The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-16
All MonopoIies Are Bad and
None Will Ever be Found
That Are Good.
THE TRUSTS FORMED UNDER MCKINLEY
An Answer to the Mckinley Pros
perity" Argument and the Full
Dinner Pail Cry by Which Re-
publicans Seek to Avoid
the Real Issue.

ST. Louis, Mo-, Sept. 15.-NVilliam j.
Bryan spoke here this evening under
the auspices of a commercial travel
er's campaign association. The speech
was heard by an immense crowd,
composed of all classes of people.
On his way to st. Louis Mr.. Bryan
made several short speeches. At East
afternoon meeting.
The text of Mr.. Bryan's speech here
tonight is as follows:
The lament of David over Absalom is
one of the most pathetic passages of the
Old Testament. The fact that the son
was in rebellion against civil as well as
parental authority did not shake the fa-
thers affection, and the anxious query,
rs the young man. Absalom, safe?'
fingers in the memory OF all who study
the life of the great Hebrew King. And
yet, the interest which David felt in his
son, Absalom, has it's parallel in the more
than 10, 900, 900 families which make up
the American people.
No language can describe mother S
love, or overstate the abiding interest
which the father feels in the welfare of
er's life hangs in the balance at the boy S
birth until the death of the parents there
is scarcely a waking hour when the son
is not present in their thoughts and plans.
1t is to this parental devotion, so uni
versally recognized, that l desire to ap-
peal on this occasion.
APPEAL TO PARENTAL DEVOTION.
| would call the attention of every fa-
ther and mother to present political and
industrial conditions. | would ask them
to analyze these conditions, investigate
their causes and their tendencies.
would press upon them this question: els
the young man, Absalom, safe?' Are
you satisfied with the possibilities and the
probabilities which now open before your
son?
Is he safe when foreign or domestic
financiers ere allowed to determine the
monetary system under which he lives?
Is he safe when national banks control
the volume of money with which he does
business?
Is he safe when the bond holding class
determines the size of the national debt
upon which he must help to pay inter
est?
Is he safe when by means of taxes laid
almost entirely upon consumption he is
compelled to contribute according to his
wants rather than according to his pos
sessions?
Is he safe when corporate interests in
fluence as they do today the selection
of those who are to represent him in the
Senate of the United States?
If he is a wage Garner, and you do not
know how soon he may be, even if he
to be deprived of trial by jury, through
the system known as government by in
junction?
Is he safe, if a laboring man, when he
is denied the protection of arbitration ant
compelled to submit to such hours anc
terms as corporate employer may pro
pose?
THE REIGN OF MONOPOLY.
But. | desire to call special attention tt
whether your son is safe under the reigi
of private monopoly? If you cannot leave
him fortune. you can leave him some
thing more valuable than money, viz
the freedom to employ his own brail
and his own hands for the advancement
of his own welfare. When there is In
dustrial independence, each citizen |
stimulated to earnest endeavor by tn
hope of being able to profit by his owl
genius, his own energy, his own industr
and his own virtue. But when prlVat
monopoly reaches it's full developmen
each branch of industry will be controlle
by one. or few men. and the fruits
monopoly, like the divine right OF rule
will be kept within the possession OF
few from generation to generation, Will