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MR.. BRYAN 0N,TRUsTs.
From an Address to Republican.
at Mdh0o, Neb., Aug. Fl.
The republican party is trying to
day the very same policy on these othe
questions that it tried on the none,
question in their platform, and yet 20,
cannot find republican paper anc
read it, if it is a daily, for a week, .anG
ifit is weekly paper for a month
without finding a defense of the trusts
The republican platform denounces the
trusts and republican editors are
spreading before the public arguments
defending the trusts. You will be told
what liberal man the man at the head
of the trust is. You will be told of the
great advantages to be deriyed from the
corporations because ofthe permanencyof
employment. Now, why is it? It's be.
cause the platform is hypocrisy. The
republican party does not, intend to
destroy the trust, but. under the cover
of a platform denunciation of the
trust, the republican leaders are trying
to quiet the minds of the people and
make them accept the trust as a good
thing. l want you who have been vct-
ing the republican ticket to ask your.
selves how the republican policy is
going to help the people of this COM
munity. Let every man ask himself
how the trust is going to help him. l
would ask that, but would be accused
Of appealing to selfshness. The man
who stands at the head of the trust may
be selfish, while the man being gouged
cannot be selfish. 1t is all right for the
head of the trust to vote the republican
ticket and contribute to the campaign
fund, but if | tell the man who paws
the dividends that he ought to look out
for his own interests the republican
party says am bringing the appeal
down to too how q level. The man who
buys 9 trust-made artiule basss as much
right TO look after biz own inteTesrl 3
the campaign as tha> = who sells a
trust made article. Suppose you want.
ed to buy barb wire-haven't YOU a
right to inquire why, it has gone up?
Suppose you wanted to buy yoil-haven't
yoi- right to inquire why it has gone
up? You know the republicans for
years told us what great blessing the
STANDARD Oil Company was to reduce
the price of oil. That was because they
were trying to secure all the properties.
Yet they have declared dividends SO far
of 40 per cent.
RECORD OF THREE YEARS.
There are republicans who were de.
nouncing the trusts until the republican
party got in and then there we're more
trusts organized under the republican
administration during the last three and
a half years than were organized in the
previous history Of the country, and
they are now trying to m axe themselves
think it is good. They have had to
change their opinion as fast as the re.
publican party changed its position.
Let me give you recent illustration.
When Mr.. Mckinley sent his message
to congress saying it was our plain duty
to give free trade to Porto Rico those
republicans walked on the streets and
echoed "plain duty" Then something
happened. Some power behind the
throne began to work. We have never
been able to locate it exactly, but we
know of this power, just as we know Of
a tornado, by its effects. This power
overrode the recommendation of COVER
nor general of Porto Rico; this power
overrode the petition OF the people Of
Porto Rico; this power overrode the
chairman of the committee on ways and
means and compelled him to bring in a
bill directly the opposite of the bill he
first introduced; this power overrode
the president and made him sign. the
bill when he said it was our plain duty
to do the opposite, and the republicans
have to turn somersaults and say cit .is
our plain duty to deny what was our
plain duty before" It was last Decem-
Der when the president said .plain
duty and it was after that you men
were shouting ''plain duty" but a
power greater than your administration
controlled and that secret power war
great enough to tear the flag from the
constitution and toassert the doctrine
that the president and congress are moi
restrained by the constitution when
dealing with people Of the United
States. e'ta
Republicans. are you willing to turr
over on this question just because YOU
party has done a thing that you know
is not right. The young republican
whose back is so strong and supple tha
he can; turn somersaults easily may keet
on, but the old men are getting stiff
andI do not believe they can turn mucf
1lOnger. Men like Governor BoutweIl n