Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-16
YOUNG MANS CHANCE
IN THE TRUST RIDDEN
NORLD|S DA|LYLESS.
HON. WILLIAM j.. BRYAN GIVES A
SPLENDID TALK TO ,
MOTHERS.
THE FUTURE OF OUR SONS
Is A VITAL QUESTION
MAY SOLVE 1T FOR A
LONG TIME.
HOW TRUSTS AFFECT BOYS
A SERIOUS DISCUSSION OF A TOPIC
VERY NEAR TO EVERY PAR
ENT.S HEART.

At Youngstown yesterday in II
'pera house, where most of his audito
we're ladies, Mr.. Bryan spoke as 10
owS:
81 am glad to talk to an aud
fence composed so largely of
m for certainly in this
contest the IN is ms much
interested as the man. Is not
the mother interested in her
son9 Is not the mother inter-
ested in making life worth
something for her SON: 1 wish
that every mother in this land
could study h trust question
and learn her connection
with it. She finds Out about it
when she goes to buy sugar
and other articles controlled by
the trusts, and is told that h
trusts have raised the prices.
But to my mind that is the least
objection to the trusts. If n
trusts raise prices we can sim
ply a~cquiesc, but when n trust
monopolizes an industry and
closes the door of opportunity
against the young man, and at
tempts to condemn "a man to per-
petual clcrkship under mOnOp-
oily and to servitude under n
great monopoly, then monopoly
strikes a blow than 1T
does through the prices that it
efforts.
"Mothers, what would you
have your sons do: Would you
have your boys go on the farm:
Why, you know that to-day the
farmer takes more chance than
any other man and has less in
Huence in the gOvernment-at
least he is less considered by
those who govern. Are you
going to have your boy go
among the Iaboring men and
have but one ambition, and
that to have a full dinner pail,
and only to have that when the
trust will let him have it: Are
you willing to let your son go
into the anthracite cOal region
and take his chances at less
than n dollar n day, with pow
lei at %2.75 "a key. Are you sat
isfed to have your boy go
there's. Do o want him to go
into n store Don't you know
that to-day the great trusts are
hcmming the storekeeper
abouts Don't yOu know that
the trust is shortening credit:
That it is laying upon the re-
taller all he chances of BUSH
ness: Don't yOu know that the
trust to-day is compelling the
merchant to agree not to sell
any but trust-made goods:
Would you have your hoy go
into "a big factory. that to-mor-
row the trust may come and
bankrupt him. Would you have
your boy have stock I'm n trust7
The big stockholders will freeze
him out before the year is over.
What will you have your boy
do: Will you have him be-
come a lawyer. why, the law
business is gravitating toward
h offices of In large corpora
ton lawyers and the other law
yers are clerks in their Offices.
What do want yOur boy to
do! Is 1T not time that you were
thinking. Is it not time that
you were using your own in
huence TO take this
ment back and place it on its
old foundation and make it
again n free government of the
people. by the people and for
the people, in which the hum
blest may aspire to the highest
reward in the political world.
Is 1T not time that you mothers
were thinking. and If an econ
Omic question cannot arouse
You is it not time that YOU were
studying the army question 2"
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