Connecticut western news., 1900-09-20
MIR. BRyAN'S ANSWER.
His Letter of Acceptance Made
 Public.
IMPERIALISM PARAMOUNT ISSUE

The Democratic Candidates yiewi
 on the Great Questions of the Cam.
 pnign-Trusts, Militari.m, Free Sil.
 yer, Labor, Nicaragua Canal, Etc.
 New York, Sept. 10.-William J. Bry an has presented his letter accepting the Democratic nomination for president MT. Bryan leads his text with his views on the trust question. He. touches on in terstate commerce and reviews the cur. rency issue, the labor situation and de votes considerable space to expansion and imperialism.
 In regard to trusts he says:
 The Kansas City platform very properly give. prominence to the trust question. The appalling growth of combinations in restraint of trade dur ing the present administration proves conclusive ly that the Republican party lacks either the de sire the ability to deal with the question ef fectively. If, as may be fairly assumed from tn, speeches and conduct of the Republican leaders that party does not intend to take the people'i side agsknst these organizations, then the veal and qualified condemnation of trusts to be found in the Republican platform is designed to dis tract attention while industrial dsspotism is com pleting Its work. private monopoly has al ways been an outlaw No defense can be mad. of an industrial system in which one a few men control for their own profit the output or price of any article of merchandise.
 Our platform, after suggesting certain specific remedies, pledges the party to unceasng fare against private monopoly in nation, state and city. l heartily approve of this promise. elected. 1t shall be my earnest and constant deayor to fulfill the promise in letter and spirit l shall select an attorney general who will with out fear favor enforce existing laws, l shall recommend such additional legislation may bs necessary to dissolve every private monopoly whi buxin outsi of state of tt origin. and if, contrary to my belief and hope, constitutional amendment is found to be sary l shall recommend such amendment n will without impairing any of the existing rights of the ststes empower congress to protect the peo pie of all the states from injury at the hands o individuals or corporations engaged in interstate commerce..
 The Democratic party makes no war upon hon estly acquired wealth. Neither does 1t seek te embarrass corporations engaged in legitimate buki ness, but 1t does protest against corporations tering politics and attempting to assume control of the instrumentalities of government. cor poration is not organized for political purposes and should be compelled to connne itself to the business described in its charter. Honest cor. porations engaged In honest business will find 1t to their advantage to aid in the enactment of such legislation will protect them from the un. deserved odium which will be brought upon them by those corporations which enter the political arena.
 The Currency Question.
 The platform reiterates the demand contained in the Chicago platform for American hnan. cisl system made by the American people foi themselves The purpose of such a system is te restore and maintain a bimetallc level of prices, and in order that there may be no uncertainty as to the method of restoring bimetallism the specific declaration in favor of free and unlimited coinage at the existing ratio of l6 to 1 independ. ent of the action of other nations is repeated In fha rfxr na tha sity for bimetallism by pledging the party to an earnest effort to international agree. ment for the free coinage of silver, and the presi dent immediately after his inauguration by au thority of congress appointed commission com. posed of distinguished citizens to visit Europe and solicit foreign aid. Secretary Hay in a letter written to Lord Aldenhsm in November, 1s9S and afterward published in England declared that ut that time the president and a majority of his cabinet still believed in the great desirabilty oi international agreement for the restoration oi the double standard, but that it did not seem ap. perfume to reopen the negotiations just then. The financial law enacted less than year ago con tains a concluding section declaring that the measure was not intended to stand in the way oi the restoration of bimetallism whenever it could be done by cooperation with other nations. The platform submitted to the last Republican con vention with the indorsement of the administra tion again suggested the possibility of securing foreign aid In restoring silver.
 Now the Republican party for the first time openly abandons its advocacy of the double stand ard and indorses the monetary system which it hal often and so emphatically condemned. Tn, Democratic party, on the contrary. remains tn, steadiast advocate of the gold and silver coinage of the constitution and is not willing that othei nations shall determine for the time and man ner of restoring silver to its ancient place as | standard money. The ratio of Is to is not onl, the ratio now existing between all the gold ana | s{iv in ulafi in |. | ratio which the Republican administration has not attempted to change, but it is the only | ratio advocated by those who seeking to re | open the hints.
 | The demand for a constitutional amendment | providing for the election of senators by direc | vote of the people appears for the first time in | Democratic national platform, but a resolution | proposing such an amendment has three time passed the house of representatives, and that too practically without opposition. Whatever ma, have been the reasons which secured the adoption | of the present plan a century ago new condition have made 1t imperative that the people be per
 mitted to speak directly in the selection of thei
 representatives in the senate. senator is no les the representative Of the state because he receive | his commission from the people themselves rathe | than from the members of the state legislature & Several blanks of the labor platform are devote,
 to questions in which the laboring classes have | immediate interest, but which more remotely ai
 feet entire population. While what is gen
 eraly known government by injunction is a | present directed chiefly against the employees O ! corporations when there is disagreement be
 tween them and their employer 1t involves . prin | ciple which concerns every one. The purpose o
 the injunction in such is to substitute tria
 by judge for trial by jury and is covert blow a
 the jury system. The abolition of government b
 injunction is necessary for the protection of tn
 reputation of the court 1t is for the security
 the citizen.
 | Labor
 | I cannot too strongly emphasize the importanc
 of the platform recommendation of the establish
 ment of s department of labor, with a member c
 the cabinet at its head. When remember ho'
 important a position the lsborer fills in ou
 economic, social and political fabric, it is hard t | conceive of valid objection being made to thi | recognition of his services
 | The Democratic party is in favor of the imme | diate construction, ownership and control of tn | Nicaragua canal by the United States. The fai
 ure of the Republican party to make any progres | in carrying out pledge contained in its plattorr l four year ago, together with the substitution i | its latest platform of plank favoring an isthmia
 canal for 6 specific declaration in favor of tn | Nicaraguan canal, would indicate that the Reput | lican leaders either do not appreciate the impol | tance of this great waterway to the maritm
 strength and commercial interests of the countr | or that they give too much consideration to tn
 interested opposition of transcontinental lines.
 Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma have lon
 been ready to assume the responsibilities and CT | joy the privileges of statehood, and it will be pleasure as well as duty to carry out the pla l form pledge concerning them. There will be ! popular acquisscence in the demand for home ru
 and territorial form of government in Alask
 and Porto Rico. Both are Sctitled to local Sc
 government and representatiGS in congress
 The recognition contained in both the Dem
 cratic and Republican platforms of the right
 the Cubans to independence removes the gener | hrinciple involved from the domain of partiSa