Show SECRETARY SHAW ANSWERS DRY BRYAN AN Shows Show Fallacies of Neb Nebraskans Nebraskan's Nebraskans Nebraskan's askan's as- as kans kan's M Madison dison Square Garden Speech HOW V TO CONTROL TRUSTS The Chimerical nl Via Plans lS Suggested 1 h by Br an Offer No 0 iti Solution of ir lie tho Problem Sa Says s 's Shau Sla Memphis r Tenn Tean Sept Secre lC-Secre- Secre Secretary tar tary Shaw made nade an answer on behalf of or tho Republican J pall party to the Madi- Madi son aon ln Square Garden speech pech of ot William J J. J Bryan shortly after anel his huis landing at atlie atthe the lie Lyceum th theatre atle In this c city to tonight to- to night night At the same MIe time Mr I. I Shaw concluded his short holl campal In Tennessee Ten fon lesee and late tonight len left for or Missouri Mis ng- ng whore where he lie begins a. a tour of f vote vote- getting on Mon Monday n About one and Democrats rom from Memphis west vest Tennessee c Arkansas anti and Mississippi ennes 1 heard lh the speech He lIe was introduced by Harry B. B Anderson Republican c cun candidate for congress and anda a was ten ten- tiered deret an ovation o Shaw arrived In carl early this morning and re received re- re ed cel a remarkable demon demonstration from the business s men of the cH city He lie was wa ertl a public reception on the floor foor of the cotton coton exchange and amid a n breakfast of eleven eie courses at atthe atthe the tho Count Country club Tho The balance balanco of the day ilay was spent pent in political conferences While hiie Mr MI Shaw was In Tennessee orl In the interests of or r the Republican He- He publican state tate ticket he n never ver mentioned men men- tInned Ih the name of or IL H. Cia Clay Evans Evan candidate for fOI governor or oi ary any j y other candidate ut Slate State Republicans are ure at a n 10 loss los to account Co for I this but Shaw de declares de- de dares clares party principles are ale so 80 great itis it i is 19 3 beneath him to speak of men Mr haw spoke In part as follows I For or some time mimi U Jt I has been well nigh nigh wel-nigh universally nH conceded that the time Democratic Demo Demo- Orally cratic standard bearer for Cor 1908 lW is h as ng asgood asgood good goot n na as IH named For months hits his every movement ha has haH boon ben promptly chronicled chroni cled clel mind and the time date 0 ot or his r return turn was wan wide widely Which advertised No private citizen vcr was given gion so cordial a a welcome or evem VII received such Much nn on ovation as was WIS accorded William llam lr Bryan n ed editor editor el ed- ed Hor fanner ormer rind and politician at nl lh tt ot or New York ork un t 1 h 1 ln O ton I Jt iId h is on n Inn IO I ri JL I L- L ur Ul lf f c b Vh hl hla nc a watch telf 1 l f J ivich l wt lund hod be hc n tf Is 18 now cd ad d as Ut the time kr key note not not rIot only of or tho th nt congressional but hut of oC that larger campaign two years emr hence I did lid not have tho th pleasure of oC Ing to the the hue speech but I 1 liner have read it I. I In his Madison Square Garden speech I easily recognized our friend of or 1896 15 without t t a single IGle subtraction and with several On additions Ho lie le still Hll favors or bimetallism which ii la In hits his hit vocabulary means th the tree free Cre and ant un aim unlimited un- un limited coinage of or silver at the time ruth ratio of oC sixteen to 10 one ant with goll gold The rho use of oC both gold und timid sliver In Ia tU sufficient t to 10 supply every vcr public need every lery demand the the parity and amid exchangeability ex cx x- x changeability of ot the latter hatter safeguarded safeS safe gu guarded by wise and ant sufficient legislation legis legis- lation does docs not satisfy tho lie twice de dt defeated dt- dt laton candidate upon a n paramount is issue Is- Is sue suo SiO selected yes dictated b by hll- hll hurt him se self elf If t of tf Irl roc I It I Is axiomatic that a n coin which the Government Go coins in unlimited ted quantity quan Lit lt and without expense to the owner owner ow ow- ner of time the metal of oC which It I Is mode mote will ivIll bo worth exactly tIme the same as aM tIme the material wi consumed This Is true of ot gold old coins coln und timid free und and unlimited coinage of oC an any other oilier metal would have ha the same effect on Oil coins oln m mule made as taught b by Mr Bryan would ruin every business between the time theseas seas and ant Its Is ever effect on labor would woul be bemore lc more baneful still Mr Bryan Bran was reported to lo have said saidon on oa 11 huts his hl return from a 0 previous pre trip 01 abroad that hn lie had obtained one now idea during his His Ills re recent recent rt- rt re- re cent search evidently Ident has been leen more fruitful of results He lie even en boasts of having searched Japan antI and every ery other othel la country countr visited b by him for Cor something to to bring back for tor or incorporation either enactment enact enact- hub Into organic law lai or legislative c ment mont or for COl introduction into time the habIs habits hab hab- its amud customs of or our people Is He lie thinks our Constitution should be beso beso le leso soon soomi so amended as to convene COn congress after election In hi Imitation of or England Englund lit lie J Il thinks the founders of ot the time 00 Gov- Gov made a mistake In placing the election of United States senators In u a I responsible electon oath-bound oath body hoty and that It should be he transferred to t an unfettered l I and und political c con COI- COI To accomplish this he hc would again amend nd the Constitution From time tho Turk the the Bulgarian the Servian tit the Hungarian and amid th Austrian Austrian Aus Aus- Ser h Incorporate trian he lie bring back and of or this lila Into the time settled d policy porte ett of ownership country go government t trunk lines s of or railway Some of oC us who still see eO elements ments of oC good rood In what tIme the Fathers sti f conceived concel and somewhat to civilization as exemplified preserve in lii our OU cl tied fied In the time habits and und cu customs toS of our people C t and who are ore therefore styled conservatives are disposed to l congratulate ourselves that the time great promulgator permit the tIme Institution gator of oC Innovations mutton of or marriage to remain unus- unus saied Still Sti Colonel Colon 1 Bryan Bran gives I e notice that thol there are ure several other subjects to which he lie expects to address s hll himself 1 at an earl early date HUlk ou un the lit H. H Of or this four COUI columns out of a mire are devoted to trusts hi In total seven e Ic which term In iii Its I comprehensive e sense he Iw includes railroad and even e the protective pi elective tariff DI Dismissing three and aid one half columns of or sympathy math expressed expressed ex ex- pressed ant for or a n corporation pea poo- pie ph- and of oC anathemas hurled a against predatory predator capital and confining myself column wherein to 10 time the scant cant one half he men mentions rather than luau discusses discusser Lons thud find this sentence m measures of oC relief I 1 rele We Ve must not hot lot quarrel over o er remedies He lIe then suggests that something ma may maybe mayLe le of or be Le expected from tho time enforcement le the Lime criminal provisions of or time the Sherman trust anti law While hillo 1110 the effect ceet of oC u a I ant criminal conviction con followed b by Im tin- 11 I I Is II always wholesome It I Is w well tehi J for fOl us to analyze tIme the tl practicability remember It ity LY of oC proposed remedies to of or the time antitrust anti that the thc civil cIvi provisions pro law be established and amid en enforced enforced en- en trust can cun evidence evi evi- of forced b by o a u more preponderance dence lence while no punishment for crime can amu be imposed until the time essential fuels facts beyond be be- constituting tho tIme crime aru proven cn yond a n reasonable doubt n a as found Count and amid ont Tho TIme of or returned In II the time verdict a u Jur Jury difficulty In enforcing the tho Lw Sh irman act tel does not 1 lie so much in lit applying Its ls ts provisions after a ca cl case t has hns been beel Continued on Ninth Page SECRETARY SHAW ANSWERS BRYAN Continued From Pago Pt o One proven as ns In obtaining evidence stiff I dent clent to prove n a- case Sir Mr Bryan then reverts rC to tu the Demo Demo- platform of or 1 Ir 70 an and announces announce as a n still more moll reaching fur remedy dy n a law requiring corporations to tu take tak takeout out a federal license e before engaging In Interstate commerce aril and adds hIt that tha this 1 remedy meil Is simply an and easily ap HII- plied piled lIe He Curt further her says It 11 Is far easier to prevent ent a monopoly monopoly oly 01 than thun to watch It un and punish It It an anthis and this prevention pro can be shell accomplished In a practical wa way by 11 refusing a license to any corporation which controls more inor limn a certain proportion of the total tota product ro this proportion n to tu be arbitrarIly II My Ily f fixed 1 at a a. point which will give 11 free e operation to In competition Thus he has hns found Cound a remedy which li he asserts Is simple curd and easily applied and one that will accomplish the th prevention pre pre- of monopoly He lie spurns the thought of controlling curbing or restraining retraining re re- re- re training straining the lie evil but proposes propose b by a single enactment absolutely to exterminate uxter- uxter minate the lie last suggestion of ravage on on the part of oC pre predatory capital Wil VIII hits his panacea stand analysis Let Lot us see sec A lc Some years ago my attention was vas called to what Was as then at nt least sup- sup supposed supposed posed to be the salt trust Whether I Ivus Iwas Iwas was rightly informed or not affects In Inno Inno inno no degree e tho the value of the alleged allege conditions conditions con con- as ns an Illustration 1 I was tol tola told tolda a corporation of large lorge capitalization md hat contracted for Cor the entire output of ol nil all the salt milt works of or 1 Michigan an nn and of ol all the salt snit Works of New York and aull of all the lIw salt sail works of or every cry other state late 1 assume that If a corporation thus owning or controlling an entire product should mal make c application for a federal license under Mr tr Bryans Bryan's sure law w wIt It would woul be ht promptly denied If JC re refused refused re- re fused Cuse a license of course It could not engl engage C in Interstate commerce and could rould not thereafter ship salt alt to Tennessee Ten Ten- But the tho people of or Tennessee would still neel need salt What would woul you Jo 10 What hat could you do llo Let me sug sug- gest that possibly Jones or some one else could be Induced to buy a 1 carload carloa C deliverable at of or the or 01 so one warehouses warehouses warehouses ware ware- houses of tho trust situated at someone sonic some one of the salt works Jones of course could ship salt to Tennessee for no individual In Individual In- In can cnn be bc discriminated against simply pimply because baus he buys salt of a trust The result would be that the people of or Tennessee would get Jet the same salt with this difference slight thou though h it might be bc of oC an a additional profit to Jones Tho rho danger would be that Jones being the th only on I man with a carload carload car car- load of salt in the state stale might turn predatory capitalist himself and demand de lle- demand mand an unusually large profit This danger would be Increased If he should secure an exclusive contract from Crom the trust Let Iet us hope for Cor the best hest Xo No Cure I. Not every avenue of evil In this life can be closed b by legislation Israel suffered suffered suffered suf suf- seriously for having ha worshipped a rol golden en calf while Moses was receiving receiving re re- re- re cel divine dl commandments I do donot donot o not know that we are arc In la danger angel of making statute law the flue object of our Idolatry or of substituting penal codes for or the plait plain teachings of oC morality but butI I do lo know that In it spite of legislation and In the face nce of oC penal codes abuses a arise and crimes are arc committed They In the are discovered sometimes sometime even on mall mail service an and sometimes In the management management man mut- of or banks Postmasters occasionally occasionally occa occa- default mall mail carriers now and nd then commit larceny and some ome bank officials prove Inefficient and antI others dishonest This will always be so So long as ns private business and public affairs affairs af af- af- af fairs remain In lu the hands of or men possessed poss possessed pos pos- s of or human propensities rind And weaknesses to human ties sin In and und wickedness will manifest themselves Meanwhile let us maintain a n r representative form of or government encourage c Individualism keep the way wa open opi-ii for men to embark In tiny any ami null er c every lc legitimate business sanely lan and conservatively Improve tho the laws we Wl have o strengthening them wherever practicable an and simplifying the machInery machinery machinery mach mach- by which tho they thoy are arc operated ItIs It ItIs Is the appropriate function of or the government gov ov government to safeguard the tho Individual and to 0 see sec that the tho game same of oC business Is fairly pla played e that the car cards s are arc held helt above the table and antI that everybody e y N Is given iven a square deal It Is not the ap- ap unction function of or the government o nt to sit in the game |