Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1906-08-31
TRUSTS TO BE
BRYAN ISSUE
FavOrS Government Ownership
of Railroads and Advocates
the Eight Hour Day.
GIVEN GREAT OVATION.
William Jennings Bryan, After Tour
Around the World, Lands at Bat
terry, New York, and Makes Trium-
phal March Up Broadway Amid
PIaudits of Cheering Crowds-He
Gives Keynote of 1908 Campaign.


NEW YORK. Aug. 31.-Willlam j.
Bryan, the twice nominated candidate
of the Democratic party for the presi-
dency and acclaimed on all hands as
the nominee in 1905 sounded the key
note of the next presidential campaign
in two remarkable speeches delivered
in and outside of Madison Square Gar
den to probably the greatest audiences
ever assembled in America for politi-
cal meetings.
Mr.. Bryan struck the keynote so
sharply that it will reverberate from
Montauk point TO the Golden Gate and
from Porto Rico to Alaska for some
time to come. He took the most ad-
vanced and radical ground on the trust
question, advocated the determination
of private monopolies and came out
boldly for government ownership of
railroads, divided between federal own
ership for the trunk lines and state
ownership for branch roads lying with
in the boundaries Of 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
trust, thus making trusts as they
now exist impossible. In fact, Mr.
Bryan argued for the wiping out of
the trusts entirely.
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 menace to
this government as great as the evil of
landlordism in Europe and advocated
laws to curb the power of wealth.
Among his remedies for this condition
he again proposed the income tax,
which has been declared unconstitu-
tlonal by the United States supreme
court.
Twenty thousand enthusiastic admir-
ers of the Democratic leader heard
him enunciate these and other policies
which he hopes to see embodied in the
party platform in 1908. The radical
points of his address were uproarious-
ly cheered, the vast audience in Madi-
son Square Garden manifesting its ap-
proval of his utterances by plauditory
which have never been
surpassed
So touched was Mr.. Bryan by the
welcome that as he stood waiting for
the cheers to subside his eyes filled
with tears, and he strobe nervously
from side to side of the narrow plat
form.
How can thank you for this well
come homer" he said. "NIy heArt
would be ungrateful If 1t did not CON
secrate itself to your service. 1t was
kind to prepare this reception 1t was
kind of Governor Folk to come here
all the way from Missouri. 1t was
kind of Tom Johnson, that example Of
the moral courage we so much need
in this country, to lend his presence
here.
ut was kind in you to fully recon-
pense me in being absent so long from
my native land. thank you. re-
turn to the land of my birth more
proud of my citizenship than ever be-
fore"
For eight minutes, while the garden
seemed to sway and shake from the
shouts and applause, Bryan strobe
nervously from side to side of the mar
row platform. Only once again during
the entire evening was there anything
approaching such demonstration.
That was when the speaker told his
hearers that he had become converted
to the cause of government ownership
of railroads.
81 favor the control of only the trunk
lines by the national government, :"
said Mr. Bryan, land the ownership of
all other railroads by the state govern
ments"
In an instant thousands of voices
were raised and thousands of faces
were turned toward the side of the
building opposite the speakers stand.
where William Randolph Hearst sat.
"Three cheers for Hearstw was the
cry which swelled until the speakers
voice was drowned for a moment
The reception, which was given un-
der the auspices of the Commercial
Travellers Antitrust league, proved
really to be the sounding of the Dem
ocratlc campaign call. Mr.. Bryan's
speech was clear cut outline of his
ideas as to what the Democratic policy
should be. The election of United
States senators by the people, regula-
ton of the trusts by the government, a
universal eight hour day, settlement
of all international disputes by arbi
tration rather than by resort to force
and revision of the tariff were some Of
his points. Mr.. Bryan declared, how
ever. that he was merely expressIhl