The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-27

advocAt ed the placing of monopolistic ar
EtIcles on the free list and for the scandals
of trust manipulation the passage of a bill
that would forbid the duplication of direc-
~torates. "No man can serVestwO masters"
had been SAID a long time ago. When
one man sits on seventy directing boards.
possibly he thinks that people have grown
up since thens 80 good that the Lord would
not have referred to them had they been
living. Another remedy proposed was
that every corporation be confined to the
state of its organization unless licensed by
the government. This was as feasible, he
declared as the denial OF the privileges of
the mails to a lottery ticket. There was
no reason why the government should not
forbid the use of the mails. the telegraphs
and the railroads tota corporation organ
lied and doing business In the interest of
monopoly.
Does Ills Own Thinking.
Of government ownership and his views,
Mr.. Bryan stated that since he had spoken
bis opinion that 1t would be impossible to
regulate the railroads and that government
ownership would have ultimately to come
every newspaper that was against him and
all the men who thought that he had
changed to be a tool in the hands of pre-
datory wealth had hesped upon him abuse
and ridicule. When he said what he did
on that subject. he declared, he did
not stop to ask what any one else thought,
| but only whether it was what he thought
and whether it was right for it to be said.
| Mr.. Roosevelt had oD two occasions threat
ened congress that if it did not enact rail-
| road regulation, ownership of railroads by
| the government would come. He did not
| think that the abuses of railroad corruption
could be remedied and, if not, the govern
ment must take the road. If Roosevelt
had not threatened government ownership
he declared that the rate regulation bill
could not have passed. If the democratic
party can't let the country know that if
it fails the government must own the lines,
it can't cleanse itself of the railroad cor
ruption seeking to debauch it, With those
who hope for regulation he declared that
he had great sympathy, because he stood
where they did, hoping and hoping, until
he reached the point where it was due to
himself to quit hoping when be knew BE-
did not hope. He repeated that he did no
know when government ownership should
come, that he had distinctly expressed his
opinion that it would come ultimately
He explained his plan for state ownership,
as one which would provide in forty-slz
states a bulwark against Capitalization anC
imperialism, whereas the threat of Roose-
welt contemplated the governm ent of the
whole of every system from Washington.
He was not here, he declared, to argue
the question. Think as you please anC
I'll think as ! please" He stated that he
wanted every democrat to do his own
thinking, and then find cut what a MAORI
ty Of democrats think.
"If every body tries to Ihink like some
one else" he said, I'VE can't tell what any.
body thinks"
Wrong Time to Break" south.
To the democrats he said that for years
the Sauth had resisted the sophistries o.
the tariff wien the republicans North
found il them logic as well as CONT ort.
Now Taft and Shaw were trying to break
the solid South on the tariff idea just at
the time when the North was coming tc
the South's wa of thinking.-News anC
Observer.