says:
''Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's
land unless it is valuable"
This, he asserted, had served as an ex-
cuse for the seizure of the Philippines.
The remainder of Mr.. Bryan address
was devoted to a discussion of imperial
ism and of the course of the administra
ton toward the people of Porto Rico
Upon the conclusion of his address Mr..
Bryan drove to the steamer Cambridge
upon which he will go to Clayborne and
thence on a flying teur through the
eastern shore of Maryland.
After leaving Frederick yesterday Mr..
Bryan made five and ten minute stops
at Bruceville, Union Bridge, New
Windsor, Glyndon, and at Westminster.
At Bruceville he talked concerning the
Cuban war taxes, saying:
when you go to send a telegram you
will find that one cent is paid by the
man who sends it; when you go to give
a check you find that two cents is paid
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to give a deed you find a stamp required.
You find the Republican party has not
time to reduce these expenses, which
have been laid on since the war COM
menced, but the Republican party has
had time to reduce the tax on the ma
tiona1 bank circulation, SO that the ma
tional bank has to pay only half what 1t
paid on its circulation before the Span
ish war broke out, and you have to pay
that Thus you will find that the Re
publicans are looking after the organized
wealth and neglecting the people who
are enjoying no privileges at the hands
of the government"
In his speech at Union Bridge, Mr..
Bryan addressed himself especially to
publican plea that effort had been made
in the last session of congress to secure
antitrust legislation, he said:
AT the close of the last session OF
congress there was a pretended effort on
the part of Republicans to destroy trusts.
1 say pretended, for if you will examine
the record you will find it was merely
pretense. First an amendment to the
constitution was suggested which was
not necessary and it was urged, not so
much for the purpose of giving congress
new power as for the purpose of taking
away from the states the power they
already have, so that if the Republican
party controlled the federal government
and failed to protect the people of the
states from the trusts the people in the
various states would be helpless and
could not protect themselves. But even
this was not proposed until the closing
day of the fourth session Of congress
that had convened since the president
was elected. That amendment was de-
feated by the votes Of the Democrats
When it was defeated the Republicans
proposed a law, admitting that it was
not necessary to have an amendment.
The Democrats voted for the bill and it
went to the senate and there the Demo-
Gratis demanded its immediate passage
while the Republican senators referred
it to the judiciary committee, where it
sleeps today. That is the record of the
Republican party on the trust question
and I believe any of you who will ex-
anime it will make up your mind that
you can not hope for relief from the Re-
publicans."
At New Windsor, Westminster and
(zIvudon Mr. Rr-van smoke briefly.