The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-02
COL. BRYAN'S
new POINT.
Charges That the Chairman of
House Committee
On Military Affairs is Also
the President of
A LUMBER COMPANY.
Says It Has Secured Large Tim
Der Tract in the Philippines,
And That's One Reason For Sub
DUNG the Islands.

Lesueur. Mimi, Oct 2.-The decora-
tions which were placed upon the Bryan
train at Duluth by the Minnesota state
committee, were almost entirely de-
stroy by souvenir seekers while the train
stopped in the yards at Minneapolis last
night. Mr.. Bryan started out today
with a schedule of Is speeches before
him and when he reached this place he
had already delivered five of them
namely: at Shakopee. Jordan, Belle
Plaine, St. Peter and Henderson Al
each of these places, except at St Peter
he spoke ten minutes. At. st. Peter ne
all condensed reviews of the general SIT
uatfon but especial attention was given
the trusts and imperialism.
Shakopee, the first stop was reached
at 8 O'Clock. There Mr.. Bryan said the
Republican party mas allowed the trusts
to grow and it cannot insist upon the
discussion of the old question and the
ignoring of the trust with which every
body has become acquainted, because OF
the effect of the trusts upon them A
speech can only put out the phllosophy
Of experience lou have mad your eX-
perience," he said, now We want 10
show you that that experience will not
only continue but it will grow worse
unless you remove the cause We be-
lieved in 1896, the Republican party was
giving too much attention to the dollars
and too little to the man. We felt sure
that we were right: that II there was
poison in the blood that it would cont1n-
ue to break out. When there is poison
in the blood, on the body viii appear
boil and the wise man will take some
thing for the blood, but the foolish man
will have more boils- We tried to show
you what was going on on the old IS
sues but you would not listen. You nave
had the trust boil, g, military boil and a
new colonial boil is appearing Why is
it that the Republican party allows the
trust to grow? Because the Republican
party is more interested in those who
possess the organized wealth OF the
country than in those who are contri-
buting to the large dividends collected
by the trusts. Why does the Republican
party want a. large army? They want 1t
at home to suppress by force, the dis
content which should be cured by legls-
latiOn and they want 1t abroad IN order
to exploit the Philippine islands, and if
you will look up the record you will find
that the Republican member of congress
who stands at the head of the army
committee of the house of representa-
tives is the president of the Philippine
Lumber and Development company and
they have already gobbled a lot of the
lumber lands and taken control of the
Improvement in the Philippine islands
and in their prospectus they say that
the labor question is easily solved-There
is plenty of Chinese labor
by reading their prospectus you can
see why it is that some people want a
large army and Imperialism and while it
is a good thing for those doing the de-
velOping, it is a bad thing for the people
who furnish sons for the army and the
people who pay the taxes"
At Belle Plaine Mr.. Bryan said that
trusts militarism and Imperialism were
questions which had been raised by the
Republican party, but he contended that
that party was not prepared to meet
them. He said that the Republican par
ty was in a position either to condemn
or defend it's position on either Of these
questions.
The people of Henderson were treated
to a disquisitiOn on trusts. Speaking of
the rise in the price of salt, Mr.. Bryan
said that he had heard a Republican say
the increase was inapprecia bic, because
he could not eat a barrel of salt in q life
time. Mr.. Bryan claimed this reasoning
was fallaciOus. One might as well say
he could not eat suit of clothes. The
objection was to the principle and the
great danger of trusts lay in their in
sidiousness. In many cases the increase
in cost might not be "a burden to any
one article, but taken altogether. they
constituted a load too heavy for COM
mon people to bear with equanimity.
MankatO Mimi, Oct. 2-Here Mr..
Bryan made the principal speech of the
forenoon, the stop at this point being
40 minutes in duration. Mr.. Bryan stood
upon a flag topped coal dray, while he
talked. He asserted that the RepubH-
cans. were trying to fight the campaign
on the lowest plane on which cam
paign was ever pitched
IN the east, ne Saiu, Iney tell US OF
a prosperity in the west that we have
never seen, and in the west of big wages
in the east which they do not dare to
boast of in the anthracite coal regions
He said the Republicans were more
troubled in 1896 about maintaining the
parity between the metals than they are
now about maintaining the parity be-
tween the white men of the United
States and the brown men Of the Philip
pines" He referred to the closing Of
the factory at this place as an object
lesson as to what might be expected of
the trusts. Mr.. Hanna says there are
no trusts" he said. You can tell him
better here. can't your
you bel" was the general response.
Continuing Mr. Bryan again referred
to the ice trust, saying that it was the
only trust that Republicans know about
notwithstanding its operations were
confined to New York while the other
trusts reach out all over the country.
He again suggested that the Republican
home looking after the trusts in his
state instead of travelling over the coun-
try campaigning
Speaking Of the Philippine question
Mr.. Bryan repeated that he was willing
to assume all the responsibility for the
ratification Of the treaty but not for the
treaty itself.
BRYAN'S ITINERARY.
Chicago, Oct. 2.-Wm. J. Bryan viii
morning, stopping only long enough for
his car to be switched to the Wabash
railroad tracks en- route to Indianapolis
Senator Jones. chairman Of the Demo-
cratic rational committee, today an
nounced the following itinerary for Col.
Bryan's eastern tour: Madison Square