The Savannah morning news., 1900-10-03
EIGHTEEN SPEECHES
TALKED TRUSTS TO FARMERS.
REPUBLICAN PARTY INTERESTED
N THE WEALTHY.

Farmers Cannot Get Legislation In
Congress. hut when Anything AZ
fccts "a Trust There L. Always
Lobby There-NhRt ur. Hanna
says Of Mr. Bryan-Mr. BrSan's
Itinerary tn the Ea-t-Ianrrison
Mas Make rev Speeches.
Lacrosse. Wis. oct. When william
Jennings Bryan concluded his last speech
here tonight he had made eighteen ad-
dresses. and had covered about nfteen
hours OF time during the day.
Beginning az O'Clock la the morning
no talked az intervals untn Il o'clock
tonight putting IN. all told fully six
solid hours OF spcech-makiug. The region
travcrsed to-day Is rich agricultural Sec
ton. and Mr. Bryans remarks were al
dressed especially 10 formers. the trust
question receiving even a greater share
Of attention than usual
A. Shakopec. Mr. Bryan said
why is it th8t the Republican party
allows tho trusts 20 gr0W2 Recause the
Republican paIty is more interested in
those VINO possess the organized wealth
of the country than go those VINO are
contributing 10 tho large dividends col
lected 10y the trusts Why docs the re
publican party want large army They
want it a. homo To suppress by force the
= dscontent which should be cured by leg
station and they want % abroad in order
10 exploit the Philippine Islands and -
you viii look up che record YOU will hnd
that the Republican member OF Cagrcss.
who stands n tho head OF the Army COM
mittcc OF the House OF Representative
Is the president of the Philippine Lumber
and Devcopment Company. and they have
already gobhlod up "a iot of lumber lands
and taken control OF the Improvement la
the Philippine leland In their rrospcc-
tus they say the labor question Is easily
solved There II plenty Of Chinese labor
hy reading their prospectus YOU can see
why 70 ls some people wans q large army
and Imperialism. and while IL Is COOL
thing for those doing the dcveloping 10 ia
a bad thing Tor the people who furnish
SONS for the army. aud the people who
pay the taxes
M Legislation for Farmers.
Mr.. Bryan discussed al Wauseca tho ef-
forts 20 secure legislation for the control
of the trusts. lie asserted shat Republ.-
cans had not really desired az the last ses-
sion ~ Congress 20 secure antitrust leg
islaiion. but had only brought In their btu
for constitutional amendment towards
tho close OF the session and after SHINING
away their rcal opportunity. The Demo
Gratis had he said opposed the amendment
because 81 took away from tho states the
right to consrol corporations within their
borders
At Rochester Mr. Bryan said
IL was my good fortune 20 be In Con
gress short tmc-tust a little whilc-but
I would not take = gr~it deal FOR my ex-
perienre shere In all that time ! did not
see one single farmer asking for legisla-
zion, but sow lots Of fellows who asked
for legislation against the farmer Ia
tho hearing before tho Ways and Means
Committee I heard ~ stated only one far
mer appeared and he livcdsnear enough
to Washington 80 he could wdlk down.
But the great corporations had t1cir lob
hyiHts there. You attempt 20 get bin
tdrouEh 20 correct unjust railroad rates.
and YOU VIII ma a lobby there YOU at
tempt 30 reduce the tarin on ANYTHING
and you will ind a lobby there. Yol talk
30 Republicans about the tarifi and they
viii admit that some rates are tol high
but whenever you attempt "a lover the
tariff on a particular thing you will fnd
that the producers of that thing arc Just
on the verge o. bankruptcy, and,you can
not AFFORD 20 tak. the tariff fro-h Il. ard
after you get al through you are lucky
II you don't raise g."
III We have q colonial policy ~ will
administer it with injustice. God never
made people selfish enough - want 20
govern other people and then unselnsh
enough to govern th,m well. Republicans
10 you want 10 tear down the statue cf
liberty ia New York harbor aTd send 10
back TO France TO cell them We are OF; Of
m liberty business Instead Of that We
ought 10 put another statue 0f liberty ia
the harbor Of Manila. and proc aim liberty
throunho the Orient 90