Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-11
THE TRUE ISSUE.

forced, would bring widespread and far
reaching disaster.
+ THE TRUE ISSUE.
"In the campaign upon which we have
now entered the Democratic candidate,
changing from the Issue announced at the
opening as paramount, has taken up the
discussion of the trust question. He does
not undertake to 60 into the merit of the
question, for that would not be Bryan
esque.
"There is no man of any prominence
today standing in defense of illegal combi-
nations of capital, whether great or small,
formed for the purpose of throttling all
competition, raising the price of articles OF
consumption and burdening the people.
But there are vast number who Tecogniz'
ing the economic soundness in the added
lvoume of business to be obtained through
aggregated capital, properly brought to-
gether and wisely managed, deny that
from such any harm flows to either the
consumer OF the laborer. They go further,
and assert, with an emphasis not to be
mistaken, that far from being harmful,
lsuch combinations are on the contrary
productive of good, most of all to the
tlaboring man.
1.-The fact is and Mr. Bryan on investi-
cation would have asCertained it, that as
rule labor is more steadily employed and
better paid under corporations having a
large invested capital and employing many
men, than under those having a small
capital and few men.
"The two years which have passed have
witnessed an extraordinary development
of industrial and other combinations.
And what has been the result? / assert
that neither the laborer nor the consumer
has suffered 10y any one or all of them.
81 wish to call the laboring mans atten-
ton to this very important fact in the
matter of these combinations Of capital in
industrial undertakings-namely, that by
means of them the manufacturers of the
United States have, within the period dur
ing which they have existed, gained to
themselves the markets of the world for
American manufactured products.
Discussing the cry of ''Imperialsm, -
Mr.. Eckels, said:-
81 was opposed TO colonial expansion,
but that expansion is an accomplished
fact, made SO largely by Mr.. Bryan's CO.
operation, and dealing with conditions as
they are and not as they might have been
/ prefer to trust the wisdom and exper-
ience of President Mckinley, backed by a
party that yet retains some conservative
elements in it, to the vagaries of Mr.. Bry-
an, supported by an organization which
boasts that within its circle the radical
rules and there is neither use nor place fol
the conservative. The public must moi
forget that Mr. Bryan's supporters in Con
gress urged on the war with Spain; thai
MIR. Bryan's friends gave the requisite
votes to ratify the treaty. The speeches
of Democrats were the speeches making
for blood and fire before the war, their
votes after its conclusion bespoke eithel
their hypocracy or their belief in the wis
dom of the treaty which they were aiding
in ratifyiDg.
"In conclusion, a single word and thu
address is finished. The Mckinley Ad
miuistration has been successful in makinl
more secure the gold standard through
enacted law and in refunding much Of tn
public debt. 1t has maintained the ma
tional credit and improved the country
bmking system. 1t has sustained tn
c,uptry's well. being at home and its dig
nifty abroad. Upon the issues as mad
up it ought TO and it will receive the ap
p~oval of that body of voters who eithe
within or without the lines OF organized
political affiliations know their rights anC
dare P--Slights maintain. ."