The herald., 1896-08-28

| dollar which makes their wages one
half the wages Of the New York Central.
He sends me also the prices of the arti-
cles which these employees must buy for
. the support of themselves and families,
and 1 find that those are higher than
| they are in the state of New York.
$50 much for the skilled labor on the
railroads. But the tracknen on the
Mexican railways receive rs cents day
in cities and 80 cents day along the line
in the country AS they are paid in
Mexican silver that means that they re-
ceive 371s cents in cities and Is cents
a day In the country. Mr.. Bryan is
loudly calling for our independence
from Europe, independence from bor-
rowing its money for developing our
enterprises and employing our labor,
which would mean also independence
from the vast trade which is carried on
between Europe and the United States.
We cannot close our ports and build a
wall around us and be isolated from the
world, but we can go to a silver basis
and then establish our relations with
China and the orient Tennyson has
said: Better fifty years of Europe than
- - ~AS VI NoliietS bGlltT Ten Years Ol
vigorous, healthy progress. activity
than a century Of paralysis. Better
Chief Justice Russell with his magnif-
cent message Of peace and international
friendship and commerce than Ii Hung
Chang and cheap Chinese la bor.'
Mr.. Depew said the proposed financial
legislation was contrary to the teaching
of all the great leaders from Washing
ton to the present day. and then added:
MI. Bryan is fond of talking about
dying in the last ditch and standing in
the forefront and making comparisons
with distinguished characters in his
tory. Unless reason and patriotism
have gone from the American people,
after election he will stand in our his
tory as the Casabianca of American
politics. We may accept the term
While we repudiate the declaration that
the president of the United States is
the hired man of the people. He holds
MS place for four years as the repre-
sentative of the people During that
time he possesses more power than any
ruler in the world except the autocrat Of
all the Russias. He can keep the coun-
try disturbed or at rest He may not be
able to create prosperity, but he can de-
stroy it. He can create infinite dietrI,st
by the measures which he suggests or
the quarrels which he provokes with
foreign countries. The equivalent for
thls hlgh Office goes almost as far as
the principles behind the candidate,
Nhile Mr. Bryan was practising law
before he entered congress- Major Me-
klnley was serving the people in that
body
@hlle Mr.. Bryan. in the legitimate
prosecution of his business as LAWYER.
was foreclosing mortgages on Nebraska
farmers, Major Mckinley was preparing
measures and promoting policies which
would enable the farmer to pay off his
mortgages. While Mr.. Bryan, as a rep
resentative in congress, was preaching
free trade and reputation, Major Nc
Kinley was identified by name by repu-
tation and by statesmanship with the
measures which give work, wages, bus
mess and good times and sustain the ma
tional credit and sound money. While
Mr. Bryan says: My experiment of
free trade, or all of it could get. has
proved disastrous; please try my expert
iiASie VI q uebuSeu currency, ana per-
haps that will succeed" Major McK:n-
ley says: Let us return once more to |
the policies and the practices and the
measures which from WASHINGTON to
Harrison made this country the great
est, the freest, the wealthest. the most
prosperous and the best for its people of
any land in the world (Tumultuous
applause)
In 1892 1 sat one night like this after
the election upon the rear porch of the
White House, with the then president,
talking over the results of the canvass. |
He saio: "Mr. Depew, beyond the Poto- |
mac is post upon which a notch is
made every year showing how high the |
tide has risen. My administration has |
placed the notch of American prosperi- |
ty higher than it has ever been before. |
(Applause) This Democratic admins |
tration which is coming in must mark |
a notch higher than that or it must go !
out of power with the judgment of the |
American people that it has failed in its |
promises and failed in it's policies, and |
the demand for the Republican party |
once more to put the notch on the post" |