Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-24


porations insist on collecting a great deal
more from the people than they give to
the party. We would much better con-
tribute to the party ourselves than to con-
trlDute ten times as much to the trusts
Speaks an Hour mt Salisbury.
SALISBURY, Md, October 24-Mr Bryan
had fine audience here and he made a
speech of an hours duration. Contrasting
the republican and democratic platforms.
Mr. Bryan said:
Il want you to take the platforms. and
you will find between the two platforms
tnls marked difference, that the democratic
platform expresses the position of the party
on every question, while the republican
platform is capable of construction one way
or the other. Now, this is the difference.
ana when you come to consider which party
Is honest, and which is earnest 1 want YOU
TO apply common sense rule. You know
mat II a man has something to present to
the public as merchant, something that he
believes has merit in 1t, he tells all he
KNOWS about it. But If it has not merit in
IL, ne puts 1t out where You can see it
and he hopes you will buy it without ask
ing any questions. When people believe that
they are standing for right principles they
tell you what they believe and they tell YOU
why they believe; what they are going 20
do, and why they are going to do it, But
When they are doubtful about it they use
language which can be construed one way
IN one place, and another way in another
place"
Mr.. Bryan charged the republican party
with dealing with the people unfairly. He
said the republican party today only stands
foc one policy that republicans can defend.
and 1t has only stood for that for less than
SIX months. The money question" he said
is the only question upon which the repub-
licans seem to have position, and that Is
diametrically opposed to the position they
USED to have Why, it is only few years
ago since Mr.. Mckinley denounced Mr.
Cleveland. saying Mr.. Cleveland was dis
eliminating against one Of the money met
ais, trying to make money scarcer. and
therefore dearer; money the master and all
things else the servant. While now ,he
republican party stands for the same pol
icy and republicans who hurrahed for Mr..
Mckinley when he denounced Mr.. Cleveland
hurrah for him now when he follows N Mr.
Cleveland's footsteps"
In his Salisbury speech Mr.. Bryan again
gave his definition of the difference be-
tween private monopoly and a govern
take what we mean when we say we are
opposed to private monopoly We mean
that we are opposed to that monopoly by
which all the industry of certain kind can
be controlled by one man, so that one man
tells you what you will have to pay; that
you must pay fixed price for the
material that you sell, and fixed charges
for labor. That is the monopoly we are
opposed to-
In his talk at Vienna, Md, Mr.. Bryan
compared a government to a composite
photograph, and said that as in photo
graph of that character each face is i'm
pressed upon it, SO in a government each
individual should make himself felt in the
composition of his government.
Berlin was Mr.. Bryan's last stopping
place In Maryland. There he was met by
Delaware escort committee, and he began
his tour of that state.
In the Berlin speech, which was atten-
lively listened to by a good audience, Mr..
Bryan dwelt especially upon the subject
Of taxation without representation, con-
tending that it was just as unfair for the
United States to tax the Fflipinos without
giving them representation in our legisla-
tive bodies as 1t was for England to tax
the American colonies prior to the revoiu-
ton without their being represented in the
British parliament.