The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-04
BRYAN ENDS TOUR
SPOKE AT LEXINGTON TO GREAT
 GATHERING.
Praised LaFoIIette in High Terms. Greater PaPf of Address Was Devoted to Financial
 MatterH

Omaha. Neb.. June s--1he weeks speechmalSing tour of W. J. Bryan
 through Northern and Western Ne braska. ended with a rear plat form speech at Columbus this afternoon and he arrived in Omaha tonight. MT. Bryan made fortv-two speeches and nearly that many informal talks since he left home last Thursday.
 In nearly every speech hc pointed out what he regarded as the weakness of fthe currency measure passed by Con sgress during its closing sessions. The largest meeting today wa at Lexing- ston. where business was upended dur sing his stay. All the principal build sings were decorated in honor of his vis- it and school was dismissed at noon. He addressed an open air meeting at the High School grounds, where large crowd. representing both city and coun- the population, gathered on the com mon.
 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. HO remained in Omaha tonight and will go home Thursday morning.
 In his speech at Lexington Bryan eulogized Senator LaFollette for his opposition to the emergency currency bill, and said:
 } .Senator LaFolIette Is in sympathy with the masses and has made a great fight against great odds They put him -out of the last Republican National Convention, and I can't predict what they will do to him in the next one. When the President picked up MT. Taft as the candidate of his party for Pres ident, If he was looking for an honor- oh Ia spAva HA I. .l better; but if lie was looking for re- former, he made a great mistake.
 MT Taft says to extinguish trusts means to extinguish industry. Every farmer and every man who labors knows better than that. Take. for ip- stance. the harvester trust. It does not care whether. the farmer buys or not. 1t does not have corner on every thing the farmer buys. but 1t soon will have 1t. if left alone. If you were to extinguish that concern. would 1t de- stroy every other concern that manu- facturers imDlementsf
 Congress is vested with power over interstate dosmerce and could control these trusts. If the business of the harvester trust was reduced 50 per 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 competition would help every element of society. When you exterminate trusts you revive business instead of destroying It."
 Revertlng to the financial situation
 'The recent experience through which we have passed affords les- son. During the ten years 1t has been in power the Republican Party has permitted to be Issued ten billion dol- lars 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 not pay back their loans, Western people woke up one morning to find a nottce- from the banks that they could not shave their money to use in their own business.
 "A railroad president does not make his fortune by saving his salary, With salary of s100.00o a year he would only receive s5,eOO. 900 in hfty years. hardly enough to buy respectable for eign title That amount does not go far in Wall Street. It rsed to be said that the Democratic Party had a cor ner on pantcs, but recently the Repub- liean Party has threatened to put it out of the panic business.
 Now comes Congress to the relief of the banks with an emergency cur rency. When the campaign began to procure this law, the big bankers re- fused a greenback currency because they knew they would lose control of the issuance of money. The law will not furnish relief. What is required Is ccnfidence; the same kind of conh- dence our Republican friends were de- manding twelve years ago. This con- hdence can be obtained, in my opinion. only through a bank guaranty fund to protect deposltors against loss in failed banks The big banks oppose this idea because they fear that If the little banks were sound they would get all the deposits. But this is the only relief, and the system has already been vindicated ky its success in Okla hoEaa.H