The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-17
Bryan Says This Family Is On
 Roosevelt Style
NO PROMISE OF ANY RELIEF
Bryan Speaks At Detroit and Points His Remarks With the Shortcom-
 lngs of the Republicans
 and Their Candidates.

Detroit, April 16-William J. Bryan to- night concluded a two days speaking trip through Michigan with an address be- fore a large audience in the Light Guard armory on "The Point of View
 MT. Bryan arrived in this city at o'clock from Jackson, Mich.
 MT. Bryan was given an enthusiastic reception. He begun his address by point ing out the growth in popularity of dem- ocratic policies, distinguishing as he pro- ceeded between the democratic policies, as he expressed it, of the President and the undemocratic policies of the President.
 Tn 1896 President Mckinley said that what we needed was the opening of the mills instead of opening of the mints,'' he said. Now, with industry tagging and multitudes out of employment, we are to decide that we ought to start the print ing press to work issuing more bank notes, instead of turning the wheels of industry. The trust, whose existence was denied by the republicans few years ago, is now an admitted evil, and while the President has gained popularity by a few prosecutions he has not yet sent a trust magnate to the penitentiary, and since the birth rate in the trust family is sume that this is one family at least which measures up to the Presidents ideas in regard to the size of families.
 Secretary Taft, who seems to be re- garded as the representative of reform in the republican partyu-I do not mean to slight Senator LaFollette, a real reformer, but he does not seem to meet with the favor of the republican 1eaders-gives no promise of effective relief from trusts either through administration or legisla- tion. The people, however, understand the trust question better than ever before and will, l think, demand the enactment of law embodying the democratic idea that private monopoly is indefensibe and intolerable.
 On the tariff question, the democratic position has also grown in favor and now we have the republicans in neck and neck race to see who can make the loudest promises in favor of tariff reform without really reducing the tariff.
 No one will doubt that the people have been aroused to the necessity for rail road regulation. The legislation thus far secured has afforded but small measures
 
 promise of specific legislation necessary for effective control, the republican lead CTS are actually planning to weaken rather than strengthen regulation, for the plan to give national incorporation is largely a plan to deprive ,ne states of control without any assurances that Con- gress will do any better in the future than it has in the past On the new phase of the railroad question, the re- publican party is equally out of harmony with the public. The democrats demand legislation which will withdraw from the lower federal courts the power to suspend state laws, leaving the corporations free to prodecate an state court. The re- publican leaders side with the railroads against the public on this question"
 In discussing imperialism. MT. Bryan referred to the demand for four new bat tleships and congratulated Congress for cutting it down to two. He used it to illustrate the evils of imperialism and said that the democrats had for several years been calling attention to the fact that the colonial policy, if persisted in will not only weaken our attachment to the doctrine of some of the government, bupt increase our army and navy and in- volve us in al the perils of land-grab- ping policy.
 There is danger of war in the culti- vation of the military spirit; the best guaranty of peace is to be found in the establishment of a reputation for fair dealing and in the consideration of others"