The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-24

trusts have been raising prices on what
he buys faster than they have been rails
ing his wages. Some one has said that
the advantage of trusts is that in the
event Of a strike. If one factory is closed
down, the work can be done elsewhere.
am not willing that tens or hundreds OF
thousands of laborers shall be under the
dominion of one trust magnate. We are
taught to pray to the Creator, thy will
be done as it is in heaven; give US this
day our daily bread But under an in
dustrial desputism we see the spectacle
of the laboring man upon his knees be-
fore the trust magnate praying TO him for
his daily bread.
las election day approaches the man
who stands at the head of the trust goes
to his employee and says to him. II you
don't vote the Republican ticket | will
take away your right to earn your daily
bread / am not willing that the Gov
eminent which should be by the people.
for the people. and Of the people, should
be converted into government by the
syndicates and for the syndicates. When
the employer attempts to coerce the en-
ploye into casting his vote as he may
dictate, the employee should recognize the
fact that when he gives his services and
time for his wage that he does not give
his citizenship and right to vote. III
man in this city threatens you with dis
charge if you do not vote the Republican
ticket you should reply to him, that II
the country is SO prosperous you will have
no difficulty in securing another Job.
II would like to see law enacted to
make it a penal offence for the employ
ers If others to take away their citizen
ship.
1.-THE Republicans say. that we are pros
porous. Who are WEI That there is some
prosperity due to the Republican Admin
istration nobody will deny. Banks that
get money for nothing and collect me in
terest upon 1t are unquestionably pros
porous Trusts which pay so per cent divi-
dents on watered stocks have fair meas
ure Of prosperity. Army contractors should
be doing fairly we'll. Men who own ships,
and send them in the Government service
to the Philippine Islands, to carry out live
soldiers and bring dead soldiers back are
prosperous. l deny that we includes all
of the nation. The Republican party says
We are loaning money in Europe. We
are. Is anyone in the audience loan'ng
money in Europe? Mr.. Mckinley says the
fact that we are loaning money in Europe
is an evidence of our prosperity. II this is
so is il not fair to make vote the Repub-
lican ticket on election day every man who
is loaning money in Europe, and to make
all on the outside vote our ticket? Why
should the Republican party boast OF loan
ing money in Europe? Every dollar that
is loaned in Europe. and taken out of this
country. is taken out of the development
of this country and employed in the de-
velopment of Europe"
Republican Promises.
you had a promise before the last
election that if Mckinley won sugar
refinery would start up. II all the fac
tories that the Republican party before
m election says will start up did start
up there would be more factories in this
country than we would know what 10 co
with The trust bought Out majority
of the stock Of your refinery, and 1t has
not been opened yet, the local minority
stockholders having sunk the monty they
put into it. Squeeze the water out Ct the
stock of the trust You will have flood
for a time. but the honest corporations
afterward.
Some trusts drive the investors 10
bankruptcy before the factories are built
Invest in trust stocks and the nagnates
will freeze you out by breaking the stock
market. When factories have been 1a h
cred under a central head, many CT them
are shut down, the uiagrates say in order
not to lose money. When factories were
shut down during Democratic AdmiEis-
tration the Republicans howled against
the low tariff. When trusts close down in
order to control prices, there is no Re-
publican complaint The Republicf
party has no plan to protect the people
from trusts. Under this Republican Al
ministration more trusts have been or
ganized than ever before.
The Attorney General claims that he
is powerless TO proceed against them. A
lesser number OF suits against trusts have
been entered by the Attorney General of
the United States than by the Attorney
General of the State of Nebraska. The
President has never yet recommended
remedy If / had been elected in 1896
and had done VIVA, Mr.. Mckinley has done
had devised no remedy against the
trusts-I should have been condemned for
falling to do my duty.
Il assert that corporations should not
be tempted to combine here and sustain
the price in the home market ca what is
sold abroad in competition with the world.
The Republican plan is TO stop extortion,
not to destroy trusts. This is not salts
factory. 1t is not enough to stop extor
ton or to go half way. / would make 1t
impossible for private monopoly TO exist
in the United States. i would have urged
the enactment of law requiring corpora
their own State to take out a Federal
license.
Appeal to Manhood.
81 want the existence of private monop-
olies to cease in the United States wish
to appeal to the old man about to leave
this life. with the next world before him:
to the middle aged nan, strong and vigor-
Gus. to make this Government a govern
ment for and by the people. where the lab
proceeds Of his own toll. / appeal to the
young men to help open the door of OPP
portunity to the boy. Consider a question
never considered in any campaign before
this. Consider whether this nation shall
initiate the practices Of European nations
in the establishment of large army in
the United States. Governor Roosevelt
said that the army OF hundred thousand
men would never have been needed but for
the war in the Philippines, but this army
was asked for two months before the war
in the Philippines. Roosevelt said that
everybody knew that war would result.
This is worse for Mckinley. who asked
for the large army and knew that IL meant
bioodshed."
Mr.. Bryan at this point in his speech
read an extract from the Presidents mes
sage urging the necessity of an army OF
a hundred thousand men.
This, continued Mr.. Bryan. ''is the
message of your President calling for the
increased army. When this bill passed
the House the Treaty of Peace with Spain
had been ratified and not an arm in the
whole world was raised against the United
States. The Senate give notice that they
would oppose this increase in the army.