The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-19

the circumstances connected with the le-
gal proceedings against the Nebraska
branch of the starch combination and
then warmed his hearers generally
against trusts of all kinds as calculated
at any time to close any industrial en-
terprise which might be controlled by
them.
The return trip to Syracuse was made
in an hour and this city was reached by
o'clock.
LABOR UNIONS WORK.
At Dewitt there were a number of rail-
road men in Mr.. Bryans audience. He
spoke to them of the full dinner pail. >"
He said that even if there was a full
dinner pail for the laboring man, it would
be impossible to trace it's existence to
the Republican party "The labor organ
izations of the country" he said. have
done more for labor in the past few years
than the Republican party could do in a
century,
He also said that the newspaper organ
of the locomotive firemen had been re-
duced thirty-two pages in size because
of the increased price of paper due to the
paper trust and added that the Republi-
the remainder of the publication so that
the readers of it could get nothing to read
except what the Republicans themselves
might supply.
THE JAM AT SYRACUSE.
A cold drzzling rain which set in early
in the evening did not dampen in the
least the ardor and enthusiasm of the
immense crowd which greeted Mr.. Bryan
when he arrived here at sos o'clock from
Oswego. The crowd was probably the
largest which has greeted a political
speaker here for many years.
The crowd jammed and squeezed itself
in the large square fronting on the Erie
canal packet dock. Mr.. Bryan spoke from
n stand erected in front of the Wieling
Opera House. Inside the theatre there
was mass meeting which was addressed
by Mayor Jones, of Toledo, until Mr.. Bry-
an finished his open air speech. He spoke
for half an hour from the stand and then
went into the theatre and spoke for an
hour and a half. In the latter speech
he presented in detail all the issues be-
ginning with the trusts. He said that
he believed it was possible to prevent
any private monopoly from doing business
in this country. His plan he outlined as
follows:
First, make the corporation take out
a license; then squeeze the water out
of the stock. l believe that this meth
od will effectively prevent any monopoly
from existing. / believe that you have
got to destroy the trusts or they'll de-
stroy your liberty"
Then taking up Imperialism he said in
part:
1.-THE Republicans want to force upon
you a standing army of 1000 900. ! this
Government is administered according
to Jefferson's plan of equal rights for all
and special privileges for none there will
be no need of such a standing army. The
only reason that can be given why the
Republicans want such an army is to
force tyranncal laws against the labor
ing man. Republicans say that we are
trying to scare you with the cry of i'm
perialism in the Philippines. We have
no title to the Philippines. All we ever
got from Spain in return for our 500, 900,
coo waS a license to hunt in the Philip
pines. We knew when we acquired the
islands that the Filipinos expected inde-
pendence We say that the FiIipinos
should be treated as the Republicans
promised to treat the Cubans."