The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-10

| the trusts. Cling his method for the dis
| solution of the trusts, he said
First, put every trust made article on
the free list, so that it will not be able
| to plumber people at home while trusts
sell abroad in competition with the world
| But we are not satisfied to simply stop
extortion, we want to destroy the whole
people OF private monopoly. There are
| no good monopolies in private monopolies
] There never was and never will be- God
never made a man good enough to stand
| at the head of a private monopoly. We
want to strike at the root of the evil.
! We want to make it impossible for pri-
vate monopoly to exist in the United
/ States. 1t is possible for a state to pro-
tect its own people, but congress must
| act if we protect the people of all the
states. We propose this legislation,
that every corporation engaged in inter-
state commerce shall be compelled to
take out a license from the federal gov
eminent, that license to be given upon
conditions which will make a monopoly
impossible. Then squeeze the water out
of the stock of corporations; you will
have food for a while, but there will
be honest corporations after a while.
Second, require that corporations
shall show that they are not attempting
and have not attempted in the past to
monopolize any branch of business or the
production of any article of merchandise
and then provide for a revocation of the
license if the conditions are not COM
piled with"
Mr.. Bryan the ntook occasion to an
swer the charges that he is being paid
for his speeches. In part he said:
81 am not as rich a man as you would
imagine from reading the Republican pa
pers. 1 find it difficult to reconcile the
statements of Republican papers made
about my financial condition. One time
they say that lam so ambitious that
I would spend all my money to be pres
ident and another time they say that
am SO avaracious that I will not make
a speech unless I am paid for it.
notice a criticism in the papers that peo-
pie of the town through which our train
passes have contributed to the expense of
the train and 1t was suggested that this
was for my benefit. I need not tell you
that L receive nothing for making
speeches, but my friends, I want you to
know that when people ride on trains
they mus either pay or else the railroad
companies furnish them with free rides.
We do not want railroad to carry our
train through the state. and therefore
the state committee paid $1,000 for the
train for yesterday and today. We be-
lieve 1t is better for people to pay their
way and be independent than to have
corporations run them after election I
would a great deal rather have Republi-
can papers criticise me and people along
the road pay, than to receive favors
from the railroad company and have
corporations run me, If elected, because
they furnished me trains''
The meeting at Joliet was held in the
court house grounds, and the crowd COW
cred not only one side Of the grounds.
but the street in front as well. The |
Bryan train was due here at o'clock, |
but did not arrive until after 10 o'clock |
The run from La Sale, distance of 60 |
miles, was made in 81 minutes. After |
the meeting Mr.. Bryan left for Chicago. |
Tomorrow he will begin his tour of |
Michigan, Benton Harbor being his first |
stop.