The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-14

during the campaign and then the
trusts gather from the people between
campaigns.
Speaking of imperialism he said:
when a Republican tells you that
we are just trying to scare you by hold
ing up the fear of imperialism, you tell
him that it is not the future you are
afraid of, it is the thing that he has
already done. The Porto Rican bill
is not in the future, it is in the past,
and the Porto Rican bill deals with the
Porto Ricans as England dealt with
the Americans.
While Mr.. Bryan was referring to the
trusts and speaking of those who We're
prosperous under the present admins
tration, some one asked: How about
Abner Mckinley?
Mr.. Bryan replied: '.That is a family
matter, and I'll leave you to deal with
it,"
No hands went up when he asked for
those who were lOaning money to
Europe, whereupon Mr.. Bryan express
ed much surprise that this should be
the case in the presidents own state.
At GAINESVILLE Mr.. Bryan spoke for
fifteen minutes, giving the greater
share Of mis- attention to the trusts. In
| this connection he said:
- want to ask you whether the men
who toll are receiving the share of the
blessings OF the government prOtec-
ton? Tell me if the laboring men are
prosperous when it is necessary for
him to send his son and daughter out
to work in order to help support the
family when they ought to be in school?
/ That is not a prosperous condition. The
labor organizations have been COM
PEELED to protest and to work against
the employment of child labor. Under
/ a satisfactory condition in prosperous
times the head of a family ought TO be
able to earn enough IN reasonable
hours to support himself and his fam
lily. You will find that today the labor
ing man is not laying up enough money
to give him a competency in his old
age. And yet the people who trade in
the wealth that they produce and spec
ulate on the market are able 20 accu-
mulate fortunes by the use of govern
ment privileges more rapidly than they
ever accumulated in the history of the
world
Quotes the Golden Rule.
Mr.. Bryan discussed the Philippine
question, and in closing his speech said:
Do unto others as you would they
should do unto you You woui1 not
allow any government to fastel upon
you the government that you want to
fasten upon the Filipinos, and if yeu
| are not willing to give liberty to 9TH
ers, you do not deserve liberty your
selves"
Speaking for a few minutes at Trim
way, Mr.. Bryan said:
4 Just passed through Dresden, and
I I thought what a pity it was Mr.. Hanna
did not live there, so that he could
know that there was a trust. 1t is as
tonishing how little information a great
man can sometimes have, AMI when
Mr.. Hanna says there are no trusts lie
shows about as great a lack Of infor-
nation on the subject as any person
who has ever spoken. Why does he not
ask his wife? Every woman can tell
there is q trust, because of the in
/ creased price she has to pay when she
] goes to buy. All over this country the
! trusts have been buying up factories
| and shutting them down just as they
/ did in Dresden. In doing so they have
! thrown people out of employment. and
| the labOring man is compelled TO leave
/ the place where he thought he had con-
/ tinuOus employment, to sell his home
I at a, sacrifice and to go out in search OF
work. Is that a good condition? If a
man openly takes IS which belongs TO
/ another you call his a thief, but if he
/ organizes a great monopoly and goes
/ out and buys UP and closes down fac
/ tories. destroys business and throws
/ people out of employment, he takes
/ not s., but hundreds of dollars from
/ individuals. and thousands from COM
munities, and the Republican party
/ does not find a satisfactory name for
4 him"