Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-09-21
Republicans Responsible for the
Constantly Increasing Num-
Der of Trusts.
Business Gravitating Toward the
Offices of the Big Cor
porations.
Farmers Feeling the Effect of Growing
Combines in the Decline
of Prices.

In a lengthy address at st. Louis,
Saturday night, September Is, William
j. Bryan made vigorous and convinc-
ing onslaught on the trusts and the
trust-fostering tendencies of the re-
publican party, saying:
1.-The lament of David over Absalom is
@ % tan Se a the on was
in rebellion against civil as well as parental
authority did not shake the fathers fh affeE-
man. Absalom, safe? fingers In the mem
CRY of all who study the life OF the great great
David felt in his son. Absalom. has its
parallel in the more than 10, 900. 900 families
which make up the American people
mo language can describe a mothers
life hangs in the balance at the boys birth
scarcely a waking hour when the son is
not present in their thoughts and plans. 1t
recognized. that desire to appeal on this
occasion.
Appeal to Parental Devotion.
at would call the attention of every IA
dustrial conditions. 1 would ask them to
analyze these conditions. investigate their
upon ' them this question: Is the young Dung
man, Absalom. safe?' Are you satisfied
which now open before Your son? 'NS
us he safe when foreign or domestic
financiers are allowed to determine the
us he safe when national banks control
the volume of money with which he does
':Is he safe, when the bond holding class
determines the size of the national debt
upon which he must help to pay interest?
us he safe when by means of taxes laid
almost entirely upon consumption he is
compelled to contribute according to his
wants rather than according to his posses
sio ops l. sa,s when cornorat. ,nts,sst. IN
f1uence as they do to-day the selection of
those who are to represent him In the SEN
eff he is a wage-earner. and you do not
know how soon he may be, even if he is not
prived of trial by jury, through the system
known as government by Injunction?
is denied the protection Of arbitration and
compelled to submit to such hours and
terms as a corporate employer may pro-
The Reign of Monopoly.
But, I desire to call special attention to
whether yoursson is safe under the reign
of private monopoly? If you cannot leave
more valuable than money. viz: the free free
dom to employ his own brain and his own
hands hand for the ad aS of his own
pendence. each citizen is stimulated to
his own ind ustry and his own virtue. But
when prixats monopoly reaches its full de-
controlled by one. or few men, and the
fruits of MONOPOLY, like the divine right of
few from generation to generation, while
the real producers of wealth will be con-
demned to perpetual clerkship or Servi-
tude. When private monopoly reaches its
full development. your son will buy the
finished product at the price which monop-
oily fixes: he will sell raw material at the
price which monopoly fixes: and. if he
compensation and upon such conditions as
monopoly on, by. may determine
cred in Boston on the 18th of May. 1899, out
frankness. In speaking of the advantage
to be derived from the trust system he said
Outline of Trust Programme.
Raw material bought in large guam
the price of wool will be lowered and ali
fixed by the trust. A large proportion
of our people are engaged in the produc-
they are thus placed at the mercy of the
combinations.
plants which are best equipped and most ad-
vantageously situated are run continuous
This means that factories can be closed
in the smaller towns and business concen-
also. that Whenever t de IS SURPLUS esn on
hand, part of the factories can be closed.
S the 5ud 1se Of maintaining prices
already scattered throughout the land idle
plants, which stand as silent monuments
to the evils of the trust system.
The next advantage mentioned is that
In case of local strikes and fires. the work
loss,
This means that monopoly can abso-
1uteiy control its workingmen, for if a
strike occurs in a factory in one state. the
factory can be closed down indefinitely
mission. and. as the trust can do the work
In some other factory without serious loss
1t is quite independent of the employees, and
can absolutely prescribe the terms and con-
more complete the monopoly the more on
posed the managers will be to arbitration
because, in case of any contest between the
every advantage and the employees will bs
perfectly powerless.
Here Mr.. Bryan speaks of the eff
fects of trusts upon the commercial
travellers of the country, showing how
their services will be dispensed with
He also quotes from the 'Investmen
Guide" the names of % large corpora
tions which he terms as trusts forme,
under Mckinley.
No Hope from Republicans.
During the present administration n,
people feom these monopolies. The repub
Ucan party controls the executive and tn
legislative departments of federal govern
exist: it can propose and enact new laws
but 1t does neither. No persons can watc]
read the speeches of republican leaders
and still believe the republican party sin
cere in its declarations against the trusts
ton and the presidents letter of accept
ance, taken in connection with the party
record. prove ccnclusively that no relic