The Jersey City news., 1906-08-31
Madison Square Address Is
Heard by Great Crowd.
GIVES CAMPAIGN KEYNOTE
Denounces Trusts and Favors
Imposition Of Income Tax.
WANTS PUBLIC TO OWN RAILROADS

Eight Hour Day For Workngnen, LIZ
censing of Legitimate Corporations
and Reduction of Tariff Advocated.
Wants Trusts Entirely Wiped Out
and Scores PIutocracy as a Menace
to American Government - Direct
Election of United States Senators
| by People Called Movement Toward
| Democracy In Its Broadest Sense.
| Campaign Contributions by Corpora
tions Referred to as "Baneful Influ-
enee" on Politics-Governor Folk De-
clares That We Are on the Threshold
of Great Political Awakening.
New York, Aug. William J. Bry-
an, the twice nominated candidate of
the Democratic party for the presiden-
cy and acclaimed as the probable NOM
| inee in 190S sounded the keynote of
the next presidential campaign in two
l
Madison Square Garden to probably
the greatest audiences ever assembled
| in America for political meetings. It
is believed that nearly $4,000 persons
turned out to greet Mr.. Bryan
Mr.. Bryan took the most advanced
| and radical ground on the trust ques-
tion, advocated the determination of
-
| ly for government ownership of rail-
roads, divided between federal owner
| ship for the trunk lines and state own
ership for branch roads lying within
the boundaries of a single state
| He also advocated an eight hour day
for laboring men, the licensing by the
| federal government of legitimate cor
| poratiOns and the reduction of the tar
| iff so as to prevent the fostering of
| monopolies. He declared in favor of
| giving the president power to place on
! the free list any articles which come
into competition with the products of
a trust thus making trusts as they
now exist impossible In fact, Mr..
| Bryan argued for the wiping out of
| the trusts entirely.
| Income Tax Favored.
Mr.. Bryan declared against Social
ism, or the public ownership of all
means of production and distribution,
saying that he stood for individualism
and the rights of private property. He
| denounced plutocracy as a menace to
this government as great as the evil of
landlordism in Europe and advocated
1 laws to curb the power of wealth.
Among his remedies for this condition
which has been declared unconstitu-
tional by the United States supreme
| court
] The only discordant note was when
| Mr.. Bryan turned to a discussion of
| Socialism and declared that the man
who says the trust is an economic
| growth and has come to stay is the
one who is helping the Socialist. Some
one yelled, 'sThree cheers for Social
ismr' but the call was drowned in
| hisses
Calls Socialists Honest.
Mr.. Bryan quickly said:
my friends, l have no objection to
any man expressing himself in favor
of Socialism, because the Socialist, as
rule, is an honest man. / deny that
the trust is an institution made neces-
4 sary for economic purposes; l deny
/ that that it is an economic institution
| at all. 1t is not economical; it is polit-
ical. 1t rests not on natural laws, but
/ on man made laws"
The radical points of his address
/ were uproariously cheered, the vast
| audience in Madison Square Garden
4 manifesting its approval of his utter
ances by plauditory demonstrations
which have never been surpassed.
Probably no other American ever
was honored by such an ovation as the
/ people of New York, REINFORCED by
thousands from almost every state in
the Union, gave Mr.. Bryan on his re-
turn home from his famous trip around
the world. Great as. was the Bryan
meeting in Madison Square Garden six
years ago, it was not to be compared
with this outpouring. Six hundred po-
licemen had all they could do to keep
the multitude in order.
No Longer "Enemy's Country"
Mr. Bryan, delighted with his recep-
ton after driving through six miles of
streets filed with cheering New York
ers, retracted what he said ten years
ago about New York being 'sthe enc
my's country"
! AS was expected, the big garden was
not half big enough to hold the mass
of people. and those who could not get
in overflowed into the square in front,
4 where an open air meeting was con
Quoted. Here Mr.. Bryan repeated his
i speech and here the wonderful en-
thusiasm shown inside was reproduced
Before the meetings Mr.. Bryan was
given an ovation in his triumphant ride
uptown from the Battery. In a car
riage accompanied by the acting mayor