The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-04
BRYAN'S WEEK Of
SAFEGUARDING
Business Suspended During
His Visit in the Nebraska
Towns.
TRIP VERY SATISFACTORY
RESULT WILL PROBABLY BE OBJ
SERVED IN NOVEMBER.

! Omaha, June 3.-The weeks speech
making tour of William j. Bryan
through the northern and western por-
tions of Nebraska ended with a rear
platform speech at Columbus late this
afternoon. and he arrived in Omaha
this evening. He has made forty-twO
| set speeches and nearly that many in
| formal responses since he left home last
Thursday. In most instances these all
dresses have had a home color To them.
/ but in no instance has he failed TO
touch on national politics. and he has
directed his principal effort to opposing
| the present financial system. and in
nearly every speech made he has point
ed out what he considered the weak
ness of the currency measure passed
| by congress during its closing sessions.
First Stop at North Platte.
He started from KimbaH, Ncb.. at
l o'clock this morning, making his first
stop at North Platte, where he spoke to
a gathering at the opera house coin
posed chiefly of railroad men. lie as
sailed the railroads FOR cOercing en-
| ployes into making petitions to legisla-
tive bodies opposing anti-railrOad leg
| islatiOn.
! The largest meeting of the day. and
/ the one which really wound I'D his
I trip, was at Lexington, where business
was practically suspended during his
l stay in the town. All the principal
| buildings were decorated in honor of
his visit. and the schools were dis
missed at noon.
Open Air Meeting.
He addressed an open air meeting at
the high school grounds. where a large
crowd, representing both the city and
! country population, gathered on the
commons. Mr.. Bryan's reception at
I Lexington. was a fitting climax 10 a
] trip which he considered the most i'm
I purtant. and still the most pleasant, he
has ever made over his nJ.ne state. He
| took occasion this dttcris,n1 to COM
mend the Bryan v0I4nte,9= both 10
cally sndsthrougaOut the country. for
their work OF organization, and pre-
scented several suggestions fur further
work along tfat liz 3.
When Mr.. Bryan arrived in Omaha
tonight he expressed nimsele as de-
| lighted with his trip and With the re-
eeption he received everywhere. lie re-
manned in the city tonigh. ana viii go
home Thursday morning.
Euio9i<ed la Foliettc.
In Mr.. Bryans speech at Lexington ne
| eulOgiZed Senator La Toilette for his Op-
position to the emergency currency bill.
/ saying:
Senator La Toilette is in sympathy
with the masses and has made a great
fight against great odds. They put him
out of the last Republican national con-
| ventiOn, and ! cannot predict what they
; will do to him in the next one.
When the president picked up Mr., Taft
for the candidate of his party for pTesi-
I dent. if he was looking for an honOra bic
/ gentleman he could not have done better,
'but if he was looking for a TefOTmeT he
4 made a great mistake. Mr.. Taft says 10
/ extiHguish trusts means to eXtinguish in
dustries. Every farmer and every man
who labOrs knows better than that Take,
for instance, the harvester trust. II does
not care whether the farmer buys or not.
| 1t does not have corner on everything
| the farmer buys, but il soon will if left
alone. If you were 10 eXtinguish that
concern. would it destroy every other
concern that manufactures farm imple-
| ments?
Congress is vested with power over
/ interstate commerce and could control
| these trusts. If the business Of the har-
/ vester trust was reduced 30 Der cent
| there would be competition which would
! result in cheaper implements for the
| farmer Business would be increased by
| the sale of more implements. and more
men would be employed. Thus COMPETE
! ton would help every element of society.
When you eXterminate trusts you revive
business instead of destroying it."
The Financial Question.
Reverting to the financial question. Mr..
| Bryan said:
The recent experience through which
| we have passed affords a lesson. Dur
ing the ten years ii has been in power
the Republican party has permitted to be
issued 600 of fictitious or wa
| tered stock by great corporations. Re
| Gently the work of squeezing out the wa
ter began. Banks became cautious, and
| when the great concerns could not pay
| back their loans western people woke
| up one morning 10 find a notice from
| the banks that they could not have their
! money TO use in their own business. A
| railroad president does not make his for
tune by saving his salary. With a sal
! airy of S100.000 a year he could only re-
ceive s5,000.000 in fifty years-hardly
! enough TO buy a respectable foreign title
That amount does not go far in Wall
| street 1t used to be said that the Dem
| ocratic party had a corner on panics, but
! recently the Republican party has threat
ened to put it out of the panic business.
Emergency Currency.
Now comes congress to the relief OF
! When the campaign began to secure this
law the big bankers refused a greenback
| currency because they knew they would
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