Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-05
Mr.. BRYIN'|N Minnesota.
At Duluth He Talks of the Milling
Combination and Its Effect
on Prices.
HAMMERS LARsER ARMY PROPOSITION,
Says q Large Military Force L. Being Or.
ganixed to Suppress by Force Those Up
risings That Are Caused by Evils That
Should BE Remedted by Legtslation-
His Reference to Chairman Hanna.

Duluth, MINI, Oct. 2.-When Mr.
Bryan returned to his train Monday
morning from West Superior, Wis.
where he had spent the night, he
found the train quite deliberately dec
GRATED. The Minnesota state commit
tee had placed a picture of the dem
ocratic candidate in the place of the
headlight on the locomotive, while
bunting futtered from almost every
available spot on the train. There
was motto in large letters strung
along one car, inscribed 1.-THE Republic
Forever; An Empire Never" The
words Bryan for President, Lind for
Governor" were also prominently dis
played. The first speech of the day
was delivered from the veranda OF
the hotel in West Superior. Mr.. Bry-
an began his speech there a few min
utes before eight o'clock and he spoke
for half an hour to a large audience
His speech dealt especially with the
trust question and he made especial
reference to combination of the
flour interests.
At Duluth, Mr.. Bryan spoke in the
Armory. In beginning his speech.
Mr.. Bryan said he could hope to add
nothing to the argument which had
been made here by Hon. Charles A.
Towne, who resides here. eff he can
not warn you sufficiently against the
dangers that threaten you," he said,
''you would not believe though one
rose from the dead"
Referring to the trusts Mr.. Bryan
said that there could be no good
monopoly in private hands. He re-
ferred again to Senator Hanna's dec
laration that if the trusts should
prove dangerous the republican party
would take care of them. ''What a
consolation" he exclaimed, ''to know
that Mr.. Hanna has his arms around
you and will protect you from the
trusts In this connection he re-
ferred to the situation in the flour
ing mills in this vicinity, saying:
Go to West Superior and examine the
flour mills and those in your own city.
They have allowed the trusts to close
mills. Whenever a mill was closed under
a democratic administration the republic
can said low tariff did it and appealed
to the people to put UP high tariff. and
yet whenever a trust can close five or
six mills in one town there is not a
republican who has the courage to de-
.lounce the trust that does it.
The republican party has proposed no
remedy for the evils encompassing that
industry. 1t did not, for instance. take
mathematician to demonstrate that there
could be more money with two metals
than with one. The presidents letter OF
acceptance would indicate that the re-
publican party had accepted the quaint
tative theory of money, but the republi-
can party distinguished between real
money and sub-money. 1t was all right
with them when it came to expanding
the volume of bank circulation but not
so when it came to coming silver
What domestic reason is there for
large army? They want to build fort
near every large city and have the army
there to suppress by force that discon-
tent that ought to be cured by legislation.
The Iaboring men of this country ask for
the destruction of government by injunc-
ton. The republicans say, you cannot
have government by Injunction, but we
can give you larger army to enforce
government by injunction. Under the
pretext that we want large army for
foreign use, there are republicans who
want it for domestic use.