The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-02
WILLIAMS TALKS
 ON TRUST ISSUE
Campaign is Formally Opened
 in Brooklyn
ADMINISTRATION IS SCORED
Mississippi Leader Defines Trusts and Tells What Remedy the United States Has to
 Offer.

New York, October 1.--John Sharp Wil- Hams of Mississippi shared the honors with Edward M. Grout at the opening of the democratic campaign in the Clermont avenue rink Brooklyn, tonight. A big crowd attended the rally, and MT. Will Hams and Mir Grout were enthusiastically cheered. MT. Williams said h. part:
 Fellow Citizens: The President who is a candidate for reelection, has lately issued to the press a written stump speech, in the form of a letter of accept ance. It reads more like the message of one of Gods annointed to his expectant subjects, one-half of whom are treated by him as his enemies, and therefore, ac- eording to his logic-the logic of Louis XIV. that of "L Etat c'est mof'-ene- mics of the country and it's welfare.
 distinguished barrister of Great Brit ain. replying once to an argument which had been made by opposing counsel more noted for his impulsiveness than any thing else, said; May it please your honor, the language and manner indulged in toward me by opposing counsel would be remarkable if it came from God AL mighty to a beetle bug" The democrats of this country, constituting nearly a half of it's total population, and, even In recent elections, over half of it's total N NDilt pbBuidllOut indy Wtil itAhiHd MI Roosevelt of the fact that his manner and language are of that character.
 Keynote of Letter
 In this letter of acceptance, however, there is one note-keynote we may call it-which is certain and unmistakable, to- wit, that if the republican party is kept in power it will continue to administer the government without amendment Just as 1t has been administered for the last three years. If so, then we are to have four more years of standing pat' and of boosting of the past ana of a party partnership with God. If so then for four more years the tariff is to remain, like the laws of the Medes and Persians, unchanged and unchangeable If so, for four more years all reciprocal trade re- lations sought to be entered into by the other people of the world, even though in accordance with the recommendations of such distinguished republicans as Blaine and Mckinley, some based upon | treaties approved by MT Mckinley, are l to be trampled under footl For fo1r years | extravaganza Is to go not only unchecked | but justified or lauded as an incident of our alleged position as an arbiter of the worlds destinyl For four more years in- l ternational perhdy is to be extenuated be- | cause of the magnitude of the benefit we have reaped or which we hope to reap. l For four more years the industrial ana social peace of the south is to be meh- aced, if not by anything actually done or l undertaken to be done. at least by lncon- 1 siderate talk and misleading conduct in high placei For four more years the Dig sticlx'' is to be continually held up as the national ideal in our relationship with the balance of the world and especially with the people of Central and South l America!
 ! For four more years, some of our manu- | lecturers who sell habitually to the for | eigner at reasonable profit in his own market. notwithstanding his pauper la- bor. are still to find extortionate tariff rates a shelter behind which to charge i the American consumer an unreasonable
 profit at prices 9 to 8 per cent higher | than are charged to foreigners for the same goods, made in the same mill on the | same day, For four more years the Northern Securities decision is to be held up as the be-all and end-all Of trust shackIing, while other trusts are bidden God-speed as necessary agencies of mod ern development
 Challenge Is Accepted
 l Very well. The democracy accepts the l challenge. It is for you to determine | whether you wish Ito stand pat, as the 1 pharse is, on these abuses extravagances | extortions, and folies. In a campaign oi
 this character it is impossible to dis cuss all the issues in one address, Witf
 a general preamble, referring briefly ts | the issues involved, 1t is better to treai | in each speech one question only. Tho | other day at Newton, N. J., after call | ing attention Tn a summary way as i have done here, to the general issues. l discussed. the question of the war attitude of the administration, its extrayagan expenditures for war-preparation pur I poses. and the consequent starvation o