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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 — — fal 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 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." of a party Do You Want to Save Money"! If so, Read This Ad. It's a Short Story. We want to reduce our stock of men’s fine cloth ing and offer even* suit and every pair of odd trous ers in our bouse at a reduction of 25 per cent Nothing will be reserved. We are needing the room, and you can use the goods and save money. Some of these suits cau be worn late in fall and early winter. See our windows for prices. This sale only a few dayB. ESSIG BROTHERS, »CORRECT CLOTHES FOR MEN." 26 WHITEHALL STREET. '““•a. (Applause). 1 am glad country—not I