Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1906 — RAISES ANTI-TRUST WAR CRY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RAISES ANTI-TRUST WAR CRY.

PMllltg OwHWihtji of RttHraa.il* and. *. End of 'l'kHll KHVIISgt*. William Jennings Bryan, American citizen, formally welcomed home from his world wanderings by a miglity coneourse “of Tin? fellow countrymen amid the spectacular settings of Madison Square Garden ’Thursday night, buried his crass of gold in a sea of tumultuons applause afid cheering and struck out to lead Democracy in a hew battle with a nqw paramount issue. "Bryan, the former silver advocate at the ratio of 16 to i, is now Bryan the trust-breaker. The annihilation, not the mere restraint of the trusts, is his battle cry for 1908. The money question, he declared, has been removed wfrom -tlie field of political controversy by changes in conditions since 1890 and 1900. The gold men, he proclaimed, have won their point in retaining gold as the standard of monetary value, and the bimetallists have gained the contention for enlarged monetary circulation. They break even, says William J. Bryan—now for the slaughter of the petopi. Into the trust the foremost leader of the Democratic forces of today bracketed the tariff, with a demand for revision; socialism, with a declaration that Socialists are wrong in their logic, but to be reasoned with and not denounced; government ownership and operation of railroads, with a proclamation that permanent relief from present evils must be reached ultimately through this means, adding the admission that-perhaps public sentiment is not yet ready for this radical application of paternalism. Outside of its political features the welcome extended ta+Mr. Bryan Thursday niglit and the ovation that greeted him, a mere private citizen, from the time he set foot on Manhattan Isle in tlie afternoon until he left Madison Square Garden late at night, will stand out in history as something remark-’ able. There may have been greater demonstrations in New York over men. There may have been bigger crowds and louder cheers. But there never

has been the exact parallel of this event In honor of a man who holds no office: is the hero of no war—on the contrary, a champion of world arbitration and world peace—and who alone arises a giant figure In the nation’s polities midway between the years of national (election and the foreordainedstandard bearer In the next great contest. In his speech at Madison Squa.e Garden, after advocating an Anglo-American treaty for arbitration and indorsing the T>fXgO "doctrine forbidding the eolTee*ion of private debts by armaments of war. Mr. Bryan declared that the ownership of the Philippines renders American principles a laughing stock in the eyes of the world and denies the IVclaratron of Independence ; demanded that Congress b. made more responsive to the will of thr people by the immediate seating of Representatives and popular election of Sen ruors, calling the Senate as at presen constituted a “bulwark of wealth.” He

layoi>il an iaeoihfr. tax, announced that arbitration' off Jabor disputes ifL'llMßlf rive, and ueuoimcufl government by injunction. Tm-n lie proclaimed that “free silver” is no longer an issue, because the contention of the Democratic party In 1896 has been “proven :. lie demanded the refusal by the' Democratic party of corporation contributions; he congratulated Roosevelt on his democratic principles, and defined a “mist" as a price fixer; - The question of trusts he declared to be the paramount issue. Closely allied with this, lie asserted, is the tariff question. The import “tax be declared to be the root o¥ all corruption in national politics. Government ownership of railroads was declared to be inevitable, though possibly not immediate. He proposed dual ownership. the nation to own trunk lines, with tilt States operating branch lines. On this question he dwelt at length. Closing, he indulged in a flight of oratory like that which in earlier days made him known as the “Boy Orator of tha Platte,” and concluded by quoting a stanza from Robert Burns’ “Cotter’s Saturday Night.” Thus ended Mr. Bryan’s first public reception since his arrival.from Europe. Other receptions were to follow on his way westward.

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.