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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
iupat, September :i. vy*.
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 big auditorium
was tilled. 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. Seats were pro-
rlded for about 3,500 persons. All of
these were tilled before 3:30 o'clock.
The chairs occupied only three-fourths
of the auditorium, and the big space
behind the chairs was rapidly tilled.
Three rows 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
crowd. Hallowell's band played
trlotlc and popular airs.
The auditorium was decorated with
national flags, a number 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 E. E. Pom
eroy, Judge J. T. Pendleton, Dr. John
K. White, State Treasurer R. E. Park,
E. P. Childress, Captain W. D. Ellis,
Judge H. M. Reid. E. T. Williams, W.
8. Elkin, Jr., Rev. W. T, Hunnlcutt,
Dr. W. W. Landrum, Hugh Dorsey,
Judge Nash Broyles, and W. O. How
ard.
At 4:03 o'clock Mr. Bryan arrived In
sn automobile, driven by Mr. McDon
ald. of the Franklin Company. In the
car with him were Lamar Hill and J.
J. Hastings. 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 was begun when the city's
guest first appeared was continued as
he passed up the steps Into the hall
and token up with a will by the six
thousand people on the Inside of the
building. The cheering was tumultu
ous and long continued and Mr. Bry
an's welcome could hardly have been
warmer.
When Mr. Bryan and the party were
seated President Lamar Hill took the
floor. " - -
President Hill said In Introducing
It-uben R. Arnold that the Young
Men's Democratic League had for Its
purpose not so much the Democratic
campaljnt work as the duty of receiv
ing and entertaining the leaders of the
Democratic party. He referred to Mr.
Bryan as the man who In 1908 would
lead the Democratic party on to vie-
tory.
In his short Introductory speech Mr.
Arnold said “Right now we scent vic
tory for the party in the next presl-
dential campaign.” in the course of
his remarks he said: “The day has
come when we demand sharp, clear-
cut platforms and when we demand
In the candidate as In the plat
form." He then spoka briefly of the
Democratic platform, platforms of the
put and the Issues on which the
Democratic party now rests.
Bryan Starts Speech.
At 4: It Mr. Bryan started his speech.
"Ladles and Gentlemen: I am very
glad to be with you again, and I ap
preciate 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 this meeting, and
had I not had so much experience with
prophecy my heart would beat more
rapidly than-It does at hearing the fu
ture act forth. (Applause). Prophecy
la half wish and half environment, and
I am sure that In this case the prophecy
l> In harmony with the wishes and en
vironments of these young men. (Ap
plause). If that rate bill had Just
contained a clause limiting t|ie presi
dential elections to Georgia, I would
have no doubt of the fulfillment of the
prophecy. (Applause). And, my
friends. I am not sure but I am hap
pier as a private cltlsen than I would
be as an office holder, and I have- not
yet made up my tnlnd what my fate or
future is to be, but I have made up my
wind not to wait 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
any 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
,0 i he best of my nblllty. I come to
Sou. knowing that I come among
friends; the only embarrassment that
1 have In coming to Georgia Is that
they 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
that we cannot Imitate. (Applause),
’our warmer blood, your Imagination,
id' your speeches with flowers while
7* In the North, have such long win
ter" that we most Just make cold, plain
itstements of facta. (Applause).
Praise for Georgia.
1 am glad to be here because it was
f **' rKi» that placed me In, nomination
•t t'hlcsgo when I had asked my own
•Ute no t to ,| 0 (Applause). Geor-
P* »as one of the first states of the
8 °u'h that I visited, and It will be one
'>f the last that I visit (applause), for,
un|p '' you get out an Injunction, I am
coimng here again and again (ap
plause). and I am going to do In the
hat I have not been able to do
fut
m the past—I am going to bring my
* lf '" "n nvst occasiens. Since we have
, n married her duties at home have
k-r.: her
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 1 am In one sense wast
ing time: your Democracy Is so true
and undeflled that you need no one
to come from abroad to speak of Dem
ocracy to you. As I heard your Demo
cratic platform restated here, I almost
Imagined myself in Nebraska at a state
convention, where the chairman of the
committee on resolutions was announc
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-
tlnn, 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 fanner or the laborer, merchant
or the professional man, or the banker,
but the Democratic party la the party
which. In every 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 rich man be
cause It would leave to the rich man's
children a richer legacy than the rich
man can leave them—It would leave
good government which would protect
each cltlsen In the enjoyment of life
and liberty, and the pursuit of happi
ness and guarantee to each one the
proceeds of his own toll.
Damocracy is Growing,
"I am glad to find evidences of the
growth of Democracy. Even the Be
publicans are finding that Democracy
le not only respectable, but even popu-
The Republicans are today apolo
gizing, where they do "not follow Dem
ocratic doctrine, and rejoicing when
they do follow Democratic doctrine.
They are apologising on the tsrllf
question, where they have thus far re
fused to accept Democratic advice. I
have Just been In North Carolina, and
I find that Secretary Bhaw 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 Ills speech
nearly all that we have contended for.
I feel a little hurt at one thing, to find
that Secretary Shaw would come down
to the South and attempt to claim as
new the second-hand garments that
the Republicans of Iowa had donned,
for. In his speech In North Carolina ho
presented arguments for Democrats to
accept that the Republicans of his own
state have repudiated.
"Secretary Shaw Is the prince of
'•tand-patters.' He represents 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 enjoyed 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 elde, 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 Just entering the
valley of the shadow of death, and It
haa to go through exactly the same
process that we went through. We can
pity It. we can feel sorry for It, but we
can not help It, for there ts no other
way by which a party can reform Itself
except by struggle, and the Republican
party la going to have a harder time
than ws had, for ten years ago the
Republican party had most of the rep
resentatives nt predatory wealth, and
In 1908 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 Bose Reformer.
'The president represente the reform
element. He la not, to my mind, the
most advanced Republican, but his po
sition makes of him the most conspicu
ous and the most Influential Republican
reformer. Secretary Shaw has been
associated with him for several years.
He haa been exposed to reform, but It
did not take, and today he represents
rather those 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 comes
and Insists that there Is no necessity
for tariff reform, and then attempts to
explain the charge that nt Inst has to
be considered that our protected Inter
ests are selling nbroad 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
nt home when n 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 steel
company In Lebanon. Pa., exported
176.000 worth of spike bolts, and be
cause It had Imported steel billets as
raw material, had received a draw
back of 310.0(10; therefore, it could sell
375.000 worth of products at 396,000
abroad, and yet make ae much as when
It sold the same In this country for
375 000. Now, as he Is the secretary of
the treasury. I will take It for granted
that this Illustration accurately held
what did occur, and 1 remind you that
In the first place the Illustration ad
mits that they hod sold abroad cheaper
than nt 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-
P, “n"ow. when you object to the tariff,
or object to anv of these taxes, they
tell you that the foreigner pays It. but
there, and she has not been; whP ^ t hls steel company Imports steel
Jetmitted to see and know this South- billets, and uses them In the manu-
■ * I have been able to see It and|facture of spikes andjholt*..J* 1 ?,,,
f h. hut now our youngest chll-lllcan party recognizes that the con
“ In school and we are grand-| turner pay:
pays the .’.J'T ,7rcd J ten-thousand-dollar houses and have It, but why don't they steal the Ilf'Yhe nit*'law. Ves. we’sre srsiefni
are going to travel to- money hark to ( 0 rcigner_and you people coming Into your city could be lightning, and not Just take the noUe for It. but, rnj friends, where did he get
let hi
ind
know for the last quarter of a century
Republican speakers havo 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 by the
secretary of the treasury, a high-class
Republican, who admits that the con
sumer pays the tariff. What else dose
It admit? It admits that when this
manufacturer haa 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 310,000 given to that
manufacturing concern was not given
to pay for labor; it was given simply
to give them free raw material, and If
that proves anything It proves, 'not
withstanding the fact that our wages
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 goods In
the open market without any advan
tage whatever.
Fallacious Figures.
“But, In another pert of the speech,
he Insists that we only sold 34.000,000
worth of products abroad at a lower
price than at home. He bases It upon
the statement of Senator Galllnger, of
New Hampshire, and says Senator Gal
llnger baeed It upon eighteen volumes
of testimony taken by a commission
that extended, over three years, and
after stating the estimate of Senator
Galllnger that we only exported 34.-
000,000 at a lower price than at home,
Secretary Shaw then proceeds to tell
ue that about 25 per cent of the manu
factures that were sent abroad
amounted altogether to 3120,000.000.
That on this sum of 3130,000,000 we
paid a rebate of 5 per cent, so that
these people could sell 1120.000,000
abroad 5 per cent lower than at home,
and yet make as much as If they ha1
Bold at the full price nt home. Now,
say, we only sold 14,000,000 cheaper
than at home, and then say that we
gave a rebate on 3120,000,000 that could
have been sold cheaper. I aak you
what they did with this difference?
Did we pay that 5 per cent off to sell
3120,000,000 abroad and yet they only
sold 34,000,000? If hie first statement
Is 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.)
"These are the figures In hie own
speech, and why does he Insist that ws
must now pay a tariff? Why, he le
afraid we may be made the dumping
ground of other countries; all the fig
ures we have examined make a dis
count of at much as 15 per cent when
they export goods to JJis United States,
and sell the same goods as much as 16
per rent 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
cent when he eohFover 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 as much sa 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 Ifidus-
tries. And then. In another place, he
proceeds to say, Instssd of selling
abroad cheaper than at home, we ac
tually sell things for a higher price
abroad than we sell at homo, hut 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-
■Itlon, show a negative answer without
arguments.
Helping • Infant Industries.
“I do not deny you ran help raise an
Industry by operation of law. I have
never denied that the las* Ye 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 I was a boy and lived on a farm
used to have rail fences and my
father would send me out with the men
who were to fix the fences and 1 was
not Isrgs 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 a
ground chunk and I would get as good
large ground chunk as I could find and
then I would put It under the rail and
they would bear down on the end of
the rail 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 ran 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 rise.
1 have never denied that you can lift an
Industry by law.
"I affirm now that you can raise an
Industry by means of a protective tar
iff; you can put one end of the tariff
law under the Industry, and what do
you use for a ground chunk? Why,
you get some good farmer and you lay
him down, and then you bear down on
your 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 likes It.
(Applause.) I ran understand how s
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 himself
and say 'Press down ones more; I
think I can stand It again.' (Applause.)
“Of course you can raise Industries
l( you 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 expense of others, why, disguise It
driven down the streets where these
houses were built snil shown how pros
perous you were and the men who lived
In the houses would ell sign an af
fidavit that you had the best city coun
cil that any city In the nation 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. (Applause.) 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 so
far away that they can not walk down
and look at the houses that they have
helped to build. If the doctrine Is good
I had rather apply It at home than to
apply It a thousand miles away.
Republicans Sating Light
“The Republicans on thle subject
even are beginning to see light. Out
In Iowa they have 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 le 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, end 1 want
toda, to show you what Is going on In
this country. When the election re
turns 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 ao
lonesome after the election ae 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 years ago the Re
publican party came Into power, com
plete power, and for ten years It hss
had the presidency', the senate and the
house, and during that ten years It has
not been able to do anything It went 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 ue. When the
Republicans refused to give up more
money by coining silver, the Good
Father took pity on us and opened the
f rold mines ao that we got more money
n spite of the Republicans, and then
knowing the Republicans and knowing
how they throw all blame on Him If
times arc bad, and crops are had; He
has given us good crops so that the
Republican party stands out In the
open and bears the responsibility for
Its own deeds, and what do you find?
Ten years of Republican rule, ten years
of bountiful crops, ten years In whlcf
the money has been Increased In vol
ume, and with It prosperity, and ysl
In spite 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 for presi
dent, that party of victory, today It
haa fallen so 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.
Roossvslt Thslr Only Hops.
“Is It itrangs, 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 Presl-
and leave the effect alone? (Applause.)
“We want arbitration that differences
may be settled without the necessity
for strikes. I have sometimes been ac
cueed of arraying close 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 basis of Justice, and I favor arbi
tration, not merely because the laboring
man needs It; 1 favor It because I want
the employer and the employee to bt
friends and not enemies (applause),
and If you have a prolonged strike and
the laboring man starves his wife and
children while he le 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 haa the president dons
that Is Democratic? He has taken our
views on the trust question, so far as
he haa gone on that subject, and when
I tell you that he has borrowed our
Ideas, I am not saying It for the first
time. A year ago today, as 1 was leav
ing home, speaking to the Democrats
of that state In convention assembled,
I pointed out whet the president had
taken from our platform, and expressed
the fear that If I was gone a year he
would take the rest of my platform
before I got back. (Applause.)
"That was not the first time t had
referred to It. A year ago last Jan
uary I attended a banquet In Wash
Ington, where the president was a guest
of honor. It was a banquet gtvsn by
the Gridiron Club, and they always
have good banquets. They are a bright
lot of fellows, and from the 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 ti
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
advocated and been called an anar
chist for advocating, mode respectable
by being advocated In high places, and
I enumerated some of the things that
had been taken from our platform, and
told them that I felt like the old col
ored woman who wee sick and sent for
a colored physician. 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 nothlni:
but my watch yet.' (Laughter ant
applause.) And I think the president
enjoyed the story as well ae any one
at the table.
“I assert that the president has not
done one thing toward destroying
trusts nr Interfering with them except
according to Democratic advice and
contrary to Republican advice. (Ap
plause.) They have Insisted that the
Sherman law ought to be enforced, and
after u 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 ask the court to please tell the
trust not to do so any more. (Imughter
and applause.)
“The trouble Is that ths 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
through tariff law. Why don't you
do It In a plain and open way? If
the doctrine Is good let me show you
how you esn carry It out; Just get your
city council to tax the people one hun
dred thousand dollars a year and give
the one hundred thousand to ten per
sons to be selected by the council: the
condition being that each one will pu:
the ten thousand Into R fine house. II
you want to give employment to labor,
what a demand there will be for car
penters and for brick masons anti fur
plasterers and for painters. Why, Tn
ten years' time you would have a hnn-
when they control the party In power?
(Applause.) If they furnish the cam
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.
Is not the only Republican who „
known; many Republicans are known-
some of them too well known for their
own popularity. (Laughter end ap
plause). But why le It that only one
Republican Is available? Why, It Is
because that one man has had the
courage to depart from Republican
platforms and to take planks from the
Democratic platform. This Is a strange
position; never before In the history
of our nation has a great party gone
down hill so rapidly In ths same length
of time.
"Still In power; the only time any
great party hung for Its hopes of vic
tory on one man, and upon hltn only
because he had adopted the views of
ths opposing party; and yet that It
what you havs today. You cannot find
nn element of popularity In President
Roosevelt which Is not traceable to the
adoption of a Democratic Idea Instead
of a Republican one.
“Let me give you some Illustrations of
It, for the statement that I make might
seem so strange to one who had not
studied the iltuatlcn that he might
attempt to question my veracity, but I
will give you Illustrations that I think
will convince you. Two years ago ex-
Governor Black, of New York, placed
President Roosevelt In nomination be
fore the Republican convention, and in
hie 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 was mers
child's play; that men might preach,
and women pray, but 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 ae the man of blood and Iron,
tn fit hla eulogy, and presented him
as a modern Mars; and yet, strange to
say, this man, nominated with a eulogy
of war. now finds his greatest fame In
being the peacemaker to bring peace
between two warring nations.
Pssea Replaces War.
•The Democrats denounced the spirit
of war that the president had shown,
and In the last campaign the most se
vere arraignment that It made of Preei
dent Roosevelt was because of the spir
it of war that seemed to run through
his life and hla public utterances, end
yet within two years after the election
of thle modern Mara ws find him
known the world around not as a war
rior, but as the peacemaker. What
else has he done to win popularity? He
brought a strike to a happy conclusion
by means of arbitration after $93,000,-
000 had been lost by the public, the
employers and emptoyaes. Ha ap
pointed a board of arbitration and that
board settled the strike.
“I approved of what he did. I com
mended him for It. I am glad he did
It. but 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 was presented
as the meant of settling disputes be
tween labor and capital, but, my
friends, while he brought one strike
to a close after a loss of 330,000,000,
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 be brought
and these difficulties adjusted without
the necessity of a strike,
hey Take the Noise and Leave Effect.
"I am glad he did what he did, but
why does not hla party go further?
Why, they say the Republicans steal
our thunder. I am glad to let them
feel a 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
cmne around, but, my friends, when
the light le turned these men who talk
about regulation only will he walking
elde by side with the trust magnates,
and the people will be on the other
side of the line and demand not regu
lation and restraint, but ownership of
svery prlvstt monopoly. (Applause.)
That Is where the tine will be drawn,
and there Is no future vote agalnet
the principle that recognizes a private
monopoly ae a good thing.
At to Socialism.
“Rome hare expressed a fear of Heclel
Ism In (be United Htstes. If Socialism
has grown, on whit has tt grown)
hss grown under the Republics n sdiutnls.
tratlou. It baa grown under Republic
laws, imd upon what does Hocltllsni rest
for Its advance and Its progress) It rests
upon two things— the existence of abuses
that ought to lie corrected and upon the
l(epuhl!rsu argument that a trust le an eco
nomic outgrowth and a thing that you
cau not afford to destroy. First, the Re
publican party hss permitted abueee to
grow up uuder Isdlrlduallsm. It hss out
destroyed them because It bae permitted
them - to grow. It Is responsible for tbe
strength of Socialism sn fir as Moclsllsut
derives strength from tho continuin'
abuses that ought to h- remedied,
thru tbe floclsllet rests Ms esse upoi
theory that a trust Is an economic quea.
«| and every Republican who dares <le :
fern
Is i
Soda
trunt from au economic standpoint
—'—'pis upon *
eat atreaa.
laya ths g .
to combat this principle that the Repub
Ilea a party la not prepared to meet tbe
Socialist argument on this subject. Tbe
Socialist says the truat haa com# to atay,
therefore, let tho government own It and
get the Iceueflti
"What inakei ..
day? It le because he has
the hope of Independence. He looks for-
weird lo promotion. He telle hla wife If
they will Juet economize a little more and
faro up their capital, be can aorne day
have a plant of hla own himself, instead of
. Sanaa wv-1 a, a it >t rati VI
working for somebody els*. That la pos-
vben you bar* not nny trusts, but
slid*
when you have Just on* gr*st trust. It Is
too fnr to tbe top. lie esn not see It.
«nd when hope Is gone his Ishor ceases to
lx* what It was. Vou bare no reason to
do wbst tbe trust needs to do. John D.
Rockefeller's son Illustrated tbe trust most
beautifully when be astd that you could
not nisko nor bring the American Beauty
rose to Its perfection without pinching off
ninety-nine buds, that tbe strength or tbe
bush might go Into the other bud; and
so he Mid It was Impossible to bring up
a great Industrial corporation to perfec
tion without tbe breaking off and tbe
homes, than to bare Just one American
Beauty In one home. (Applause.) I would
rather bars a few hundred, aye. a few
thouMnd Independent ludustrtea giving hope
and ambition to tens of tbouMnd* of
workmen than to bare just a few giant
corporations, transmitting unearned wealth
from generation to generation, while the
masses would go down deeper and deeper
In hopelessness and despair. (Applause.)
Democratic Planks Lifted.
"I repeat that where tbe president bat
won popularity, he has won It by follow
ing Democratic doctrine, but the trouble
Is. he does not follow Democratic doe*
trine far enough. II* does not walk fast
enough lu the pathway of reform. They
My now you must stand by tbe presi
dent and elect Republicans who win en
courage him. I mt to you that tb* Demo
crat* have stood by tb** president better
than the Republicans bar* wherever li*
haa taken a step In advanre, and that If
you want to encourage hltn In reform
elcet Democrats, and when you elect Dem
ocrats you will And them right behind
him In each esse. And If he steps liack.
the Democrats will be there to stop his
I Kicking and push him a little further on.
t Applause.)
••What else has he ilone to win popu
larity? Why. he has act met I the passage
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th* Ides? From tbe Republicans?^ No!
In th* Republican platform? No! Where
did he And It? Where nil tho good
things are found. In the Democratic plat
form. (Applsnse.)
"Six yenra ago laat July, a man drove
up to my house In a carriage, came In,
Introduced himself; Mid h* was a clerk
In tho office of tho Interstate commerce
cnromlMlon: draw forth a plank from hla
pocket, held It up to me. told me b* bad
tried to bars It Inserted In the Republican
platform at Chicago and had failed, anti
wanted to see If i could uot help to put
It In the Democratic platform, in Kan
sas City. The convention was In aesatou.
sod I sent for and showed him I proof of
a platform that was under consideration.
I showed him n plank on this aubjMt.
and he retd It and Mid It waa satisfac
tory, pnt bis own plank In bis pocket
and went away. He had failed to secure
such a plank In tbe Republican platform.
senate they had to pot It Into (be bands of
the Democratic sank tor, rteuator Tillmss.
SB rsr
■apt _ .
_ managed by a Democratic
senator, but It was Improved
platform and
_ „ .. _ by amend
ments offered by Democrats.
Othar Industries.
•Th* Elkin law a few years ago hsd taken
out of the Interstate commerca law tha pun
Ishment of officials. Senator Stone, a Dem
ocrat from Missouri, Introduced an amend
meat to this law, putting It back Into tbe
law. After a while the Republicans Intro
duced a similar amendment, 4>ut when they
came to rote on the amendment the amend'
roent of Senator Stone was found so much
better than the Republican amendment that
they accepted his, and then Senator < ulber-
son, of Tessa, Introduced an antlpaas
amendment, and thnt also Is an Important
part of the bill. . . ^ M
•The Democrats Toted with LaFollett# to
give to this commission the power to deter
mine the present value of ths railroads, but
the Republicans voted It down, and ths
Democrats tried to get s bstter law In re
gard to limited rsrtaw; but the Republicans
insisted on adding tha amendment to that
and weakened tbe law. That Is the law as
‘ yet the ' “ “
- —_ —done.
•The first law passed n „
took nine years to And out that It did not
__ >an anything. It then took ton years be
fore tbe amendment could be passed
through the house and the senate, and
i tbe amendment finally came It was
red by the Democratic platform. Tbe
was managed by one Democratic sens-
.... Improved by Democratic amendment,
_nd It would be better than It Is If ths
Democrats bad hsd their way. Now. the
**ie Republican tlckat
that we are firing
aftsrnoomTbecause i nave another subject
to which I want to Invite you? attention. I
have shown you these thing*, where the
Republican party haa followea In the Demo
cratic footsteps. Six years ago we denoumy
ed colonialism, and told you that this na
tion could not be half republican and half
empire. We Insisted that a promise of In-
donendenee should bo given to the Flllplnoo,
but the Republicans refused, and for eight
B ara they have conducted a government
•re that they dare uot defend. We Mid
promise to treat them as you treated tha
"A mr Mends, today If you talk
with Republicans nine out of ten will tell
f? u . ***** ultimately tb* Filipinos must have
their Independence.
Just now a few people are saying that
because they have some trouble In Cuba
that It Is evident that they are not fitted
•®W-i©vern m * n *• Won, my friends,
every time I hear that argument my mem-
*?**■ fo * bout forty-five years ago.
• n jJ, * <"• thi* country with the greatest
j °, f hllt °ry; »JMl I deny
that that civil war waa evidence that we
are-unfitted for self-government. Before I
Jit?! tho FhlUppIne Islands I defended
their rights to self-government upon theory
consistent without declaration of Indepeud-
1 £* ve th ere and now I de
fend It on observation as well at theory.,,-
Tha Duty of America.
“I have returned Impressed with the re
sponsibility of our nation. There Is no na
tion on earth like ours, no other nation
that compares with ours In all that goea to
make a nation great. There Is not a nation
on •artb that has not felt tbe stimulus of
our examti
that whll*
one to great endeavor to feel that the des
tinies of SO,000.000 people rests upon tbs
voice of American citizenry, yet a larger
responsibility Is ours, for the world muit
look to us for leadership In all that goes
for the advancement of tbe race, and I
want to mv to raise tbe banner of our as*
tlou so high that every nation on earth can
i It.
I havo found people friendly to our
country, not becauM we bad a large army
or navy, but because our philanthropy hn*
overflowed, until there Is not a spot In ths
dark places of tbs earth but what wo havs
hleeaed them with our generosity. If ws
cannot say that tho sun nevsr seta upon our
dominion, we can My that It never sets
upon our philanthropy, for before the sun
aim of this nation ought to be. not to make
ts flag feared, but to make Its flag loved
’J every human being. Oort Is tbe moat
beautiful flag In tbe world, and th* senti
ment that lalnfolded In It Is more beautiful
than the flag Itself. I want It to extend
aloft, and then by the aide of It I want
to put the emblem of a party whose prin
ciples are consistent with tbe principles of
the fathers, and when the world sees the
flag of our republic representing a govern-
orned, u mil •«» mv ruim«iu ui a pan/
hat believes In the doctrine of equal rights
to all and special privileges to none."
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