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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
r llIDAY. SEPTRlinF.B SI. 1908.
CHEERING THOUSANDS HEAR BRYAN
DELIVER SPEECH AT PONCE DE LEON
“The Republican Party in Its Despair Has
Taken the Planks of Our Platform.
They Have Got Our Thunder But
Will Not Produce the Effect”
Lone before the hour announced for
the speaking nt Ponce DeLeon
every seat In the bis auditorium
was niled. At 3 o'clock every
car to Ponce DeLeon was crowded
with passengers and the steep stair
way leading to the rink was blocked
with pushing and shoving people who
fought for entrance. 8eats were pro
vided for about 3,500 persons. All of
these were filled before 3:30 o'clock.
The chairs occupied only three-fourths
of the auditorium, and the big space
behind the chairs was rapidly filled.
Three row's of wicker rocking chairs
were provided for the ladles Just In
front of the stage. And these were
soon filled, while a large percentage
of the ladles was scattered through the
rrowd. Hallow-ell's band played pa
triotic and popular airs.
The auditorium was decorated with
national flags, a nun>ber lining the
stage, while two great banners were
draped at the rear of the stage.
Among those on the platform were
Congressman Charles L. Bartlett, of
Macon; the justices of the state su
preme court, J. W. Goldsmith, Colonel
John Temple Graves, Major K E. Pom
eroy, Judge J. T. Perdleto t, Dr. John
E. White, State Treaiure-. R. E. Park,
E. F. Childress, Captain \V. D. Ellis,
Judge H. M. Reid, E. T. Williams, W.
8. Elkin, Jr.. Rev. W. T. Hunnlcutt,
Dr. IV. W. Landrum, Hugh Dorsey.
Judge Nash Broytes, and W. O. How-
that she has had a chance today to
learn something of the hospitality of
this great city of the great South. The
only trouble In coming to Georgia Is
that I feel that I am In one sense wast
ing time; your Democracy Is so true
and undeflied that you need no one
to come from abroad to speak of Dem
ocracy to you. As Itieard your Demo
cratic platform restated here, I almost
linnglned myself in Nebraska at a state
convention, where the chairman of the
committee on resolutions was annnunc.
Ing the party creed for the coming
campaign (applause), and I am glad
that I belong to a party that stands for
things so fundamental that they can
be put Into a platform In every part
of the United States.
“Democracy Is the hope of the na
tion. because Its principles apply to all.
Democracy Is not a rich man's party,
nor a poor man’s party, nor the party
of the farmer or the laborer, merchant
or the professional man, or the banker,
hut the Democratic party Is the party
which, In ever)- state and every occu
pation, want simply equal rights for all
and special privileges to none. (Con
tinued applause). It Is the party of the
poor man, because It protects his rights,
and It Is the party of the
ard.
At 4:03 o'clock Mr. Bryan arrived In
an automobile, driven hy Mr. McDon
ald, of the Franklin Company. In the
rar with him were Lamar Hill and J.
J. Hostings. Mr. Bryan was dressed
In a sack coat of dark material.
Hoke Smith and H. H. Cabanlss ar
rived at the same time In another au
tomobile.
More than a thousand people were
gathered outside the entrance to the
Ponce DeLeon skating rink and these
people were the first to raise the cheers
which welcomed Mr. Bryan. The ova
tion which wWa begun when the city's
guest first appeared was continued as
he passed up the steps Into the hall
and taken up with a will by the si*
thousand people on the Inside of the
building. The cheering was tumultu
ous and long continued and Mr. Bry
an's welcomo could hardly have been
warmer.
" hen Mr. Bryan and the party were
sealed President Lamar HIM took the
door.,
President Hill said In Introducing
Reuben H. Arnold that the Toung
Men's Democratic League had for Its
purpose not so much the Democratic
campaign work aa the duty of receiv
ing and entertaining the leaders of ths
Democratic party. Hs referred to Mr.
Aryan as the man Who In 1903 would
lead the Democratic party on to vic
tory.
In his short Introductory speech Mr.
Arnold said “Right now we scent vic
tory for tha party In the next presi
dential campaign." In the course of
his remarks hs ssld: “The day has
(-nine when we demand eharp, ctear-
iut platforms and when we demand
In the candidate aa In the plat
form.” He then spoke briefly of the
Democratic platform, platforms of the
past and the Issues on which the
Democratic party now rests.
Bryan Starts Spetch.
At 4:35 Mr. Bryan started hts speech.
"Ladles and Gentlemen: I am very
glad to bo with you again, and I ap
predate the kindly words that have
been employed In presenting me to you.
I have great faith In the good Inten
tions of these splendid young men, who
are at the head of thie meeting, nnd
had I not had eo much experience with
prophecy my heart would beat more
rapidly than It doee at hearing the fu
ttire set forth. (Applause). Prophecy
• s half wish and half environment, and
I am sure that In this case the prophecy
tf In harmony with the wlahea and en-
vlronmenta of theae young men. (Ap
plause). If- that rate bill had Juat
contained a clause limiting the preal-
d-mial eleetlona to Georgia, I would
have no doubt of the fulfillment of the
prophecy. (Applause). And, my
Irlen.l*. I am not euro but I am hap
pier us a private clttsen than I would
be as an office holder, and I have not
Jet made up my mind what my fate or
■mure is to be, but I have made up tny
mind not to watt until you have elect
ed me to office to do what I can to
advance Democratic principles. (Ap
plause). Life Is too short to waste
»uv of its precious moments. The op
portunity Is too great to be neglected,
and the questions at Issue too tremen
dous for me not to take part In them
'he best of my ability. I come to
,knowing that I come among
mends; the only embarrassment that
■ nave | n coming to Georgia Is that
■bey always Introduce me with such
eloquence that I am ashamed to fol
io" those who Introduce me. (Ap
plause). You have a style down South
mat we cannot Imitate. (Applause),
'-ur warmer blood, your Imagination,
mis your speeches with flowers while
, ln the North, have such long wln-
I! r * ,l ’** must Just make cold, plain
itatemenfs of facta. (Applause).
Praise for Georgia.
1 am glad to be here because It was
Omriria that placed me In nomination
** 1 'hlfago when I had asked my own
uatr- not to do so. (Applause). Geor-
*dt "as one of the first states of the
'hat I visited, and It will be one
'll* last that I visit (applause), for,
attics y ou nut Bn injunction, I am
fuming here again and again (ap
plause), and I am going to do tn the
'"me what I have not been able to do
n past—I am going to bring my
ail'' on nvst occasions. Since we have
'ft man-led her duties at home have
"It her there, and she has not been
Permitted to see nnd know this South-
bold
I have been able to see It and
hut now our youngest chll-
In school ami we are grand-
iml we ore going to travel !o-
“»re. (Applause;, 1 am glad country
rlch man be
cause it would leave to the rich man's
children a richer, legacy than the rich
man can leave (hem—It would leave
good government which would protect
each citizen In the enjoyment of life
and liberty, and the pursuit of happi
ness and guarantee tn each one the
proceeds of his own toll.
Dtmoeraey is Growing.
“I am glad to find evidences of the
growth of Democracy. Even the Re
publicans are finding that Democracy
Is not only respectable, but even popu
lar. The Republicans are today apolo
gizing. where they do not follow Dem
ocratic doctrine, and rejoicing when
they do follow Democratic doctrine.
They are apologizing on the tariff
question, where they have thus far re
fused to accept Democratic advice. I
have Just been In North Carolina, and
I-find that Secretary Shaw had been
there, and had made a tariff speech,
and I secured a copy of It, and I am
going to stop for a moment and show
you how Secretary Shaw has come to
our help and admitted In his speech
nearly all that w# hare contended for.
I feel a little hurt at one thing, tn find
that Secretary Shaw would come down
to the South and attempt to claim aa
new the second-hand garmenta that
the Republicans of Iowa had donned,
for, In his speech In North Carolina he
presented arguments for Democrats to
accept that the Republicans of hla own
state have repudiated.
"Secretary Shaw la the prince of
stand-patters.' He represent! one ele
ment of the Republican party, and
there are two elements In the Republi
can party today. W have had two
elements In our party In days past,
and because our party was divided and
because these two elements did not
fully agree on some questions, the Re
publicans enjoyad a gain, and because
our party was defeated we walked
through the valley of the shadow of
death, but, my friends, we have come
out on the other side, and the Demo
cratic party today Is a united party.
(Prolonged applause.) We had a con
troversy In our party to see whether
the people would govern It or whether
It would be governed by the represen
tatives of corporation Interests, and
that question has been settled, but the
Republican party Is juat entering the
valley of the shadow of death, and It
hns to go through exactly the aame
process that we went through. We can
pity It. wa can feel sorry for It, but we
can not help It, for there la no other
way by which a tfarty can reform Itself
except by struggle, and the Republican
party Is going to have n harder time
than we had, for ten yeara ago the
Republican party had moat of the rep
resentatives of predatory wealth, and
In 1903 they got nearly all the Republi
cans we had. so, of course, It is going
to be difficult for them to reform. (Ap
plause.)
Roosevelt Boss Reformer.
"The president represents the reform
element. He la not. to my ntlnd, the
moat advanced Republican, but hla po
sition makes of him the most ronsplcu-
out and the most Influential Republican
reformer. Secretary Sltaw has been
associated with him for several years.
He has been exposed to reform, but It
did not take, and today he represents
rather thoee Republicans who believe
that the Republican party has done
everything that It ought to have done,
and has done nothing that It ought not
to have done, and there Is no necessity
for reforming anything. Why he cornea
and Insists that there la no necessity
for tariff reform, and then attempts to
explain the charge that at last his to
be considered that our protected Inter
ests are selling abroad cheaper than at
home. For a while Republicans denied
It. but finally they had to admit It. and
the burden of Secretary Shaw's speech
at Salisbury, N. C- the other day was
that we only sold abroad cheaper than
at home when a rebate had been given
by the government to compensate for a
tax paid on raw material.
“I read this speech with Interest, and
this speech admits, as I said, almost
every contention of our party. One
Illustration admits three of our con
tentions. He says that last year a atee!
company In Lebanon, Pa. exported
175,000 worth of spike bolts, and be
ams It had Imported steel billets as
raw material, had received a draw
back of 310.000; therefore. It could sell
175,000 worth of products at 335.000
abroad, and yet make as much as when
It sold the same In this country for
$75 ooo. Now, as he Is the secretary of
the' treasury, I will take It for granted
that this Illustration accurately held
what did occur, and I remind you that
In the first place the Illustration ad
mits that they had sold abroad cheaper
than at home. In the second place. It
admits that the tariff Is a tax on the
consumer, for a Republican adminis
tration paid the tax. not to the for
eigner. but to the steel company, and
the Interest that had consumed the
product paid the tariff on It. (Ap
plause.) . .
"Now. when you object to the tariff,
or object to any of these taxes, they
tell you that the foreigner pays It, but
when this steel company Imports steel
billets, and uses them In the manu
facture of spikes and bolts, the Repub
lican parly recognizes that t[ie con
sumer pays the tariff, and gives the
know for the last quarter of a century
Republican spenkers have stood before
their audiences and denied that the
consumer paid the tariff: they have de
clared that the foreigner paid It, and
here Is an illustration given hy the
secretary of the treasury, a high-class
Republican, who admits that the con
sumer pays the tariff. What else does
It admit? It admits that when this
manufacturer has secured raw mate
rial, he can export and compete with
the pauper labor of the world, not
withstanding the price we pay In
wages to the American working man.
This Illustration proves. If It proves
anything, that labor needs no protec
tion. that all that manufacturers need
Is free raw material to compete with
the world, without protection In this
country. The 110,000 given to that
manufacturing concern wes not given
to pay Mr labor: It was given atmply
to give them free raw material, and If
that proves anything It proves, not
withstanding the fact that our wagee
are higher, our cost of labor, because
of greater efficiency, Is so much lower
than the coat of labor abroad that our
manufacturers can produce with Amer
ican labor and pay ocean freights, and
then compete In any of their goode In
the open market without any advan
tage whatever.
Fallacious Figures.
"But. In another part of the speech,
he Insists that we only sold $4,000,000
worth of products abroad at a lower
price than at home. He bases It upon
tho statement of Senator Oalllnger, of
New Hampshire, and says Senator Gal-
llnger based It upon eighteen volumes
of testimony taken by a commission
that extended over three years, and
after stating the estimate of Senator
Oalllnger that we only exported 13.-
000,000 at a lower price than at home,
Secretary Shaw then proceeds to tell
us that about 35 per cent of the manu
factures that were sent abroad
amounted altogether to 5120,000.000.
That on this sum of $120,000,000 we
paid ‘a rebate of 5 per cent, so that
these people could sell 3120,000,000
abroad 5 per cent lower than at home,
and yet make aa much as If they hat
•sold at the full price at home. Now,
say, we only sold 14,000,000 cheaper
than at home, and then aay that we
R ave a rebate on 1120,000,000 tbet could
ave been sold cheaper. I ask you
what they did with this difference?
Did we pay that 5 per cent off to sell
1120,000,000 abroad and yet they only
sold 14,000,000? If hie first statement
le true, then they have paid them to
sell abroad cheaper than at home,
as It is suggested they sold It, If they
made the money from the treasury
they then might buy from the foreign
ers besides and make a double profit,
(Applause.)
"Theae are the figures In his own
speech, and wily does he Insist that we
must now pay a tariff? Why, he is
afraid we may he made the dumping
ground of other countries: all the fig
ures we hnve examined make a dis
count of as much as 16 per cent when
they export goods to the United States,
and sell the same goods as much as 16
tier cent lower than they sell them at
home. My friends. If that were true,
and If every manufacturer abroad was
willing to cut down the price 16 per
rent when he sold over here, a tariff of
15 per cent would protect us from that
unloading, according to the figures giv
en by Secretary Shaw himself, and yet
we have a tariff three times that, and
when the Democratic party attempted
to reduce the tariff It left It more than
twice aa much aa Secretary Shaw said
we needed to protect us from the un
loading of the foreign manufacture, and
yet he would have you believe that you
can not reduce the tariff without open
Ing our doors up to foreign goods that
will be sold to us at a lower price than
at home, to the ruin of all our Indus
tries. And then, In another place, he
proceeds to say, Instead of selling
abroad cheaper than at home, we ac
tually sell things for a higher price
abroad than we sell at home, but there
Is one beauty about our position, and
that is we can let the Republicans
state their side any way they please,
and whenever they state a further po
sition. show a negative answer without
arguments.
Helping Infant Industrie*.
"I do not deny you ran help rale* an
industry by operation of law. I have
never denied that the law le a potent
factor, and that those who can secure
the law can amass great fortunes In a
short time and with but little work.
When 1 was a boy and lived on a farm
we used to have rail fences and my
father would send me out with the men
who were to fix the fences and I was
not large enough to do much except to
handle the ground chunks, and when
they would find a fence corner down In
the ground they would put one end of
the rail under the fence corner and
then they would call me to bring
ground chunk and I would get as good
large ground chunk as I could find and
then 1 would put It under the rail and
they wotfld bear down on the end of
the rati and up would come the fence.
Now, I never claimed to be a precocious
child: I never Insisted that I learned
things earlier than other people, and
yet I can not remember a time when I
did not have sense enough to know
that It was pressure on the ground
chunk that made the fence corner rlae.
I have never denied that you can lift an
Industry by lav.
"I affirm now that you can raise an
industry by means of a protective tar
iff; you ran put one end of tbe tariff
law. under the Industry, and what do
you use for a ground chunk? Why,
you get tome good farmer and you lay
hint down, and then you bear down on
vour law and up goes the tariff pro
tected Industry and down goes the
farmer. (Continued applause.) Now.
I ran understand how the Industries
like that thing, but I can not under
stand how the ground chunk llkee It.
(Applause.) I can understand how a
man under compulsion would submit to
It. but what I can not understand Is
how a man who has been used as a
ground chunk for a quarter of a cen
tury will crawl under the rail hlmielf
and say 'Press down once more; I
think I can stand It again.’ (Applause.)
"Of course you can raise Industries
If vou are willing to tax the people to
raise them. but. my friends. If that Is
all you want to do, to help some at
the ex|»ense of others, why, disguise It
through tariff law. Why don't you
do It In a plain nnd open way? Jf
the doctrine Is good let me show you
how you can chrry It out; Just get your
city council to tax the peoplo one hun
dred thousand dollars a year und give
the one hundred thousand to ten per
sons to he selected by the council; the
condition being that each one will put
the ten thousand Into a fine house. If
vou want to give employment to labor,
what a demand there will be for car
penters and for brick masons and for
plasterers and for painters. Why, In
time vou would have a hun-
drlven down the streets where these
houses were built and shown how pros
perous you were and the men who lived
In the houses would all sign an af
fidavit that you had the best city coun
cil that any city In the notion had. But
what about the people who paid the
taxes? Why, on Sunday they could
walk up and look at the houses they
had helped to build. (Applauae.) And
In that respect you would have the ad
vantage over the people who have been
taxed through a protective tariff, for
they have been sending their money *o
far away that they can not walk down
and look at the houses that they have
helped to build. If tbe doctrine la good
I had rather apply It at home than to
apply It a thousand miles away.
Republicans Seeing Light.
"The Republicans on this subject
even are beginning to see light. Out
In Iowa they hnve refused to listen to
the arguments of men like Secretary
Shaw. And In New England they are
beginning to demand that the tariff
shall be reduced because they recognise
that the burden placed upon the raw-
material Is a burden upon their Indus
tries; but. my friends, the tariff ques
tion Is the question upon which the
Republicans are moat backward In fol
lowing the Democratic line, and I want
today to show you what Is going on In
this country. When the election re
turn* come In we get our encourage
ment from you. I want* to give you
some encouragement, to tell you people,
that you are not always going to be so
lonesome after the election as you have
been In the campaigns past. (Ap
plause.)
"We have a strange situation In this
country; something that we have never
known before. Ten yeara ago the Re
publican party came Into power, com-
R lete power, and for ten yeara It has
ad the (-residency, the senate and the
house, and during that ten years It has
not been able to do anything It wgnt to
do. It could do anything In law It
liked. It could repeal any law upon the
statute books. It has had things Its
own way. and yet, for all that, the
Lord has been kind to us. When the
Republicans refused to give up more
money by coining sliver, the Good
Father took pity on ua and opened the
gold mines so that we got more money
In spite of the Republicans, and then
knowing the Republicans and knowing
hojv they throw all blame on Him If
times arc bad, and crops are bad; He
has given us good crops so that the
Republican party stands ou*. In the
open and bears the responsibility for
Its own deeds, and what do you find?
Ten yeara of Republican rule, ten yeara
of bountiful crops, ten years In witter
the money has been increased In vn|.
unte, und with It prosperity, and yet
tn aplte of all the advantages that
have come to the Republican party, Its
policies have been so bad that whereas
ten years-ago the party had any num
ber of men who would run Mr presi
dent, that party of victory, today It
has fallen ao low that It has only one
man, according to Its leading paper,
who would have a chance of election
If he were a candidate today.
Roosavelt Their Only Hope.
"Is It strange, that after ten years'
control, a party that was so full of
popularity that Its hopes are hanging
on Just one man? And why Is Pres)
and leave the effect alone? (Applause.)
"We want arbitration thnt differences
may .be settled without the necessity
tor strikes. I have sometimes been ac
cused of arraying class against class.
I deny that I have ever made a speech
that could be so considered. I have
tried to bring the classes together upon
the bails of Justice, and 1 favor arbi
tration, not merely because the laboring
man needs It; I favor It because I want
the employer and the employee to be
friend* and not enemies (applause),
and If you hnve a prolonged strike nnd
the laboring man starves hla wife and
children while he la trying to get Jus
tice. no matter which way the strike
goes, there Is not the friendship be
tween the employer and the employee
that there ought to be.
"What else has the president done
that Is Democratic? He has taken our
views on the trust question, so far us
he hns gone mv that subject, and when
I tell you that he lias borrowed our
Ideas, I am not saying It for the first
time. A year ago today, aa I was leav
ing home, speaking to the Democrats
of that state In convention assembled,
I pointed out what the president had
taken from our platform, and expressed
the fear that It I was gone a year he
would lake the rest of my platform
before I got bark. (Applause.)
“That was not the first time I had
referred to It. A year ago last Jan
uary I attended a banquet In Wash
ington. where the president waa a guest
of honor. It wos a banquet given by
the Gridiron Club, and they always
have good banquets. They are a bright
lot of fellows, and from ths beginning
of the banquet to the end they were
Joking the president about what he
had taken from the Democratic plat
form, and when It came my time to
speak I told them that I had not felt
so good In Washington In many years
as I did then, to see things that I had
ndvocated and been railed an anar
chist for advocating, tnnds respectable
by being advocated tn high places, and
I enumerated some of the things that
had been taken from our platform, and
told them that 1 felt like the old col
ored womun who was sick and sent for
a colored phyelclan. When she grew
worse she sent for a white physician.
He examined her pulse, and then he
said to her; 'Did the other doctor
take your temperature?' and she said:
'I don't know; I ain't missed nothing
but my watch yet.' (Laughter and
applause.) And I think the president
enjoyed the story as well as any one
nt the table.
"I assert that the president has not
done one thing toward destroying
trusts or interfering with them except
according to Democratic advice and
contrary to Republican advice. (Ap
plause.) They have Insisted that the
Sherman law ought tn be enforced, and
after a while a feeble attempt was
made; at first they said we will enjoin
them, and then If a trust got so bad
that everybody knew about It, they
would go In the court with a petition
and nik the court to please tell the
trust not to do ao any more. (Laughter
and applause.)
"The trouble Is that the Republican
party will not declare against the
principle of private monopoly. It wants
to regulate and control the trust, but
the trust controls the regulator, and
how are you gotng to control the trust
when they control the party In power?
(Applause.) If they furnish the ram-
T HE calm confidence of the man who
knows he’s correctly shod, plus the
luxury of complete foot-comfort, make a
sum of satisfac
tion you can’t
express in dol
lars. But you
can buy it with
dollars—say five
or six—in Flor-
sheim shoes.
For the man
who cares.
Florsheim Styles
$5.00 and $6.00
Worthmore Styles
$3.50 and $4.00
Ward Shoe Company
101 Peachtree Street
dent Roosevelt the one popular manpalgn funds, of course, just now they
In the Republican party? He Is not the
only man with brains; they have many
Republicans of great intelligence. He
la not the only Republican who la
known; many Republicans are known—
some of them too well known for their
own popularity. (Laughter and ap
plause). But why la It that only on*
Republican Is available? Why, It Is
because that one man has had the
courage to depart from Republican
platforms and to take planka from the
Democratic platform. This Is a strange
liosltlon; never before In the history
of our nation has a great party gone
down hill to rapidly In the same length
of time.
"Still In power, the only time nny
great party hung for He hopes of vic
tory on one man, and upon him only
because he Itad adopted the views of
the opposing party; and yet that la
what you have today. You cannot find
an element of popularity In President
Roosevelt which Is not tracsable to ths
adoption of a Democratic Idea Instead
of a Republican on*.
"Let me give you some Illustration* of
It, for the statement that I make might
seem so strange tn one who had not
studied the situation that he might
nttempt to question my veracity, but I
will give you illustrations that I think
will convince you. Two years ago ex-
Govemor Black, of New York, placed
President Roosevelt In nomination be
fore the Republican convention, and lit
his speech he delivered a eulogy of
war; the only eulogy of war that I
ever read; a declaration that all this
talk about coming peace waa filer*
child's play; that men might preach,
and women pray, hut that those ques
tions had to be settled upon the battle
field, and having delivered this eulogy
of war, having challenged Christian
civilisation, he presented President
Roosevelt as the man of blood and Iron,
to fit his eulogy, and presented him
as a modern Mars; and yet, strange to
say. thl3 man, nominated with a eulogy
of war, now finds hla greatest fame In
being the peacemaker to bring peace
between two warring nations.
Ptae* Replace* War.
The Democrat# denounced the spirit
of war that the president had shown,
and In the last campaign the most se
vere arraignment that It made of Presl.
dent Roosevelt wa* because of the spir
it of war that seemed to run through
hla life and hla public utterances, and
yet within two years after the election
of this modem Mar* w* find him
known the world around not as a war-
ribr, but aa the peacemaker. What
else has he don* to win popularity? He
brought a strike to a happy conclusion
by means of arbitration after 199,000.-
000 had been lost by the public, the
employers and employees. He ap
pointed a board of arbitration and that
board settled the strike.
"I approved of what he did. 1 com
mended him for It. I am glad he did
hut where did he get the Inspira
tion? In the Republican platform?
No; he found It In that hated and de
spised Chicago platform. That was the
place where arbitration wa* presented
as the means of settling disputes be
tween labor and capital, but, my
friends, while he brought one strike
to a close after a loss of 190,000,000,
his party has refused to carry out that
plank and create a hoard of arbitra
tion before which all disputes of a
national character could he brought
and these difficulties adjusted without
the necessity of a strike.
They Take tha Noise and Laavt Effect.
I am glad he did what he did. but
why doe* not hi* party go further?
Why, they say the Republicans steal
>ur thunder. I am glad to let them
feel u little Indignant with the party
they have helped to put In power to
talk about enforcing the criminal law
against these very useful members of
society. Useful when the campaigns
come around, but, nty friends, when
the light Is turned these men who talk
about regulation only will be walking
aide by side with the trust magnates,
and the psopte will be on the other
aide of the line and demand not regu
lation and restraint, hut ownership of
every private monopoly. (Applause.)
That I* where the line will be drawn,
and there Is no future vote against
the principle that recognises a private
monopoly a* a good thing.
At to Soelaliam.
"Some bare expressed a fesr of Social
ism In the United States. If Socialism
lias grown, on what hns it grown)
has grown tinder tbe Repnhllrau adminis
tration. It hst grown under Itepilldlr
laws, nnd u|sin what does Socialism rest
for Its advance and Its progress? It rests
upon two things—tbe existence of abuse*
that ought to be corrected nud upon the
Itepnbllrau argument that a trust Is an ecu-
nomlc outgrowth and a thing that yon
can not afford to destroy. First, the Iti-
publican party baa iiermltted abuses to
grow up uuder indlrlduellsui. It has ms
destroyed them liecause It has permitted
them to grow. It le responellde for the
strength of Socialism so far as Socialism
derives atreugtb from the continuance of
abuses that ouaht to I- remedied, and
then the Socialist rests hla case upon the
theory that a trnst Is an economic ques
tion, and every Republican who dares de
fend a trust from an economic standpoint
Is defending the principle upon which the
Socialist lays the greafest stress. 1 want
to coin hat this principle that the Repulv
•• waa i vino iv minj,
therefore, let the government own It him]
get the benefit*.
"Whnt makes our worktneu great to-
nay? It la herati** he line In bin heart
tbe hope of Imlependeuco. He look* for-
ward to promotion. He telln hie wife If
they will just economise « little more nnd
save up their capital. he run #ome day
have a plant of hla own himself. Instead of
working for eotueboily elee. That Is poe-
elide when you hnve not nny truete, hut
when you have Jnet one great trust. It le
too far to the top. He can uot nee It.
nud when hope Is gone hie labor •■ease* tn
be whnt It wan. You here no reason to
do whnt the trnet neede to do. John D.
Rdbkefeller'e eon Illustrated tbe trust most
beautifully when lie said thnt you rouid
not make nor bring the Ameririin Beauty
rose to He perfection without plucblug off
ninety-nine buds, thnt tbe strength or the
hush might go Into tbe other bud; end
an he Mid It wn» Impossible to bring up
n great industrial corporation to perfec
tion without the breaking off nud tho
pinching off of the smaller and weaker
onee. This Is a bold, frank nnd rrijel Il
lustration. I had rather have n hundred
to bring perfume Into one hundred
the Ides? from the Republicans? No!
In the Republican pint form? No! Where
did he find It? Where all tho good
things are found. In tbe Democratic plat-
fer»». «£|>p A . .
“81s yenrs ago last July, a mao drnva
up to my house In a carriage, cams. In,
Introduced himself; said he waa a cleric
In the office of the Interstate commerce
commission; drew forth a plank from hla
porker, held It up to me. told me be bad
tried to hnve it lOMrted In the Republican
platform ut Chicago and had felled, and
wanted to see If I could not help to put
It In the Democratic platform In
sos nty. The conventloo waa la *>
sad f sent tor end showed him a proof of
a platform that was under conslderstloa
I showed him n Plank on this subject,
and he read It nnd Mid it, was satisfac
tory. put his own Plank In hla pockat
and went away. He had failed to secure
such a plaak in the Republican platform,
but It wsa In our platform beforthe a iked
for It. <Applause., And when the presi
dent wanted advice on *bla subject, be bad
to come to our platform to get It. Not
- *-*' —»» into the
only that, but wbea the MU rot Into the
senate they had to put It Into the **&£•**
tho Democratic senator, *fP*tor TJwtuae.
who managed It for them. (Applause.) pot
only was It Inspired by the ptatefajk
platform aud managed by a Democratic
senator, but It was Improved by amend
moots offered by Democrats.
Othsr Industrie*.
“The Elkin law a faw yeara ago had taken
out of the Interstate commerce law the pun
tshment of officials. Senator Stone, a Dem
ocrat from Missouri, Introduced an amend
ment to this law, putting It bark Into the
law. After a while the Republicans Intro-
duced a similar amendment* bht when they
rnme to vote on the amendment the amend
ment of Senator Stone waa found ao much
better than the Republican amendment that
they accepted hla, and then Senator Culber
son. of Tcsaa. Introduced an antl-pasa
amendment, nnd tbat^lao la an Important
^The* Democrats voted with V*arollette to
tlin lt,vubllrana votod „
Domm-rata IvImI to get a tietter law In re
card to limited review; but the Republicans
'"allied on adding tb* amendment to that
Id weakened tb* law. That la tbt law aa
.. r — - L i Repnbl
you bare It. and yat tb* Republlrant boa«t
Had
inrnugn ine nuiioc «ioi me wn.i., and
when the amendment finally came It wa,
and i. would hi better than It I. if tha
DiMiiovrata bad had their way. Now. the
Republicans aay vote tb. Republican ticket
became of tbe rate bill that w* are giving
you.
afternoonTbecflueSHThave another .object
to which I want to Invite your attention. I
have ahow.t you them thing,. wb,ra tb*
Republican party baa followed In tbe Droo-
cratlc footsteps. 81a year, ago we denoune-
dependence should be given to tb, Ftllpiboe,
but the Republican, refuied, and for eight
years they have condocted n government
there that they dare not defend! tVe said
Prom lee to treat them aa you treated lb#
Cuban,; and. my friend,, today If you talk
With Republicans nine out of ten will tell
you that ultimately the Ftllplnoa must have
tbelr Independence.
"Juat now . few people are saying that
became.they have emit, trouble In Cuba
thnt It I, evident that they are not fitted
for •'If-govrrnment. Well, my friends,
every time 1 bear that argument my mem*
ory run# bark to about forty-fire yenrs ago.
end I aee tbl» country with the greatest
Hril war of all blatory; and yet I deny
thnt that civil war waa evidence that w#
are unfitted f
went to the
tbetv rights b- —.. — .
oonofataut without declaration of Independ
ence; hnt I bare been there nnd now j.d^<
fend It on observation •• welt aa theory. ’
The Duty of America,
•i have returned Impreued wllb the re-
■ponulhlllty of Otir nation. There la no na
tion on earth like ottra, no other nation
tbet compare* with our* In nil that go** to
make t nation great. There la not n nation
on earlb that hat not felt tbe eritnnlue of
our eaemplt, nud I hare come back feeling
that while It would be enough to fmplra
, or au,ow,wv people ree
e of American dtleenry.
nmthlllty la our,, for ib,
to m for lead,r,btp In i
tlon go high that every nation on earth can
hart found peopla friendly to our
country, not because we bad a large army
or navy, but hecanee our philanthrope hna
orerdowed. until tbero Is not a spot lit tbe
’ii o'ixui ur, no
. but to make Ita flag loved
by every human being. Ours la tb* mo»t
beautiful flag In the world, and tbe senti
ment that la Infolded In It Is more beautiful
than tbe Das Itself. I want It to extend
MdMmiit
ctpfe! sra consistent with tho principles of
fir fitters, smi wbtn the world iocs the
: of our republic representing a govern-
. at resting upon tbe consent of the jrov-
erped, It will aee the emblem of a party
that believes In tbe doctrine of equal rights
to all and special privileges to none."
homos, tbsn to have Just one American
Renntjr In oue homo. (Applause.) I would
rather have a few hundred, aye. s few
thouaend Independent Industries giving hope
corporation*. transmitting unearned wt-alth
|froin generation to generation, while the
inn**#** would go down deeper and deeper
|lu hoifelonnof* nnd despnlr. (Applause.)
Democratic Planks Lifted.
|repeat that where the president hst
won popularity, he has won It by follow
ing Democratic doctrine. I»ut the trouble
Is. he does riot follow Democratic doc
trine fnr enough. He does not wnlk fust
enough tn the pathway of reform. They
Isay now you must stand by the jpresl.
ilent and elect Republicans who win en
courage him. I mv to vou that the Demo
crats hnve itnofl ny the president better
than the Republicans have wherever he
hns taken a step In advance, and thnt If
you want to 3-nrourage him In reform
elect Democrats, nnd alien you elect Dem
ocrats you will rind them right behind
him Iti each case. And If he atepa luck,
tin* Democrat# will In* there to stop his
backing nnd push him n little further ou.
I Applauae.)
“Wliat e!«3» has lie ilnne to win p3»pti-
Isrltv? Why, he Imk sea rred the pnssago[
sumer pays* in* «* >«». p • ^ ten . t h„ u „ ttnf |.dollar houses nnd have It, hut why don t they steal the of the rate law. Yes. we are grateful
country—not to tilt Mrel«i«-anU you peoitle coming Into your city couM be lightning. an<J not Just take the noise lot It. but. my frieml,. wbtra JIJ bu gel
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