The Atlanta constitution., 1900-08-27

did not want IL in 90"
Trusts Are Handled.
Speaking OF trusts he said:
THE republican party Is trying To-Day
| the very same policy on these other ques-
] tions that II tried on the money question
I in &c. They attack the trust question IN
| their platform and yet you cannot hnd
| a republican paper and read IL. If 1t Is a
| daily. for "A week. and IL IL is weekly
pager for "A month. without finding Il d.-
ferse OF the trusts. The republican plat
| form denounces the trusts and republic
can editors are spreading before the pub
lic arguments defending the trusts. You
will be told what a liberal man the man
at the head OF the trust is. You Will be
told of the great advantages to be de-
rived from the corporation because OF the
permanency I'm the employment OF men.
Now. why is Il? II is because the plat
| form Is hypocrisy.
THE republican party does not intend
TO destroy the trusts. but under the cover
OF a platform denunciation of the trust
the republican leaders are trying 10 quiet
the minds OF the people and make them
accept the trust az a good thing. /
want you who have been voting the re-
publican ticket to ask yourselves how the
republican policy IS going 10 help the
people of this community.
Let every man ask himself how the
Trust Is going to help him. / would
ask that. Ut I would be accused of ap-
Tcaling TO selfishness. The man who
stands at the head OF the trust may be
selfish. while the man being gouged can
not b. selfish. IL Is all right for the head
OF the trust to vote the republican ticket
and contribute TO the campaign fund. but
/ IL l tell the man who pays the dividends
/ that he ought TO lock out for his own
interests the republican party says ! am
bringing the appeal down TO too low a
level.
The man who buys a trust-made arti-
| Gle has as much right 20 look after MS
I own interests in the camraign as the man
/ who sells "A trust-made article. suppose
YOU wanted TO buy barb wire-havent
YOU a right 10 inquire vhy IL has gone
up? Suppose you wanted TO buy OIL
! haven't you q right to inquire why II has
gene up2 You know the republicans for
years told us what great blessing the
Standard OIL Company was, 20 reduce the
price of oil That was because they were
trying TO secure all the properties. Yet
I they have declared dividends so far or
20 per cent Was IL necessary To raise the
| price OF oil I'm order tn make dividend?
And while this great corporation Is
amaSsing its we slth by means of moncpo-
". the republican party does not raise
one hand TO stop II. Why Is II that the
party while II protects such monopolies
as that? | want you republicans who
have been voting the republican ticket To
ask yourself this question;
Solicitude Not Reciprocal.
"'If the republicans won't look out for
your int tarests. why need You look out for
the republican paTty's interestsy'
There are republicans who were de-
nouncing the trusts when the republican
party got in and then there were more
trusts organized under the republican
adm iniStration during the last three and
n half years than We're organized In the
previous history of the country and they
are now trying To make themselves think
II is good. They have had To change
their opinion as FAST as the republican
party changed its position.
Let me give YOU n recent Illustration.
when Mir. NJ ,Kinley sent his message TO
congress saying IL was our plain duty Ia
give free trade TO Porto Rico those re-
pCt licans walked on the streets and
echoed plain duty Tncn something hap
pened Some power behind the throne
began to work. We have never been able
10 locate IL exactly. but We know of this
power Just as we 10 of n tornado, by its
effects. This power overrode the recon-
Il endation of the governor general of
Porto Rico: this power overTode the pc
tstion Of the people Of Porto Rico; this
power oyerTodc the chairman of the COM
miftee on ways ami means and compelled
site of the hill he first Introduced: this
puwcr overrode the president and ma le
Eim sign the bill when he said n was our
piaiu duty To- do the opposite and the re-
puhiicauS have to turn somerSaults and
s.iN IL is our plain duty To deny what was
cur plain iuty before II was last De
Cs-mbar when the president said. 'pi1in
DUTY anl q was after that that YOU men
u, r. shputing plain duty. hut "a power
gIflt-r than your administration con
troiled and that secret power was great
enough 10 tear the nag from the constl-
tuition aud 10 assert the doctrine that the
pi csideut ana congress are not restrained
hy tine constitution when dealing with
Ttopie of the United States.
An Appeal to Patriotism.
"R publicans. are You willing to turn
over on this question Just because vour
party has done thing that you know j.
not ri-ht2 The young republican whose
back IS 50 strong and supple that ne can
turn somersaults easily may keep on. but
the OIL men are getting stiff and do not
believe they can turn much longer. Men
Ike Governor Boutwell,. Of Massachu-
setts. aud Others who have received hon
ors AZ the hands OF the republican party.
men who have been prominent In its al
fairs but VINO hold their conscience above
party alliance declare that they Will not
turn merely because the republican party
has turned on these questions.
1t is only "A little more than two years
ago that the president sent a message TO
congress I'm which he said that forcible
annexation is contrary To our code Of
morality and criminal aggression. and yet
today republicans are asked TO approve Of
a thing that was denounced as criminal
aggression and against our code Of NOR
allty less than two years ago. Has the
code OF morals changedg They have
changed their code Of morality and now
ass.r. that that IS right which they even
declared To be criminal aggression less
than TWO years ago. | said that / had no
fear that those who were with us I'm 1896
are against rs now. but DO believe that
many people did not realize in 1895 how
fhs. dollar was rising above the man in
lieve that many who did not realize then
how organized greed has been pressing
for consideration before the republican
party and securing special privileges
believe many of these realize on these
questions what they did not understand
~ the old ones ami there will be more
people leaving the republican party he
. cause uf its position on militarism and m
neriaIisr1 than have ever left II I'm one
camnaign before in all the history of the
republican party"
voted tn the policy Of the administration
in the Philippines.
W J. Bryan today put the finishing
touches upOn his speech TO be made I'm
Topeka Thursday in response To the noti-
fica;ion OF the populist nomination The
speech IS agou; 40da words in length.
II deals largely with the trust question
and business conditions. Mr.. Bryan will.
however. present Imperialism" az the
paramount issue.