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Show BRYAN' TRUST DISTINCTIONS. "I want to start with the declaration that a monopoly in private hands is indefensible from any standpoint, and intolerable. I MAKE NO EXCEPTIONS EXCEP-TIONS to TO THE RULE." W. J. Bryan at Chicago Trust Conference, September Sep-tember 10, 1S99. national starch company "i glory in the courage of ti11i Attorney general to come to otoe county to drive this out of your community." W. J. Bryan spoke thus in a speech at Nebraska City, September 20, 1900, with reference to the action instituted by Attorney Genera! Smyth against the National Starch Company, to prevent it from doing business in Nebraska. This concern is owned by citizens of Nebraska City,- who have done much for the upholding of Nebraska's industries, and who have also donated libraries and public parks. But several of them, gold Democrats, like J. Sterling Morton, secretary of agriculture under Cleveland and the founder of "Arbor Day," have also incurred in-curred the bitter personal enmity of Bryan on account of their opposition to free silver. The company pays good wages to 250 people, and practically supports the-town the-town of Nebraska City. During the last ten years it has paid ?2,OOO,O0O to-farmers to-farmers in the neighborhood for corn. It has made a world-wide market for a Nebraska product. It has never done anything in restraint of trade. PROGRESS OF THE TRUST DISCRIMINATION. After leaving to his attorney general the work in which he himself glories, of driving out of Nebraska a concern which employs labor, aud in which his political enemies are financially interested, and overlooking the SILVER SMELTING TRUST of Omaha, Bryan continues his PROGRESS TOWARDS TIIE OVERTHROW OF TRUSTS by traveling eastward to the headquarters of the "Money Tower" in New York, where, sublimely conscious that THE ICE TRUST IS RIGHT THERE THAT HE SAYS IS A "LOCAL AFFAIR," HE PLANS TO TALK AT MADISON SQUARE on the same platform with "EMPEROR DICK" CROKER, LEADING-STOCKHOLDER LEADING-STOCKHOLDER IN TIIE ICE TRUST, at a meeting to be presided over by EDWARI) M. SHEPARD, WHO DREW THE ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION INCORPO-RATION FOR THE SUGAR TRUST, AND WHOSE ENTIRE TIME FROM ONE YEAR'S END TO THE OTHER IS ABBSORBED IN GIVING LEGAL ADVICE TO THAT NOTORIOUS MONOPOLY. CONSISTENCY MAY BE GOLDEN. IF SO. INCONSISTENCY CRIMINAL CRIM-INAL INCONSITENCY IS SILVER AND BRYAN. |