Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-19
NEARLY AN END
ROOSEVELT'S TOUR CLOSES AT
BALTIMORE TONIGHT.
BEST SPEECH OF THE SEASON.
Practice Versus Performance Facts
for Bryan to Answer, if
He Will.

P~arkersburg. w. Va. Oct. 19.-Gover-
nor Roosevelt will finish his general cam
paien at Baltimore tomorrow night. after
having travelled nearly 10000 miles and
making nearly 500 speeches. He will spend
the final week of the campaign IN New
eliminated. and if possible, Governor
Roosevelt will spend next Sunday With
his family at Albany.
Today work began at Canton, Ohio,
the home of President Mckinley. After
a hard days campaigning throughout
Ohio ami West Virginia, Governor Roose-
welt reached Parkersburg tonight and
addressed a large audience.
"Bryan won't tell you outright what
he will do said Governor Roosevelt
'He quits questions and 1 answer every
one Of them. but ne won't answer wheth-
er, if elected, he viii pay the interest on
the government debt and the pensions
to the soldiers in silver or in gold;
wheeler he will pay t.sm 100 cert or As
cent dollars. He Won't answer why he
wants the consent of the governed for a
Dot of Tasalo bandits on the other side
of the earth and ~connives at the denial
of the risit OF the government to olNr
fellow Americans Of duskier skin in the
Carolinas. Now, gentlemen. one reason
/ have asked your support is because we
tell you what we mean, and our promises
square with our performance. Now. l
want to ask your attention just a mcrm-
ent to the question Of trusts, using the
~-o,SJ tr,,c+ -, 4h, I1,,a3 e;n,;S,o4;o os
meaning all big corporations. Mr.. Bryan
says that they are all bad. Then. why
does his chief manager, Senator Jones.
who is carrying on his campaign for him.
go unrebuked by Mr.. Bryan for being one
of the chief stockholders in the cotton.
bale trust. And again. Mr.. Bryan is at
his moment in my w state, helping
in the effort to enthrone Mr.. Croker OF
the ice trust.
mo one with common sense is so fool
ish as to desire the destruction Of Carl
tai. Every reasonable man understands
and believes that overgrcwn corporations
should be subject to rigid supervision
and, when necessary. to restriction. Mr..
Rryan's declared remedy for the evils
Which EXIST in such corporations is the
destruction of the industries concerned.
bringing down in one common ruin en-
ployer and employed. For example,:
sugar is manufactured by such a corpor-
alton. Mr.. Bryan advocates the destruc-
ton of sugar refining and beet sugar and
cane growing industries because
the admission of free sugar INTO this
country. Every man who raises sugar
beets or sugar cane, or works in sugar
refinery would be affected. I have asked
him to state which one Of the vor.nod!-
ties made by big corporalluhs he speci-
ficaily desires to have made free. Ac-
cording to his statement, and the Kansas
City platform. he would have all of them
made free. He will have such commodi-
ties as American worsted clothes made by
the American Woolen conf IAN exposed
to the free competition of European
Morsted clothes, not only dragging Amer
lean WorSpnen in the worsted mills of the
United States down, but depriving every
Ohio farmer of an American market for
American. wool. Mr.. Bryan's policy
would include free steel rails, free glass.
free china and pottery andthe xposure of
the American working man as we'll as
Afmenican capitalist md manufactures
the unrestricted competition CT the Chi
pese laborer who makes silks anu ,oree-
lain and grows rice ana --Ii to compete
With the products of American labor.
are opposed to correcting an evil
by the utter destruction of industry in
which that evil rises. If the st%ovepipe is
out of order. it is very poor policy to
get rid of the difficulty by burning down
the house. Our method of dealing with
these evils is to correct the corporation
laws which permit such evils to exist.
Now, the national government under the
constitution has at present no power to
deal with these great corporations. On
the first of last June the republicans in
PRODUCED in congress a bill to regulate il
necessary to suppress any of the big
trusts or similar corporations. 1 say nee
essary. for there is both good and evil
In corporations, just as among individ-
uals. We want to cut out the cancer, but
we don't want to kill the patient. Every
republican but two voted for and every
democrat but four voted against the
amendment to the constitution. They
avowed with singular shamelessness that
they did not wish a remedy for the evils
connected with the trusts, but that they
wanted to keep an open sore that it might
benefit their party. Gentlemen, you can
not afford to support a party that ap-
proaches a great public question in that
" IWo YEARS no.,
| ran against Mr.. Van Wyck, who was
nominated by Mr.. Croker. q speak ad-
visedly. 1t is strictly a one man power in
New York; They denounce trusts on the
stump. I would not promise as much as
l did blu I was hampered and had to
make my words good. l had intended to
make my performances and my promises
square. We put through in New York
the franchise tax bill under which two
hundred millions of corporate property,
street railway and similar franchises
We're added to the assessment roll, The
result is that within the past six years
OF republican rule in New York the tax
rate has been lower than for years. That
ID performance. On the other hand we
have in New York Mr.. Croker. Mr..
Croker trusts and he is one of
the biggest stockholders in the ice trust.
MI. rival in his loyal support of
Mr. Rrvon 10 Mr. nay;J u rT:,, RI