Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-09-07
GREAT OVATION
TO BRYAN.


The reception in New York Thursday
night to William Jennings Bryan on his
return from his trip around the world
was, perhaps, the most remarkable
ever given to man who has been
travelling as a private citizen.
At the Battery, where he landed,
there was great assemblage to cheer
him, and the procession to the Victoria
Hotel was witnessed by 100, 600 persons.
Fully 10000 people crowded into
Madison Square Garden where Mr..
Bryan delivered his powerful speech.
During Mr.. Bryan's speech the arena
boxes were filed with many prominent
politicians and their families. Probably
the box at which the crowd gazed the
longest was that in which Senators
Daniel and Martin, of Virginia, were
seated. With them were Lieut.. John
w. Daniel, Governor Claude Swanson,
Congressman Flood, Norman Z. Mack,
Mrs. Mack, John w. Tomlinson, of
Alabama; Mrs. Tomlinson, Mrs. Edward
N. Pretcrius, Mrs. Guy P. Dillon and
Mrs. B. B. Garland.
The salient points of his speech fol-
low:
The trusts must go.
Tariff for revenue only is necessary.
The money question no longer an
issue in national politics.
Government ownership of railroads
Just as soon as the country is ready for
it.
An income tax.
No more colonialism, and the same
treatment of the Filipinos as was ac-
corded the Cubans.
HOW HE WOULD KILL THE TRUSTS.
BY the abolition of the protective
tariff.
BY requiring Federal license for all
corporations engaging in interstate
commerce.
BY prohibiting the same man from
being a director in two corporations
which deal with each other or engage
in the same general line of business.
BY imprisoning the officers.
STRIKING SENTENCES FROM THE SPEECH.
The unlooked-for and unprecedented
increase in the production of gold has
brought victory to both the advocates
OF gold and the advocates of bimetal-
lism-the former keeping the gold
standard which they wanted and the
latter securing the larger volume of
money for which they contended. We
who favor bimetallism are satisfied
with our victory if the friends of mono
metallism are satisfied with theirs, and
we can invite them to contest of zeal
and endurance in the effort to restore
to the people the rights which have
gradually been taken from them by the
trusts.
While our Qegislative) system is
superior In many respects, it has one
defect-that Congress does not meet in
regular session until IL months after
the election.
The income tax has the indorse-
ment of the most conservative coun-
tries of the world. 1t is a little short
OF disgrace to our country that -
1t cannot, even in the most extreme
urgency, compel wealth to bear its
share of the expenses of the Govern
ment which protects it.
In advocating arbitration be-
lieve we are defending the highest in
terests of the three parties to these
disputes-the employers, the employees
and the public.
| No party can exterminate the trusts
SO long as it owes its political successes
to campaign contributions secured from
the trusts.
A corporation differs from human
being In that it has no natural rights
- and it can be limited or restrained
according as the public welfare may
require.
The tariff question is very closely al
he'd to the trust question, and the re-
duction of the tariff furnishes an easy
means of limiting the extortion which
the trusts can practice.
Railroads partake SO much of the ma
ture of monopoly that they must ul-
timately become public property.
The Democratic party is not the
enemy of property or of property rights;
1T is, on the contrary, the best defender
of both, because it defends human
rights.
Plutocracyi is abdhorrent to republic;
it is more despotic than monarchy,
more heartless than aristocracy, more
selfish than bureaucracy.
WAKEFIELD AND SWANSON MEET.
A meeting between Gov. Warfeld. O.
Maryland, and Gov. Swanson, of Vir-
ginia, occurred. The executives acct
dentally encountered at the Victoris
Hotel, where they exchanged greetings.
Gov. Swanson declared that he and the
people of Virginia are looking forward
with pleasure to the visit Of Gov. War
field and the Maryland commission to
jamestown next month. Gov. Warfield
responded, expressing his appreciation
of the Importance of the jamestown
Exposition and his determination that
Maryland shall play worthy part in it.
THE vIRGIfIANs PRESENT.
Gov. Claude A. Swanson headed the
Virginia delegation, which embraced
Senator John w. Daniel. Senator
Thomas S. Martin, Lieut.. Gov. J. Tay-
lor Ellyson, ex-Gov. j. Hoge Tyler,
Col. Joseph w. Button, C. B. Cooke, A.
p. Gray, and w. E. Harris, of Rich
mond, and Howell Miller, of Rappahan-
mock county. They were quartered at
the Waldorf.