Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-09-20
Republicans Responsible for the
Constantly Increasing Num-
Der Of Trusts.
Business Gravitating Toward the
Offices of the Big Cor
porations.
Farmers Feeling the Effect CT Growing
Combines in the Decline
of Prices.

In a lengthy address at St. Louis,
Saturday night, September Is, William
J.. Bryan made a vigorous and convinc-
ing onslaught On the trusts and the
trust-fostering tendencies of the re-
publican party, saying:
1.-The lament of David over Absalom is
one of the most pathetic passages OF the
Old Testament. The fact that the son was
authority did not shake the fathers afec-
ton, and the anxious query: is the young
man, Absalom, safe? fingers in the mem
DRY of all who study the life of the great
Hebrew king. And, yet, the interest which
David felt in his son. Absalom; has its
vwhich make up the American people.
NO language can describe a mothers
love, or overstate the ABIDING interest,"
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 a waking hour when the son is
not present in their thoughts and plans. 1t
is to this parental devotion, so universally
recognized. that 1 desire to appeal on this
occasion
Appeal to Parental Devotion.
"I would call the attention of every ia
ther and mother to present elahppG 9ii niS ,h AND IN n
analyze these conditions, investigate their
| causes and their tendencies. | would press
upon them this question:: Is the young
man, Absalom, safe?' Are you satisfied
with the possibilities and the probabilities
which now open before your son?
rs he safe when foreign or domestic
fnanciers are allowed to determine the
monetary system under which he lives:
us he safe when national banks control
the volume of money with which he does
business?
determines the size of the national debt
upon which he must help to pay interest?
almost entirely upon consumption he is
compelled TO contribute according to his
want rather than according to his posses
us he safe when corporate interests in
fuence as they do to-day the selection OF
ate of the United States?
IF he is a wage-earner, 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 de-
prived of trial by jury, through the system
known as government by injunction?
is denied the protection of arbitration and
compelled to submit to such hours and
terms as a corporate employer may pro-
pose?
The Reign of Monopoly.
But. I desire to call special attention TO
the growth of the trusts, and to ask you
of private monopoly? If you cannot leave
him a fortune, you can leave him some
more valuable than money, viz: the free
dom to employ his own brain and his own
hands for the advancement OF MS own
welfare. When there is industrial inde-
~pendence, each citizen is stimulated to
| earnest endeavor by the hope of being able
to profit by his own genius, his own energy,
his own industry and his own virtue. But
when private monopoly reaches its full de-
velopment each branch of industry will be
fruits of moHopoiy. like the divine right of
rule, will be kept within the possession Of a
few from generation to generation. while
! the real producers of wealth will be on
demned to perpetual cierkship or servi-
tuie. When private monopoly reaches its
| finished product at the price which monop-
oily fixes; he will sell raw material at the
price which monopoly fixes: and; If ne
compensation and upon such conditions as
monopoly may determine.
Charles r. Flint. of the Rubber Goods
Manufacturing company; in a speech deliv-
cred in Boston on the 18th of May, 1883. out
frankness. In speaking of the advantages
to be derived from the trust system he said:
Outline of Trust Programme.
Raw material bought in. large guam
titles is secured at lower prices, When
the price of wool will be lowered and all
who produce wool will sell at the price
of our people are engaged in she produc.
ton of various kinds of raw material, and
they are thus placed at the mercy of the
The second advantage is that those
plants which are best equipped and most ad-
va~ntageously situated are run continuous
ly and in preference to those less favored.
This means that factories can be closed
in the smaller towns and business concen-
trated in the large c%enters. 1t means,
also. that whenever there is a surplus OF
hand. part of the factories can be closed
and the burden of maintaining prices
thrown upon the wage workers. There are
already scattered throughout the land idle
pIants, which stand as silent monuments
to the evils of the trust system
"The next advantage mentioned is tina
In case OF local strikes and fires, the worn
goes on elsewhere, thus preventing serious
loss .hso
lutelv control its workingmen, for if {
strike occurs in a factory in one state, tht
factory can be closed down indefinitely
while the employees are starved into sub
! mission, and, as the trust can do the worl
in some other factory without serious loss
If Is quite indepsndent OF the employees, anC
can absolutely prescribe the terms and con
ditions upon which they shall live. Thu
more complete the monop'y the more op
nosed the managers will b. to arbitration
because. in case of any contest between tn
trust and its employees. the trust will hay
every advantage and the employees VIII o.
perfectly powerless-'
Here Mr.. Bryan speaks Of the eff
fects of trusts upon the commercial
travellers of the country. showing how
their services will be dispensed with
He also quotes from the "Investmen
Guide" the names of % large corpora
lions which he terms as trusts forme,
under Mckinley.
No Hope from Republicans.
"During the present administration n
honest effort has been made to protect tn
neoDIe from these m~onopolies. TIL repub
firan party controls the executive and tn
legislative departments of federal govern
nient- 1t can enforce the laws which nov
exist; it can propose and enact new laws
6ut it does neither. No persons can waite
the conduct of the republican party an
read the speeches of republican leaders
and still believe the republican party sin
cere in it's declarations against the trusts
1.-The republican platform on this ques
ton and the presidents letter OF accept
ance, taken in connection with the party
record, prove conclusiyely that no relic
, can be hoped for from that party In
stead of pointing out the evils OF trust
the republican leaders spenc their tim
in ~exulting over present conditions IN
trust is a part of present conditions, an
Mr.. Flint, from which 1 have alread
: quoted, declared that the formation {
large corporations was one of the in
/ portant features of what he described g
the present business activity II republic
an leaders really regarded private monoI
: oily as an evil; if they really intended TO Al
Z ply an effective remedy, they would M
hesitate to denounce trusts and.
e means for their determination, but the
, express far more soI&citude for the corpora
ton than for the people at large. one
: reminded of the picture which a mothe
once showed 20 her boy TO imDress upo
. his youthful mind the sunerings OF II
e Christian martyrs, who were being throw
into the arena and torn to pieces by II
lions. The boy looked at the picture for