Evening star., 1900-10-18
TOUR OF NEW YORK
Mr.. Bryan Makes Short Speeches at
Several Places.
GREETED BY LARGE AUDIENCES
Confines His Remarks to MiIitarisn'
and the Trusts.
PLEASED WITH HIS TRIP

ALBANY, n. Y, October 1S.-W. j. Bryan
and party left here for Schenectady and the
west on an early morning train. Col. Bryan
was accompanied by Charles NJ. Bulger, J.
j. Delaney and Mayor Jones of Toledo.
Large crowds collected about the Hotel
Ten Eyck and at the union station to see
the distinguished party off. AS the train
pulled out of the depot yard Mr.. Bryan
stood on the rear platform of his special
car and raised his hat in acknowledgment
OF the cheers that were given in his honor.
He expressed himself as being more than
pleased with the rousing reception accorded
him at the capital city of the empire state.
Twenty Minutes N Schenectady.
AMSTERDAM, N. Y, October 1S.-Mr.
Bryan's train was fifteen minutes late in
reaching Schenectady, where the first stop
of the day was made. He spoke there for
twenty minutes, and his audience was large
enough to fill the entire vacant space back
of the railroad station. The Edison general
electrical works are located at Schenectady,
and as the train drew lip to the station Mr..
Bryan was greeted by the waving of hats
and handkerchiefs from the windows of
that institution. His speech at Schenectady
was brief review of the general political
situation, covering the trusts and the in
crease of the standing army especially In
beginning Mr. Bryan said he was glad that
ne nVed IN a land where parties must sub
init their platforms and their candidates to
the voters. and where the people can if
they want to, control all legislation and
make the government what they want it
to be.
Discussing the trusts, he said that if the
republican party had properly used the
power that had been given to it during the
present administration, the trust question
would be no more prominent now than X
ba5
by its own conduct forced this question TO
the front, and 1t must meet it.
Question for Workinsmen.
Continuing, he said You have here
large laboring class. / want to ask the
laboring men whether they believe it is
good TO have a great industry dominated
by one man? Suppose a Iaboring man has
spent ten, fifteen or twenty years in ac-
quirng skill in an occupation, is it wise to
nave that mans labor hang upon the de-
cision of one man? What will the skilled
laborer do If the terms provided for his
labor are not satisfactory? He will SUBJ
init to them under monopoly. Why? Be
cause there is no other employer and If he
goes out from that place he has to COM
mence life over again and all his experience
will be of no avail. If you have a number
Of large electrical plants genius and skill
and ability will be in demand. If one man
ager is not willing to pay you what your
services were worth you can go to another
manager and get what your services are
worth. because competition will compel
each man to get the best brain and the
best work possible. But when you have
but one manager you have to take the
terms he gives you, and the wages he is
willing to give you, because If you turn
your back on that institution you go out
to ideness and starvation. Can any labor
ing man believe a monopoly is good
thing?'
Refers to the Philippines.
Referring TO the plea that it is duty
to remain in the Philippine Islands, Mr..
Bryan said 1.-The advantage of the argu-
ment of duty Is that you do not have to
defend it. You simply have to say it is
your duty and that avoids the necessity of
any defense. They say it is our duty to
stay there | ask them why? They say If
we come away the Filipinos will Kill each
other therefore We must kill them first
and take from them the awful responsible
ity of killing each other.
While Mr.. Bryan speaking, a rail-
road engine puffed along back Of him, com
pellng him to suspend his speech for
minute or two He referred to the circum-
stance, saying: 1T is hard to speak out
doors under the most favorable circum-
stances, and | do not know of anything
more unfavorable than to have a railroad
against you when you are speaking or when
you are running for office.
Mr.. Bryan was applauded at the close.
Speech at Amsterdam.
FONDA, N. Y, October 1S-Another large
audience greeted Mr.. Bryan upon his ar
rival at Amsterdam. He spoke from the
rear Of his train and the people covered
all the adjacent railroad tracks and freight
cars. His speech an appeal to repubii-
cans to- investigate the democratic side of
the political situation, and he argued that
If he had been elected President instead of
Mr. Mckinley and had conducted himself
ta I'd he
as the President had DONE republicans
would not have condoned his conduct. He
appealed to them to be critical in pass
ing upon their own admins tration as they
would be in passing upon a democratic ad-
ministratfon. Why is 1t, he asked, that the
republicans say there are both good trusts
and bad trusts and that they cannot tell
the difference between them? Replying to
his own question, he said the reason was
found in the fact that they were blinded by
partisanship.
Urging that the water shall be squeezed
out of the stock. he said: IF laboring
man works for a corporation and the times
get hard the money that ought to go to pay
wages will be taken from wages in order to
pay dividends on watered stock that rep
resents no money invested"
He was not willing, he repeated. that la
boring men should be SO placed that they
could be coerced by threats of closing the
concerns in which they may be employed
Referring to the army question, Mr.. Bry-
an said that there was liable to be an in
crease from lOO,UOo to 200OO0 under the
present tendency, and that In time the peo~
pie would be so situated that they would be
afraid to say they were afraid of it.
Talks to Farmers at Fonda.
GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y, October 49,
Mr.. Bryan was received with cheers as his
train pulled into Fonda, N. Y. He address,
ed his speech there especially to the farm
ers. saying that the main reason urged upon
the farmers by the republican orators as to
why they should vote the republican ticket
was that they had good rains and must not
take the risk of a drought by voting any
other ticket. He contended that there could
be no prosperity sufficient to justify farm
er in casting vote which would involve
a change of the form of government such
as implied in supporting the repubii-
can policy in the Philippines. The republi-
can idea Mr.. Bryan said, seemed to be
that 1t was far better for the farmer to be
prosperous under an empire than to take
the chances of a reverse under a republic.
They want you," he said. ito sell y,ur
birthright for a mess Of pottage and then
do not want to give you an opportunity TO
look at the pottage."
Referring to the fact that there is a con
siderable dairy interest at Fonda Mr. Bryan