The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-13
ROOSEVELT TRIES
TO ANSWER BRYAN
He Says There Are Some
Good Trusts.
A HELPLESS GOVERN MENT
Cannot Prevent Their Organization,
/, Says Roosevelt.
A HELPLESS GOVERNMENT
LATER He DECLARES BRYAN is OBSCURE
Facts He Fears He Cannot Answer, Dodge OF
Eyade Roosevelt Gets Rid Of by Denying.
Asks Questinns That Bryan
W.ii Ancuor
Viii Answer.
(By the Associated Press.)

Evansville Ind, Oct 12.-At Evans
Hall in this city tonight Governor
Roosevelt replied to Mr.. Bryan's assertion
that the President asked for an army of
100, 900 men two months before the Philip
pine war broke out by saying that the bill
by Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, Bryan
| supporter, and was intended to meet the
threatening conditions in the archipelago.
| At the time the Presidents recommended
ton was made, said Governor Roosevelt,
a collision was imminent with the insur-
| gent army. Governor Roosevelt, in his
4 turn, put these questions to Mr.. Bryan:
i /. If elected, Mr.. Bryan, will you pay
the obligation of the nation in gold or
/ in silver?
4 2. Will you refuse to accept the cleo
toral votes of North Carolina because OBJ
| tanned without the consent of the govern
| ed, and will you now at once denounce the
! action of your party associates who help
ed to nominate you for establishing by
| the constitution in North Carolina the
doctrine that one man is good enough
| to govern another without his consent?
3. Will you denounce your party asso-
ciates in Congress who voted on June LIST
last that the National Government should
not be given the power to control the
| trusts?
/ To the questions asked by Mr.. Bryan
| in Michigan speech Governor Roosevelt
made the following replies:
Question If trust is good thing,
why did the Republican platform denounce
| trusts?
Answer-The Republican party de-
nounced the evils of trusts and pointed
out the way those evils could be con-
| trolled and minimized.
Question Eff the trusts are a bad
thing, why did the Republican admins
tration allow more trusts to be organized
than during all previous history OF the
| country?
| Answer-The Republican administration
| did not allow more trusts to be organized
| than during all previous history of the
| country. The standard Oil Company, the
i American Sugar Refining Company and
all the other more important trusts came
into existence long before the present
administration Moreover. Mr.. Bryan
knows perfectly we'll that the national
government cannot prevent the organiza-
| ton OF these trusts.
Question 3-If some trusts are good
and some bad, can you tell the difference
| between a good and a bad one?
| Question 4.-Do you know of any good
monopoly in private hands?
| Question 5.-Do you know any man
good enough to stand at the head of
| monopoly and determine the price of that
| which others are to use?
/ An Mr.
| here so loose that it is difficult to know
what he means. If he uses trust" in
| the sense of large corporations any in
| teiligent man must know that there are
| good corporations and bad corporations
and the difference between them can be
| told as readily as the difference between
| two wealthy private individuals. AS for
monopoles in private hands, patents are
such monopoles and if Mr.. Bryan means
that all monopoles are bad he means
| that patent laws should be abolished out
right. Does he really mean this? II not
| his words mean nothing.
Question 6.--Do you know Of any good
reason why the army should be made
| 100, 900?
Answer.--Here again Mr. Bryan's Ian
guage is loose If he is speaking of the
present army of 1000 regulars and 3d.
| 0c0 volunteers, then every man who pos
sesses an ounce of common sense or an
ounce of patriotism must know not only
| that there is very good reason for having
had it, but no possible excuse for refus-
ing to have it. 1t has been needed in the
Philippines, and it has been needed in
China
Question Would you be willing to
make the army 100000 if the Republican
wanted it?
Answer.-It IS hard 20 believe that this
question is put in good faith, for no one
has dreamed of asking for IN army of
200, coo or a half million. No increase of
the army will ever be askel for by Re-
publicans save because of reasons which
would satisfy the people as they were
satisfied in the days of Lincoln
Question S.-What is your title to the
Filipinos? Did you buy them or did you
get them by force?
Answer-There is, of course, no title to
the Filipino. save as there is title to
the inhabitants of Alaska or of the Ha
waiian Islands. The Philippine Islands
were acquired under President Mckinley
by treaty and purchase exactly as the
Louisiana territory was acquired under
Jefferson.
Question 9.-Do you think you can buy
the right to govern people?
Answer-This has already been answer
ed in my reply to No. 8. Evidently
Thomas Jefferson thought that he could
buy the right to govern the Indians OF
the Louisiana purchase.
Question 10.-Wha. are ycu going to do
with the Filipino when you get him Are
you going to kill him
Answer-We are not going to kill the
Filipino until he tries to kill our soldiers,
and he will stop trying to XII our sol
diers very soon after he becomes con-
WINGED that he will receive no aid in the
effort from the party of which Mr.. Bryan
is chief. AS to what we arc going to 90
with him the answer is simple. We are
going to ciYilize Lin.