Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-31
WIPE OUT TRUSTS
Bryan For Government Own.
 ership of Railroads.
ADVOCATES EIGHT HOUR DAY
New York City Gives Nebraskan a
 Great Ovation.

New I0rk CIty GlveS NebrdSkan a
 Great Ovation.
 WOULD BAR ALI MONOPOlIfS. William Jennings Bryan, After Tour
 Around the World, Lands at Battery,
 New York, and Makes Triumphal
 March Up Broadway Amid Plaudits
 of Cheering Crowds At Madison
 Square Garden He Struck Keynote
 of Presidential Campaign of 1908,
 Which Will Resound From New
 York to the Golden Gate, From
 Porto Rico to Alaska - Governor
 Folk and Tom Jehnson Take Lead
 ang Part Tn Reception-william R.
 Hearst Present.
 NEW YORK, Aug. S1.-william J. Bryan. the twice nominated candidate of the Democratic party for the presi- dency and acclaimed on all hands as the nominee in 1908, 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 1t will reverberate from Aontauk 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 extsrmination of private monopolies and came out boldly for government ownership of rai}roads. 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 Aboring men. the licensing by the federal government of legitimate cor porations and the reduction of the tar if % 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, MT. Bryan argued for the wiping out of the trusts entirely.
 Mir. 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 laadlordism 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- tional by the United States supreme court.
 Twenty thousand enthusiastic admir- CTS 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 it's ap- proval of his utterances by plauditory Demonstrations which have never been surpassed.
 So touched was Mfr. Bryan by the welcome that as he stood waiting for the cheers to subside his eyes filled with tears, and he strode nervously from side to side or the narrow plat form.
 How can I thank you for this well come homew he said. My heart would be ungrateful if 1t did not con- secrate itself to your service. It was Kind to prepare this reception. It was kind of Governor Folk to come here all the way from Missouri. It was Kind of Tom Johnson, that example of the moral courage we so much need in this country. to lend his presence here.
 ''1t was kind in you to fully recom- 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 strode nervously from side to side of the mar row platform. Only once again during the entire evening was there anything approaching such a demonstration. That was when the speaker told his hearers that he had become converted to the cause of government ownership of railroads
 T favor the control of only the trunk lines by the national government,- said Mir. Bryan. "and 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.
 sThree cheers for Hearst- was the cry which sweIled until the speakers voice was drowned for a moment. The rpceDtioD- which was given r1n-