Evening star., 1900-10-01
Makes Speeches in West Superb
and in Duluth.
QUOTES M'KINLEY ON THE TRUSF|
He Also Takes a Shot at tn !
Milling interests.
HIS REMARKS ON FINANCE

DULUTH, Mimi, October 1.-When VIM
j. Bryan returned to this city today from
West Superior, Wis, where he had spen.
the night, he found his train elaboratel
decorated. A picture of Mr.. Bryan filled
the place of a headlight on the locomotive'
while a motto in large letters was strund
along Mr.. Bryans car. which declared
THE Republic Forever; an Empire. Never.
Mr.. Bryans first speech of the day was
delivered from the veranda of the West SUI
perior Hotel in West Superior. He begarl
there at few minutes before o'clock and
talked half hour to a large audience4
dwelling especially on the trust question and
making special reference to the combina7 4
ton of the flour milling industries.
In this speech Mr.. Bryan also referred
to a speech made by President Mckinley In,
1894. in which the President attacked the
democratic party. He quoted the following
from that speech:
They were the enemies of the trust whenI
they wanted the votes of the people I'M
1892. and when they got the power TO deal a
blow at trusts, according to the testimony
of their own members they became the will
ing tools of the most gigantic trust or the
country.
Mr.. Bryan's Comment.
Remarking upon this quotation, Mr.. Bry-
an said:
Mr. Mckinley complains that the demo-
Gratis did not destroy the trusts when they
had an opportunity, and when he COM
planned you must believe he was honest in
his complaint You cannot accuse him OF
being a hypocrite, and yet Mr. Mckinley
has been President for three and a half
years and during that time more trusts
have been organized than in all the pre-
vious history of the country, and he has al
lowed three sessions of Congress to con-
vene and adjourn and did not recommend
specific measure for the destruction OF
the trusts. And Mr.. Hanna, who stands at
the head of the republican national COM
mittee during this campaign, and who stood
at the head Of the republican national COM
mittee in 1896, declared the other day that
there We're no trusts.
Now, If you believe Mr.. Mckinley was
honest when he condemned the democrats
for not destroying the trusts, how you
explain his policy In doing the same thing?
He selected an Attorney General from New
Jersey, where most of the trusts have their
homes, and that Attorney General draws
his salary for not interfering with the
trusts. The attorney general of the state
of Nebraska, democrat, elected on the
fusion ticket, has brought more suits in
the state of Nebraska against the trusts
than the republican Attorney General Of
the United States has brought against the
trusts of the United States.
Speech at Duluth.
At Duluth Mr. Bryan spoke in the armory,
from which all the seats had been taken in
order to accommodate as many people as
possible. Mr.. Bryan said he could hope to
add nothing to the arguments which had
been made here by Charles A. Towne who
resides here.
eff he cannot warn you sufficiently
against the dangers that threaten you," he
said. you would not believe, though ono
rose from the dead"
Mr.. Bryan first adverted to what he char
acterized the republican fondness for the
financial question as paramount issue.
THAT party is bending all it's energies he
said, toward the aggrandzement of wealth
and the degradation of mankind. But par
tial as the republican party is toward the
money question, the party is being driven
from 1t, and some are taking refuge in the
tariff question.
Mr. Bryan believed that they would. also
be driven from that position before the
close of the present campaign.
Mr.. Bryan said that in 1859 Mr.. Lincoln
celebrated the birthday of Jefferson, and
continued:
How long has it been since you republi-
cans celebrated the birthday of Thomas JEFF
ferson? Whose birthday do you celebrate?
You celebrate the birthday of Alexander
Hamilton, who wanted our government as
nearly like the English government 1t
could be-
Referring to the trusts, Mr. Bryan said
that there could be no good monopoly in
private hands. He referred again to Sena-
tor Hannas declaration that if the trusts
should prove dangerous the republican party
would take care of them. What consola-
tion," he exclaimed, Ito know that Mr.,
Hanna has his arms around you and will
protect you from the trusts.
Reference to Milling Industry.
In this connection he referred to the sit
uation in the Touring mills in this vicinity,
saying:
Go over to West Superior and examine
the flour mills and those In your own city.
They have allowed the trusts to close mills.
Whenever mill was closed under demo-
cratic administration the republicans said
a low tariff did it, and appealed to the peo-
pie to put up high tariff. and yet when
ever a trust can close five or six mills in
one town there is not republican who has
the courage to denounce the trust that
does it,"
Speaking of the agricultural interest, he
said that the republican party had pro-
posed no remedy for the evils encompassing
that industry.
1T did not, for instance, take a mathe-
matician," he said. Ito demonstrate that
there could be more money with two
metals than with one. The Presidents let
ter of acceptance would indicate that the
republican party had accepted the Quanti-
tative theory of money, but the republican
party distinguished between real money
and substitute money. 1t was all right
with them when 1t came to expanding the
volume of bank circulation but not SO
when it came to coming silver"
Mr.. Bryan also discussed "militarism and
With reference to the army
he said: What domestic reason is there
for large army? They want to build a
fort near every large city and have the
army there to suppress by force that dis.
content that ought to be cured by legisla-