The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-16
SHAW on BRYGN'S THEORIES
SECRETARY ANSWERS THE MADI-
son SQUARE SPEECH.
declares He's the Same Man 90 In 1900
with several Additions Hi AntTsIn-
junction apd Railroad Control RO-.
pOsaIs Declared 70 ne Impracticable

Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury, received
a hearty welcome in Memphis to-day He
made three addresses. The first was at
the Cotton Exchange: where he spoke
TO several hundred usine men on national
issues. The second was the Country, Club,
where he was entertained at luncheon and
where local financiers made a plea for the
establishment OF a s~ub-treasury in this
city Mr.. Shaw replied that the Govern
ment was considering installing a sub
treasury in the Southeast and that Memphis
would he given due consideration.
At the Lyceum Theatre tonight he
addressed an overflow house, answering
William J, Bryan's Madison Square speech
on the subject Of Government railroad
ownership. Individuality and a square
deal for the railroads. vas the keynote
~ the address. He contended it was not
the appropriate function OF the Govern
mont to sit in the game"
Mr.. Shaw referred to Bryan's New York
welcome and his speech and said.
Il easily recognized our friend OF 1895
without a single subtraction and many
additions"
Headed Mr.. Bryan was reported to have
aaid on his return from a previous trip abroad
that he had obtained one new idea during his
journeyings. His recent search evidently
has been more fruitful Of results. He even
boasts Of having searched Japan and every
other country visited by him for some
thing to bring back for incorporation either
into organic law or legislative enactment
or for introduction into the habits and GUS
toms Of our people" .
Mr.. Shaw then said Bryan was still a free
silverite, and he discussed at length Bryan's
proposed amendments to the Constitution.
OF the anti-injunction proposal Mr.. Shaw
said:
II my tenant threatens to cut down my
shade trees or TO iRjureneiH any way wherein
a suit for damages will not be an adequate
remedy Team Pnioin him. II my employee
threatens TO do. the same thing Mr.. Bryan
thinks he should be permitted 10 proceed, and
thereafter be given a trial by jury regardless
Of whether such a remedy would prove a
remedy at all or not. That the Injunction
has been many times improperly invoked I
have no doubt. Arrests. also. have been
made, many times improperly. and crimnAl
prosecutions have been begun in innumerable
Instances for the sole purpose Of collecting
debt. The fact remains. however, that
Anglican Jurisprudence is the best safeguard.
not only To property but also to personal and
indiv idual rights which the race has thus far
evolved. r.
From the Turk, the Bulgarian, the Servian.
the Hungarian and the Austrian he would
bring back and incorporate into the settled
policy of this country government owner
ship Of trunk lines Of railway. Some OF us
who still see elements of good in what The
fathers conceiv ed and somewhat to preserve
in our civilization as eXempliied in the habits
and customs of our people. and who are
therefore styled conservative rs. are disposed
10 ropurafulafA OtTaalya q that the great
promulgator of innovations permits the
institution of marriage TO remain unassaaed.
Still Col. Bryan gives notice that there are
several other subjects 10 which he eXpeots TO
address himself at an early date.
Mr.. Shaw discussed at length Col. Bryan's
Federal license proposition for corpora-
tions engaged in interstate commerce. He
said:
assume that il a corporation owning or
eontrolling an entire product. say salt. should
ma ke application for n Federal license under
Mr BrEan's sara cure law, H., would be
promptly denied. II refused a license Of
course il could not engage i'm interstate com
merce and could not thereafter ship salt to
Tennessee. But the people Of Tennessee
would still need salt. What would you doY
What could YOU do? Let me suggest that
possiblv Jones 'Or some one else could be
induced 10 buy a (carioad or so deliverable
at one Of the warehouses of the trust situated
at some one of the salt work.. Jones, Of
course, could shin salt TO Tennessee, for no
individual can he iscriminated against
simply because he buys salt OF a trust. The
result would he that the people Of Tennessee
would get the same salt with this difference,
slight though IL might be. Of an additiona
profit 10 Jones. The danger would be that
Jones, beinG-thc only man with a carload OF
sail in the state, might turn predatory CAPT.
tali~t himseN and demand an unusually large
profit. This danger would be increased II
he should SECURE an exclusive contract from
the trust. Let us hope for the best. p
Two or THREE YEARS ago | started at S O'Clock
one morning from DeadwOod, :. D.. went
thirty miles nv train and walked eight TO rec
a lin mine. u was said TO be the only work
able deposit Of tin ever discovered in the
United States. If this be true, then one cor
porntion controls the entire out put Of tin in
the United States and would. Of course. be
denied a Federal license and could not, under
Mr.. BTvans sure cure law engage IN inter-
state commerce. Equally embarrassed
would be every other hew industry, whether
n he the production of newly discovered
metal like tin or nickel or the growth Of some
new fruit or cereal or the manufacture of
some newly patented device. Col. Bryan's
panacea may sound well in a Democratic
platform. but at first blush il does not appear
quite so inviting as a DaTt-of the statute law
OF the land.
As TO Federal railroad ownership Mr..
Shaw said:
The returpei champion OF a new viiiza-
ton rev erts 70 railroad abuses. and recon-
mends that all trunk lines be acquired and
managed by public officials. and local lines
by the sew eraI States. He frankly admits
that the American people may not be ready.
for gov eminent ownership Of trunk lines
and State Ownership OF LOCAL lines. but. he
thinks both necessary and Inevitable. He is
not sure that a majority Of his own party yet
favors such a revolutionary measure. and he
thus holds out TO his political associates the
hope that he may consent that the platform.
on which he is so soon to make his third cam-S
paign shall be silent on that subject.
Several prominent political associates OF
Mr.. Bryan have expressed regret at what
they call the premature announcement of
the issue. They say the party is not yet
ready, When will II be? Mr.. Bryan does
not seem to me to be far in advance Of his
party. The platform adopted at the Demo-
cratic State conv entiOn in New York in 1907
declared in favor Of gov eminent ownership
and operation Of anthracite coat mines.
The whole question may as well be fought
out now as at a later date. when %perChRnce
financial depression and widespread suffering