The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-10-04
He Tells of the Evils of the Sys-
TEN in Speech at
ST. Louis.
AND GIVES SOME SAMPLE CASES
How Trusts Will Hurt the Travelling
Man, the Hotel Keeper
and Railways.
Decline of Farm Products-The Agri-
culturist the Most Important
Factor in Our National Life.

In his speech before the Commercial
Travellers association at st. Louis
William Jennings Bryan said:
The lament Of David over Absalom
is one of the most pathetic passages
Of the Old Testament. The fact that
the son was in rebellion against civil
as well as parental authority did not
shake the fathers affection, and the
anxious query, rs the young man, Alb
SALON., safe?' fingers in the memory
of all who study the life of the great
Hebrew king And, yet, the interest
which David felt in his son, Absalom,
has its parallel in the more than
100000 families which make up the
American people
No language can describe a moth
ers love, or overstate the abiding in
terest which the father feels in the
welfare of his child. From the time
when the mothers life hangs in the
balance at the boys birth until the
death of the parents there is scarcely
waking hour when the son is not
present in their thoughts and plans.
1t is to this parental devotion, so uni
versally recognized, that / desire to
appeal on this occasion.
Appeal to Parental Devotion.
1 would call the attention of every
father and mother to present political
3 and industrial conditions. l would
ask them to anaylze these conditions,
investigate their causes and their ten
denotes. l would press upon them
this question: rs the young man,
AbSalom, safe?' Are you satisfied
with the possibilities and the proba-
bilities which now open before your
son?
Is he safe when foreign or do
mestic financiers are allowed to de-
termine the monetary system under
which he lives?
Is he safe when national banks con-
troll the volume of money with which
he does business?
Is he safe when the bond holding
class determines the size of the ma
tional debt upon which he must help
to pay interest?
Is he safe when by means of taxes
laid almost entirely upon consumption
he is compelled to contribute accord
ing to his wants rather than accord
ing to his possessions?
Is he safe when corporate interests
tion of those who are to represent him
in the senate of the United States?
If he is a wage-earnCr, and you do
not know how soon he may be, even
if he is not now, is he safe when he
is liable to be deprived of trial by
jury, through the system known as
government by injunction?
Is he safe, if laboring man, when
he is denied the protection of arbtra
tion and compelled to submit to such
hours and terms as a corporate EN-
ployer may propose?
The Reign of Monopoly.
But, | desire to call special atten
ton to the growth of the trusts. anC
to ask you whether your son is safe
under the reign of private monopoly
If you cannot leave him fortune, yor
can leave him something more valuG
BILE than money, viz: the freedom IL
employ his own brain and his owl
hands for the advancement of his owl
welfare When there is Industrial in
depence. each citizen is stimulated tC
earnest endeavor by the hope of beinl
able to profit by his own genius, hi
own energy, his own industry and hi:
own virtue. But when private mon
opoly reaches it's full development eacl
bra1ich of industry will be controlled
by one, or a few men, and th'
fruits of monopoly, like th,
divine right of rule, will be KEEP
within the possession of few
from generation to generation, whilI
the real producers of wealth will b
condemned to perpetual clerkship o
servitude. When private monopol.
reaches its full development, your sol
will buy the finished product at tn
price which. monopoly fixes; he will
sell raw material at the price whicl
monopoly fixes; and, if he works 70
wages, he will work for such compen
sation and upon such conditions a
monopoly may determine.
Charles r. Flint of the Rubber Good
Manufacturing Co.. in speech deliy
cred in Boston on the 25th of May
1899, outlined the trust programm
with great frankness. In speaking 0
the ADVANTAGES to be derived from tn
trust system he said:
Outline frIrust Program.
"Raw material bought in larg
quantities is secured at lower prices.
When, for instance, one man buys a.
the wool, the price of wool will be low
cred and all who produce wocl wi
sell at the price fixed by the trust.
large proportion of our people are ell
gagged in the production of variou
Kinds of raw material, and they ar
thus placed at the mercy of the con
bination 81.
The second advantage is tha
"those plants which are best equippe
and most advantageously situated ar
run continuously and In preference
those less favored
This means +, that factories can