The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-02
HERE AT OUR OWN DOORS
Though the Pretext is We Need il
For Foreign Use.
BRYAN QUOTES Mckinley ON TRUSTS
Though Mckinley Accused Others of Being
Their Tools, Trusts Under His Admins
tration Have Thrived and Multi
piled as Never Before.
(By the Associated Press }

St. Paul, Mimi, Oct. 1.-Mr. Bryan to-
Pine Barrens and the Scrub Oak portions
of Minnesota, reaching the agricultural
part of the State north of this city dur
ing the afternoon. He made the first
speech of the day at West Superior, Wis,
beginning before o'clock in the morn
ing. He Immediately crossed the ST.
Louis River to Duluth, and, starting with
an hour speech there, he made speeches
at eight other places on the way, which,
together with the speech at Duluth and
Superior and those made tonight in this
city, made an even dozen speeches for
the day. Four of the speeches averaged
an hour in duration, and the remaining
eight fifteen minutes each, making about
six hours OF speech making all told for
the day.
The train was decorated with the Ma
tional colors and the special car bore
the inscription: 1.-THE Republic, no EN-
pire, and Equal Rights to All"
At West Superior Mr.. Bryan referred
to a speech made by President McKin-
ley in 1894, in which the President at
the following from that speech
"They were the enemies of the trust
when they wanted the votes of the people
in 1892, and when they got the power to
deal a blow at the trusts, according to
the testimony of their own members, they
became the willing tools of the most
gigantic trust of the country"
Remarking upon this quotation, Mr..
Bryan said:
MIR. Mckinley complains that the
Democrats did not destroy the trusts
when they had an opportunity, and when
he complained you must believe he was
honest in his complaint. You cannot ac
cuse him of being a hypocrite, and yet
Mr.. Mckinley has been President for
three years and a half, and during that
| time more trusts have been organized
| than in all the previous history of the
country and he has allowed, three ses
| sions of Congress to convene and ad
| journ and did not recommend a specific
measure for the destruction of the trusts.
| And Mr.. Hanna, who stands at the head
of the Republican National Committee
| during this campaign, and who was at
the head of the Republican National Com
| mittee in 1885, declared the other day
| that there were no trusts"
At Duluth Mr. Bryan spoke in the ar
mory, from which all the seats had been
| taken in order to accommodate as many
| people as possible.
Mr.. Bryan adverted to what he char
acterized as the Republicans fondncss for
the financial question as a paramount
| issue. THAT party is bending all its
energies" he said, toward the aggran-
dizement of wealth and the degradation
of mankind. But partial as the Repub-
lican party is toward the money ques-
tion, the party is being driven from it
and some are now taking refuge in the
tariff question"
Mr.. Bryan believed that they would also
be driven from that position before the
close of the present campaign.
Mr.. Bryan also discussed militarism and
expansion With reference to the army
he said
What domestic reason is there for
large army? They want to build a fort
near every large city and have the army
there to suppress by force that discon-
tent that ought to be cured by legislation.
Under the pretext that we want a large
army for foreign use, there are Rcpubli-
cans who want it for domestic USE.
At Saltwater Mr.. Bryan said:
"a trust is dangerous thing to the
liberties of the people when it says to
it's employees that it will shut down
until after election for fear of the result
of the election, yet this mornings paper
tells you that the Wire Trust is closing
down it's factories and telling the men
nothing more can be done until after cleo
tion because people will not send in or
ders for fear l will be elected You
submit to this sort of system and a
government of the people, by the people
and for the people will be a thing of the
past"
The colored man is, as rule, neither
money lender nor holder of fixed in
vestments, and therefore does not profit
by the gold standard. He is not stock
holder In private monopolies, but when
the trust passes through the land. even
the blood of Lincoln, sprinkled upon the
door posts of the colored mans humble
home, would not protect him from ex-
tOrtion.
When Lincoln lived he wanted to en-
courage the production of both gold and
silver Now the Republicans have no use
for silver. He signed the law that Gre
atcd the greenbacks; now the Republicans
are trying to retire the greenbacks. He
AFFIXED his signature to an sincome tax
bill; now the Republican party is opposed
to the income tax. He was a believer in
the citizen soldiery; now the Republican