The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-04

power. He discredits that plan. not because 1t is a prostitution of the Con- su.ution sua of the, United States, as ap- lstrosity, the benefit of which is now reaped by the beef trust; but because he IS s smhlp,FT,acticable; shl,T,. He says 1t would mouio transfer to the consumer. Then now about the income tax that brought Would not tpnthappnsss Ina to MT bB;yar was levied, or the bank, or the steel trust. or beer trust. or the Astor fam it in advanced prices. and advanced But MT. Bryan has ais other plans, ton. and it is the most remarkable sug- sSstion that has come from anybody s.n, sinee that Solomon out West in the that the united @ States puom eomppte ptep0sSe sSe VSaIue or the gold and silver hidden in the bowels of the earth, within the coin certificates there on and thus get tne use of the metals without the trouble and expense and other vicissi- tudes of mining them-
 He proposes that no corporation snaIl be permitted to engage in inter state sat commerce without taking out a shall be granted to a corporation with any water in its stock, or one that Sf aI b,sinnss ,ryng to ptsonopolize any branch article of merchandise. And then ne w9nId pi,i. have the government fix by law ton eneared tns Of and he is pleased to call this main taining Competition. not a competition made Sy InesS IaW snd 0as very S0mnet,tte1f mpotent competition 1t would be. I do not sup pose that either ya1ois or either Bour-
 Louis XVeSer 0s dfanGeHe9ry dreamed eq {xinr i'm or by q French subject. do not i suppose ] pire of the East ever dreamed of sucn thing, and their trade was robbery.
 Here is the complacent way MT. Bry- conservatism of the greatest business country in the world:
 1T 1t be objected that 1t might be difficult to determine what constitutes monopoly. 1t is sufficient to say that the law can, If necessary fix the pro portion of the total product which any instance, the law might fix the pro- portion of 75 per cent. or 50 per cent, or 70 per cent, or any other percent. ana say that the control of more than the stated per cent would prevent the granting of a license, or forfeit a Ii. nense already granted.
 be a hree-fourths of monopoly. It Is to be illegal for a trust to rob us of dollar. but 1t is authorized to rob
 But who Is to find the total product on which to base this wonderful per centageE Who is to fix how much the en year in order that the steel trust might go into training to try to re- ,,1o;, dnce itself down to the 75 per cent ment had fixed the quantity, what if the country went ahead and made more? Would the trust then have its the government for fraud in queering the figures? Just think of it. before MT. MT; Bryan will permit furnace to produced December Si. Then msi suppose pose some new iron works got ready to go the percentages into next week. Would MT. Bryan suffer that? Is 1t possible that follower of Thomas Jefferson about the work of ascertainine how much our mills and factories ought to produce. and then make a law fixing limit! If that Is not what MT Bryan means l am at loss to know what heva he IS h dITfiviSng dIf ing at Jack cade didn't Der of hoops the three hoop pot should nave that nlr. Bryan will have in de- termTining inc total production" of an try Of marvelously prolific production and recklessly prodigal consumption. HCh bicTe dTt the V1ClSS1tuQeS or strikes. fires and bankruptcies. Who can compute sthese on January I? Then there % IS always always danger of crop failure have effect both on production and consumption. How are they to be II, There are some other things in this
 remedy"-one of them vicious, sans culottish, that about the minority stockholder of trust stock It has a pad taste, It sounds like con1scation. But a statesman who would by depde- cciating the currency repudiate a na- tional debt 6a per cent. has not far to go to advocate the conflscation of pri- vate corporate property to the amount of 100 per cent
 Mr Bryan says that an individual has perfect right to monopolize a business, because God made the man. but man made the corporation. Ali Rockefeller and Armour have to do Is to dissolve their corporations and go 1t alone. MT. Bryan's logic in this be- half Is as curious a piece of reason ing. and nearly as faulty. as anything even he ever said