The evening times., 1900-10-13

such a party?
| THE Democrats have remedy for the
trust evil Every article manufacturer
by a trust should be placed on the free
list and every monopoly should be Ecens-
ed until it extends its business outside, OF
the State in which it is located If yoI
have better remedy l am willing tc
take yours
LANCASTER, Ohio, Oct. 13.-Tweaty
thousand people, or nearly double as
many people as turned out in Lancaster
in 1885, greeted Mr.. Bryan at the Gin
cinnati and Muskinsum Valley depot
this morning. It was the most enthusi-
astic meeting that has assembled in
Ohio on this campaigning tour of Mr..
Byran
The Democratic standard bearer was
| introduced by Hon. NJ. A. Daugherty. Mr..
Bryan began his fifteen minutes address
I with q discussion of trusts. He said in
| part:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies. and Gentlemen:
! do not knew whether I can make my
| voice heard ever this immense audience,
/ but in the short time that I have to speak
| here I want TO call the attention of Re-
| publicans to something which has taken
t ask the Republicans whether they can af-
! ford to endorse what has been done by the
Republican party in Ohio. I see before
me parents who are raising sons, and those
parents are hoping for great things for
| their sons
Il want to tell you what has occurrei
in connection with one of the young Iuen
in Ohio. There was young man of abil-
ity, character, and courage nominated fol
Attorney General of the State of Ohio.
when he entered upon the duties OF his
office. he took the oath to perform those
duties to the best of his ability AID in the
course of his duly he was called upon to
commence suit under the laws of this
State against great private monopoly. the
Standard Oil Company. Did the Standard
Oil Company submit to the law? Nc. Il
first tried to frighten him from doing mis-
duty; then it tried to bribe him from doing
his duty, and when 1t could neither frighten
nor 5ribe, it went into the Republican par
ty and defeated him for doing his duty
(Great applause)
81 want to ask you parents whether
you want TO endorse the action of the
Standard Oil Company and the action of
the Republican party in aiding the Stand
ard Oil Company. Do you want to an
nounee that a young man like Monnett
can be driven out of the Republican par
ty because he dares to defend the Ia
borer the farmer and the business man
from the extortion of private monopoly?
Great applausel. Republican voters, can
you afford to tell your sons that it is bet
ter for man to betray trust than to
do his duty? Can you afford to tell your
sons that it is better TO violate their
great corporation?
The Example of Monnett.
''If Monnett can leave the Republican
party, cannot these farmers and laboring
and business men, whose interests he
tried TO protect, also afford to leave the
Republican party, or will you say that you
are so welded to the Republican party
that you would rather stand with the Re
pubIicans and defend the monopolies of
this country than leave the Republican
party even temporarily, in order to OBJ
tain relief from them? (Great applause
and cheering)
This opposition to the enforcement of
the law against great corporations is not
confined to the Republicans of Ohio The
Attorney General of the United States has
failed to enforce the laws against the
torney General OF the State of Nebraska
has brought more suits against trusts in
Nebraska than the Attorney General of
the United States has brought against all
the trusts of the United States.
The Governor of the State Of New York |
has not been able TO destroy the Ice Trust |
in New York city, but the Attorney Cen |
eral of Nebraska was able to destroy an |
Ice Trust in the city of Omaha. Last May |
our Attorney General learned that there |
was an Ice Trust in Omaha He eommenc- |
ed suit and ca the first day of August the |
Ice Trust dissolved. He learned that there
was Starch Trust and he commenced |
suit, and the Republicans of Nebraska City
met at the Court House and passed reso-
lutions, protesting against the enforcement |
OF the law, but my friends, our Attorney
General is a Democrat, elected on the Flu
sion ticket and the reform forces of Ne
braska stand behind him and tell him to
go on and prosecute the trusts (Great
applause.)
Nehraska's Trust Fight,
When the Republicans met and pro-
tested against the enforcement of the
laws. and in order to coerce the people
OF that town met and threatened |
that the starch factory would close |
down. we held meeting there and ex- |
planned to the people that the object in en- |
forcing the law against the trusts was |
not to close up a factory, but prevent a
local factory being absorbed by ma
tional monopoly with headquarters in |
New York city and to protect the peopIe |
at large from the evils of, the trusts
There will be more activity, more in
dustrial development, and more employ |
ment of labor under independent owner
ship of those factories than there would /
be with consolidation under one manage
ment. .
The Republican party has no remedy |
for the trusts. The President has allow |
ed four sessions of Congress to convene |
and adjourn and yet has not recommend |
cd Ooa raraalv for tho