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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 Do You Want to Save Money? If so, Read This Ad. It's a Short Story. 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