The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-14
for an increase for supply of money
which they neither promised or expected.
TRUSTS.


A Remedy For the Brigandage Of
Modern Commerce.
But. my friends, there is another
dues ton" Mr.. Bryan continued, and L
want to arrly this fundamental prncipie
of equal rights To all. and special privi-
leges 10 none, to this question. Some
times it is difficult to get man to
think about thc money question. You
talk to il man who believes i'll the gold
standard. and he will say, / don't want
to talk about that: ] have already made
I'D NY mind You talk To Il man about
this new system of national banking,
and the issue Of paper money by the
national banks. and he will tell YOU, i DO
not want to talk about that And some
times Il man who will not think on the
money question is Wiling 70 think on
The trust question. And yet. my friends,
the trust question j. only Il part of the
great monopoly principle; and when you
get near enough to see who Is standing
behind it YOU will find behind the Soap
Trust. the Sugar Trust. and the Oil
! Trust, and every man Who stands be-
hind thenLthe Money Trust. If YOU doubt
il. let me remind You now. If Won will
read the papers you will see interviews
given out by big financiers John ~.
Mitchell. president Of the Illinois Trust
and Savings Banks. gave out an inter
view last summer. which was reported
in the Times Ilerald. of Chicago. and in
that interview he said that in the long
rim trusts can do no harm. But what
consolation is that 10 the short windcd
man: Iaughter) What consolation is
ii to the man who falls by the waySide
! before the long run is finished? What
! consolation is ii TO the nan who is ruined
in business While this long run is bein.
performed? What will the man suffer
from eNtortion before the long run is
over: Yet the only consolation is that
in the long run the trusts can do no
harm. When Charles 3. Flint Went
down to Boston last May to make a
speech in defence Of the trusts. he spoke
at il banquet. and the papers next morn
ing said he had an exceedingly sylnpa-
i thetir audience. as it was mlosed al
most entirely OF Boston bankers. That
] is what the papers said. An exceedingly
sympathetic audience-because it was
composed almost exclusively of Boston
| bankers.
,, 4 DIFFERENCE IN LAW.
go in TO the bank of any gold-stand-
! ard banker. and You will find trust GER
tiicates: and YOU will find that the man
who grew red in the face denouncing
what they called the 50-cent dollar has
! that bank full of stock that is not worth
, 10 cents in the dollar but for the monop-
! oily. No. my friends. you will find that
YOU cannot destroy the industrial trusts
ny making peace with the money trusts.
| And | have been surprised to see the
! difference in the treatment according To
the man who violates the law. Why. il
man steals horse, an old WORKOUT,
bruken-down horse, he is in luck if he
gets off with five years in the peniten-
tiary. And yet the man who violates
the antitrust law and conspires against
, seventy millions Of people cannot get
more than Il year in the penitentiary 1t
is IL great deal worse 10 steal a horse
from one man than to conspire with the
trust for the injury OF seventy millions
OF men.
Il went through town in Nebraska
some time ago and heard that a horse
had been stolen: and the owner of the
horse sent to another town and got blood
hounds. and the bloodhoundS were put
on the track Of the thief and in little
while both the horse and the thief were
found. ! thought how different ; chr
trea tment of a man who steals Il hose
from out treatment of man VINO o.
ganizeS Il trust. The horse-thicf we pun
in the penitentiary. and 10 the organizer
Of the trust we give Il banquet. \ few
years ago you never heard Of >Repub-
lican advocating Il trust: now yoU can
not get Republican to denounce j
trust. The most he will say, is thar
there are good trusts and there are bad
trusts; and then he will spend more time
warning YOU not 10 hurt the good ones
thar he will spend N trying TO get rid
cf the bad ones 1t reminds me of a pic
turc that Il mother once showed to her
hoy, to impress upon his mind the suffer
ngS Of the early Christian martyrs. The
hoy looked at the picture representing
tae lions tearing the Christians to pieces
in the arena. In moment his face
Enlightened 1Ip--hc seemed 10 catch the
idea Of the picture and he said why.
mamma. there is one POOR little lion not
getting il bit Laughter and alIplausel
And you will talk to these advocates
Of the trusts today, and you will find
their sympathy goes out 10 the poor
little lion. who is not getting his share;
but they have no sympathy for the peo-
pie at all.
You say, Why don't the people pass Il
law 10 remedy this! Well. we have &
law now. Then YOU say. Why don't yo;,
enforce that law: The answer is. the
law don't quite reach that case 1t is a
big law when you want 10 reach the
small offender, hui Il very little law
when yon want TO reach the big ones. 1t
reminds mo of the hoy who was beng
helped ut table hy his father His father
was filing plate. and the boy said;
What IS all that for gradma! The
rather said: oh. no, my son: that is
for you. Oh said the boy. what Il
little bill. daughter,
HANNA On TRUSTS.
'lf You believe that the Republican
party will destroy the trusts. I want to
remind you that Mr. Hanna secured
the passage of Il platform in Ohio de-
nouncing the trusts, and then went out
and made three differert defences of the
trusts In his first speech he SAID,