The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-10
Tells Illinois People What He
Would Do to Trusts.
Would First Remove Tariff
From Trust Made Goods
THEN LICENSE THEM.
Would Withdraw License Where
Laws Are Violated.
Denies Receiving Money For
Making Speeches.

Joliet. III. Oct. 1O.-AIr. Bryan con-
eluded the last speech of the day here
last night at a few minutes before II
o'clock He had begun at Quincy at
O'Clock and he made sixteen addresses
during the day or one more than a
speech for each hour of the day The
places at which he spoke are: Quincy
Camp Point, Golden, Carthage, Macomb,
Abingdon, Galesburg, Yates CITY, I'm I'M
wood, ChiliicOthe, Peoria, SparIdI!u'
Bureau, La Sale and Joliet AL PEORIA
he spoke twice. The audiences were
generally large, but those al PEORIA
Quincy and Joliet We're especially so.
Mr.. Bryan began his speech at Abing-
don, an important educational center.
by saving that ne had heard much OF
the place through his law partner. Mr..
Talbot, of Nebraska, who had IN
huenced him to go to Nebraska
If I had not gone TO Nebraska, ne
said, Il would not have been IN congress
when I was, and if had not gone 10
congress L would not have been nom
mated for the presidency when L was
so you see my fortunes have been IN
huenced TO a considerable extent Dy
Abingdon"
He addressed himself especially to the
college boys, saying that he liked 10
talk to them because as class they
held high ideals before them ana punt
their lives upon them he recalled the
time when in college he entered the
senior year
MY father was dead" he said, land
I realized for the first time that should
have to make my own way in the world
1 began then to study political economy
and I then determined to go in life where
my conscience should lead me-"
He went on to say that he believed all
young men should form such early stan
dards for life. Every such one could be
sent out as a missionary and every such
missionary would lessen his own labOrS
INF IA
young men alone but to all young men
that he would appeal 10 form nigh Ideals
And not to young men entirely, but to-
old men as well Mr.. Bryan SAID tnaJ
nilitarisn would hold up before the
young men new ideals representing force
and conquest, rather than the old ideals
of peaceful progress
In Abingdon more rat traps are man
ufactured than in any other town in the
United States, and Mr. Bryan referred
to this fact. saying
can community, but fear you people
have given so much attention to the
catching of little rats that you have
neglected the large rodents. / under
stand YOU make here the best rat traps
for little rats, but the trust is a far
more dangerous rat than your traps
catch. and Republican genius has thus
far invented no remedy. The trust rat
eats its way into every house.
''Afflitarism is another rat the Repub-
1ican party seems disposed to turn loose
I1lnSE lldn 10 catch 1t Will uSNoUA AAAS
substance of the people and steal away
many a boy from his mother
imperialism is still another rat which
not only preys on the material substance
of the country, but threatens to eat into
the moral fabric of the nation. Do you
not think 1t is time to give some atten-
ton to the larger rats2"
At N&ncennes he had met a man wear
ing a Mckinley button who had asked
him for enough money to get a meal
\ gave him the money" said Mr..
he was a good example of the prosperity
that his party is talking SO much about"
A very brief stop was made at Gales
burg. The original programme did not
include a speech at that place, as it is
conceded to be very strongly Republi-
can, but it was decided at the last mo-
ment not to pass the town by without
any notice Accordingly Mr.. Bryan
spoke for about ten minutes. going very
hurriedly over the issues of the cam
paign. He had a big audience and re-
ceived the closest attention.
Unscheduled stops We're also made at
Yates City, ElmwoOd and Chillicothe.
At Yates City Mr.. Bryan said there
was no more pitiable sight in the world
than that of man with his nose to
the grindstOne when he was turning the
stone himself. The remark was ad-
dressed to Republicans in connection
with the trusts.
When Mr.. Bryan reached the court
house square in Peoria the sides of the
speakers stand were crowded with a
from the depot to the ground was on
streets packed on each side with shout
ing and cheering admirers. It was pos