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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-06-29

tendance of the Barnett relatives
can be had.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-31
THE TARIFF QUESTION
VS.. THE TRUST QUESTION

The tariff question is very closely al
lied to the trust question, and the re-
duction of the tariff furnishes an easy
means of limiting the extortion which
the trusts can practice.
While absolute free trade would not
necessarily make trust impossible,
still it is probable that very few manu-
featuring establishments would dare
enter the trust If the president were
a trust
While / shall take occasion at an
early day TO consider tariff revision
more at length, l cannot permit this
opportunity to pass without express
ing the opinion that the principle en-
bodied in the protective tariff has been
a fruitful source Of a great deal Of
political corruption as well as the sup
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-31
ROCKEFELLER LOGIC
AS AN ILLUSTRATION

We are indebted to the younger Rock
efeller for an illustration which makes
this distinction clear. In defending
the trust system he is quoted as saying
that, as the American Beauty rose can
not be brought to perfection without
pinching off ninety-nine buds, so that
the one-hundredth bud can receive the
full strength of the bush, so great in
dustrial organizations are impossible
without the elimination of the smaller
ones.
1t is a cruel illustration, but it pre-
sents perfectly accurate picture of
trust methods. CONTINUED applause.) }
The Democratic party champions the
cause of the ninety-nine enterprises
which are menaced-they must not be
sacrificed that one great combine may
flourish-and when the subject is UNDER
stood we shall receive the cordial sup
port of hundreds of thousands Of busi-
ness men who have themselves felt the
oppression of the trusts, or who, hav-
ing observed the effect Of the trusts
upon others, realize that their safety
lies not in futile attempts at the re-
straint of trusts, but in legislation
which will make a private monopoly
impossible.
There must be no mistaking an issue
and no confusion of the line of battle.
The trust as an institution will have
Lew Opcl ucltuuCIS. Ilc puilCy VI lnO
trust magnates will be to insist upon
reasonable legislation" and then they
will rely upon their power to corrupt
Legislators and intimidate executives
to prevent the application of any reme-
dies which would interfere with trusts.
Our motto must be, "Private monop-
oily is indefensible and intolerable." and
our plan of attack must contemplate
the total and complete overthrow of
the iniquity. We need not quarrel over
remedies We must show ourselves
willing to support any remedy which
promises substantial advantages to the
people in their warfare against mo-
nopoly.
Something is to be expected from the
enforcement of the criminal clause of
the Sherman antitrust law, but this
law must be enforced. not against a
few trusts, as at present, but against
all trusts and the aim must he to i'm
prison the guilty, not merely to recover
a fine. (Deafening applause0 What
is fine of thousand dollars, or even
ten thousand dollars to a trust which
makes a hundred thousand dollars
while the trial Is in progress? CAP
plause.)
If the criminal clause is not good
enough to be enforced it ought to be
repealed
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-31
WEALTHY ROB THE POOR
AND GO UNPUBLISHED

If imprisonment is too severe a pun
ishment for the eminently respecta BILE
gentlemen who rob eighty millions of
people of hundreds of millions of dol
lars annually, the language of the
statute ought to be changed, for moth
ing is more calculated to breed an
archy than the failure to enforce the
law against rich criminals while it is
rigidly enforced against petty offenders.
But it is not sufficient to enforce leg
islative laws. IF ten corporations con-
spring together in restraint of trade
are threatened with punishment all
they have to do now is to dissolve their
separate corporations and turn their
property over to a new corporation.
The new corporation can proceed to
do the same thing that the same sep
arate corporation attempted, and yet
not violate the law. We need, there
fore, new legislation and the Repub-
lican party not only fails to enact
such legislation, but fails even to pro-
vide.
The Democratic party must be pre-
pared to propose new and efficient leg
islation.
Recent nvestigat ations have brought
to light that nearly all crookedness re-
Vealed In the management of our large
corporations has been due to the dupli-
cation of directorates.
A group Of men organized by obtain
ing control of several corporations do
ing business with each other and then
proceeded to swindle the stockholders
of the various corporations for which
they acted
| No man can serve two masters and
the director who attempts to do so will
fail. no matter how much money he
makes before his failure If discovered,
Many of the trusts control prices
| by the same methods. The same group
of men secure control of several com
peting corporations and the manage
mept is thus constructed. 1t is worth
while, too, to consider whether a blow
may not be struck at the trusts by a
law making illegal for the same per-
sons to act as a director or officer of
two corporations which deal with each
other or are engaged in the same gem
eral business.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-31
BRYAN is
CHEERED BY
THOUSANDS

typical American--of the man who
puts self to one side that he may be
of service to his fellow menr-William
Jennings Bryan.
Not once, but many times, that
magic word was taken up by the great
crowds that filled every street in the
downtown district. and 1t echoed and
re-echoed throughout Broadway and
seemingly to the limits of the city.
Great men have been welcomed in
New York before. Kings have stepped
from ocean liners or private vessels,
to be received with open arms by the
nations statesmen; prominent Amer
Jeans have circled the globe to re-
turn and be given an ovation; the pres
idents of the United States In turn,
have entered the metropolis of this
great country to be the guests of its
citizens, but never before has anything
approaching the magnitude Of the
truly Democratic and American well
come which marked the homecoming
of William Jennings Bryan been re-
corded.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-31

ceeding to Modison Square garden for
the feature event of his stay in New
York,
Mr.. Bryan was landed at the Battery
from Edward w. Goltra's steam yacht
the Illini, on board which he spent
last night. Thousands of persons were
gathered in Battery park, upon piers
and at every vantage post along the
water front.
Not the least interesting phase of the
picture were the towering sky-scrapers
near the Battery. with every window
filled with eager faces. Flags were fly
ing everywhere.
AS the tiny little naphtha launch of
the Illini put out from the yacht just
before o'clock, with Mr.. Bryan on
board, the craft in the vicinity set up a
screeching of vari-tone whistles which
continued long after Mr.. Bryan had
stepped upon the yacht landing and
had been given the freedom of the city
by acting Mayor MCGOWAN.
William Hoge, president of the Com
mercial Travellers Antitrust league
which had planned the reception, and
Mr. Goltra accompanied Mr.. Bryan
ashore
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-31
DEMOCRATS GREET THEIR LEADER

large majority Of the people is the
trust issue.
congratulate President Roosevelt
upon the steps which he has taken to
enforce the antitrust laws and my
qualification is not lessened by the
fact that he has followed the Demo-
cratic rather than the Republican
platform in every advance he has
made. (Applause)
1t has been great embarrassment
to him that the platform upon which
he was elected was filled with praise
of the Republican party's record rather
than with promises of reform. Even
the enthusiastic support given him by
the Democrats has enabled the cham
pions Of the trusts to taunt him with
following Democratic leadership.
He has probably gone as far as he
could without mourning the hostility
Of the leaders Of his own party The
trouble Is that the Republican party
is not in a position to apply effective
and thorough-going reforms, because
It has built up through special legisla-
ton the very abuses which needed
to he eradicated.
Before any intelligent action can be
taken against the trusts we must have
definition Of a trust. Because no
corporation has an absolute and COM
plete monopoly or any important
product the apologists for the trusts
insist there are in reality no trusts.
Others insist that it is impossible to
legislate against such trusts as may
exist without doing injury to legitimate
business. For the purpose Of this dis
cussion It is sufficient to draw the line
at the point where competition ceases
to be effective and to designate as a
trust any corporation which controls
so much of the production Of any arti-
Gle that 1t can fix the terms and con-
ditions Of sale.
Legislation which prevents monop-
oily not only does not injure legitimate
business, but actually protects legiti-
mate business from injury
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-31
SERIES OF 0VATI0NS
MARK BRYAN'S ARRIVAL
BY Associated Press.

by Associated HTeSS.
NEW YORK, Aug. SO.-Mr Bryan's
entry into New York this afternoon
was a series of ovations beginning
with his landing at the Battery at 4
o'clock this afternoon and reaching an
early climax when he arrived at the
Victoria hotel, Twenty-seventh street
and Broadway, an hour and fifteen
minutes later.
Here the homecoming Nebraskan
was fairly mobbed by the thousands
of persons who had gathered outside
the hotel entrances and the hundreds
who had forced their way into the
corridors. Finally an entrance was ef-
fected by the police and Mr.. Bryan
reached the lobby stairs
He was halted and called on for a
speech, and the crowd surged about
him cheering Justify all the while.
Mr.. Bryan lifted his hand and Sc
cured silence.
Ladies' and gentlemen" he began,
the time for me to make speech and
you must not expect one now. When
a man is in difficulty he has a right
to call upon his friends for assistance.
I am in difficulty today. l am trying
to get home, but have been travelling
so much of late that for the life of
me I can hardly tell where home is.''
"In Washington" called an enthusi-
astic auditor
"The White House," shouted another.
"And we are going to put you there,
yelled a third.
Then every one cheered and Mr.
Bryan smiled indulgently.
81 thought home was in Nebraska, y
he, continued.
"Only until 1905" shouted the crowd
'Some said it was in Missouri" )"
added Mr.. Bryan amid laughter.
I've about come to the conclusion
that If l find friends like this every
where I do not care where home is.
Soon I'm going to take another course
in college, for at a recent gathering in
London where several languages were
spoken I felt constrained to make ex-
cuses because L could speak but once
I would have to know every language
in the world to tell you how much 1
thank you"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-31
POLICIES FOR WHICH
THE PARTY STANDS

Thus far, have dwelt upon subjects
which may not be regarded as strictly
partisan, but am sure that you will
pardon me If in this presence, 1 be-
tray my interest in those policies for
which the Democratic party stands.
l have had no opportunity to make
Democratic speech for almost year,
ana no one-not even a political enemy
could be so cruel as to forbid me to
speak Of these policies on this occa-
sion.
Our opponents have derived not only
partisan pleasure, but also partisan
advantage from the division caused in
our party by the money question.
They ought not, therefore, begrudge
the satisfaction that we find in the
fact that unexpected conditions have
removed the cause of our difference
and permitted us to present united
front on present issues.
The unlocked for and unprecedented
increase in the production of gold has
brought victory to both the advocates
of gold and the advocates of bimetal-
ism-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 monometalism are satisfied with
theirs. And we can invite them to a
contest of zeal and endurance in the
effort to secure to the people the rights
which have been gradually taken from
them by the trusts.
The investigations which have been
in progress during the past year have
disclosed the business methods of those
who few years ago resented any in
spection of their schemes and hid their
rascality under high sounding phrases.
These Investigations have also dis
closed the source of enormous cam
paign funds which have been used to
debauch elections and corrupt the bal
lot.
The people see now what they should
have seen before, namely, that nc
party cam exterminate the trusts sc
long as it owes it's present success to
campaign contributions secured from
the trusts.
The great corporations do not con-
tribute their money to any party ex-
cept for immunity expressly promised
or clearly implied.
The president has recommended leg
| islation on this subject, but so far his
party has failed to respond No i'm
portant advances can be made until
! this baneful Intelligence is eliminated
and I hope that the Democratic party
will not only challenge the Republican
party to bring forward effective legs-
! lation on this subject, but will set ar
example by refusing to receive cam
paign contributions from the corpora.
! tions and by opening the books SC
, that every contributor of any consider
able sum may be known to the public
before the election.
The great majority of corporations
are engaged in Legitimate business ano
have nothing to fear from hostile leg
islation and the officers should not be
permitted to use money of the stock
! holders to advance their politica
opinions.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-31

may not only do injustice, but even
forfeit a larger future gain. The
strike, the only weapon OF the employe
at present. is a two-edged. sword and
may inture the workmen as much as
the employer, and even when sue
cessful is apt to leave a ranking in
the bosom of the wage-earner that
should not be there.
Society. moreover, has something at
stake as well as the employer and en-
ploye, for there can be no considerable
strike without considerable loss to the
public. Society therefore is justified
In demanding that the differences be-
tween capital and labor shall be set
tied by peaceful means.
II the permanent impartial board is
created to which either party of an
Industrial dispute may appeal or
which can Of its motion institute an
inquiry. public opinion may be relied
upon to enforce the finding.
If there Is compulsory submission to
Investigation It is not necessary that
there shall be compulsory acceptance
Of the decision, for a full and fair in
vestigation will In almost every case
bring about a settlement.
No reference to the labor question
Is complete that does not include some
mention of what Is known as govern
pose of the writ Is to evade trial by
Jury, it is really an attack upon the
jury system, and ought to arouse an
protest,
So long as the meanest thief is
guaranteed a trial by jury, a jury
ought not to be denied to wage
earners. However, as the writ is us
ually invoked in case of a strike the
Importance of the subject would be
very much reduced by the adoption
OF system of arbitration, because ar
bitration would very much reduce,
even If it did not entirely remove, the
proba bility of strike.
Just another word in regard to the
laboring man. The struggle to secure
an eight-hour day is an international
struggle and 1t is sure to be settled
In favor of the working men. The
benefits of the labor saving machinery
have not been distributed with equity.
The producer has enormously multi
piled his capacity but so far the owner
of the machine has received too much
of the increase and the laborer too
little.
Those who oppose the eight hour
day do it, am convinced, because of
ignorance of conditions rather than be-
cause OF lack of sympathy with those
who toll. The removal of work from
the house and the factory has separated
the husband from his wife and the fa-
ther from his children, while the growth
of our cities has put an increasing dis
tance between the home and the work.
shop.
Then, too, more is demanded of the
laboring man than formerly. He is a
citizen as we'll as a laborer and must
have time for the study of public
If he is to be an intelligent
man. To drive him from his bed
to his task, and from his task to his
bed, is to deprive his family of his
company, society of his service and
politics of his influence.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-31

port of many of our most iniouitous
trusts.
1t is difficult to condemn the manu.
facturers for uniting to take advantage
of high schedule when the schedule
Is framed on the theory that the in
dustries need all the protection given.
and 1t is not likely that the beneficiaries
OF these schedules will consent to their
reduction so long as the public waits
for the tariff TO be reformed by its
friends.
But one of the worst features of the
tarin, levied not for revenue but for
the avowed purpose of protection, is
that 1t fosters the idea that men
should use their votes to advance their
own financial interests.
The manufacturer has been assured
that 1t is legitimate for him to vote for
congressman who, whatever their
opinions on other subjects may be, will
legislate larger dividends into his
pockets; sheep growers have been en-
couraged to believe that they should
have no higher aim than in voting to
raise the price of wool, and laboring
men have been urged to make their
wages their only consideration.
For generation the "fat" has been
fried out of the manufacturers by the
Republican, congressional COMMITTEES
reimbursed by legislation.
With a public conscioTfce educated
to believe that this open purchase of
legislation was entirely proper, no Won
der that insurance companies have used
the money of their policy holders TO
carry elections-no wonder that trusts
have hastened to purchase immunity
from punishment with liberal dona-
tions.
How can we draw a moral distinc-
tion between the man who sells his
vote for IS on election day and the
manufacturer who sells his political
influence for $50 or 800, payable In
dividends?
How can we draw a moral line he
tween the senator or congressman
elected by the trust to prevent hostile
legislation and the senator or con-
gresham kept in congress by the
manufacturers to secure friendly legis-
lation?
The party which justifies the one
form OF bribery cannot be relied upon
to condemn the other.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-31
HOW CONTRIBUTIONS
SHOULD BE SECURED

Contributions should he Individual,
not corporate, and no party can af-
ford to receive contributions even from
individuals when the acceptance OF
these contributions secretly pledges the
party to a course which 1t cannot open
ly aVow.
In other words. politics should be
honest, and | mistake present condi-
ceive Improvement in the conduct of
campaigns
While men may differ as to the reIa-
tive importance OF issues. and while
the next congress will largely shape
the lines upon which the coming presi-
dental campaign Will be fought, / think
1t is safe to say that at present the
paramount issue in the minds OF a
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-31
SHAKES HANDS WITH
Personal FRIENDS

Mr.. Bryan then shook hands with a
few personal friends. This was the
signal for a general rush and the Ne
braskan was almost swept out of the
Twenty-seventh street entrance of the
hotel before the police could stem the
tide.
Finally order was established and
the impromptu reception proceeded,
Several thousand persons passed in
line and Mr.. Bryan shook hands with
all. Distinguished men of the Demo-
cratic party, visiting governors, United
States senator's and representatives,
national committeeman and legis-
latures mingled with the New York
ers.
The reception lasted for more than
an hour. Mr.. Bryan then retired to his
apartments and had dinner with his
Iamily and few intimate friends. He
then took brief rest before pro-
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-31
DEMOCRATS PRESENT
FROM EVERY STATE

Gathered at the Battery were Demo-
Gratis from all sections of the country.
Governor Folk of Missouri, Senator
Bailey of Texas, Chairman Taggart of
the Democratic national committee,
members of the committee from a score
of states, and the visiting governors
were among the first to extend their
greetings and congratulations upon the
travellers safe return.
Mr.. Bryan, Governor Folk and the
others stopped for moment to obllge
the half hundred photographers who
had gained entrance within the police
lines. All smiled pleasantly as the
shutters snapped
There was no further delay in reach
ing the waiting carriages and the drive
uptown was begun With Mr.. Bryan
In the first vehicle were Governor Folk,
acting Mayor MCGOWAN and William
Hoge.
The national committeeman and
members of the local reception COM
mittee were in those which followed.
All the carriages were gay in flags
and bunting. The crowds at the Bat
terry cheered again as the carriages
moved away.
The drive was up Broadway to Fiji
tieth street, thence east to Fifth ave-
nue. and down Fifth avenue to the
entrance OF the victoria nOtel, Wnlcn
will be Mr.. Bryan's headquarters.
The drive was without incident other
than the cheering which was taken up
from block to block by persons on the
crowded sidewalks.
Mr.. Bryan was quickly recognized by
all, and he smilingly bowed his ac-
acknowledgements.
Mr.. Bryan after his conference last
night with the Democratic leaders at
the home Of Louis Nixon at Stapleton,
Staten Island, returned to the l1lini,
which he boarded from the Princess
Irene yesterday afternoon, and spent
thu 1nirrInt
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-31

ience-while it would confine the preda-
tory corporations to the state of their
origin.
Just as a license to sell liquor author
ICES the possessor of the license to sell
only in accordance with the laws of the
state in which he resides, so a federal
commission would not interfere with
the right of each state to regulate for
eign corporations doing business within
its borders.
If corporations were required to take
out a federal license the federal gov
ernment could issue licenses upon the
terms and conditions which would pro-
tect the public.
corporation differs from a human
being in that it has no natural rights
and as all it's rights are derived from
the statutes, it can be limited or re-
strained accordingly as the public well
fare may require.
The control which congress has over
the Interstate commerce is complete
and if congress can prevent the trans
portation of lottery tickets through the
mails, by the express companies of by
freight it can certainly forbid the use
of the mails, the railways and the tel
egraphs to any corporation which is
endeavoring to monopolze an article
of commerce, and no party can long be
credited with sincerity If 1t condemns
the trusts with words only and then
permits the trusts to employ all the
instrumentalities of interstate COM
merce In the carrying out OF it's ne
farious plans.
1t is far easier to prevent monopoly
than to watch and punish it, and this
prevention can be accomplished in a
practical way by refusing a license to
any corporation which controls more
than a certain proportion of the total
product-this proportion to be arbitrar-
lily fixed at a point which will give
free operation to competition.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-31
PRESENT THE ACCEPTED
TIME TO BRING REFORM

There never was a time when
tariff reform could be more easily en-
tered upon, for the manufacturers
by selling abroad cheaper than At home
as many of them do, have not only
shown their gratitude toward those
who built the tariff wall for them, but
(CORtinued ON Page Eivel
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-31
AS TO STRIKES AND
RESULTS FOLLOWING

But II it is unwise to make the en-
ployer the sole custodian of the rights
and interests Of the employees, II is
equally unwise to give the employees
uncontrolled authority over the rights
and interests Of the employer.
The employees are no more to be
trusted to act unselhshly and disin-
terestedly than the employers. In their
zeal to secure present advantage they