The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-26


an offense to organize the trust.
recommend that you read the articles
by the distinguished Pennsylvania
Democrat, Ex-Governor Patterson who
has just returned from Porto Rico,
and you will find that the Porto Ric-
ans can write a complaint that will
rival the complaint our people had
against England before the Revolu-
tion.' II
SCORES A HIT AT TRENTON.
Trenton, N. j., Oct. 25.-Mr. Bryan
made two speeches in Trenton, the first
in Taylor Opera House and the second
at an open air meeting. He was splendid
ly at both places. Responding to the
opera house meeting, where the Demo-
cratic clubs of the State were holding
their annual convention, Mr.. Bryan said:
"The Republican party says everything
is all right; that the farmer is happy;
that the laboring man has full dinner
pail, and that nobobdy ought to complain
of present conditions. Our reply is, all
right Let every man who is satisfied
with his condition, who believes he is
enjoying his fair share of the earth s
blessings and the governments protec-
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vote the Republican ticket. / am per-
fectly content to draw the line and let
all those who think that there is no
necessity for the better things vote the
Republican ticket if can have the votes
of all those who believe things can be
made better by better laws
PRIVATE MONOPOLY DANGEROUS.
Mr.. Bryan denounced private monopoly
as both dangerous and contrary to the
moral law He added:
THE trust magnate who uses a monop-
oily as a means for extortion is upon the
same moral plan as highway man who
goes out at night with his club and brains
men and takes their money away from
them; and when the Republican party
permits the monopoly to exist it amends
the commandment and makes it read
thou shalt not steal on a small scale.
The trust is wrong from an economic
standpoint, for if you will examine you
vii find that the first thing that the
trust does when it gets control of an
industry is to raise the price. Then the
consumers suffer. The next thing is
to shut down the factories to reduce pro-
duction, because high price lessons the
the laboring man who is idle, waiting for
a job, the expense Of keeping up the high
prices.
1T is wrong economically for another
reason. 1t discourages inventive genius,
for if all men who have skill in one
occupation are under one man, then they
hang upon him. 1t is the hope of inde
pendence it is the hope that you can some
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people to highest endeavor; and when
you take this hope out of the human
breast and plant despair in it's place you
start downward toward the level of the
dark ages. And it is bad for the labor
ing man, for if laboring man has genius
and skill, and his employer does not
recognize his skill and genius, another
employer will. But when there is but
count, and a son-in law will do as well
as a genius
REMEDIES SUGGESTED.
Referring to his remedies for the trust,
Mr.. Bryan said:
Il am almost afraid to suggest the
remedy down here, for il we succeed in
squeezing the water out of the New Jer-
sey corporations you will have tidal wave
greater than that at Galveston. You
will have a flood for while, but you
will have honest corporations after
wards.
Why should corporations organized
in New Jersey be permitted to prey on
the whole country? Why should cor
poration organized in this State be per-
mitted to enter into State commerce until
it first shows that it is going out to do
a legitimate business and not going out
as a highwayman? l believe that if you
will provide. first, that a corporation
shall have the water squeezed out and
second, that it shall show that it is not
trying to monopolize any branch of busi-
ness, and then provide for a revocation
of the license if the conditions are vio-
lated, l believe you could destroy every
private monopoly engaged in Interstate
commerce, and prevent the creation of
new ones am not worrying about those
corporations confined to the State, for
if the corporations preys upon the people
Of the State and upon them alone, / am
willing to leave the people to fight it out
with their local corporations and let it
live as long as they have anything for the
corporation to eat. But when a corpora
eioH icdFeS otdIe ana goes INTO Otner
states, | am not willing to leave it to
the State. / am not willing to put forty
four States at the mercy of trust be-
cause it hires one State to let it stay
there while it plumbers the other forty
four"
DON'T BET BUT CONTRIBUTE.
Closing his speech Mr.. Bryan made an
earnest appeal for campaign work until
the close of the campaign and asked his
supporters not to bet on results, saying
in part:
IF you have any money to spare, put it
in the campaign fund instead of betting
with it. Do not try to beat the Repub-
licans at their game. When you bet you
bet your money; when a trust magnate
bets he bets other peoples money. A
newspaper friend of mine gave some good
advice the other day. He told Democrats
that if they would put their money in the
campaign fund they would get satisfaction
enough out of success to make them will
ing to spend the money that way; and if
we lose it it is no qualification to give the
Republicans Democratic money as well as
victory in this campaign. We cannot
go to the great corporations and ask
them to contribute because we not in
tend they should make it back out of the
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