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Show BRYAN IN CONNECTICUT. Tie Delivers an Address to Large Audience Au-dience at Stamford. Stamford, Conn., Jan. 24. W. J. Bryan Bry-an arrived here from New York at 10:55, and addressed an audience of over 1.C00 people at the town hall. "I believe," said Mr. Bryan, "that lthe tendency of the Republican party is to exalt wealth and to debase common com-mon humanity. The dollar is plainly stamped upon the Republican policy, and there is no policy of the Republicans Repub-licans today that does not bear that stam." He went on to say that the Republican Repub-lican party is not applying today the j principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence. "That principle applied to taxation would mean that every man would bear his just share of the burden of taxation, but now an unjust proportion of that burden is placed upon the ixior. "The Republican party is trying to fasten upon the country a system of taxation made by financiers for their own benefit. When the doctrine of favoritism fa-voritism is once started, it cannot be stayed. To fasten upon the country the gold standard means that it Will be affected af-fected by every change in Europe." Mr. Bryan explained his plan for the regulation of trusts under a law of the general government. He averted that the Republican party had no desire to kill the trusts which were the "hens that laid the golden eggs for that party." Mr. Bryan questioned the right of the government to rule the Philippines Philip-pines by force, and said the title it obtained ob-tained to the islands was a title to the land, not to the people. At the conclusion conclu-sion of his speech, Mr. Bryan boarded the train for Ne.v Haven. |
