The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-04
ENDS NEBRASKA TOUR
Bryan Makes Many Speeches and Is
Delighted With Trip.


Delighted With Trip.
OMAHA, NEB.. June s.--The weeks
speech king tour of William j. Bry-
an through Northern and Western Ne
braska ended with rear platform
speech at. Columbus this afternoon, and
ne arrived at Omaha tonight. Mr..
Bryan has made forty-two speeches and
he left home last Thursday. In nearly
every speech he pointed out what he
regarded as the weakness of the cur
rency measure passed by congress dur.
meeting to-day was at Lexington.
where business was suspended during
his stay. All the principal buildings
We're decorated in honor of his visit
and school was dismissed at noon. He
addressed an open air meeting at the
high school grounds. where a large
crowd, representing both city and
country population. gathered on the
common.
When Mr.. Bryan arrived in. Omaha
tonight he expressed himself as de-
lighted with his trip and with the re-
ception he had received everywhere.
He remained In Omaha tonight, and
will go home on Thursday morning.
Praises La Toilette.
In his speech at Lexington Mr.. Bryan
eulogized Senator La Toilette for his
opposition to the emergency currency
bill, and said:
senator La Toilette is in sympathy
with the masses. and has made great
fight against great odds. They put him
out of the last Republican national
convention. and can't 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
President, IT he was looking for an
honorable gentleman. he could not have
done better: but If he was looking for
a reformer, he made a great mistake.
Mr. Taft says to extingush trusts
means to extinguish Industries. Every
farmer and every man who labors
knows better than that; y, ! , !, !, !
trust. 1t doesn't care whether the
farmer buys or not. 1t doesn't have
la corner or everything the farmer
buys, but it soon will havcs If left
alone. II you We're to extinguish that
concern that manufactures farm i'm
|plements? Wis
Congress is vested with power over
interstate commerce. and could control
these trusts. II the business OF the
harvester trust was reduced so per
cent, there would be competition,
which would result in cheaper imple-
ments for the farmer. Business would
be increased by the sale OF more im-
llplements, aandsmore men would be en-
Iployed. Thus, competition would help
Ievery element Of society. When YOU
|eXtermtnate trusts you revive business
instead OF destroying It,"
Financial Situation.
Reverting to the financial situation,
Mr. Bryan aid.
THE recent experience through which
we have passed affords a,Hlesson. a, Dur
ing the ten years 1t has been In power,
the Republican party has permitted to
be issued s10,000,000, 900 OF fictitious or
watered stock by. great corporations
Recently the work OF squeezing the
Water began, Banks became cautious
and, when the great concerns could
mot pay back their loans, Western people
woke up one morning to find no.
tice from the banks that they could
not have their money to use in their
own bust ness. q ~
"a railroad president does not make
his fortune by saving his salary. With
a salary Of $l00,000Ea "a year he would
only receive s5, 100000 In fifty years,
hardly enough to buy a respectable
foreign title. That amountSdoesn'tE Eu
Tar In Wall Street. t used to be said
/ that the Democratic party had a corner
OF panlos. but recently the Republican
pa arty has Threatened to put 1t out OF
the panic business. u, 's
| Now c comes Congress TO the relief of
the banks with an emergency curren-
cy: When the campaign began to
procure this iaw,Sthe big bankers re-
fused a; nbark currency BECAUSE
hey knew ley would lose control al
hess sua acc 8of mon ey. THE law will
not furnis sh RE- lef. What Is required
is oontldence--tll he n anne ki ind OF CON
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