Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-10-18
REMEDY FOR TRUSTS
William J. Bryan's Plan for De-
stroying the Combines.
Republican Policy Reducing values
and P~aralyxing Individual In
dustry-His Answer to
Critics.

In his speeches through Illinois
during the past few days Mr.. Bryan
has devoted most attention to trusts
and imperialism and his addresses
nave been warmly received by inn
mense outpourings of the people in
the various towns. At Quincy Tues.
day, October 9. in the course of .
lengthy address he said:
1.-THE republican party is not prepared to
defend its policy on any question when YOU
challenge it to defend itself; it talks pros
perity to the farmer and a full dinner pail
to the laboring men, and that is all Ii has to
say. If the republican party were to at
tempt to show in what respect il has
brought prosperity to the farmer 1t would
fail. But a republican said the other day
that the republican party was in partner
ship with the Almighty. The republican
party claims to be a silent partner with
Jehovah, but the trouble is that instead or
being the silent partner the republican par
ty makes all the noise and Jehovah is the
silent partner of the concern. From the
way the republicans talk you would tmag-
inc that the republican party was response
BILE for a large crop when you have a large
crop and if the crop fails 1t was a warning
to you to never to desert the republican
party.
Republicans point to the fact that
money Is being sent to Europe to be loaned
and say thai this is a sign of prosperity.
But does 1t not really mean that oppor-
tunities for investment are being iessened
in the United States? Why don't they buy
American lands instead of sending their
surplus money abroad? Because the re-
publican policy is reducing values. A pri-
waite individual cannot put his money in
manufacturing enterprise for fear his con-
Germ will be sold to a trust and that he will
be squeezed out. I would destroy all prt-
vate m~onopolies, Tor / do not want to see
the doors of opportunity closed against the
boys of the country. Give the boy a chance,
give him an opportunity to exert. his own
industry and his own ability and he will
make his own way, for we have the best
boys in the world.
Zone trust of which the republicans seem
ignorant DR.. Jennings, of the Methodist
church, can tell them about. DR.. Jennings
| says that the increase in the price of paper
caused by the paper trust is costing the
Methodist church no less than $1,000 0O.
while all the churches are paying fully ST.
600. 600 more for the paper on which their
| publications are printed than they would
have to pay but for the trust. But the re-
publicans seem more afraid of hurting the
good trusts than they are that the bad
trusts will hurt the people. Why is thisY
Because of the campaign contributions of
the trusts.
Cure for Trust EVIL.
1--WE democrats have a plan to put an end
to trust rule. 1t is a simple one. First, put
avery trust-made article on the free list,
so that it will not be able to plumber people
at home while they sell abroad in competi-
ton with the world. But we are not salts
fed to simply stop eXtortion, we want to
destroy the whole principle OF private
monopoly. When you find a man VINO says
there are good trusts and bad trusts ques-
ton him and you will find that for the ire
of him he cannot tell you the difference be-
tween good and bad trusts. There are no
good m~onopolies in private monopohes:
There never was and never will be. Coo
never made a man good enough to stand at
the head of private monopoly.
1--WE want to strike at the root of the
evil. We want to make it impossible for a
private monopoly to exist in the United
States. 1t is possible for a state to protect
its own people. but ongress must act II
we protect the people of all the states.
1--WE propose this legislation that every
corporation engaged in interstate COM
merce shall be compelled to take out a IL
cense from the federal government, that
license to be given upon conditions which
will make a monopoly impossible. Then
squeeze the water out of a stock of the cor
poration; you will have a flood for awhile,
bue there will be honest corporations aft
erward. Second, require that the corpora
ton shall show that it is not attempt-
ing and has not attempted in the
past to monopolize any branch of bust
ness or the production of any article or
merchandise and then provide for a revoca-
ton of the license If the conditions are not
complied with.
Answer to Critics.
SET lave been criticised sometimes for 60.
ing before the people as a presidential cam
didate and discussing the questions before
the people, but according to my under
standing of politics the citizen is the SOW
ereign and the office-holder is the servant
of the people, and the citizens have a right
to know what the candidates think of pub
lie questions. They have a right to come
into contact with their public officials, and
II a candidate loses votes because the peo-
pie get acquainted with him he ought not
to complain, for it is better to find out be-
fore the election than afterward If he is
bad.
1.-THE right to participate in government
Is one of the inalienable rights. a right that
you republicans recognized when Lincoln
was your leader and a right that you never
repudiated until you fell from Lincoln
town to Hanna.
eff you hear that 1 am in favor of inn
perialism, just because it is a good issue to
get votes with, / want you to remember
that on the 18th of June, 1899, when your
papers said that everybody wanted expan-
sion, I protested against Imperialism. At
that time democratic friends told me that
my course would be unpopular, but my
answer was that when the declaration OF
independence was repealed / would be out
of politics, and 1t did not make any par
ticular difference about the time of my
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