Evening star., 1900-09-28

fore They do the small and immediate
business just as small change does the
small and immediate business required OF
money. Because We have ten, twenty and
fifty dollar bills is no reason why we Should
dispense with the dollar, the quarter, the
dime and the nickel. Each have their
trust and the small dealer, the department
store. the specialist and the nefghborhood
store have their respective spheres OF use
funess. And the department store takes
the place only of the stores which failed
before and were constantly upsetting busi-
ness. If Mr.. Bryan is logical, he is in
favor of destroying that department store,
because the department store is trust In
its simplest and most familiar form
Bryan Favors Trusts.
Mr. Bryan is in favor of trusts in reality
as much as any man in the United States.
He admits it himself; for he says that he is
great champion of labor organization. So
L. The labOring organizations of my
state supported me for the Senate: and
when they did it they knew just where L
stood on every question then before the
people. ! am. and have been since | was
boy. in favor of labor organization 1t Is
the only way labor has of asserting its
equal rights with the organizations of cap
ital, and in so doing is public benefit. for
the wellbeing of labor is of vital concern to
the wellbeing of the entire nation. 1t ben
efits labor in numberless ways. Over and
over again Mr. Bryan has said that these
organizations are a great blessing. Anu yet
labor organization is merely form of trust.
1t is labor trust, and it is a good thing.
But even labor trust sometimes does wrong.
When 1t does it loses the sympathy of the
great mass of our people, and it ought to
be resisted. Just so, the trusts OF capital
often do wrong When they do they ought
to be punished But because labor trusts
are sometimes in the wrong is no reason
why they should be destroyed. What both
need when they do wrong is restraint and
correction. But what Mr.. Bryan proposes
is destruction; and If he is logical he must
destroy the trust of labor well as the
trust of capital.
Another Beneficial Trust.
Let me give you another and simpler ex-
ample of the trust. There are in this coun-
try several great railway systems. 1 re-
member the time when the railroads that
formed what now constitutes one of these
systems were little, short separate lines.
The service on each of these lines was
poor. The cars We're bad. The tracks and
roadbed We're far from safe. The paSsen-
ger who wanted to travel any considerable
distance had to get off the cars at one end
of a line and get on the cars of another
line. and the longer he travelled the more
he had to do this. He had to pay higher
fare and to buy many separate tickets The
employees of those various lines were less
in number than they now are and were
paid smaller wages. Frequently the lines
went into the hands Of receivers and the
wcrkingmen had trouble in getting their
wages at all. A great manager combined
those lines into system. What was the
result? More trains. faster time, better
cars, cheaper rates and through trains. You
can get on one of that systems trains ana,
without change, go to distant points which
before required two or three changes ana
two or three tickets. The system employs
many more men than the separate lines en-
ployed before the consolidation. The SerV-
Ice Is greatly improved. The convenience
to the passenger is not a comparison, but
a contrast with what. it used to be- There
fore there is more travelling, more business.
You are carried cheaper In palace cars:
your grain is hauled at lower rates or
freight more safely and more speedily. And
so 1t is that a great miracle Is wrought;
better service and cheaper rates TO the pup
lie on the one hand, and more employment
and higher wages to the employees on the
other hand: at the same time more proht
to the stockholders who own the road. Dare
Mr. BRYAN say that he would nave tnat
system broken up into the little companies
from which 1t was formed? If he dares not
he has abandoned his position on the = iua''
Trusts and Young Men.
Mr.. Bryan declares the trusts prevent
young men from rising in the business world
On the contrary, the active heads OF most
Of these corporations are young men who
have risen without influence or any other
aid than their own ability to their high
Steel Company Is still a young man, ana
rose to his position from boy in the WORKS.
What the trust is looking for-What any
combination of capital is LOOKING iof-is
fresh and vigorous ability. Unless they get
that they cannot succeed. / Will venture
the assertion that more than 30 per cent OF
the active management of the great combi-
nations of capital of this country anu lie
active management of each one of the de-
partments of these great combinations or
capital is in the hands Of young men WITH
out wealth. influence or position. put whose
worth and merit have been recognized py
the directors of these great concerns. III
the trust does not have such ability al us
command constantly, 1t VIII break down,
lust as trusts often and for exactly TINS
reason, are breaking down. Keen, bold,
daring minds will see that the trust Is not
no managed with ability. and they will organ
ize another trust which Is managed win
ability trust can only exist when each
and every department of 1t, to the smallest
detail of its business. Is conducted with
mathematical and machine-like accuracy.
And the chief demand IN this country TO-DAY
ia for talented Industrious. honest and
brave young men to aid the mighty work
which this industrial development OF our
civilization requires.
The Right Solution.
What we are all against is the dishonest
operation of these trusts. just as we are all
against the dishonest conduct Of any man.
But the sensible thing is not to destroy
them; the sensible thing is to remedy
them The right road is onward Coward
government control some think, and many
developments are suggested. the right solu-
ton will certainly be found), and not back
ward toward the day when the farmer
reaped his grain with q scythe, instead OF
with the self-binding harvester; not back
ward to the day when he threshed it with
a fail, instead Of with a vibrating thresher;
not backward TO the day when the stage
coach did the business of passenger trans
portation, instead of the travel of the coun-
try being carried at a fraction of the price
the stage coach charged, and in palace cars,
with all the comforts and luxuries of this
wonderful civilization. The road to the
true solution is onward, and not backward,
and the elements that are required in our
problem of human society. this natural in
dustrial development, is earnest thought.
thorough study, fearless justice and mod
Grafton, instead of violent and ignorant as
sertion infamed prejudice and mad reso-
lutfons. not to remedy, but to destroy.
Common Sense and Justice Required.
My friends, what we need is not so much
sweeping declaration one way or the other
against the trusts Of labor or the trusts of
capital. What we need is common sense
and justice. Common sense, in order that
we may see what Is just: and the spirit OF
justice. in order that we may do what is
just. On his dying bed Richelieu, who Gre
ated France, was asked what was the Sc
cret OF his power. He answered. Some