Evening star., 1900-10-03
BRYAN IN WISCONSIN
Made a Speech at Portage in the
Morning.
MIR. BOHMRICH ALSO SPEAKS
Their Remarks Devoted to the
Trusts and MiIitarism.
DENIAL OF A STATEMENT

PORTAGE, Wis. October 3.-Wiliam J.
Bryan and party spent half day here, ar
irving during the night from Lacrosse
Mr.. Bryan spoke here at 1890 o'clock this
morning and left at 1890 pm. for Column
bus, Wis. He took breakfast with A. F.
Warden, chairman of the state central COM
mittee, and lunched with Mayor Jones of
this city. Mr.. Bryan's Wisconsin escort
included the democratic candidate for gov
ernor, L. G. Bohmrich E. c. Wall, former
national committeeman for the state: T. E.
Ryan. present committeeman; A. F. War
den, chairman of the state democratic COM
mittee: Mayor Rose and Melville A. Hoyt
of Milwaukee, and Rev. Father Miller of
Waukesha.
Speech of Mr.. Rohmrich.
Mr.. Bohmrich, who preceded Mr.. Bryan,
spoke on the equalization of taxes and
against an increase in the army.
Mr.. Bryan also took up the question of
taxation. He said Unjust taxation sim
ply transfers money from one mans pocket
to another's, and is larceny perpetrated by
law, and do you know, my friends, as l
have studied government and the policies
of government, l have made up my mind
that the stealing done by those in the peni-
tentiary Is not so great as the stealing
that Is done by unjust law. You may think
that Is strong statement. but just re-
member that the number of men in the
penitentiary is small compared with the
population"
Then MIR. Bryan branched out into a gen.
eral discussion of national taxes, taking
up the question of the tariff. He spoke of
the tax on binding twine. While the in
crease amounted, he said, to only half
cent an acre, the aggregate benefit to the
manufacturers was not less than 500, 900.
He said that while the binding twine men
were on hand to look after the tariff in this
case, there were no farmers in Washing
ton to protect themselves ''They had
enough to do at home" some one inter-
jected, to which Mr. Bryan responded:
Yes. they were busy making enough to
pay the tax
Time to Prevent Stealing.
Mr.. Bryan said the time had come to take
official steps to prevent stealing. The same
kind of striped clothes should be put upon
the big thieves as upon the little ones, and
If this were done he believed the trusts and
private monopolies would soon be de-
stroyed. Defining the different kinds OF
trusts, Mr.. Bryan said that investigation
would develop that "a good trust was a
trust which gives literally to the repub-
lican campaign fund, while bad trust is
Stingy.
Speaking of putting business men in
office, he said that the most of those who
made this plea wanted to exclude the most
important business men, They did not
want the producers of wealth but the
traders in the products of those who create
wealth.
Mr.. Hanna has told u.s." he said. that
there are no trusts. He now SAYS there is
no such question that of imperialism
Ihat settles it, of course. Indeed | am
beginning to think there is no question ex-
cept as to whether the republican ticket
shall be elected"
Jefferson an ExpansiOnist.
Mr. Bryan referred to the republican plea
that Jefferson had favored expansion That
Mr.. Bryan said, was true Jefferson had
favored expansion, but not Imperialism The
territory that he had acquired had been
converted into ten states and it's people
had become citizens But, he said, 1.-THE re-
publican party Is not giving us lands to
build into states. 1t is giving US only peo-
pie to subjugate. The Philippines are more
densely populated than the United States
and instead of offering US place for sur
plus population the result is apt to be the
bringing of oriental labor into competition
with our own labor