The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-18


was for only ten minutes. Mr.. Bryan
warned his hearers against all private |
monopolies. He declared that the Re
publican party was under so many OBJ
legations TO the trusts and its fortunes
we so bound up with theirs that no
leader of the party dared raise his voice
against them On the contrary, he as
serted. the Republican party was idly
standing By, allowing the trusts to rob
the people, while it was devoting itself
largely to collecting campaign funds
from the combinations. The poor man,
he said, is coming 10 the Democratic
party because he wants chance in
the race for life. He believes in equal
rights 70 all and special privileges TO
none, and he finds the Democratic par
~ in favor of that doctrine and the
Republican party opposed to it.
Not Stirring Prejudice.
Mr.. Bryan spoke for five minutes
from the rear platform of the special
train to a good crowd at Tarryton. He
said:
THE Republicans say that we are
trying 20 array one class of society
against another ] say we are not
We are trying to reach all classes of
society and to do justice among all
and instead of trying to array the itch
against the poor we want the rich and
the poor to become better acquainted.
have not heard of two heavens, one
for the rich and one for the poor. I
think 1 can do some good if 1 can get
the rich and the poor acquainte6 here
OIneF
when they meet across the river
Full Dinner Pailo at Sing Sing.
Five minute stops were made at
Sing Sing, Peekskill. Cold Spring and
Fishkill.
At Sing Sing Mr.. Bryan said:
This is where you have a great
many people who have a fun dinner
pail, because the state always gives
the prisoners a full dinner pail, but
while they are given full dinner pail
they are deprived of their liberty and
when the trusts offer a full dinner pail
to an American wOrkingman L want
you to know that they offer it in re
turn for surrender of the liberty of
the Individual. The despotism of a
monopoly is almost as bad as the con-
fnement of the penitentiary. You want
a chance to he independent, the trust
takes il away from you.
In his brief speech ? eekskill Mr..
Bryan referred to .Se7 .. Depew say
II am surprised to find so many peo-
pie here, for I supposed that in this
senator lived you would be afraid of
me as a dangerous man. 1t is crafty
ing to find that so many of you have
formed your opinion from reading
other speeches or other articles than
those which emanate from your SEN
atOr. L am sorry that I cannot have
his aid. but there are so many other
laboring men who are with me that 1
suppose 1 can get along without his
Support in this campaign. You have
heard of the dinner pail argument here
and your senator is a good man to
preach it, for his dinner pail is full. /
suppose that his senatorial salary will
fill his dinner pail and leave the rail-
road salary for a fair supper in the
evening"
Speaks on Danger in Trusts.
At Newburgh Mr.. Bryan said:
Il want you to know that the Ma
tories, and when l was at Mankato,
Mimi, the other day. 1 found II
cracker factory that had been bought
by the National Biscuit company and
closed down within d short time. The
American Steel & Wire company con-
trolls so per cent of the output of wire
nails and steel wire, and you remem-
Der that within a year that company
closed down twelve factories, threw
5000 men out of employment and then
reduced the price of wire nails and
barbed wire in an instant, threw upon
the men who had bought up stocks of
wire and nails a heavy loss. and it was
stated that the man who was reSpOn-
sible did it in order to make more
money on the stock in the depression
of price of stock than a man could
make in any ordinary business in a life
time.
why is it that your papers will de-
fend these trusts?'
Aid For the Trusts.
Mr.. Bryan charged that the Repub-
lican party was circulating a book
written by man named Weeks de-
Tending the trusts, and said:
The National Publishing company Of
New York printed the books 1t first
asked the trusts to buy the book and
circulate it. 1t found that the trusts
did not want to undertake he circu-
Iation of the book themselves, and this
publishing company wrote a letter to
the trusts, a copy of which is in the
Of inc
To overcome that difficulty We have
arranged with the Republican national
committee to have il distribute books
in such manner and in such place as to
insure the best result and Governor
Stone has a receipt signed for the ma
tiOnal committee of the Republican ma
tiOnal par committee by J. H. Manley
for 500 copies of a book in defense of
trusts, paid for by the trusts, to be cir
culated by the Republican committee
among the people to convince them that
trusts are good, while the leaders say
the Republican party is opposed to
trusts. l want to ask you whether you
have faith in a party that thus prom
Uses the people relief from the trusts
while its committee circulates a book
10 defend the trusts p
Mr.. Bryan also referred to the in
crease of the standing army, and asked
those who had asked for an increase to
hold up their hands.
Two hands went up, but the men
who held their hands aloft failed to
state what business they were engaged
in when required by Mr.. Bryan TO
do so.
Recalling the fact that General
Washington had had headquarters
here. Mr.. Bryan said:
Here it was that Washington re-
fused a crown, and we love him be-
cause he was great enough to prefer a
government of the people, by the people
and for the people TO a government
resting on force"
Speaks For Common People.
Mr.. Bryan had a fine crowd at
Poughkeepsie and was well received.
He spoke there for ten minutes, devot-
ing himself largely to a defense of the
common people, saying that there was
no demagogism in such defense.
Why" he asked, is it such a bad
thing to speak of the common people ?
Lincoln said he knew that the Lord
loved the common people because he
had made so many of them
Continuing, Mr.. Bryan said it was
upon Se common people that we de-
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