Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08
A CAMPAIGN OF FALSEHOOD.

election. The democratic candidate has
Misrepresentation. There is not a par
ticle of merit and but little truth in any
of his contentious. On the subject of
expansion. which ne falsely calls i'm
the people by brazen mendacity. He is
holding up the American soldier as a
public enemy. Because the Spanish war
created a demand within the last two
years for an army of 200, 900 men, he is
telling the people that in four years tina
would mean, at the same rate, 400, 900
men, and expects them to swallow that
sort of argument" Within two years
of that wars beginning he is charging
the republican party with the sole re-
sponsibility for the expense of conduct
ing it. and he is holding up the Ameri-
can volunteer. the bulwark of the nation
in time of danger. as a public robber
He is accusing Mckinley of being the
cause of all the trouble and expense of
suppressing the TagaIs in Luzon, yet
he himself advocated the adoption of the
treaty which mad the Philippines
American territory, and he and his
fellow politicians are encouraging the
Tagals to maintain their rebellion and
promising them freedom if they will
only keep on shooting at United States
soldiers and dishonoring the flag until
he (Bryan) shall be elected president.
Is there anything so infamous in all the
previous history of the United States?
Had he opposed the treaty of Paris it
could not have passed, but the moment
it was passed it ceased to be a party
ness, involving the honor and credit Of
the nation. This man Bryan, however,
hoping to excite the prejudices Of the
ignorant, is going about the country
sponsibility for doing what he himself
would be compelled to do if he were
president, Or else lay himself open to i'm
parchment for usurpinS the functions Of
tollSIcSS vi ~ ldlIlliS " pctlOiIH HIS
sworn duty.
On the subject of trusts Bryan is
equally dishonest. He presents no plan,
has conceived no plan, to suppress the
trusts he No power on earth
can prevent corporations from combin
ing their business any more than it can
prevent W. men from forming a part
nership, or a number of men from form
ing a labor union. 1t is only when COM
binations are formed that are plainly
and demonstrably injurious to the
public interest and intended to monopo-
lize and advance the price of some COM
modify that the law can take hold of
them. Such combinations both parties
in their national conventions are SOL
EMMY pledged to suppress, and men
who know which of the parties is most
accustomed to keeping its pledges ought
to know which one to support on the
trust issue. Yet Bryan is assuming that
all the trusts are republican trusts, the
products Of republican legislation, and
that only the democracy can be relied
upon to put them out of business, which
is absurd in the light of three facts:
now on the statutes, was in effect during
the entire Cleveland administration and
was never enforced nor amended even
when both houses of congress were dem
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Mayor Van Wyck and Boss Croker are
heavy holders of stock in the Ice trust
the most cruel and dishonest of al
trusts, though Bryan never called them
to account nor mentioned the Ice trust
in all his harangues; (3) when an effort
was made in congress last year to give
force and effect to antitrust legislation
by providing for a constitutional amend.
ment, every democrat in the senate
voted against It'll
SO much for the sincerity of the democ-
racy and its talking chief on the trust
question. The latter is making a big
play to the galleries, and makes then
many glittering promises, but should he
ever be president he woul be doubtless
the greatest failure recorded in history
in point of actual achievement. Look al
the men he would have around him for
advisers and as cabinet of1icers. Till
man, who demands freedom for Tagals
in the Philippines. while 80, 900 colored
voters are being d~isfranchised in his
own state and dare not protest for fear
of the shotgun; Croker, who says the re-
publicans must De beaten in order to