The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-14
Bays f President He Would Put Stripes on Ger
 tain MiIIiOnaires
"TRUSTS COULD NOT HAVE
 DICTATED INTMENTS"
Nr. Bryan Says Full Dinner Pail Was a Good Campaign Argument, But It Is Not Working We'll
 With the Miners.

Toledo, September 1S.-William J. Bryan tonight addressed an audience of LOCO persons In the tent in which Mayor Johnson of Cleveland is making speeches during the fall campaign. MT. Bryan came in this afternoon and will make but one additional speech during the cam paign. He was brought here through the efforts of MT. Johnson.
 MT. Johnson in his speech spoke of Mir Bryan as "the distinguished orator and peerless democratic leader"
 The Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow of Cincin- natl. democratic candidate for secretary of state, and Mayor Johnson preceded MT. Bryan. Both spoke on state issues.
 Mir. Bryan was received with tumultous applause when he was introduced by the chairman. He said he wondered if there was laboring man in the city and state who would not vote the democratic tick ct on account of tax reforms promised in the democratic platform.
 The working man must protect his home and family through his vote and his in- huence.
 Speaking of Tom L. Johnson, MT. Bryan said: How fortunate it is for this state to have a man like MT. Johnson, who is strong courageous and who has the abi! ity to carry on this battle against the organized wealth, and who can challenge them on every platform as he has to- night. If we had such men as he in every state, within five years plutocracy wouhi be driven into the Atlantic ocean. No one will dispute what he says. He gives you
 
 everybody should not undefstahagsss assfs'
 Powerful Good at Figures.
 He said he had always been told that while democrats could not read they were powerful good at figures" and he hoped that they would be able to figure out this problem correctly. Mir. Bryan recalled the fight of MT. Johnson in con- gress ten years ago when he so courage ously fought the representatives of the steel trust when he himself was a steel manufacturer and it would have been to his own interest to have had a tariff placed on steel which would have per mitted him to make a much greater profit than he was making, yet MT. Johnson stood by the people and by his consti- tuents and fought the steel magnates against his own interests.
 "If we had more men,, said MT. Bryan, who would quit making money in middle life and devote their time to the better ment of their fellow men, this country would be considerably better off
 .They say you are incapable of home rule here in Ohio and if you have a bit of Americanhood about you, you will re- sent that insult"
 He believed, he said, that the cities should own and operate all franchises, but if this is not possible he favored short franchises and he thought people should be permitted to express them selves about these franchises. He was sorry MT. Hanna had advocated the per petual franchises for he thought he had sins enough to account for.
 .tYet 1t is possible" he said, ''the peo- pie who could not see his former sins would be able to see this one. If they could, even Roosevelt's oratory could not save him. Hanna once said you cannot mix business and politics and if you look after your own interests as he does he will soon be out of politics."
 Tax Laws Are Bad.
 He declared that the republican tax laws of Ohio were worse than any in the United States. They were in fact form of legal larceny.
 In discussing national politics he said that if he had been elected he would have put stripes on the mllionaires who rob the people by unlawful combina- tons and that the trusts could not have dictated the appointment of the attorney general and could not have run the at- torney general The President should be prosecuting the trusts instead of talk ing his speaking tours. There was time when Mr. Hanna said there were no trusts, but now all admitted there were trusts. We have injunctions pend ing against one of them But if that was some man who had violated the laws by selling whisky, he declared, he would be brought to justice and locked up if it would have been necessary to send the entire militia after him. The republicans had amended the command ment thus, Thou shalt not steal on small scale" the criminal provisions of the anti-trusts would, if enforced, break up the meat trust, but he thought the meat trust might be a good thing be- cause it made people think in their stom- achs if they did not in their heads The republican party is not in a position to destroy the trusts, notwithstanding the fact that Senator Lodge had declared that there were ninety-five bad trusts to five good ones. He said, Talk about your 16 to l. that is a 19 to 1 issue.
 Discusses Tariff Question.
 MT. Bryan discussed the tariff question aid took up the question of the full din- ,ner pail in the coal mining districts of PennsyIvH mia. He said that the full din- ner pail had been a very effectiVe argu- ment in the campaign, but that 1t was not working out well for the miners. He said they were actually working at re- duced wages, in that their living ex- penses had advanced to such an extent and their wages had not been advanced. He said times would never be good until the head of the family was making enough money to keep his boys and girls in school The government by in- function argument had lost him more votes he said, than any other argument used during the campaign because it had aroused the trusts so that they had con tributed large sums to the campaign.
 MT. Bryan also touched on the Philip pine question lightly and demanded that i they be given the same liberty that we \ enjoy. He said that when that was done h there would be no more fighting.