The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-04-16
BRYAN WRITES
Pours Broadside Into Trusts and Monopo-
lies Of All Kinds.
LAUDS UP JEFFERSON

AS the Great Leader OF the Pe0ple
and a Safe One.-Says President
Taft's Speech on Lincoln Sustalns
Position of the Advocates of Free
Silver in the Nineties.
The letter of William ]. Bryan,
written from Brazil and read We'd
nesday night before the Democrats
who attended the Jefferson Day ban
quet at New York and those at a
similar function in Indianapolis was
as follows:
II thank you for the invitation to
the Jefferson Day Banquet. While
I shall not return to the United
States in time to attend, I can join
with you in spirit the more heartily
because of what I have learned by
visiting other countries. have seen
everywhere the influence exerted by
his teachings. In the nation in which
1 am just now sojourning find illus
trations of his idea Of conquest. He
contended that we should conquer
the world with our ideals rather than
with arms, and in this sense, we are
egecting a conquest of Brazil. Her
constitution is modelled after ours;
she has copied from us the federal
system of government, which united
local control of local affairs with ma
tional supremacy; her flag, like ours,
has star for each state, and her
school system is being made to con-
form more and more to ours. These
victories, too, cement friendship, in
stead of arousing 'enmity. Hail to
Jefferson, the worlds schoolmaster,
whose views continue their majestic
march around the earth.
But in our country, as we'll as
abroad, his principles are triumph
ing. He taught that the art of gov
ernment is the, art OF being honest
and each snew Investigation proves
the folly of those who refuse to
learn of him.
"He was the foe of monopoly in
every form and his nama is the one
which can with most propriety be
invoked when the trusts are attack
ed and when a contest is being wag-
ed for the application of the prin-
ciples of poplar government.
II am so far away from home that
I am not fully informed as to the
recent events, but have just read of
one Jeffersonian victory, namely, the
selection of an Investigating commit
tee by the house instead of by the
speaker, and, better still, each party
selected it's members of the commit
tee. This establishes an important
precedent, which, if followed, will
make Investigations real and effec-
tive.
II notice, also, that we seem like
ly to win victory against the meat
trust. Monopoly prices at last have
provoked popular protest and now
that the people are looking for rem
edy there is hope that they will ac-
cept the Democratic party. 1t is not
unnatural that they should use the
boycott, even if they punish them
selves while they are inflicting pun
ishment on their oppressors; but I
am sure they will, in the end find
legislation more satisfactory than alb
stenance from meat and join the
Democrats in declaring private
monopoly-not the meat trust only,
but every private monopoly-inde-
fensible and intolerable.
But there is another item of
news, which has just come to my
attention. President Taft, in his
Lincoln speech at New York, Febru-
ary -, attributed the present high
prices mainly to the increase in the
production of gold and the conse-
quent enlargement of the volume OF
money. This unexpected indorse-
ment of our party's proposition in
1896, when we demanded more
money as the only remedy fer fail
ing prices, is very gratifying. How
valuable that admission would have
been to us if had been made during
the campaign of that year when the
Republican leaders were denying
that the volume of money had any
influence on prices, and asserting
that it did not matter whether we
had much or little, provided it was
all good
,"We may now consider the guam
tative theory of money established
beyond dispute and proceed to the
consideration of other questions. But
the president and his predecessor
admitted the correctness of the Dem
ocratic position on so many queS-
tions that further argument is hardly
necessary on any subject, we may
now take judgement against the Re.
publican party by confession.
please present my compliments
to the Democrats assembled in mem
ory of the Sage of Monticello.
take for granted that your gathering
will not adjurn without the adoption
of resolution urging the ratifica
ton by all the States Of the income
tax amendment to the federal con