Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1900-09-21
OF WASHINGTON COUNTY.
A WERFUL ATTACHMENT.

A WERFUL ARRAIGNMENT.
William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic
nominee for President, is travelling through
the Western States, and at each stopping
place is greeted by immense crowds At
St Louis, on Saturday night last, he deliv.
cred an address under the auspices of the
Commercial Travellers Association. Fully
$1,000 persons listened to the address. The
following extracts show the character of
this great effort:
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 fathers affection,
and the anxious query, is the young man,
Absalom, safer 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,O00000 families which make
up the American people.
mo language can describe a mothers
love, or overstate the abiding interest which
the father feels in the welfare of his child.
From the time when the mothers life hangs
in the balance at the boys birth until the
death of the parents there is scarcely wax.
ing hour when the son is not present In their
thoughts and plans II Is TO this paerntal
devotion, so universally recognized, that /
desire TO appeal on this occasion.
APPEAL TO PARENTAL DEVOTION.
81 would call the attention of every father
and mother TO present political and indus.
trial conditions l would ask them to ana.
lyze these conditions, investigate their causes
and tendencies. l would press upon them
this question: is the young man, Absalom,
saier Are you satisfied with the possibli-
ties and the probabilities which now open
before your SOM
as he safe when foreign or domestic
financiers are allowed TO determine the
monetary system under which he livesf
"Is he safe when national banks control
the volume OF money with which he does
businessp
"Is he safe when the bond holding class
determines the size of the national debt
upon which he must help TO pay interest
as he safe when by means of taxes laid
almost entirely upon consumption he s
compelled to contribute according TO his
wants rather than according TO his posses.
sionsp
"ls he safe when corporate interests infiu-
ence as they do to day the selection Of those
who are TO represent him In the Senate OF
the United StatesP
at he Is a wage-earner, and you do not
know how soon he may be, even II he is not
now, is he safe when he is liable TO be de
prived Of trial by jury, through the system
known as government by injunctionp
as he safe, II a laboring man, when he is
denied the protection of arbitration and
compelled TO submit TO such hours and
a To NIL
THE REIGN OF MONOPOLY.
"But desire to call special attention TO
the growth of the trusts, and to ask you
whether your son Is sale under the reign Of
private monopoly II you cannot leave him
fortune you can leave him something more
valuable than money, VIZ the freedom to
employ his own brain and his own hands
for the advancement Of his own welfare.
When there is industrial 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 industry,
and his own virtue.
"But when private monopoly reaches its
full development each branch of industry
will be controlled by one or a few men, and
the fruits Of monopoly, like the divine right
OF rule, will be kept within the possession of
few from generation to generation, while
the real producers of wealth will be con,
demned to perpetual clerkship or servitude.
When private monopoly reaches its full de
velopment your son will buy the finished
product at the price which monopoly fixes I;
he will sell raw material at the price which
monopoly fixes, and, II he works for wages,
he win work for such compensation and
upon such conditions as monopoly may de.
termine.
"Charles II Flint, Of the Rubber Goods
Manufacturing Company, In speech de
livered in Boston the 25th OF May, 1899
outlined the trust programme with great
trankness In speaking OF the advantages
to be derived from the trust system he said
"Raw material bought in large quantities
Is secured at lower prices.' When, for in
stance, one man buys all the wool, the price
of wool will be lowered and all who pro
duce wool will sell at the prizes fixed by the
trust. A large proportion OF our people are
engaged 10 the production Of various kinds
of raw material, and they are thus placed a
the mercy of the combinations.
"rhe second advantage Is that 'thost
plants which are best equipped and mos
advantageously situated are run continu
ously and In preference TO those less ia
vored.'
"This means that factories can be CLOSED
In the smaller towns aud business concen
trated In the large centres. 1t means. also
that whenever there lie u surplus on hand
part OF the factories can be closed, and tn,
burden OF maintaining prices thrown upoI
the wage workers. There are already scat
tered throughout the land idle plants, whicl
stand as silent monuments TO the evils OF th
trust system.
"The next advantage mentioned is tina
ain case of local strikes and fires, the wor
goes on elsewhere, thus preventing seriou
loss
"This means that monopoly can abso
lutely control its workingmen, Tor II a strik
occurs In factory In one State, the factor
can be closed down indefinitely while tn
employees are starved into submission, anC
as the trust can do the work 10 some othe
factory without serious loss, it 10 quite 10
dependent Of the employees, and can abso
lutely prescribe the terms and condition
upon which they shall live. The more CON
piete the monopoly the more opposed til
managers will be 10 arbitration, because, Il
case OF any contest between the trust an
its employees, the trust will have every ad
vantage and the employees will be perfectly
powerless.
Another advantage cited by Mr.. Film
Is that There is no multiplication OF tn
means of distribution and q better force O
statesmen will take the place OF large mum
ber."
Major Charles A. Little has been Official