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Show BRYAN'S INCONSISTENCY. HE DISTINGUISHES BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD MONOPOLIES AO' CORDING AS HIS FRIENDS ARE OR ARE NOT INTERESTED IN TIIEM-ICE TRUST A "LOCAL A FFAIR," HE SAYS. Bryan says that those who attempt to divide private monopolies into good monopolies and bad monopolies will never make any progress towards the overthrow of trusts. But Bryan does not say a word against any monopoly, however criminal, WHEN HIS FRIENDS ARE IN IT. He says the Ice Trust is "A LOCAL AFFAIR." THIS IS NOT TRUE. The company transacts a wholesale and retail business in the city of Greater New York, New York.; in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; in Baltimore, Maryland; in Washington, District of Columbia; in Camden, New Jersey; in Lakewood, New Jersey, and at Atlantic City, New Jersey. The trust, therefore, having its home in New Jersey, the business it transacts trans-acts can be local only in Camden, Lakewood and Atlantic City. It cannot be local in Greater New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, Wash-ington, where it transacts an interstate wholesale and retail business. Its interstate docks and plants in Maine, New York, Maryland and District of Columbia are not localized in New Jersey. ' 1 'To say that The Ice Trust is a local affair is a lie made out of w hole cloth. If Mr. Bryan wants pr6of of this, he can find it in the following portion of the official report of the American Ice Company to the New York Stock Exchange Ex-change at the time its directors applied for the listing of $12,440,000 preferred stock and $22,939,100 common stock to the dealings of that exchange. (For convenient reference we would refer Mr. Bryan to the report in full on paga ' 793, volume 69 of the Commercial and Financial Chronicle.) "Incorporated iu New Jersey on March 11, 1899. "Plants and their location: (a) 11 .docks situated in Greater New York; 2 ice manufactories situated in Greater New York; (b) plants for housing ice, situated on the Hudson river; (c) 4 docks, situated in the city of Washington, D. C; 2 sales depots; 1 ice house on the Potomac river; (d) 1 plant at Prince George county, Maryland; (e) 3 plants for housing ice, situated on the Kennebec Kenne-bec river; 1 plant for housing ice at Booth Bay, Maine." The favoritism and protection extended by Emperor Dick Croker of Greater New Y'ork to the Ice Trust has been shown in the granting of valuable dockage privileges which no competing ice concern can get Two of Croker's dock commissioners, J. Sergeant Cram and Charles F. Murphy, were on the recently published list of stockholders. The Ice Trust was given valuable contracts with the city of New York, through the official aid and consent of Croker, Mayor Van Wyck and others, interested stockholders. ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDS THE FOLLOWING WERE SOME OF THE LEADING DEMOCRATIC STOCKHOLDERS A FEW WEEKS AGO: MAYOR ROBERT A. VAN WYCK, $525,000; RICHARD RICH-ARD CROKER, $100,000; HUGH MCLAUGHLIN, $30,000; CORPORATION COUNSEL JOHN WHALEN, $50,000; JOHN F. CARROLL, $467,000; AUGUSTUS AU-GUSTUS VAN WYCK, WRITER OF THE ANTI-TRUST PLANK OF THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM, $175,000; F. A. CROKER, $3,000; E. D. CROKER, $3,500; L. J. CROKER, $1,000; E. R. CARROLL, $10,000. At the Chicago Trust Conference, September 16, 1S99, Bryan said: "I want to start with the declaration that a monopoly in private "hands is indefensible from any standpoint, and intolerable. I make no exceptions to the rule." NOW LET MR. BRYAN DENOUNCE THE DEMOCRATIC ICE TRUST. |