Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1906 — A BAS PRIVATE MONOPOLY [ARTICLE]

A BAS PRIVATE MONOPOLY

That la Rrjran’■ War Ciy Now and He Bay# It Has Been for Year* the Sain>. Trondhjem, Norway, -rune 22.—‘William J. Bryan, who Is here witnessing the coronation festival, taking for his text the statement that he was being described as conservative, said: “I am not responsible for the phrases used in regard to me; but I am responsible for my position on public questions. That position ought to be well known. Take the trust question for instance, as it seems uppermost just now, My posjfion is that private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable. That was the Democratic platform in 1900 and the plank was incorporated in 1904 and it is the only tenable position. “There is some talk of controlling the trusts—you might as well talk of controlling burglary. We do not say men shall only steal a little bit, or In some particular way, but that they shall not steal at all. It is so of j«rivate monopolies. It is not sufficient to control or regulate them they must be absolutely and totally destroyed. Corporations should be controlled and regulated, but private trolled and regulated, but private monopolies must be exterminated root and branch.”