Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-09-02
THE ISSUES DEFINED
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN'S letter To
TAMMANY HALL.
The Tariff, the Trusts and Railroad
Regulation All One Que StiOn, Saws
Fir. Bryan. Suggests a Platform
favOring Abolition of All Special
Privileges.

w. ]. Bryan's letter to Tammany
defining the real issues between the
two national parties is beautifully
simple PLATFORM. He would direct
attention to the fact that the tariff,
the trusts, and the railroad regula-
ton are all one question in essence,
namely, whether the government
shall be administered in the interest
of few favorites or in behalf of
the whole people.
On that platform it should not be
difficult to make winning fight in
the next presidential campaign, be-
cause the people understand the is
sue, they have had a personal and
painful demonstration of the work
ings OF tariff and trusts, and they
are ready to support the party that
will make Il sincere. determined ef
fort to revise the tariff and abolish
trust monopoly.
AS between the democracy and the
republican party there is no question
which is the friend of the trusts and
and which the foe; nor is there any
doubt as to which favors a tariff for
the benefit of the trusts and monopo-
publican party and the favorites of
the tariff is SO perfect that it is aXio-
matte.
Under trust control of the tariff
the cost of nearly every article which
enters into living expenses has been
advanced beyond all reasonable
bounds Part of the advance has
been doled out to labor under pres
sure. the larger part has been added
TO trust dividends on inflated stocks
Scarcely any industry has escaped
the monopolists, and the common
man depending upon a salary or
fixed income finds himself robbed on
every hand. Yet the republican
party will continue to favor them.
1t is urged by the republicans that
the national administration has
shown its determination to restrain
the trusts, and that it is accomplish
ing more in this direction than could
I've hoped for from democratic
president and congress. Such a plea
i; futile in the face of the record.
The beef trust was prosecuted and
some of its members fined. The peo-
pie are paying the fine, small as it
WAS. The paper trust was forced to
dissolve it's illegal combination; and
the price of paper is higher today
than it has ever been, while the men,
bers of this illegal combination are
doing business at the old stand, I'M
harmed and unafraid. Where any
ust is prosecuted it has nothing to
fear of a simple fine, because it can
add that to its price any time and
still retain its monopoly. There is
no way to really reach a trust which
has established a monopoly of the
American market through the tariff
except by revising the tariff to per-
nit competition on reasonable
basis.
The American people are the most
patient nation on the broad foot
stool, but when they reach the limit
of patience they have an unpleasant
way of letting the fact be known.
They have been robbed by an I'M
just tariff for years and stood it with
eQuanamity because they were en-
joying period of unparalleled pros
perity in crops and in industry; now
the trust beneficiaries who were en-
joying more than their share of the
national profits, have put on the
thumbscrews unendurably and the
people will tolerate it no longer
Mr.. Bryan's outline of campaign
declaration comedies exactly with
the temper of the people; and on
such platform the democratic party
can win.-Salt Lake Herald.