Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-08-27
BRYAN PRESENT AND SPEAKS ON
THE TRUSTS.
He Boldly Compares the Attitude and Declarations Of
the Two Great Parties on This Vital Question
In American Economics.

of socialism. The Democrats recognize
that socialists are honestly seeking a
remedy for the "known abuses adj
mitted by Secretary Taft. Democrats
A1sssrts from the remedy proposed by
the socialists, believing that socialists
are mistaken and that the Democratic
remedy is better, but it is time for
thoughtful people to recognize that in
d1v1dualism can emily be retained and |
defended by remedial legislation which
Will remove the abuses which have
been allowed to fasten themselves up
on the country. The Democratic party,
believing in in~dividualism, addresses
Itself earnestly to these abuses, and in
stead of ridiculing and maligning the
socialists, invites lthem, as it does Re-
publieans, to examine the Democratic
platform and the remedies proposed
therein. 1t submits it's plans to the
honest citizenship ofths country, with
out regard to section Or party.
In my notification speech L called
attention to three demands made by
our party. It asks, first, that the gov
shall be taken out Of the
hands Of spscialinterests, and restored
to the people as a whole, it asks,
ssconds for honesty in elections and
publicity in regard to campaign funds,
that the people may freely choose rep
resentatives in sympathy with them
n pledge to guard their interests; it
| asks. third for sucb q modification of
our governmental methods as will make
the senate an elective body, and place
the control of the house OF represent
~tat1ves in the hands Of a majority of
Its members. A few days ago, in dis
eussing the tariff question, I dwelt up
on the fourth demand made by our
party, namely, hat taxation be Just,
that the revenue laws be made for the
purpose Of raising revenue and not for
the enrichment of a few at the expense
OF the many, and hat the tariff law be
supplemented by an income tax which
viii more nearly equalizs the govern
ment's burdens. Today I present an.
other demand made in our party plat
form-thed demand that the grip Of the
trusts be broken, that COM petition be
restored snd hat the door of oppor-
tunity be opened to the business men
and the toilers OF the land.
Industrial fndepsndenseis necessary
to political independence. The free sx-
ercise of the rights of citizenship is
impossible when . few mon control
the industries in which millions are
employed. God forbid that we should
compel tho wage-sarners of the nation
to address their petitionsto trust mag.
mates. and ask for their daily bread.
Already we nave seen how prone the
monopol1st is to make employment
depend upon the willingness of the
snPloye to prostitute his ballot to the
service of his corporate master.
Mi question should be settled now;
we can not afford to bequeath it as q
legacy of woe to a succeeding genera
ton. Toe conscience of the people is
already awakened, and the conscience
is the mostpotent force Of which mar
has knowledge. Where law makes
enc righteous, conscience controls ar
AuH0E0O, where one is Kept from
wrong-doing by tear Of prison doors, q
thousand are restrained by those in
visible walls which conscience rear
about us-barriers which are stronge1
than walls of granite. It is Hpon thu
conscience that human institution
rest, n without a stirring of the con.
science no great reform is possible
To a national conscience already arous
ed we appeal, with the pledge that &
Democratic victory will mean the ring
' ing out of Industrial despotism an6
the ringing in Of new era in wkicf
business will be built upon it's merits
l and in which men will succeed, not IL
:. proportion to the coeseion they may b,
: able to practice, but in proportion t.
their industry, their ability and thei
: fidelity.
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