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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, 'APRIi; 6, 1900.
BRYAN IS WELCOMED
(Continued from First Pare.)
ent secretaries has to get out of tbe Pres
ident's household In order to give expres
sion to his views. These are some of the
changes, the lightning changes that the
thlck-and-thln Republican has to BO
through. Is It not strange that men can
become so wrapped up In partisanship;
can become so tied to a party organlza
tlon that they -will do anything the party
asks no matter what It is?
Lincoln' Income Tax.
I have run over these briefly. Let me
go back and"take up some of these ques
tions in detail. I told you that Abraham
Lincoln signed a bill providing for an
Income tax. It was a plain income tax:
It was a graded income tax. heaviest
upon the largest Income, lighter upon
smaller Incomes, and yet when we advo
cate an income tax the Republicans call
us anarchists. "Why? Because the Re
publican party has to changed that It
has to net a new definition for every
thing It talks about. And today, accord
ing to the Republican definition, that man
Is a patriot whose ear is tuned to catch
the slightest pulsation of the pocket
book, and Tie is a demagogue who dares
to listen to tho beating of humanity.
(Applause.)
When we were securing the passage of
the income-tax bill, a New Tork Demo
crat said: "If tho Democratic party
favors an income tax, the rich Demo
crats will leave the party." I had known
rich Democrats, and I said they would
do no such thing, but I did not know
the rich Democrats then as well as I
have since. "But." I said, "suppose they
do leave the party, won't the poor Re
publicans come to take their places?"
I thought they would, but I did not know
the poor Republicans then as well as I
lid afterward. (Laughter.) I thought
when the poor Republican saw the rich
Democrat rushing out of the party, in
order to evade a Just law, that the poor
Republican would rush into the party. I
thought he would get some good sense.
Many poor Republicans, and rich ones,
too, hurrah, hurrah for anything, no mat
ter what It is.
Contradiction.
I went over to Iowa to hear a great
Republican make a speech. I wanted to
hear the best that could be said on the
other side. It was Autumn, and some
Republican farmers were there with corn
stalk canes: and whenever anything was
said they liked they raised their cornstalk
dines and hurrahed. And I remember an
argument like this: The speaker went on
to explain that the Republican party had
put a tariff on wool for the benefit of the
farmer, in order to raise the price of wool:
and those Republican farmers raised their
cornstalk canes and hurrahed for a tariff
on wool to ralso the price of wool. (Laugh
ter and applause.) And then the speaker
proceeded to say that the Republican
party had put a tariff on woolen goods
also for the benefit of the farmer. In order
to lower the price of woolen goods. And
they raised thelr cornstalk canes and hur
rahed for a tariff on woolen goods.
(Laughter and applause.)
They thought that they had found a
law that would catch them a-com!n
and a-gwine." They thought they would
find a law that would raise the price of
wool and lower the price of the goods
made out of wool, at tho same time. And
I have heard Just such contradictions
made, and have seen just such contra
dictions pleaded by Republicans on the
money question.
I have heard a Republican speaker de
clare that under free coinage the Gov
ernment would permit a man to take 60
cents' worth of silver to the mint and
convert It into a dollar and make the
difference; and then I have heard the
same 'speaker say that the Government
could not add anything to the value of
metal by law, and that under free coinage
the Government would simply convert a
0-cent piece of silver into a 50-cent dol
lar, and the man would not mako a cent.
(Applause and laughter.) )
You have no doubt heard the same ar
guments. "When a Republican gets
through he has usually answered In the
last part of his speech what ho said in
the first part. .
But If you could not see what an income
tax was In 135, you have had a chance to
see since. When the war tame on we
.needed more revenue, and we could not
get the revenue taxing Incomes because
of that decision, and the Republican par
ty, instead of amending the Constitution
so an Income tax would stand, looked
around for something to put a stamp on.
Tou .find the stamps every day. Send a
telegram and you will find you have to
pay the regular rate and then 1 cent for
each telegram besides as a war tax. Why
does the telegraph company not pay it?
Because the law was so made that the
telegraph company could shift the burden
over on to the man that sent tho tele
gram. Why was it so made? Because the
Republican party made the law (laughter),
because the telegraph companies have
more influence with the Republican party
than all tho poor Republicans that vote
the ticket and hurrah, for anything that
is in the platform. (Laughter.)
I had this tax brought to my notice
not long ago In Iowa. They cams around
to collect 30 cents for fare in the chair
car. I wondered why 30 cents, and. on
inquiring, they said It was a quarter until
this tax was put on; then, with the ex
tra 1 cent tax, they raised the fare to 30
cents, so that they got their money back
from the passenger, the 1 cent collected
for the Government, and 4 cents for col
lecting it.
The Dollar Above the Man.
Tou will find that whenever the Repub
lican party makes a law. it makes It for
the bsneflt of the corporation, and allows
a loophole by which It can transfer it to
somebody else. (Applause.) Why? Be
cause corporate interests control the Re.
publican partr today. But if you could
rot see into the income tax of 1ES5, you
have had a chance to learn about it. since
one of the Republican Judges of the Su
preme Court, in a dissenting opinion, said:
"I fear thmt in come hour of National
peril, this decision will rls up to paralyze
the arm of the Government." The hour
of peril came, and then the people saw
that this Government-Is unlimited when
It dea's with- the citizen, limited when it
deals with property. In an hour of peril
the Government can draft a man, but
cannot draft a pockctbook. In an hour
of peril the Government can take the son
from the mother, the husband from the
wife, the father from the chl'd, and stand
them tip In front of an enemy's guns, but
in an hour of peril this Government can
not lay Its hand upon unlimited wealth
and make that wealth bear its share of
the expcns-8 of Government, because the
Republican party has put the dollar above
the man, and made money out of It. (Ap
plause.) Not only on the tax question, but on the
money question alsa, has the Republican
party put the dollar above the man. Why,
when Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to
tho Republicans of Boston, who were cele
brating Jefferson's birthday. In lf5J the.
.Republicans of Boton celebrating Jeffer-"
eon's Birthday! Have you known them to
celebrftteJcffexson's birthday lately? Why,
they have 'about quit celebrating Lincoln's
birthday! Y6and Washington's!
(Laughter.) He said: "The Republican
party believes in the man and the dollar,"
and he said: "But in case of conflict, it
believes in the man before" the dollar."
That wao Lincoln's doctrine; it ran
through every speech he made. I assert
.that today the Republican party has re
versed that doctrine: that today it puts
the dollar first and the man afterward, if'
at all; and if you cannot see It In the ab
stract, let me present It to you In the
concrete. Sometimes people can eee things
pcrscnlfled, when they cannot discover
them as near principles.
Lincoln to Mart ITanna.
Lincoln represented Republicanism In his
4ay. Hanna represents Republicanism to.
tajr. And If you want to cc Use differ
ence b:twecn Republicanism in the days
of Lincoln and Republicanism today, com
pare Lincoln, who represented the ideals
and the hopes of the Republican party
tnen, ana Hanna. who represents the
ideals and hopes of the Republican party
today. I wish I were skilled whh a cray
on. I would carry a blackbcard with me,
and I would draw on that blackboard a
picture of Abraham Lincoln and put him
on one end of the Republican party, and I
would draw a picture of Mark Hanna and
put him at the other end, and then I
would ask ycu Repub leans to look at the
toboggan slide that leads from Lincoln
down to Hanna! (Applause and laugh
ter.) One of the last things that Lincoln said
was when he spoko to Schuyler Colfax
and toid him to take a message to the
miners of the West. He said: "We know
now what the debt Is going to be," and he
mW: "Every dollar of gold and silver
brought from the mines makes the debt
that much easier to pay." Lincoln want
ed to Increase the quanUty of money
in order to make the debt easier
to pay. The Republican Congress now in
session has naased a hill lmrndMi in re i
duce the quantity of legal-tender money. I
in oroer to make its debts harder to pay.
(Applause.) What is the difference? (Ap
plause.) Lincoln spoke for the man who
had to pay the debts. Hanna speaks for
the men who hold the bonds and mort
gages and want the dollars to grow dear
while the people are robbed of their earn
ings. (Aplause.)
Declares Platform of 180C a Fraud.
Republicans, you never fought a battle
for the gold standard In on open field. In
1695 you hid behind the mask of interna
tional bimctallsm. Tou thought you were
going to be able to make a fight after the
election in 1SP6. but you got scared the
other day and you pulled the mask down,
and you now have section If of that cur
rency bill, which provides that the bill is
not Intended to be an obstacle In the way
of international blmetallsm. Republicans!
Tour platform of 1S9C was a fraud, and
most of you, know that It was a fraud.
(Applause.) 'Tour leaders Intended It to
be a fraud. Tour President sent a com
mission to Europe. What did he send
them for If the gold standard was good?
Tour Congress provided money to pay the
expenses of the commission. What did It
do it for if the gold standard was good?
Why. you know how careful the Repub
licans are with Republican money. Do
you think they would spend fiOO.OOO trying
to get rid of a blessing? (Applause.) I
cannot believe it; it would be a slander on
these guardians of a. public treasury. (Ap
plause.) Why did they carefully appro
priate the money if the gold standard was
good? And yet, while your commission
was In Europe, your Secretary of the
Treasury was making gold-standard
speeches in this country, and when Mr.
Wolcott came back from Europe Mr.
Wolcort. a member of the commission
appointed by the President he made a
speech in the Senate and complained that
Secretary Gage had Interfered with the
work of the commission. And not a Re
publican of prominence wept any tears
when the commission failed in Its purpose.
International Blmetallsm.
Tour leaders have never Intended that
you should have the double standard.
They talk about international blmetallsm.
They don't want it, either by independent
action, or by international agreement.
They quibble about 16 to L They would
not have It at any ratio. They are fraud
ulent In their arguments: they are trying
to deceive the people, and then say they
want honest money and sound money.
(Applause.)
Their bill takes one step more towards
the gold standard, but we have not got
to the end of It yet. That bill does not
take away from silver its legal-tender
qualities. When the gold standard Is com
plete the silver dollar will not be a legal
tender In the payment of debts. When
ever you find a gold-standard country, you
find a country where gold alone Is legal
tender. In 1ST! the goldbugs took the
legal tender from the silver dollar In this
country. It was restored In 1S7S. but It
will be taken away again as eoon as the
Republican party thinks it is safe. It Is
just giving it a little time. That reminds
me of a story.
I heard of a physician In Iowa who was
called to treat a child. It grew worse and
worse, and finally Its life was despaired
of. And the doctor told tho mother that
nothing more could be done; that she
could simply give the child a little water If
it was restless, and await the end. She l
watched the child through the night, and
she thought In the morning it was better:
she watched It through the day, and in
the evening it seemed stronger; she.
Hatched It through another nlsht and
still she felt encouraged. .And the second
morning the doctor came to inquire why
he hod not been notified of the child's
death. The mother told him the child was
improving. He examined the child, and
said it was; and left her with the assur
ance that if it continued to Improve in the
next 35 hours as It had during the last 36
hours it would bo strong enough to take
some more medicine. (Laughter and ap
plause.) That bill does not take nway
from sliver dollars their Ie-al-tender qual
ities. The Republican party Is Just giving us
a dose of time, and when the patient gets
over the present dose, we will get the
next one.
AVants an American Policy.
But when the gold standard is com
plete, tho silver dollar will no't be a legal
tender. When the gold standard Is com
plete, gold alone will be legal tender, and
every dollar of the J3,(00.000,000 or $30.
000,000.000 of debt will be payable In gold
alone. Within a week after the passage
of that bill, a panic occurred in New Tork.
What caused It? A panic In London,
also. "What caused it? The reverses of
the English in South Africa. And then
the Ameiican people began to ask them
selves, if this Is the result when England
Is fighting a handful of Boers, what will
be the result If she ever takes a. nation
of her size and gets Into a war with her
(Applause.) What will be the result if
England and Germany or England and
Fir.nct or England and Russia ever en
gage in war? Do you dare to build a
financial system upon that narrow baso
of geld?
Why, whenever there is a disturbance
in the gold-standard countries they will
draw on our gold. And then when that
gold is drawn out, interest will rise and
buslce5 men will be bankrupted, prices
will fall end producers will be distressed,
factories will be closed and hungry men
will walk the streets, and the only people
who will profit will be the" money chang
ers, who will find an opportunity in the
Nation's extremity. Tou tell me that that
Is a safe system? I deny it. I want an
American policy, an American system
built on gold and silver, both, and then
we can live and flourish, no matter what
the land-grabbing nations of the 6ld
World may be doing among themselves.
More Money Xecilrd.
I am not willing to chain this nation to
every disturbance in Europe; and yet
you gold-bugs are now making argu
ments that you never though: of until
after the election. Tou are saying now
that we have more money because of the
gold discoveries, and don't need silver. Go
back to your arguments of 1S9C. Tou
never promised to discover more gold.
Tou never expected it. (Applause.) Ton
said we had gold enough, and yet to hear
Republicans talk today, you would im
agine they had a plank In their platform
promising to discover gold In British
possessions in the Klondike. (Applause.)
We have $300,000,000 more gold In this
country today than we had In 1ESS. and yet
the Republicans neither promised It nor
expected it And yet. Republicans, what
would you be doing now if that had not
come? Contrary to all your expectations,
where would you have been If you had
been left to your Infamous system, and
yet when that happens you seize hold of
It and, claim credit for It as It It was all
part of your plan. (Applause.)
And yet. with all of that Increase, we
have not ariy too much money now. have
we? If any think we would have bad
enough without thts money. I want to tell
you that even after this." when the Con
gress, asked the Secretary of the Treas
ury why It was that he sent hack money
to National banks, without Interest, he
said he had to dJ It, because if he
didn't the currency would be, contracted
and business would be disturbed. Two
hundred million dollars more than we had
In 1S56, and yet necessary to rush money
back to the National banks, without In
terest, the same day, for fear there would
be too little money In the country to do i
business with! (Applause.) J
Xot Ready for Cold Standard. 1
RonnMlrarj; What ! vour nlan for tho
future? Tou say now you are past danger.
I want to tell you that the world is not
yet ready for tho gold standard. More
people use silver alone in this world lhan
use gold alone, and your gold standard
cannot become universal until India uses
gold, and China uses gold, and England,
without consulting the people of India,
has already brought India to the gold
standard, and India has taken her share of
the gold, and these gold nations are try
ing to dlvido China. When they get pa.
session, they will put the gold standard
there. What confidence have ypu, what
promise have you, what assurance have
you that the gold supply will be sufficient
to spread over all the huratn race? I can
tell you, whenever the gold supply gets
"WILLIAM JE5MXGS BIIYAX.
large enough to give the people relief from
the grinding operation of the gold stand
ard, you can tell It, because then tbe
goldbugs will want to demonetize gold and
use diamonds or something that is more
precious. (Applause.)
Do you think that is absurd? Why, firs,
the very men who for S3 years have been
denouncing silver, secured the demoneti
zation ot gold In three nations In Europe
between 1SS0 and 1$G0. They thought gold
was going to be too plentiful, and a mas
like Chevalier wrote books In which he
said it was dishonest to pay the widow and
the orphan in a cheap and unsteady gold
dollar. And Just as soon as there is gold
enough to relieve tho prewure upon the
people, the very men who have been
hounding silver for a quarter of a centur
will turn their batteries against gold.
Why. two years ago I read an article
In the Bankers' Magazine, of London,
which prophesied that If the gold dis
coveries in the Klondike and South. Africa
Increased the supply of gold, it would be
necessary to limit tho coinage of gold by
International agreement, and then tho
man says, "If we do that, of course the
value ot gold bullion will not be equal
to the value of gold coin." "But," he
says, "It Is not our business to keep up
the value of gold."
They are already planning to protect
the money changer from any possible fall
In purchasing power of the dollar, by lim
iting the coinage, but the financiers have
never since time began attempted to pro
tect the producers ct wealth from the
demoralization of falling prices and ris
ing dollars that cat up his substance.
(Applause.)
Currency Dill.
But a word, my friends, in regard to the
currency feature of this new bill. Did
any Republican here ever ask for tho
retirement of the greenbacks? Not unless
he Is connected with a bank or under
thethumb ot a bank. Did any man here
ever ask the Government to form a paper
money trust for an elastic currency issued
by the banks, with the banks holding both
ends of tbe elastic? Not one of you. un
less you are connected with a bank or
under Its thumb. (Applause.) And yet
the Republican party has turned over the
American people to the tender mercies
ot the National Backs, and will allow
them to decide how much money we
shall have or how little. If we are good,
they will give us mere; if we don't be
have, they won't give us so much. How
Pleasant tc bavus guardians who will
take care of us for their own benefit!
Your Republican party has done that very
thing. It didn't dare to mention it In
the campaign of 1SSC Under the pres
ent law, if an ordinary man buys a
Government bond, he could collect interest
on the bond, but he 1b out the use of his
money. But the same law enables the Na
tional bank to buy the same bond, deposit
It with the Treasury Department, get back
the face value in bank notes, and then
draw interest besides. The ordinary man
can eat his cake or Keep It. The Na
tional bank can both cat the cake and
keep It. That Is the difference between
the two. You never asked for It. and yet
you have got to swallow that If you de
fend Republican doctrines. Not a man
in this audience ever asked the Govern
ment to make the National debt perma
nent. No party ever declared for a per
manent National debt, and yet this cur
rency bill contemplates a permanent. In
creasing debt. How can you have per
manent bank notes resting on bonds un
less you have permanent bonds for them
to rest on? Slow can you have nn In
creasing bank note currency without an
increasing bonded indebtedness to form a
basis for your currency?
Increnstair Debt.
In this campaign not one Republican
will stand upon this platform and defend
a permanent and increasing debt, and yet
tbe Republican party has placed upon the
statutes a law that contemplates a per
manent and Increasing debt. Not only
that. Tou people are now laboring under
the burden ot war taxes, and yet that
same bill that Increased the privileges o
National banks, reduced the taxes on bank
circulation from 1 per cent to of 1 per
cent. The men who are not In the bank
ing business have to pay taxes laid on
to carry on the war. The National banks
have the taxes that wens collected beforo
the war began reduced one-half.
I repeat it, the Republican party is ad
ministered In behalf of syndicates, and by
syndicates and for syndicates; and ycu
have got to defend it
Concerning Trnstn.
But my friends, there are some who say
thejr don't like to think about the money
question. They say it is too hard. Well. I
will give you an easy question the trust
question. That's easy, and there Is one
beauty about the trust question;lf you
have not time to go to It, it will come to
you. (Applause.) If you have not time
to think about it, you will have a chance
to feel about It- T met n man wfen T was
riding through Rhode Island the other
day. I had known him In Nebraska. He
sat down by me and began to tell about
his business experience. He said he was
in the rubber business, and he had come !
!nfn fontart xritn th mV.K.r- Irvit. anfl he 1
began to denounce the trust, and as I lls
tened to him, 1 said: "Why. you used to
be a Republican In Nebraska!" "Yes." he
said. "I was; I voted tho Republican ticket
In 1S9C but I know of 00 men among my
personal acquaintances who will vote
against the-Republlcan party this year on
the trust question alone." He had learned
something about the trust by experience,
and I could not help thinking of one of
Solomon's proverbs. I always have to go
DacK to me uioie 11 1 want a ocauuiui ana
apt expression of a great truth, and I
could not help thinking -at one ot Solo-
mon's proverbs: 'The wise man foreseeth
evil and hldcth himself, out the roousn
pass on and aro punished." A great Idea
there a beautiful expression. '(Applause.)
But for fear you may find it difficult to
remember so long a proverb, I will con
dense it; and in its changed form It reads
like this: "The wise man gets the Idea
into his head; the foolish man gets it in
the neflc" (Applause.)
Tou cannot help getting the Idea, but
you have your choice as to" where you will
take it
We had a few trusts In 1ES6. We have
more now. Tou saw a trust every few
days in lSjC Tou see one on every corner
now. I read the other day that they had
formed a milk trust Think ot it! A
milk trust! Ready to meet the. Infant
when he comes into the world! (Applause
and laughter.) And then they have a
coal trust The afternoon paper told about
the consummation of a coal trust to take
care of the adult in the Winter, and we
have an Ice trust to look after his In
terest In the Summer time, and then we
have a coffin trust waiting for him at the
bottom of the hill, when life's fitful fevor
Is over. (Laughter.)
Is there any reason why the Republicans
cannot understand the trust question to
day? Tho trust Is so bad that the Presi
dent had to mention he matter In his last
message. I wish you wojild read that
message. I have condensed the trust part
and It reads like this: "The trust Is bad;
for the life of me. I don't know what
to do about It I hope somebody knows
more than I do. and will suggest some
thing." That Is all there was to It. And
a Republican Congress listened to the
message and proceeded tp create a paper
money trust and that Is all that has been
done on the trust question slnco the mes
sage was drafted. (Applause.)
Scarcity of Lair.
Tou tell a Republican that his party
ought to propose some new law and he
tells you we have a law an the statute
books now. Then you point out a trust
and ask him why his party his Admin
istration does not .enforce the law and
destroy the trust and he says the law
does not quite reach that case. Big law,
when you want a new one; little law,
when you want to use It And I am re
minded of the boy who watched his father
help the plates, and as the father helped
one plate, the boy sas: "What, all that
for grandma?" "No, my son. that Is for
you." "Oh. what a little bit!" (Laughter.)
Mr. Hanna went down into Ohio last
Fall and had a platform written de
nouncing trusts. Then he went out and
made speeches defending trusts. In the
first speech he said that there were no
trusts. In the second speech he said that
the trust was a natural evolution of bus
iness, necessary for tho success of the
manufacturing Interests of tho country,
and then, as If that did not cover the
entire ground, he said: "Don't be afraid
ot the so-called trusts. If they are In
jurious we will take care of them." (Ap
plause.) What a solution! (Applause.)
I used to look up some humorous book
when I wanted light reading, but now
when I want something funny. I read the
speeches that Mr, Hanna makes seriously.
(Laughter.) But I don't like to reflect on
a great man. I feel It my duty to tell you
that that last Idea, "Don't be afraid of
the so-called trusts. If they are Injurious
we will take care of them" that Idea was
stolen from one of Aesop's Fables. A
farmer was building a henhouse to pro
tect his chickens. A fox came along and
said to the farmer: "Don't waste your
time building a henhouse; you go on about
your plowing and leave the chickens to
us foxes: we understand the chicken busi
ness: don't be afraid of the so-called
foxes, we will take care of tho chickens."
(Applause and laughter.)
Think of that defense. First, there are
no trusts: second, they are good; third.
If they are bad, we will take care of them.
It reminds me of the man who was sued
for "borrowing a kettle and cracking It
HO put up three defenses. In the first
plate, he never borrowed the kettle: In
the second place. It was cracked when
he got It; In the third place. It was good
when he took It home.
It Is with Just this kind of Jugglery that
the Republican party expects to deceive
people who suffer from the trusts. When
you go near enough to the trusts to strike
them, you will find behind the trupts all
the great financiers who are behind the
gold standard the men who shouted them
selves hoarse In 1SX denouncing a EC-cent
dollar, when they hold trust certificates
that don't represent S cents on the dollar
for the actual money Invested, and when
you say anything to them they tell you,
"Don't worry about the trusts."
And If you think that you can get any
aid in destroying Industrial trusts by
dropping the money man, let fne tell you
that the only effect would be to bring
lack of confidence in the hearts of those
who arc opposed to the money trusts
without getting any recruits from those
who were against us In 1396. Why. John
J. Mitchell, of the Illinois Trust & Sav
ings Bank, of Chicago, is a good represen
tative of the financiers who favor the gold
standard; and he gave out an interview
some time ago in which he raid that in
the long run the trusts could do no harm.
WTiat a consolation! In the long run the
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vhat i
abmit fne vminir man who starts out ID
business and Is bankrupted by the trust
before the run gets through? What of
the man who Is the victim of extortion
while the run Is In progress? The Stand
ard Oil Company raises the price of oil
3 0r 4 cents a gallon and declares a dlri-
dend of S0.000.O00 on nOO.000.COO of capital,
But don't worry. In the lonr run the trusts
lean ,j0 no harm! The barbed wire trust
raises the price of barbed wire more than
10O per cent and declares a dividend ot
30 per cent on the common stock, and all
you farmers got caught on the barbs when
wire went up. But don't worry. In the
long run the trusts will do no harm! (Ap
plause.) And yet this Is the only consolation
you have. I was passing through a town
In Nebraska last Fall and a horse had
been stolen, and the owner of the horsa
sent tor bloodhounds and put them on
the track of the horse and thief, and
caught them both. Last May Charles R.
Fllnt of the rubber trust went to Boston
and made a speech at a banquet given In
his houor. and the paper the next morning
said that he had defended the trust prin
ciples, nndihat he had a sympathetic audl--nce;
that It was composed almost exclu
sively of Boston bankers.
And then I thought what a difference
In the enforcement of law! There Is a
law making It a penal offence to organize
a trust and a man guilty may be sent to
the penitentiary for a .year. But what a
difference between a horsethlef and the
man who organizes a trust! If a man
steal:- a horse you follow him with blood
hounds; It he organizes a trust you give
him a banquet That Is the difference.
(Applause.) And why? Because the Re-iMiMiM-n
nartv has amended the command
ment so as to make It read. "Thou shalt
not s:eal on a small scale." (Laughter and
applause.)
It can punish petty larceny, but It perpe
trates grand larceny, and you Republicans
have been looking at the Republican party
and admiring it without reallz-'ng the
change that has taken place. Tou have
been looking at the egg. It looks like the
same egg. but what a change has taken
place in the centents of the egg since you
first got acquainted with It
Remedy for Monopolies.
Republicans, your party neither enforces
present laws nor proposes new ones. You
can destroy 'the trust If you want to. You
may have your remedy. Let me suggest
one.
I believe It Is posslole to annihilate
every private monopoly and prevent any
new one from being organized. Tou may
havo your remedy. Let me suggest one.
After the state has done all that It can.
I believe that Congress should also act
And I have proposed a plan that I be
lieve will be an effective plan. It Is sim
ple, easy and does not antagonize anyone
who Is not violating the law of Justice as
between man and man. The remedy Is
this: Let Congress declare that before ny
corporatton organised In any state docs
buslnees outside of the state It shall take
out a license from the Federal Govern
ment Let that license be based upon
conditions that make a monopoly Impos
sible. First, let the water be squeezed out
of the stock. Squeeze the water out of
the stock: there will be a flood for a while,
but you will destroy more than half of the
trusts that are In extstence today. The
amount of water In the stock of these
corporations Is to great and the fact that
the mock Is watered Is so well known, that
somebody has defined a corporation to be a
body of men entirely surrounded by water.
(Laughter and applause.)
Then provide that before this license Is
granted, the corporation shall show that
It has not attempted In lhe past, and Is
not attempting now, to monopolize any
branch of business or "lie production ol
any article of merchandise, and provide
for the forfeiture of the license If the con.
dltions are violated, and 1 believe you can
destroy every trust in existence. Pass the
law; appoint your board of honest men
to execute it, and then the trust will
come down and ask for a license, and
the evidence will show that It is a monop
oly and can not get tho license, and can
not go outside of the state. Forty-four
statca will be taken from It: it must
break up, and then there will be compe
tition between different firms. Let the
sugar trust come and ask for a license:
the evidence will show that it produce
9S per cent of the sugar; it can not get
the license, and then the trust Is broken
up and the separate factories enter Into
competition again.
But. my friends, while I believe that th!
plan would destroy the trusts, yet It It ta
not sufficient, add conditions until you do
destroy monopoly In private bands. Do
not let them tell you there are good trusts
and bad trusts. There is no good monop
oly In private hands: there never wao
and never will be, until God sends us
angels to take charge of them. And from
our experience of those now In charge 1
believe they came not from above but
from below. Tou can not defend the pri
vate monopoly.
The friends of the trust say that you
cannot do anything; that you cannot Inter
fere with the way a man uses his money.
Tou can Interferewlth the way a man uses
a club, even though It belongs to him. You
can Interfere with the way a man uses a
revolver, although it Is his own revolver.
But when you come J.o dealing with
trusts you are not dealing with the tender
rights of another man. Tou are dealing
with the fictitious rights of a fictitious
person created by law. Every trust rests
upon a corporation, and every corporation
Is the creature of the law. It has no
rights except law-given rights, and It Is
absurd to think that the people, through
the law, will give to corporations rights
that arc injurious to the rest of the people
that are not to be repealed by law.
Natural Man and Corporate Man.
I want you to note the difference be
twen the natural man whom God made
and the corporate man made by man.
Wben God made the natural man he did
tint TnntcA th tallest man much taller than
the shortest He did not make the strong
est man much stronger than the weakest
But, when man made the corporate man
he made that corporate man a hundred, a
thousand, and sometimes a million times
stronger than God made man. When God
mado the natural man ho placed a limit
to his existence, so that if he was a bad
man he could not be had long; but when
man made the corporate man he raised
the limit on age and sometimes the corpor
ation is made perpetual.
When God made the natural man he
breathed Into him a soul, and warned him
that In tho next world he would be held
accountable for the deeds In tbe flesh, but
when made made tho corporate man he did
not give that corporate roan a soul: 69
that It the corporation can evade punish
ment here It need not worry about the
hereafter. (Applause.) And then this man
made giant was started out to compete
with the God-made man. And the Repub
lican party has taken the side of the man
made giant And because that giant con
tributes liberally in the campaign, the Re
publican party protects the giant in ex
tortion from the people between cam
paigns. And If the man-made giant has
taken tho side of the Republican party,
I appeal to the God-made men to take
our side in this unequal contest between
the Individual and corporation while thus
trespassing upon the rights ot the Individ
ual. (Applause.)
Tou can destroy the trust whenever you
are ready to, and I think you are about
ready to. I heard ot an old Quaker once,
one ot those long-suffering, patient men.
He was out In the hay field with a load
of hay when he saw the rata coming.
As be started to the tWO has wagon ran
into a rut. and the lod of hay fell off.
He put it back and did not say a word,
He started .for the barn again as the rain
came nearer,' but the wagon fell Into a rut
again and 'the hay rol'ed off. He put It
back on the wagon again and did not
Fay a word. The rain came nearer, and, as
he hurried Into the barnyard gate the
wagon ran off the bridge and the load
fell oft again. The rain was coming down.
His wife looked out to where he was
working and concluded that something
was tho matter: She started to the barn
jyard to Investigate the trouble. The old
I man's patlenoe'was exhausted, and when
he saw her coming he called out: "Sarah
Sarah, go bade, go back; I am acout to
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express myself." (Laughter and applause.)
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I Prosperity Frail I
And yet when anybody say anything
about the trusts, the Republican party
tells us that ..prosperity has come,
and they ,ue prosperity like chart
lty, to cover "a multitude of sins.
Is our prosperity so trail a thing that you
have to hold your breath for fear that
you will blow It off? And yet prosperity
Is the answer to every argument advanced
on the trust. My friends, I am ready to
meet the argument.thls way. If the Re
publlcaro say .that they will produce pros
perity for the people by their triumph, I
will say, let every man who has received
his due share qf this prosperity vote the
Republican ticket and we will find that
those who have not received their share
will give by far the largest majority that
was ever given, any party In the United
States.
In 1S9S the Republicans said that we
had rising money. In I5S7, wheat went up
and the Republicans were telling us about
the wonderful prosperity of the farmers
who. were raising wheat. Then wheat
went down and .cattle went up, and every
Republican speaker talked about the pros
perity of the cattlemen. Out in our state
potatoes are down, but If potatoes are up
this Fall and cattle are down, every Re
publican speaker will carry potatoes
around In his pocket to Illustrate the the
ory of h.w his principles and potatoes
have been associated together. (Laugh
ter.) The Republican party has no plan by
which it assists the producers of wealth.
but It has a plan by which It permits
trusts to be created to force the producer
to buy what, he needs at higher prices.
Let the man who Is selling his wheat for
less than he. sold -It for last year, or in
1S, or In lt ot In ISSG-let him sell his
wheat and go to use his money, and he
finds the things he Is to buy have gone up.
Go Into a furniture store, to furnish your
house, and you .will find furniture is up.
I met a traveling man today whom I
used to know in Nebraska. He is now
selling stoves. He said stoves have gone
up 30 per cent What Is It that has made
prices .of these articles rise, and what Is
It that prevents the man selling wheat for
the prices ot today from -going Into the
marketwhere he buys the necessaries of
l!fo and securing them, for the same fig
ures of last year or the year before? Who
is ready to claim that this condition
brings prosperity to his side? We want
a rising general level of prices, so that all
I- business would be adjusted to that level.
From the Republican party now we have
a gold standard to drag down the price
of what you sell and laws creating trusts
that drag up the price of what you buy.
I ask the old men. who are approaching
the time when they must lay life's bur
dens down. "Are you satisfied with the con
ditions that your are going to leave to
your children?" To the middle-aged man
with your family of children growing up
about him, "Are you satisfied .with the
conditions that surround you?" To the
young men. with life before them. "Are
you satisfied to be ensconsed In a-perpetual
clerkship, to be forever under the masters
for whom you work In any business In
which you may engager' (Applause.)
What Katlon'a Policy Shall Be.
Also, what Is the Nation's policy to be?
The Republican party stands for the cen
tralization of wealth: the Republican
party brings prosperity to the money
changer, to the National bank, to the task
master, to the Army contractor, to the
men who havo the .means to constitute
tho syndicates that will exploit foreign
lands under a flag that goes beyond the
Constitution. But what of the man
whose brawn and muscle and wages and
chances of life are Involved? What of
him. I ask? My friends. I am interested
in this fight I have a son, and do not
know what he will be. I have two daugh
ters, and I do not know what my sons-in-law
will be. The Republican party Is
making It good for the man who Is at the
head of the trusts, for the sons of thnsa
who roll In wealth: but I am not willing
to throw my children out upon the world
and let them take their chances under the
reign of greed and avarice that is being
educated by the Republican party today.
(ApplausC)
"ImperialUm."
But if you do not want to think upon
this question. let me attract your atten
tion to new ones. I have spoken of the
Army; if we have Imperialism, will we
bave a large army? If we reach out
among the nations and bring people under
our flag by force and then deny them the
guarantee of our Constitution and the
privileges of citizenship we will need a
large Army. We cannot have a less one.
But are we ready for Imperialism? Why,
Republicans say these questions have been
settled. When? This question has not
been submitted to the American people.
The last Congressional election was held
In November. 1S9SL The treaty of peace
with Spain was not signed until a month
after the election. During the campaign
of 1S3S the Republican speakers had no
policy; they had no plan. They went up
and down the land and with melting pat
riotism appealed to the people to hold up
the hands of the President and while
the people were holding up the President's
hands the. financiers were preparing to
hold up the people. (Laughter and ap
plause.) Tou have never voted on this question;
you have never declared you were in fa
vor of the policy of Imperialism. The
Republican party not only did not an
nounce its policy In the campaign ot 18SS.
but It has not announced It even today.
There is no man in the Republican party
who is authorized to tell you what the
Republican party Intends to do with the
new possessions. The Spooner resolution
declares that unjll the war Is over
the President will control untn Congress
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Is to go on untU It stops, and then tho
President goes on until he stops, and then
.Congress commences to do something, but
you do not know what
Republicans, you dare not state a plan!
(Applause.) I challenge The Oregonlan
to state what It wants to do whh the
Philippines. (Prolonged applause.) No
Republican statesman has a plan; no Re
publican editor has a plan. The nearest
approach" to a plan Is that they all agree
that the Republican party can do ne
wrong. ahd that It will find some way
out some rime, but they do not know-how
or when. (Applause.)
Expansion a Lie.
They talkvabout expansion. It Is a lie.
It is not expansion. It Is Imperialism.
We have had expansion before- Now they
want something different We expanded
when we took on Florida: when we took
on land that could be settled by American
citizens and could be incorporated Into
the Union. We expanded when we toolc
the Louisiana territory. Then we took oa
land that could be settled by American
citizens and be made into an American
state. We expanded xrtien we took on
Mexico and California. We then extended
the. limit of the Republic, but we. did not
change Its character. But &g we" wan
this expansion they now offer, so called?
Ton are not crossing an ocean to get land
for settlement: you are crossing-an ocean
to get races for subjugation. (Applause.)
If you blame the Nation for taking tne
Indians land. I will say that the people
who took the Indians" land have lived oa
It and worked It ever since, but If you
go to the Philippine Islands and kiU ths
Filipinos, you cannot work there be
cause you cannot stay there after
you have killed the people. (Ai
plause.) The Republicans do not
want expansion. They want to build an
empire upon the ruins of a republic (Ap
plause.) And If a roan raises up his voice
against It he is told that he ought to
support the Administration while the war
lasts. Who knows how long the war will
last? Republicans first said it would not
last over a month; It has lasted nearly a
year already. A thousand dead boys have
floated back from across the ccean. while
you here are spending your time protect
ing the trusts and taking care ot the
money-changers, and have not time to
talk about that (Prolonged applause.)
Phllnnthropy nnd Fire Per Cent.
What arguments have you ever heard In
favor of imperialism? I have heard three.
The first Is. that there Is money In it:
second, that God's in It: third, that we aro
In It. and cannot get cut (Laughter.)
Have you ever heard any others? I will
give you the substance of every Republi
can speech you will hear during the com
ing campaign. The speaker will start out
telling that tho Republican party did not
bring the war on: that the Lord did It;
that tho Lord opened the door of conquest
and made us to follow therein; made us
to proselyte the sword and scatter the
blessings of civilization through bursting
dynamite bombs, and after It is all laid
onto the Lord, the speaker will lower
his voice and say: "It'll pay." (Laugh
ter.) Philanthropy and 5 per cent That
is what Gage calls It. They have trav
eled together before. Tou can find them
In every war of conquest: philanthropy by
the conqueror, and 5 per cent picked from
the pockets of the conquered. They go
together. (Laughter.)
I do not mean to say that imperialists
do not read the Bible, but I do mean to
say that they aro mixed In their quota
tions. I heard of a man who tried to
tell tbe parable of the Good Samaritan,
and got it mixed with the parable of tho
Sword, and It sounded about as follows:
"A man went from Jerusalem to Jericho,
and as he went he fell among thorns, and
the thorns sprang up and choked him."
His intentions were good (laughter), but
his memory was bad. (Laughter.) And
today imperialists are mixed In their par
ables. They know there Is a promise to
the peacemaker, a promise of the reward,
and as they try to recall It it Is. "Blessed
are the peacemakers, for they shall In
herit the earth." That Is not exactly
as the BIblo gave It. "Blessed art the
meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
and "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they
shall be called the children of God." If
we asnire to be peacemakers, let us ba
satisfied with God's reward, and not de
mand the earth as a reward. (Applause.)
WIU "ImperialUm" Pay!
Let us talk about this question of Im
perialism fairly. First, Is there money in
It? Who says there is money in it? Tho
man who says that It will pay must show
what It will cost, and how much work
there was done for It He has got to
Show that what we get back exceeds
what we expend, and he must show that
the people who spend will get back what
Is returned. But when he comes to ex
amine he will find that all the people who
pay taxes will expend what the Nation
expends, and that the syndicate organ
ized to develop and control the Islands
will' get what we get back. (Laughter
and applause.) But he cannot show that
we will get back more than we expend.
He has got to show how much we expend
in money, and how much we expend In
men. And if he says that It will pay. it
he drags It down to the sordid level ot
dollars and cents, he must put a value
upon cery human life that Is lost Re
nubMeans. I dare you to put a money
value upon one American boy who died
In the effort to extend our trade. (Ap
plause.) I want to extend our trade by
every peaceful means, but I would not
put one American soldier at auction and
sell him for all the trade of the Orient
It It had to be. I would take the soldier.
(Applause.) Imperialists, what shall ba
paid for that? Are you willing to trado
In human blood? If you are. buy it with
your own blood, and not with that of
other people. (Applause.) Don't fill our
land with Rachels weeping for their chil
dren, while you rich men spend your
time In the ease of wealth.
Exchansinf? Blood for Trade.
I had my attention called the other day
to a letter written by Abraham Lincoln
to Mrs. Blxby. of Boston:
"Executive Mansion. Washington, Nov.
2L 1SS1. Dear Madam: I have been shown
In the files of the War Department a state
ment of the Adjutant-General ot Massa
chusetts that you are the mother ot five
sons who have died gloriously on the field
of battle. I feel how weak and fnltls3
must bo any words of mine which should
attempt to declaim to you on the grief of
a loss so overwhelming: but I cannot re
frain from tendering to you the conso'a-
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