Arizona republican., 1900-10-19


 Yesterday at Nashville, Mich. Mir. Bryan propounded certain questions to the republican party, to which I re- turn my answers as follows:
 "First-Q. If a trust is a good thing, why did the republican platform de- nOunce trusts? A. The republican n party denounced the evils of trusts and pointed out the way those evils could be controlled and minimized. Any sensible man knows there may be evils which need correction and yet this may rot mean the general and scnselessN Nde- struction of all corpora tiops and all the coalitions of industrial development. 'SecOnd-Q. If the trusts are a bad thing why did the republican adminis- tration allow more trusts to De organ lzed than during all previous history of the country. A. The republican aG. ministratitln did mo- allow more trlsts to be organized than during all the previous history of the country. Inci- d' ntally, the Standard oil company the American Sugar Refining company and all the other more prominent trusts came into existence long be- fore the present administration. But MT. Bryan knows perfectly well that the national government cannot with it's present powers, prevent the organ iZat tion of these trusts, and that it was the action of his own party associates in congress on June l last which pre- vented the passage by congress of the constitutional amendment which would have given the national government the power sought for. What does Mir Bryan say about this?
 "Third-Q. If some trusts are had and some good. can you tell the differ ence between a good one and a bad one? FOurth-Q. Do you know of any good monopoly in private hands? Fifth @. Do you know any man good enough to stand at the head of q mo- nopoly and determine the price of that which others are to use? A. Mir Bry- ans terminology is here so loose that il is difficult to know what he means. If he uses trust in the sense of large corporations any intelligent man knows that there are good corpora ti0ns and bad corporations and that the diffsr- ence between them can be told as readily as the difference between two wealthy private individuals. one good and one bad. As for private monopo- lies, patents are such monopolies and if Mir. Bryan means that all monopO lies are bad he means that patents should be abolished forthwith. Does he really mean this? If not, his words mean nothing. The undoubted evils connected with some partial indus trial monopolies will never be affected in the least by any opposition until in dealing with tn m their opponents learn and practice both precision of thought and precision of statement.
 "SiXth-Q. Do you know any good reason why the army should be made 100000? A. Here again MT. Bryan's language Is loose. If he is speaking of the present army, 65.00O regulars and B. .000 volunteers. then every man who possesses an ounce of common sense or an ounce of patriotism knows not only that there is very good reason for having had it, but no possible excuse for refusing to have It. It has been needed in the Philippines; itshas been needed in China; and only the alli5 s of Aguinaldo and the Boxers can criti- cize it. Half of the democratic con gress voted for it when it was provided for.
 "Seventh-Q. Would you be willing to make the army 200. 900 If the repub- lican leaders said 90, or a half a mil lion if they wanted 1t? A. It is hard to believe that this question is put in good faith for no one has dreamed of asking for an army of 10000 or half a million. Abraham Lincoln once had to ask for a large army and in spite of the opposition of the politicians whose political heir and assignee Mir Bryan ;s tT.lNr h m b1 bs ya6 No increase of the army will ever be asked for by republicans save because of reasons which would satisfy the people as they were satisfied in the days of Lincoln.
 "Eighth-Q. What is your title to the Filipino? Did you buy him or did you get him by force? A. There is. of course. no title tu the Filipino save as there is title to the inhabitants of Alaska or of the Hawaiian islands, and he was not bought save exactly as dwellers in the Louisiana territory. in- cluding what Is now MT. Bryan's state cf Nebraska. were bought by Thomas Jefferson. The Philippine islands were acquired under President Mckinley by treaty and purchase exactly as the Louisiana territory was acquired un- der Je1erSOn, FlOflQa unQef Monroe and all the rest of the territories which we have acquired.
 "Ninth-Q. Do you think you can buy the right to govern people? A. This I have already answered in my reply to No. &. Evidently Thomas Jefferson thought that We could buy the right to govern the Indians of the Louisiana purchase, and Andrew Jackson thought we could similarly acquire the right to govern the Seminoles of Florida.
 "'renth-Q, What are you going to do with the Filipino when you get him? Are you going to kill him? A. We are not going to kill the Filipino unless he tries tn kill our soldiers and he will stop trying to kill our soldiers very soon after h. becomes convinced that he will receive no further aid in the effort from the party of which MT. Bryan is chief. As to what We are 90 ing to do with them, the answer is simple. We are going to civifize him and give him the peace, order and in