The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-16

equipped with small American flags,
and they waved them with a will. The
demonstration continued for five or six
minutes, and it was in some respects
a repetition of the flag episode in the
Kansas City convention.
Mr. Bryan read his speech from man.
uscrlpt- The points of the address were
cheered when made, and the entire
document was we'll received.
Mr.. Bryan took for his text the Ques-
ton asked by King David, rs the
young man. AbSalom, Safe2' He said:
I would call the attention of every
IaIher and mother to present political
and Industrial conditions. 1 would ask
them TO analyze the conditions, investi-
gate their causes and their tendencies
Are you satisfied with the possibilities
and the probabilities which now open
before your son?
rs he safe when foreign or domestic
nnanc1erS are allowed to determine the
monetary system under which he lives?
rs he safe when national banks con-
troll the volume of money with which
he does business?
rs he safe when the bond holding
class determines the size of the ma
tlonal debt upon which he must help
to pay interest?
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 possessions?
is he safe when corporate interests
influence as they do today the selection
OF thoSe VINO are to represent him in
the senate of the United States2
II he IS wage Garner and you do
not know how soon he may be, even if
he is not now. is he safe when he is
liable to be deprived of trial by jury
through the system known as govern
ment by Injunction?
Menace In the Trusts.
rs he safe, if a Iaboring man, when
he is denied the protection of arbitra-
ton and compelled TO submit to such
hours and terms as corporate en-
pIoyer may choose? L want to call
special attention to the growth of the
trusts and ask you whether your son
is safe under the reign of private
monopoly? If you cannot leave him a
fortune, you can leave him something
more valuable than money. The free
dom to employ his own brain and his
own hands for the advancement of his
own welfare When there is indus
trial independence, each citizen is
stimulated to earnest endeavor by the
hope of being able to profit by his own
genius, his own energy, his own in
dustry and his own virtue.
but when government monopoly
reaches its full development, indus
try will be controlled by one or a few
men and the fruits of monopoly like
the ulNlne right OF rule, VIII be kept
within the possession of a few from
generation to generation, while the
real producers of wealth viii be con-
demned to perpetual clerkship or
servitude.
When private monopoly reaches its
full development, your son will buy the
finished product at the price which
monopoly fixes; he will sell raw ma
terial at the price which monopoly
fixes; and, if he works for wages, he
will work for such compensation and
upon such conditions as monopoly
may determine
Republicans Protect Monopolies-
During the present administration
no honest effort has been made to 20
tect the people from these nOnopolies.
The Republican party controls the
executive and legislative departments
of the federal government. It can en-
force the laws which now exist, it can
propose and enact new laws, but it