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Show Raps Bryan; f Assails Steel Trust's Greed Tillman Says Commoner Is Obsess- cd; Llk,eni Roosevelt to Giant In "Mother Goose" Washington, Dec. 13. Declaring Wllllnm J. Ilrynn simply obsessed and Theodore Hoosovelt the giant in Mother (loose. Chairman Tillman of tho nnal commtttoe addressed tho Senate today on national dofenso and aBsnlk'd what ho characterized as tho gieed of private manufacturers of war mateilals. "The iU08tlou of preparedness requires re-quires grave consideration nnd prompt nctlon," said Senator Till mnn. "There nro all sorts of opln Ions and advice from nil quarters good, bad and not on y unwise, but unthlnkublo of adoption except by-wild by-wild men from llorneo." "Mr Hrynn, tho evangel ot pence at nny price, Is blttoily opposed to any nnd all Increase. He seems to bo simply obsessed on this subject and has lost his usual poise. Ex-l'rosl dent Hoosovelt on tho other hand who snorts nnd roars llko a vcrlta-bio vcrlta-bio bull of Haslian, poses ns tho god of wnr and clamors for a ery largo standing army and great reserves. Ho reminds ono of tho glnnt in Mother Mo-ther Gooso: "Fe, fl, fo, fnm, "I smell tho blood of n German man. "Ho he nllvo or bo ho dead, "I'll grind his bones to mako my bread." Tho senator snld ho realized tho necessity for a greater army, but that .the navy, our llrst lino of defense, de-fense, should como first. "Wo havo an armor trust now," he continued, just ns wo have had all a'ong, nnd It is doing business at tho same old stnnds nethlehcm, Came-gin, Came-gin, Midvnlle. "Tno Congress hns npproprlntod enough money, but It hns been squandered, squan-dered, misappropriated or spent unwisely." un-wisely." Concluding Senntor Tlllmnn mndo a plea for prompt nctlon on his nr-mor' nr-mor' pmto bill. "Nothing but brazen effrontery nnd unbridled greed, nlded by olllclnl corruption cor-ruption In Washington, enn delay tho passage of this bill, and I hopo that It will becomo law lnsido of thirty days," ho said. |