Connecticut western news., 1906-09-06

SlullOn, MT. DTIdH HuTIltu lo JeIseJ City. where he made three addresses.
 Speaks or Labor Questions.
 At Detroit Mir. Bryan and his party were greeted by large crowd. Mir. Bryan was received by q reception committee and was formally welcomed | by Mayor Codd and Governor Warner. In his address at Detroit Mir. Bryan said:
 "I believe in the eight hour day. and this Is why: believe that the laboring man Is justly entitled to 1t and that society at large would be better If he had 1t. Give the laboring man shorter hours and believe forces will be put to work which will cause him to make the best of his time"
 In Chicago, Mir. Bryan made two ad- dresses, in one of which he repeated his New York assertion about the ne cessity of reforming the senate and in the other he defended his recent action in demanding the resignation of Roger Sullivan, the Illinois member of the Democratic national committee. Mir Bryan declared that Mir. Sullivan's cor
 
 for him to serve his party.
 Mir. Bryan's Speech.
 MT. Bryan's Madison Square address was in part as follows:
 Like all travellers who have visited other | lands. return with delight to the lana of my birth, more proud of its people, with more confidence in It's government and grateful to the kind Providence that cast my lot in the United States.
 Our nation has lost prestige rather than gained 1t by our experiment in colonial ism. We have given the monarchist a chance to ridicule our Declaration of In- | dependence, and the scoffer has twitted us | with inconsistency. A tour through the | Philippine Islands has deepened the con- viction that we should lose no time in announcing our purpose to deal with the Filipinos as we dealt with the Cubans. | I return more convinced than before of | the importance of a change in the method of electing United States senators There | is noticeable everywhere a distinct move | ment toward democracy in It's broadest sense. In all the countries which have visited there is a demand that the gov | ernment be brought nearer to the people. | In the United States this trend toward | democracy has taken the form of a grow l ing demand for the election of United | States senators by direct vote.
 The income tax, which some in our | country have denounced as a socialstic | attack upon wealth, has, l am pleased to report, the indorsement of the most con- servative countries in the old world. I | am SO convinced of the justice of the income tax that feel sure that the peo- | pie will sooner or later demand an amend | ment to the constitution which will spe- officially authorize Qn income tax and thus make 1t possible for the burdens of the | federal government to be apportioned l ha n nrOnnrfiOn their | ability to bear them.
 Thus far l have dwelt upon subjects | which may not be regarded as strictly | partisan, but I am sure that you will pardon me if in this presence I betray my 1 interest in those polici,s for which the Democratic party stands. Our opponents have derived not only partisan pleasure, but also partisan advantage, from the | division caused in our party by &he money | question. They ought not, therefdSs, to be- grudge us the satisfaction that we find in | the fact that unexpected conditions have removed the cause of our differences and | permitted us to present united front on present issues. Tine unlocked for and un- | precedented increase in the production | of gold had brought victory to both the | advocates of gold and the advocates of | bimetallism-the former keeping the gold standard which they wanted and the lat ter securing the larger volume of money
 
 1 bimetallism are satisfied with our victory | fled with theirs.
 l Corporation Contributions Denounced.
 The people see now what they should have seen before, namely, that no party | can exterminate the trusts so long as 1t owes its political success to campaign | contributions secured from the trusts. The great corporations do not contribute their money to any party except for i'm munity expressly promised or clearly i'm piled. The president has recommended | legislation on this subject, but so far his party has failed to respond. No important advance can be made until this baneful l influence is eliminated.
 While men may differ as to the relative importance of issues and while the next congress will largely shape the lines upon which the coming presidential campaign | will be fought, I think it Is safe to say that at present the paramount issue ir the minds of a large majority of the peo- | pie Is the trust issue. I congratulate President Roosevelt upon the steps which he has taken to enforce the antitrust law, and my qualification Is not lessened | by the fact that he has followed the Dem- ocratic rather than the Republican plat form in every advance he has made.
 There must be no mstaking of the issue and no confusing of the line of battle l The ITuSI, dS dn ln5tltutlOn, VIII nave few open defenders. The policy of the trust magnates will be to insist upon reasonable Legislation" and then they will rely upon their power to corrupt legislatures and intimidate executives tc prevent the application of any remedies which will interfere with the trusts. Our motto must be: "A pSivate monopoly is indefensible and intoNrable," and our plan of attack must contemplate the total and complete overthrow of the monopoly l principle in industry.
 The tariff question is very closely allied to the trust question, and the reduction | of the tariff furnishes an easy means oi limiting the extortion which the trusts can practice. While absolute free trade would not necessarily make & trust i'm. possible, still 1t is probable that very few manufacturing establishments would dare to enter into trust if the president were empowered to put upon the free list arti- cles competing with those controlled by { trust
 Calls High Tariff a Burden.
 There never was a time when tarifr re form could be more easily entered upon for the manufacturers by selling abroad cheaper than at home, as many of them do. have not only shown their ingratitude toward those who built the tariff wall for them, but they have demonstrated theil ability to sell in competition with the