The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-09-21
Republicans Responsible for the
Constantly Increasing Num-
Der Of Trusts.
Business Gravitating Toward the
Offices Of the Big Cor
porations.
Farmers Feeling the Effect of Growing
Combines in the Decline
Of Prices.

In lengthy address at st. Louis,
Saturday night, September Is, William
J..Bryan made vigorous and convinc-
ing onslaught on the trusts and the
trust-fostering tendencies of the re-
publican party, saying:
THE lament of David over Absalom is
Old Testament. The fact that the son was
authority did not shake the fathers affec-
ton, and the anxious query: is the young
man. Absaiom safer fingers r IN II, the the mem men,
Hebrew king. And. yet the interest WHICH
David felt in his son. Absalom, has its
which make up the American people.
mo language can describe a mothers
love. or oyerstate the abiding interest
child. From the time when the mothers
life hangs in the balance at the boys birth
scarcely waking hour u when When the SON is
not present in their thoughts and plans. 1t
Is to this parental devotion. so universally
recognized. that desire to appeal on this
occasion.
Appeal to Parental Devotion.
II would call the attention Of every ia
Their and mother to present political and in
analyze these conditions, Investigate their
causes and their tendencies. l would press
man. ASsaom ns safe Are you sasisea
with the possibilities and the probabilities
M now saf open mb before 9rsg SOM
financiers are allowed to determine the
monetary system under which he lives?
the volume of money with which he does
determines the size Of the national debt
upon which he must help to pay interest?
us he safe when by means of taxes laid
compelled to contribute according to his
wants rather than according to his posses
us he safe when corporate interests In
nuence as they do today the selection E! OF
aee Of the unitea states IN the
IF he is a wage-earner, and you do not
know how soon he may be, even If he is not;
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 corporate employer may pro-
The Reign Of Monopoly.
But, 1 desire to call special attention to
the growth of the trusts, and to ask you
Of prvate Gne sT yo% Cannot leave
more valuable than money. viz: the free
hands for the advancement Of his own
welfare. When there Is Industrial indie
earnest endeavor by the hope Of being able
to profit by his own genius, his own energy.
his own industry and d,l his own virtue But
velopment each branch of industry will be
controlled by one. or few men. and the
rule. will be kept within the possession Of a
few from generation to generation. while
demned to perpetual clerkship or servi-
tude.. When private monopoly reaches its
fT n.SS your nr son VIII buy the
oily fixes; he will sell raw material at the
price which monopoly fixes: and. II he
compensation and upon such conditions as
monopoly may determine.
Charles r. Flint. of the Rubber Goods
cred in Boston on the 18th of May. 1889. out.
lined the trust programme with great
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 viii be lowered and ali
who produce wool will sell at the price
By people ns srEs 5s
they are thus placed at the mercy Of the
The second advantage is that those
plants x'hiehare best equipped and most adj
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 centerS. 1t means,
also, that whenever there II q surplus on
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
plants. which stand as silent monuments
to the evils of the trust system.
THE next advantage mentioned is that
In case of local strikes and fires, the WORK
goes on elsewhere. thus preventing serious
toss.'
'aThis means that monopoly can abso-
lutely control its workingmen, for IL q
strike occurs In q factory In one state the
factory can be closed down indefinitely
while the employees are starved into sub.
mission. and. as the trust can do the wori
In some other factory without serious loss
II is quite independent of the employees, AND
ditions upon which they shall live. The
posed the managers will be to arbitration
because. in case Of any contest between thu
trust and its employees, the trust will have
every advantage and the employees will b
perfectly powerless."
Here Mr.. Bryan speaks of the ef
fects of trusts upon the Commercial
travellers of the country. showing how
their services will be dispensed with
He also quotes from the ''Inyestmen
Guide" the names Of q large corpora