Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1896-10-15

| Will ne violated With lmpunlJy are the ones
who have violated law with impunity. II
MIR. Harrison wants to raise the question
Of the survival of our institutions, will
tell him that the great trusts Of the coun-
try that are supporting the Republican
ticket are the greatest menace to our gov
| ernment.
The Coal trust sends it's representative to
sit by every freside and exacts tribute
from those who need warmth The Oil
trust sends its representative to collect
tribute from those who use light.
The trusts of this country, with their
representatives are collecting tribute from
the people, and when we protest against
1t they call us disturbers of the peace and
anarchists.
am opposed to trusts. AS an executive
| shall use what power l have to drive
every trust out of existence.
If present laws are not sufficient to meet
this evil L, If elected will recommend
such laws as will
II the constitution of the United States
Is 80 construed as to prevent any lnterfer-
ence with the operations of the trust,
shall recommend such amendment to the
constitution as will permit the punish
ment of these men.
My friends, there Is great contest in
this country which must be settled, and
that Is whether few men, banded to-
gether, are more powerful than all the
people.
And while l do not want to array class
against class 1 am willing to array all
the people who suffer from the operations
OF these trusts against the few people who
operate the trusts
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cuss the money question and rest a verdict
on that alone, we are willing to meet
them and let the public decide whether
those who are discrediting the free coinage
of silver or those who are standing upon
the Chicago platform can better be trusted
with government Shall syndicates, the
Stock Exchanges, the money grabbers and
the trust representatives who have banded
together run this country for four years
moreS
understand that distinguished citi-
zen of this state, Hon. Chauncey Depew-
/ understand that he also thinks that my
election would be dangerous to the coun-
try. My friends, there Is one advantage
in having Mr.. Depew against me, and that
is that If ] am elected he will not come
down to Washington and tell me that as
off that plank that declares In favor az the
| arbitration Of differences between railroads
and their employees.
There is another advantage which /
shall derive from his opposition II l am
elected, he will not come down to Wash
ington and, on the ground that he has
elected me, ask me to use executive influ-
ence against that bill that passed the SEN
ate which attempted to protect people from
government by injunction.
My friends, there is one great consola-
ton that 1 find In the opponents that have
srrayed themselves against me, and that
Is that by not having their aid in the cam
paign won't have their domination after
the campaign is over. But, my friends,
our platform has declared that the para
mount issue of this campaign is the money
question, and believe it is true, because
on the result of this election will turn, for
the time being at least, the financial policy
of this country. The Republican party In
convention assembled has declared that
this nation must retain its present f1nan-
cial policy until foreign nations shall join
with us In abandoningit. The Democratic
platform declares in favor Of an American
financial policy for the American people.
Ana when / defend an independent
financial policy am not appealing to any
prejudice which any citizen of the United
States may have against any foreign ma
ton. l am simply doing In this nation
what every Englishman does In England,
what every German does in Germany,
what every Frenchman does in France-I
am asserting and shall defend the rights
of these people to attend TO their own peo-
pie.
Seeking Only the Good.
II the gold standard Is good thing
then we ought to keep 1t, whether other
nations want us to keep 1t or not; II it is
q bad thing, we ought to get rid of 1t, no
matter how much other nations may want
us to keep it. The Republican party ex-
pressly declares that bimetallism is better
than gold standard, because when Re
publican platform pledges the Republican
party to substitute the double standard
for the gold standard 1t is a positive and
emphatic declaration that the double
standard Is desirable in preference to the
single gold standard. That Is the platform,
and when, after declaring bimetallism de-
sirable 1t asserts that we must delay Its
advantages until those advantages are
brought to us by other nations 1t proposes
to surrender the rights Of legislation over
this subject and transfer Legislative pow
or from Washington to the sod of one or
more foreign nations.
Ny friends, no foreign nation has ever
adopted such policy as the Republican
party asks us to adopt No foreign party
has ever gone before the country with such
proposition as the Republican party now
presents. So far as 1 know, no statesman
In a foreign land has ever advocated poll
cy that would make the people Of his ma
tiOn dependent upon the decision of the
people Of some other nation. 1t has been
left to free America to set the example Of a
national party proposing to surrender the
right of self government and bind its peo-
pie TO the law of foreign powers.
want TO show you not only that no ma
tional party has ever advocated the gold
standard In a platform, but want to show
you that the leading representatives Of the
Republican party have expressly denounced
the gold standard and the results which
follow it.
Mr. Mckinley said in 891 that the pres
ent president Of the United States wanted
to make money scarce and dear, and now
he stands on the platform which indorses
the process and promises to carry out and
make money scarcer and considerably
dearer He said In 1891 that the present
president wanted TO make money the mas
ter and everything else the servant, and
yet he stands upon the platform that car
ries out the present policy and makes mon
ey the master and everything else the serv-
ant
My friends, the Republican candidate in
a speech at Toledo said that he understood
this. The fundamental principle that un-
derlies the money question Is that the
value of dollar depends upon the number
of dollars. He recognized then that you
could make dollars dear by lessening their
number; he recognized then that you could
raise the power of the dollar by law and
by law reduce the value Of all kinds Of
property; he recognized then that legisla-
! tion in favor of the gold standard made
money the master and all things else the
servant. and we have a right to conclude
that since he adopted that policy he be-
lieves that money should be the master
and that all things else should be the serv
ant
| My friends, we support our cause not by
imagining i'll of people. We can quote you
what the candidate for president on the
Republican ticket says and tell you II
those words were true then they are true
now, even though he would blot them out
and change them altogether. We can call
| 10 your attention the fact that Senator