The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-10-20
REMEDY FOR TRUSTS
William ]. Bryan's Plan for De-
stroying the Combines.
Policy Reducing Values
and ParaIyzing Individual In
d~ustry-His Answer 10
Critics..

Ids uSNOleu iuOSJ dtltltlOH 10 bTuSlS
and Imperialism and his addresses
have been warmly received by i'm
mense ~outpourings OF the people in
the various towns. At Quincy Tues
day, October 9. in the course of a
lengthy address he said:
1.-THE republican parts is not prepared to
defend it's policy on any question when you
challenge it to defend itself: it talks pros
perity to the farmer and a full dinner pail
to the laboring men. and that is all it has to
say. If the republican party were to at
tempt to show in what respect it has
brought prosperity to the farmer 1t would
fail. But a republican said the other day
that the republican party was in partner
ship with the Almighty. The republican
party claims to be a silent partner with
Jehovah, but the trouble is that instead of
being the silent partner the republican par
ty makes all the noise and Jehovah Is the
silent partner of the concern. From the
way the republicans talk you would mag
Inc that the republican party was response
BILE for a large crop when you have a large
crop and If the crop fails it was a warning
to you to never to desert the republican
party.
Republicans point to the fact that
money is being gent to Europe to be loaned
and say that this is a sign of prosperity.
But does it not really mean that oppor-
tunities for investment are being lessened
in the United States? Why don't they buy
American lands instead of sending their
surplus money abroad? Because the re-
publican policy is reducing values. A pri-
vate individual cannot put his money in
manufacturing enterprise for fear his con-
Germ will be sold to a trust and that he will
be squeezed out. l would destroy all pri-
vate monopolies, for l do not want to see
the doors of opportunity closed against the
boys of the country. Give the boy a chance,
oiya him an 0pp0rfunity to exert his own
Industry and his own ability and he will
make his own way, for we have the pest
boys in the world.
"One trust of which the republicans seem
ignorant DIR. Jennings, of the Methodist
church., can tell them about. DR.. Jennings
says that the increase in the price of paper
caused by the paper trust is costing the
Methodist church no less than slOO,0oO,
while all the churches are paying fully ST.
900, 900 more for the paper on which their
publications are printed than they would
nave to pay but for the trust. But the re-
publicans seem more afraid of hurting the
good trusts than they are that the bad
trusts will hurt the people. Why is this?
Because of the campaign contributions OF
the trusts.
Cure for Trust EVIL.
1--WE democrats lave a plan to put an end
to trust rule. 1t is a simple one. First, put
every trust-made article on The free list,
so that it will not be able to plumber people
at home while they sell abroad in COMPETE
tion with the world. But we are not salts
| fed to simply stop extortion, we want 20
: destroy the whole principle of private
: monopoly. When you find a man who says
there are good trusts and bad trusts ques-
ton him and you will find that for the ire
of him he cannot tell you the difference be-
tween good and bad trusts. There are no
good monopolies in private nonopolles.
There never was and never Will be. COD
never made a man good enough to stand at
the head of private monopoly.
1--WE want to strike at the root of the
evil. We want to make 1t impossible for a
private monopoly to exist in the United
States. 1t is possible for a state to protect
its own people, but congress must act ii
we protect the people of all the states.
I'VE propose this legislation that every
corporation engaged in interstate COM
merce shall be compelled to take out a IL
cense from the federal government, thai
license to be given upon conditions which
will make a monopoly impossible. Then
squeeze the water out of a stock OF the cor
poration; you will have a flood for awhile
bue there will be honest corporations aft
erward Second, require that the corpora
ton shall show that it is not attempt
ing and has not attempted in tht
past to monopolize any branch of bust
ness or the production of any article oil
merchandise and then provide for a reVoca
ton of the license Il the conditions are no
complied with.
:, Answer TO Critics.
= az have been criticised sometimes for go
q ing before the people as a presidential can
~ didate and discussing the questions before
q the people, but according to my under
landing of politics the citizen is the SOY
& ereign and the offlce-holder is the servan
% of the people, and the citizens have a righ
1. to know what the candidates think of pub
IS lie questions. They have a right to com
into contact with their public officials, am
IL a candidate loses votes because the PEG
"a pie get acquainted with him he ought no
- to complain, for 1t Is better TO tind out be
r fore the election than afterward If he i
~ bad.
s 1.-THE right to participate in government
- is one Of the inalienable rights, a right tina
you republicans recognized when Llncoi
was your leader and a right that you neve
repudiated until you fell from Llncoi
down to Hanna.
III YOU hear that 1 am in favor of i'm
perialism, just because 1t is a good issue t
I get votes with, 1 want you to rememoe
that on the 18th of June, 1899, when yol
papers said that everybody wanted expaf
sion, l protested against imperialism. 4
that time democratic friends told me tins
nv course would be unpopular, but m
answer was that when the declaration
independence was repealed l would be OF
of politics, and 1t did not make any pa
ticular difference about the time of m
gong OUT.
as Mr.. Hanna was more ingeniol
~ Y. than honest in his attempt to damas
" Mr.. Bryan by declaring that he WI
~ pledged, in the event of his electio
= to permit one, if not two, members
\ his cabinet to be selected for him
/, Richard Croker, the Tammany leade
&c The haste with which Mr.. Hanna al
y the republican organs have dropp'
the charge is in itself a fine comp
r ment to Mr.. Bryan. 1t is an adm.
: sion on the part of his bitterest poll
III cal enemies that his word cannot
{ proftably Observation-Disclosures Su
Mr.. Bryan continues to punctu
II McKinleyism with pertinent extrae
sp from Lincoln. In a speech at Dulu