Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1900-09-25
ne Tells of the Evils of the Sys-
tenn in a Speech at
ST. Louis.
AND GIVES SOME SAMPLE CASES
How Trusts Will Hurt the Travelling
Man, the Hotel Keeper
and Railways.
Decline of Farm Products-The Agri-
culturist the Most Important
Factor in Our National Life.

In his speech before the Commercial
Travellers association at St Louis
William Jennings Bryan SAID:
The lament of David over Absalom
is one Of the most pathetic passages
of the Old Testament The fact that
the son was in rebellion against civil
9s well as parental authority did not
shake the fathers affection, and the
anxious query, rs the young man, Alb
salon, safe?" fingers i'm the memory
Of all who study the life Of the great
Hebrew king And, yet, the interest
which David felt i'm his son. Absalom,
has it's parallel in the more than
1O,O000O0 families which make up the
American people.
No language can describe a moth
er'S love. or Overstate the abiding in
terest which the father feels in the
welfare Of his child. From the time
when the mothers life hangs in the
balance at the boys birth until the
death Of the parents there is scarcely
81 waking hour when the son is not
present i'm their thoughts and plans.
1t is to this parental devotion, so uni
versally recognized, that / desire to
appeal on this occasion.
Appeal to Parental Devotion.
l would call the attention of every
3ather and mother to present political
and Industrial conditions. | would
ask them to anaylze these conditions.
investigate their causes and their ten
denotes. | would press uDon them
this question: rs the young man,
AbSal0m, safe" Are you satisfied
with the possibilities and the proba-
btliiieS which now open before your
SOM
Is he safe when foreign or do
mestic 6nanciers are allowed TO de-
'teimlne the monetary system under
sHhich he lives?
is he safe when national banks con-
trol the volume Of money with which
he does business?
Is he safe when the bond holding
class determines the size of the ma
tioHal debt upon which he must help
10 pay interest?
Is he safe when by means of taxes
taid almost entirely upon consumption
-,..o Is compelled to contribute accord
Iaa 70 his wants rather than accord
inc qo llI~ possessions?
Is be sffe when corporate interests
tion OF those who are to represent him
in the senate of the United States?
If he is n wage-earner, and you do
not know how soon he may be, even
if ne is not now. is he safe when he
is ii9}eie 10 be deprived Of trial by
JUS, through the system known as
government by injunc ion?
Is be safe, if a labOring man, when
- i odd afi Of nrh
ticn AID compelled to submit to such
hours and teims as a corporate en-
pio5er may propose?
- The Reign Of Monopoly.
But ! desire to call special atten-
Iion TO the growth of the trusts, and
30 ask you whether your son is safe
under the reign Of private monopoly
If YOU cannot leave him n fortune you
can leave him something more valua-
bic than money, viz: the freedom to
employ his own brain and his own
hands for the advancement of his own
welfare When there is Industrial in
depeuce each citizen is stimulated to
ealnest endeaVor by the hope of being
able so profit by his own genius, his
own energy, his own industry and his
own virtue. But when private mon
upoly reaches its full development each
branch of industry will be controlled
by one, or a few men, and the
fruits Of monopoly, like the
divine right of rule, will be kept
within the possession of a few
from generation to generation, while
abe real producers of wealth will be
condemned to perpetual clerkship or
.seTVitude. When private monopoly
rcarhes its full development your son
Mill buy the finished product at the
price which monopoly fixes; he VII
sell raw material at the price which
monopoly fixes; and, if he works for
wages, be will work for such compen-
satiOn and upon such conditions as
monopoly may determine.
Charles r. Flint Of the Rubber Goods
Manufacturing Co., in a speech deliv-
cred In Boston on the 25th of May,
1880, outlined the trust programme
with great frankness. In speaking CT
tbo advantages to be derived from the
9rust system he said;
Outline of Trust Program
Raw material bought in large
quantities Is secured at lower prices"
When. for instance, one man buys all
me WOOl, lue price VI NOOl VIII ne low
cred and all who produce wool viii
sell at the price fixed by the trust. A
large proportion Of our people are en-
gagged in the production Of various
Kinds of raw material, and they are
thus placed at the mercy Of the com
DinatiOns
The second advantage is that
@'thOse plants which are best equipped
and most adyantageously situated are
run continuously and in preference to
those less favored"
This means that factories can be
closed in the smaller towns ana busi-
ness concentrated in the large centers.
II means that whenever there is
- nd, part Of the factor
d, and the burden of
'es thrown upon the
here are already scat
the land idle plants
ilent monuments to
INST system