The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-26
TRUST OPPRESSION
 THROUGH REPUBLICAN
 PARTY CLEARLY SHOWN
Mr. Bryan Tells How the People Have Been Fooled By Republican Ad- ministratlon and Robbed
 By Great Corpora
 tons.

Indianapolis. August 25.-A scene equalled only by that at the Denver convention when MT. Bryans name was i first mentioned by Senator Gore was enacted when Chairman Mack intro i duced William J. Bryan, the democratic candidate, at the coliseum today The vast audience stood up and wildly ] cheered waved flags and handk erch iefs and tossed their hats into the air. After the demonstration had continued sev- eral minutes MT. Bryan sought to se- cure order by vigorously rapping on the 1 table with the presiding officers gavel After some further cheering order was restored and the democratic candidate began his speech.
 Before MT. Bryan began his address Chairman Mack introduced Thomas k. Marshall, democratic candidate for gov 1 ernor of Indiana, who spoke briefly. MT. Marshall paid a tribute on behaff of the Indiana democracy to the na- tional candidates. MT. Bryan and MT. Kern. He said:
 1, This delay in the hour of peace marks I knowingly that which was the condi- t tion of the people unknowingIy in the hour of conflict. The people not only know but feel; they not only reason that Bryan and Kern are right but consciously they feel it.
 The first man made was a mere man. He not only took all that was his own but also all that which was forbidden. Strength of arm and power of intellect never convinced him that he was wrong. It was only when the heart throbbed that he saw the error 1 or ms way, for the world has always been full of men, and it has some now who are willing not only to take all that was their own, but to take all that has been forbidden tn em. The saving , grace of humanity has not yet been s, l much the man of muscle or the man of brain as 1t has been the man of heart. the man who feels that in the conflict or life, he must fight good fight on n square issue with a clear conscience
 Mere man is willing to take every thing. It is the gentleman who is will. Ing to give something in return for that which he takes. Alexander. Caesar
 
 rode through slaughter to a tn rone and shut the gates of mercy on mankind.'' SaVanarola, Washington and Lincoln were great men. They gave in return Tor that which they took. 1 say to tha men or America today that the demo- cratic party In William J. Bryan and | John w. Kern have given to the renub lic all that the republic may entrust to them. They are protectionists of the highest type and they believe the purlieus should have a chance with the ! purple"
 MT Bryan said:
 Nownere does the republican party show us indifference to real reform more than Tn Its treatment of the trust question. Here is the republican platform:
 The republican party passed the Sher- man antitrust law over democrati op- position and enforced it after democratic derelction It has been wholesome in@ i strument Tn the hands of a wise and fearl less administration But experience has shown that it's effectiveness can Ina strengthened and its real objects bet ter attained by such amendments as will | give to the federal government greater ' supervision and control over, and secure greater publicity, in, the management of ! that class of corporations engaged in in- terstate commerce. having power and op- portunity to affect monopolies"
 The sherman antitrust law was passed i IS years ago; 1t has a criminal clausa ] which provides penitentiary punishment Tor those who conspire together in re- | straint of trade. Ever since the enact- ment of the law, with the exception of l four years, the republican party has con- trolled the executive department of the government. and during two years of the four, it controlled the House of Represent tatives. Instead of democratic dereliction the democratic party has been urging after the strict of that law, and the republican party has been explaining year after year why ii was impossible to enforce 1t. Instead of l being a wholesome instrument for good' ] it has been almost useless so far as the protection of the public is concerned for ! the trusts have grown in number, in strength and in arrogance. at the very time when the republican party wal boasting of its enforcement of the law | The steel trust was formed immediately after the election oi 1900. and prominent 1 republican said. In a speech soon after. 1 that it might have prevented a republican victory if it had been formed before the i election.
 Most of the trusts have never been d's. turbed and those that have been prose. cuted have not had their business serious. ] ly interrupted. The President has done something toward the enforcement of the law, but not nearly enough. and the re. l publican leaders have thwarted him al | every point Finally the President becans 1 so exasperated that he sent to Congress, l a message which shocked republican lead | CTS by the fierceness of its denunciatiot l of the predatory interests. The very con. vention that spoke in its platform of trs 1 administration as "a wise and fearless 1 one.'' was composed largely of the sen ators and members of Congress who bold 1 ly opposed every effort to free the peopk