The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-22
BRYAN SCORES
 THE BIG DAILIES Declares Many Great Metro politan Papers Owned By Somebody We Do
 Not Know.
BRILLIANT EDITORS
 CHLOROFORM PUBLIC
Fact Universally Recognized and a Man is Helped to Have Their Opp
 stion.

New York. Oct. 21.-William Jen- nings Bryan spoke tonight before an audience that filled Cooper Union, while fully twice as many persons were turned away The meeting was under the auspices of the Progressive Democratic league, and Mir Bryans subject was ''The Democracy of To- day"
 Mir. Bryan was received with re- peated cheers, and it was three or four minutes before he was allowed to begin. He introduced as a sub topic The Average Man" He re- turned, he said, from abroad with the impression that our average man" was the average man of the world and the American people the greatest peo- pie of the world. Among the com mon people he classed the farmers, who, he said, had enough to keep them out of the poorhouse and not enough money to tempt brol5en-do noblemen to come over and disgrace their families by marrying into them; mechanics, physicians, lawyers and other professions.
 Turning to, the subject of news paper men and newspapers, he said, in part:
 Tt is calamity that so many of our great metropolitan papers are owned
 by somebody whom we do not know.
 Many of them are not exploited as newspaper enterprises but as an ad- Ijunct to exploit Jther enterprises. One of the calanlties of the day is that some, not all, of the owners of our
 great metropolitan dailies, employ bril- liant editors, to chloroform their read
 CTS, while they pick the pockets of
 their readers. It has come to be recog-
 nized that many of the great dailies, not all, are for sale to the highest bid | der.
 'So universal is the recognition of this fact that 1t helps man to have
 their opposition, when their support would damn him among honest people But many of the owners of papers belong to the class of common people This is true of some of the larger papers; especially true of the smaller papers, the weeklies throughout the
 country and the workers on the pa pers."
 | On the subject of national control of corporations MT. Bryan said ''The president suggests the national I incorporation of all railroads engaged
 in interstate commerce and all corpor- ations engaged in interstate commerce. Not since the days of Alexander Ham
 ilton has such doctrine of centraliza- l ton been advanced as this suggestion by the president. It would practically place the government of the states in l Washington.
 "The democratic doctrine is that the federal authority attend to federal af- 1 fairs and leave the states to attend to their home government. The federal authority should be added to state au-
 thority not substituted for it." He said the federal government act ing within it's present powers could curb the trusts.
 "1et congress" he said, "say when any corporation in interstate commerce
 wishes to control 25 per cent. of the
 output of the product it deals in, that
 it must take out federal license, the license to be so safeguarded that the
 stock of the corporation cannot be | watered Then the corporation will be
 under the eyes of the federal govern ment"