Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-31
FORM BRYAN CLUB
AT HOLLYWOOD
OFFICERS ARE ELECTED AND
SPEECHES MADE
Warner, Kohler and Leland Criticise
Republican Platform and Expose
Dependence of Trusts on
the Protective Tariff

HOLLYWOOD citizens and others from
adjoining towns, met at the Audltor-
inn. formed the Hollywood Bryan ana
Kern club and elected the following
OFFICERS: Graham Smith, president; w;
+. Herndon, vice president w 1IaLu
Kennedy, secretary, ana Johh d. Dlo-
kaw, treasurer.
soon after the organization. was per-
fected people began to arrive and IN
n short time the hall was well Hlled
with eager and enthusiastic voters VINO
have the one desire to see a Demo-
cratic president elected at the NO
Vember election
Charles Kohler was the first speaker.
He declared this world was full of sur
prises and the biggest surprise of all
would be when the Republicans met III
November and wondered how 1t nap
pened, He reviewed the political sit
nation for many years back and sald
the full dinner pail was an issue at
one time, but the people came TO learn
that the dinner pail was tull OF not ar
only. He could understand the panic OF
1894. when the crops failed and mer-
camille enterprises naturally followed,
hut he was at a loss to understand how
rht manic of 1907 came about when
there were no empty dinner pals ana
the banks were full almost to burst
ing with gold. notwithstanding TINS
fact, he said, there were soup Kitchens
right here in Los Angeles and money
was hard to get, all OF Wh1ch was IN
der a Republican administration. lie
referred to the Philippine question and
to Imperialism and the trust question,
placing the facts in a clear and con-
else manner before his hearers.
Mr.. Kohler was followed by J. Frank
Leland. who made stirring Speech
declaring he was suffering from Bryan
fever and that in November the whole
country would be infected with the
same malady.
we have FIVE political parties that
want to mention" said Mr.. Leland.
"First there is the Democratic party,
With the leader William Jennings
BRYAN whose motto is The People;
Let the People Rule. The second is
the plutocratic. headed by TART. Inc
third is the Prohibition party. The
fourth is the Populists, with Thomas
Watson at their head. These people
believe in having the farmers rule the
land. The last is the pocket party,
headed by William Randolph Hearst,
whose pocket is the heart and soul OF
that organization"
Mr.. Leland then referred to the ac-
ceptance speech of Taft and declared
it was Forty thousands words long
and a dollar mark wide. His state
menIS OIL IdClS were dNCul a. tHhAN -
teresting and when he finished he was
greeted with much applause
Trusts and Injunctions
Mr.. Warner was then introduced as
a speaker who has well established
fame as an orator throughout the
He spoke of the trust ques-
ton and referred to Tatts speech ana
that portion of 1t where Taft mentioned
the Injunction as applied to the trusts.
His speech, in part, was as follows:
"Mr Taft, in speaking of the trust,
said: In law, the trusts should be
restrained with all the efficiency OF
Injunction process I want to ask him
what trust magnate has this adminis-
tration, or the ones preceding II, OF
Roosevelt and Mckinley, ever put IN
Jail by an injunction or any other
Why did he not tell the farm
ers of the middle west in his solicitude
for their welfare that the reason why
two hundred thousand of them had
gone from the Dakotas, Minnesota.
Wisconsin and Illinois across the Dor
der into Manitoba and the Northwest
territory of Canada was because they
were forced to sell their wheat in the
same market in competition with Ca
madam wheat raisers, at the same
price, but that the Canadian wheat
raiser bought MS ploWS, anu HollO"s'
and mowers, and reapers, and rakes,
and trace chains, and ropes, and cook
ing utensils, and stoves. and clothes,
and groceries, and drugs, and school
books in an unprotected market at
from 20 to so per cent less than the
Illinois or Dakota farmer is compelled
to pay to the trusts for the same
goods?
HE says the doctrine Of protection
of the Republican party is tariff suf-
great to equal the difference
between the cost of production abroad
and at home. Does he not know that
the value of the product of the steel
trust in 1905 was $941, 100000 and it's
wage account was s143, 900, or less
than Is per cent of the cost, while the
average protection tariff, under the
Dingley bill, is go per cent for every
500 worth of iron or steel product the
trust manufacturers - the trust re-
ceives from the farmers and builders
1872 in protection while it pays out
only SIS for wages? Who wouldn't
build libraries and give $250,000 sub
scriptions to Tafts campaign fund
with this kind of a graft?"