The age-herald., 1900-10-13
Roosevelt Answers the Question
 Asked by Mi, Byan HE THEN PROPOUNDS 4 FEW The Rough Rider Concludes His Hoosier State Tour by Making Two
 Speeches at EvansvIIe-WilI
 Now Stump Kentucky.

Evansville, Ind, October Ex-Governor Roosevelt concluded his Indiana tour to- night making two speeches in this city speaking in both instances to large au- diences. He reviewed a parade given i'll his honor and then was driven to Evans Hall, where he made a reply to a speech delivered yesterday by w. J. Bryan. From the hall he went to the Grand Opera House where he addressed the second audience, constituting the eleventh which had heard him speak since he left Indianapolis this morning.
 The day was characterized by large crowds and much enthusiasm, in which re- spect Evansville was not lacking. At this place, Colonel Denby, ex-minister to China, was one of the speakers at both meetings In his speech at Vincennes Governor Roosevelt dived into history to show that by true expansion that part of the State of Indiana. in which Vincennes is situated was added to this country Governor Roosevelt's address at Evansville follows:
 Yesterday at Marshall, Mich., MT Bryan propounded certain questions to the Re- publican party as follows:
 1.Q.-If a trust is a good thing, why did the Republican platform denounce trusts?'
 .A.-The Republican party denounced the evils of trusts and pointed out the way those evils could be controlled and mini- mixed. Any sensible man knows that there may be evils which need corrections and yet that this may not mean general and senseless destruction of all corporations and the conditions of our modern industrial development.
 answers Bryan's Question
 'Q.-4ff the trusts area bad thing, why did tho Republican administration allow more trusts to be organized than during all previous history of the country?
 ?. A.-The Republican administration did not allow more trusts to be organized than during all previous history of the country. Incident taAly, the Standard Oil Company, the American Sugar Refining Company and all the more prominent trusts came into exist ence long before the present administra- ton. But MT. Bryan knows perfectly well that the national government cannot pre- vent, with it's present power, the organlza- tion of these trusts, and il was the action of his own party associates in Congress on June 1 last which prevented the passage by Congress of the constitutional amend ment which would have given the national government the power sought for.
 ".3 of some trusts good and some bad, can you tell the difference between a good and bad oneT
 "4 Q.-Do you know of any good mo- nopoly in private handsT
 !" D. Q.-Do you know any man good enough to stand at the head of a monop- oily and determine the price of that which others are to user
 "A.-Mr Bryans terminology is here so loose that it. is difficult to know what he means. If he uses trust in the sense of a large corporation, any intelligent man must know that there are good corpor- ations and bad corporations and the diff ference between them can be told as read fly as the difference between two wealthy private in1.viduals. As for monopolies in private hands, patents are such monopolies, and if Mir. Bryan means that all monop- olies are bad, he means tnet the patent law should be abolished outright. Does he really mean this2 If not, his words mean nothing.
 The Army Question
 "'6. Q.-Do you know any good reason why the army should be made 100,000?'
 A.-Here again MT. Bryans language is loose. If he Is speaking of the present army of 65,O0O and 35,000 volunteers, then every man who possesses an ounce of common sense or an ounce of patriotism must know not only that there is very good reason for Having had it, but no possible excuse for refusing to have it. It has been needed in the Philippines; it has been needed in Chi na, and only the allies of Aguinaldo and the Boxers can criticise it. Half of the Demo- crats in Congress voted for 1t when 1t was provided for
 '. Q.-Would you be willing to make the army 100000 If the Republican leaders said so, or half a million if they wanted 1t?
 Alt is hard to believe that this question fv, foit for of asking for army of 100000 or half million. Abraham Lincoln once had to ask for a large army and in spite of opposition of the Ffipinos, whose political heir and assignee MT. Bryan Is, the people gave him what he asked. No increase of the army will ever be asked for by Republicans save because of reasons which would satisfy the people as they were satisfied in the days of old Lincoln.
 tile to the Philippines
 S. Q.-What is your title to the Filipino? Did you buy him or did you get him by force?
 A.-There is of course no title to the Fill pino save as there is title to the inhab- itants of Alaska or of the Hawaiian islands and he was not bought save exactly as dwellers in the Louisiana territory, includ- ing what Is now MT Bryans own State of Nebraska, were bought by Thomas Jeffer- son. The Philippine islands were acquired under President Mckinley by treaty, and purchased exactly as the Louisiana terri tory was acquired under Jefferson; Florida under Monroe, and all the rest of the ter- ritores which we have acquired.
 g. Q.-Do you think you can buy the right to govern people?'
 A.-This has already been answered in my reply to the eighth question. Evident ly Thomas Jefferson thought that we could buy the right to govern the Indians of the Louisiana purchase and Andrew Jackson thought we could similarly acquire the right to govern the Seminoles of Florida
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