Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-10-14

ism requires it,"
Takes Up Trusts,
Taking up the trust question. Mr..
Bryan said:
Il can remember that when we
commenced to talk on this trust ques-
tion there We're Republican leaders
who laughed at us and said there
We're no trusts, and then they said
the trusts were good things; econo-
mic developments; that they had
come to stay; and when that argu-
ment would not do they said, Don't
worry; if they are bad, we will take
care of them They are now begin
ming to find out that they are bad.
Why, my friends years ago Demo-
Gratis insisted upon the enforcement
magnates, and when we began to in
sist on it, what did they call us?
They said we were dema agogues, and
We're appealing to the passion of the
multitudes; that we were prejudiced
against the rich and trying to array
class against class; but finally Mr..
Roosevelt said They ought to be put
in the penitentiary,' and then our
doctrines became respectable in high
places. Not only did Mr. Roosevelt
say that, but if yau want to know
what tremendous sweep there has
been in public sentiment in this
country on this subject let me remind
you in one of the first speeches Mr..
Taft made before he became a candi-
date. he said that it might be well to
put one or two trust magnates in the
penitentiary; of course, not all of
them (laughter), but just one or two
to see whether they liked it or not
(cheers and laughter). The Demo-
cratic party has been educating pub
lie sentiment on the trust question.
and today the Democratic party is
responsible for whatever there has
been done, except as Mr.. Roosevelt
| has seconded the motion, every once
| in a while, after Democrat has
made it.
Criticises President Taft's Views
"Mr. Taft does not understand the
trust question, and when | say that l
am saying the most charitable thing
| can say in regard to his position on
the subject, for if he did understand
the trust question you could not eX-
cuse him for the position he has
taken.
what is his position? In his Co
lumbus speech that was made at the
beginning of his candidacy for nomi-
nation, the speech in which he an
nounced his candidacy, he said ne
was in favor of amending the anti
trust law-but how? He said the
word unreasonable ought to be put
| in there, so that instead of making
all conspiracies in restraint of trade
unlawful, that the law would only
make unreasonable conspiracies un-
| lawful, or conspiracies for the unrea-
sonable restraint of trade. Do you
know what that word unreasonable
means in criminal law? 1t transfers
the question from the jury to the
Judge. After you have convicted a
man for having restrained trade, it is
for the judge to say whether it was
an unreasonable restraint or not.
My friends, if we are going 10
stop the trust. we must lay the axe
at the root of the tree, and The Demo-
cratic party has taken the only de-
fensible position when it says. not
that production on a large scale shall
be stOpped-not that there shall be
no production, so large as to make
use of the economies in production.
That is not the position. Our party
position is, that a private monopoly
is indefensible and intolerable, and
that the line ought to be drawn at a
point that will make it impossible for
a private monopoly to exist in the
United States. That is the Democrat
ic position. (Cheers.) And, my
friends, it is the only position.
Accuses Republicans of Theft.
There is another question that we
have advocated, the income tax. We
have advocated the income tax for a
great many years; we passed the law
in 1904, and we have defended it
ever since, and now Mr.. Taft comes
and takes the plank boldly from our
platform and asks the Republican
house and senate to put it into effect,
and the Republican senate passes it
by unanimous vote, and only four
teen votes were negative in the
house, and only two west of the Allie
ghany mountains. Are you surprised
that 1 wear a smile that won't come
off when 7 see our doctrines appro-
priated? They sometimes ask me if
| am ever going to be a candidate
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