The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-09-18
All Monopolies Are Bad and
None Will Ever be Found
That Are Good.
The TRUSTS FORMED UNDER Mckinley
An Answer to the Mckinley Pros
perity" Argument and the Full
Dinner Pail Cry by Which Re-
publicans Seek to Avoid
the Real Issue.

ST. Louis, No., Sept. 15.-William }.
Bryan spoke here this evening under
the auspices of q commercial travel
er's campaign association. The speech
was heard by an immense crowd,
composed of all classes of people.
On his way to St. Louis MIR. Bryan
made several short speeches. At cast
St. Louis a stop was made for a big
afternoon meeting.
The text Of Nh. Bryan's speech here
tonight is as follows:
The lament of David over Absalom is
one of the most pathetic passages Of the
Old Testament. The fact that the son
was in rebellion against civil as we'll as
parental authority did not shake the ia
theirs affection, and the anxious query,
us the young man, Absalom, safe?'
fingers in the memory of all who study
the life Of the great Hebrew King. And
yet, the interest which David felt in his
SON, Absalom, has its parallel in the more
than 10, eco, GOO families which make up
the American people.
No language can describe a mothers
love, or oveTstate the abiding interest
which the father feels in the welfare Of
his child. From the time when the moth
er's life hangs in the balance at the boys
birth until the death of the parents there
is scarcely a waking hour when the son
is not present in their thoughts and plans.
1t is to this parental devotion. so uni
versally recognized, that l desire to APP
peal on this occasion.
APPEAL TO PARENTAL DEVOTION.
I would call the attention of every ia
Their and mother to present political and
industrial conditions. | would ask them
to ~analyze these conditions, investigate
their causes and their tendencies. |
would press upon them this question:: rs
The young man, Absalom, safe?" Are
you satisfied with the possibilities and the
probabilities which now open before your
son?
Is he safe when foreign or domestic
fnanciers ere allowed to determine the
monetary system under which he lives?
Is he safe when national banks control
the volume OF money with which he does
b~usiness?
Is he safe when the BOND holding class
determines the size of the national debt
upon which he must help to pay inter
est?
Is 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 pos
sessions?
Is he safe when corporate interests in
fuence as they do today the selection
of those who are to represent him in the
Senate of the United States?
If ne is q wage-earner, and you do mo-
know how soon he may be, even if he
to be deprived of trial by jury, through
the system known as government by in
Junction.?
Is he safe, if a 1aboring man, when he
is denied the protection of arbitration an6
compelled to submit to such hours ant
terms as a corporate employer may pro
pose?
II REIGN OF MONOPOLY.
But, I desire to call special attention t.
whether your son is safe under the reigl
of private monopoly? If you annot leav'
him a fortune, YOU can leave him some
thing more valuable than money, viz
the freedom to employ his own brain
and E:s own hands for the advancement
of his own welfare. When there is in
dustrial independence, each citizen i
stimulated to earnest endeavor by tn
hope of being able to profit by his oW1
genius, his own energy, his own industr
and his own virtue. But When privat
monopoly reaches its full development
G2cn Dranch or industry VIII be cOntrOlie
by one. or a few men, and the fruits G
monopoly, like the divine right of rule
will be kept within the possession of
few from generation to generation, Will
the real producers of wealth will be con
1enlned to perpetual clerkship or servi
tude. When private monopoly reaches it
full development, your son will buy tn
finished product at the price which mon
OpOly fixes; he viii sell raw material 6
the price which monopoly fixes; and,
he works for wages, he will work fc
such compensation and upon such cor
ditions as monopoly may determine.
Charles p. Flint of the Rubber Coco
Manufacturing Co.. in Il speech delivere
in Boston on the 18th of May, 1899. Our
lined the trust program with great franl
ness In speaking of the advantages
be derived from the trust system he sait
OUTLINE OF TRUST PROGRAM.
Raw material bought in large quar-