Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-04-29
BRYAN IN MICHIGAN.
Says Mckinley IS Motto Has Been Re-
versed by Republicans. @5rg

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William j. Bryan last week con-
cluded trip through Michigan, with
an address before large audience
in the Light Guard Armory, at De-
troit, on "The Point Of View"
He begun his address by pointing
out the growth in popularity of De-
mocratic policies, as he expressed 1t,
of the President, and the un-Demo-
cratic policies Of the President.
In 1896, he said, President McKin-
ley said that what we needed was
"the opening Of the mills instead of
the opening of the mints.' Now,
with industry tagging and multitudes
out Of employment, we are told that
we ought to start the printing
presses to work, issuing more bank
notes. instead of turning the wheels
of industry. The trust, whose exist
ence was denied by the Republicans
few years ago, Is now an admitted
evil and while the President has
coined popularity by few prosecu-
tions, he has not yet sent a trust
magnate to the penitentiary, and
since the birth rate in the trust fam
lily is greater than the death rate,
we may assume that this is one fam
lily at least which, measures up to the
Presidents ideals as regards the size
of the families Secretary Taft. who
seems to be regarded as the represen-
tative of reform in the Republican
party. (I do not mean to slight Sen
ator LaFollette, real reformer, but
he does not seem to meet with the
favor of tho Republican leaders,,
gives no promise of effective relief
from trusts either through admins
tration or legislation. The people,
however, understand the trust ques-
tion better than ever before, and will,
think, demand the enactment of
law embodying the Democratic idea
that private monopoly Is indefcnsi-
BILE and intolerable. On the tariff
question the Democratic position has
also grown in favor and now we have
viz kSOpuoiiSiho III a hCSh anu hCCh
race to see who can make the loud
est promises in favor Of tariff re-
form without really reducing the
tariff
No one will doubt that the people
have been aroused to the necessity
for railroad regulation. The legisla
ton thus far secured has promise Of
specific legislation necessary for ef-
fective control the Republican lead
ers are actually planning. to weaken
rather than strengthen regulation,
for the plan to give national incorpo-
ration is merely plan to deprive
the States OF contro,. without any as
surance that Congress will do any
better in the future than it has in the
past. On the new phase of the rail-
road question, the Republican party
is equally out Of harmony with the
public. The Democrats demand leg
islation which will withdraw from
the lower Federal Courts the power
to suspend State laws, leaving the
corporations free to prosecute an ap-
peal from the highest State Courts.
The Republican leaders side with the
railroads against the public on this
question.
In discussing Imperialism, Mr..
Bryan referred to the demand for
four new battleships and congratu-
lated Congress for cutting 1t down to
two. He used 1t to Illustrate the evils
of Imperialism and said that the De-
mocrats 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 doctrines of some of the govern
ment but increases our army and
navy and involves us in all the perils
Of land-grabbing policy.
S. l.. Bowen, of Wayne, w. Va,
writes: 81 was sufferer from kid
ney disease, so that at times I could
not stand straight. 1 took Foley's
Kidney Cure. One dollar bottle and
part of the second cured me entire