The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-17

Mr.. Bryan'S speeches III heuluChy, SoH
tanning this paragraph:
THE speeches were in favor OF the
alignment of the poor against the
rich rather than in favor of free
silver"
Our correspondent, Mr.. W. j. Ieague,
Of Greensboro, makes this comment on
the above dispatch.
81 do not believe 1t. Can you give
any light on it in your excellent pa
PERI
Happily we can throw light" on the
continued Misrepresentation or Demo
Gacy's foremost champion. Mr.. Bryan
made three or four speeches in Kentucky
On his return from the Nashville Tx
position, where he made an elaborate
address. The speeches in Kentucky
were exactly along the same line as the
enc in Nashville. We give below a
synopsis of Mr.. Bryan's Nashville speech,
which does not contain syllable that
can be distorted by a fair-minded man
a being '.in favor of the alignment OF
the poor against the rich" We feel sure
that every reader of this paper will enjoy
the speech, the full notes of which are
rs follows:
81 want to say to you that events are
coming to our rescue, and that the plat
form is stronger to-day than it was
year ago: and / prophesy that it will be
stronger a year from now than it is now.
We are not apologizing. We are not on
the defensive. We are on the agrees
siye. We are still pressing the battle
along those lines and our enemy of last
year is furnishing US proof that we are
right. Therefore, tonight, | am going
to spend my time laying down PROPOSE
mons for our opponents to meet.
"In the first place L assert that our
blank in regard to arbitration is stronger
now than it was last year, and you can
challenge any Republican to dispute that
proposition.
"But that is only one plank. We de-
nounced government by injunction and
some said that we reflected upon the
courts. We did not We simply insist
that even judge is servant of the
people, and the people have the right to
limit the jurisdiction Of their courts, as
they have the right to declare that a
man charged with crime shall be tried
by a jury and not by judge.
at is for the people themselves to
say what Jurisdiction their judges shall
exercise and what shall be the methods
Of trial. The difficulties growing out
Of the coal strike have called the atten-
ton of the people to the dangers that
lark in government by injunction
Let me call your attention to another
hing: We opposed the trust last year.
We denounced the trust. We insisted
that it was hostile to the genius OF our
institutions. We insisted that a govern
nent like ours must be great enough to
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competition and then plundering the pub
lie after competition had been destroyed.
The opposition to trusts is stronger than
1t was last year, because the people have
seen what it was to have the trust draw
a tariff bill in the pretended interest OF
the rest of the people. That tariff bill,
more than any other tariff bill that has
ever been drawn, was drawn by the trust
and for the trust. One of the members
Of Congress called attention to a recent
decision of a German court in which
the court held that the trust was in
keeping with the idea OF protection,
that il you gave a tariff to a manufactur-
ing industry, you expected the industry
10 take advantage of it, and if it becomes
necessary to form a trust in order to get
the advantage of that tariff law, then
the trust must have been in contempla-
ton of those who framed the law. That
is not the exact language, but if you
will read the quotation from the German
court you will find that he sustains our
contention, that it is absurd to give a
trust the protective tariff and then com
plain that they did not mean to take
advantage of it.
My friends, the tariff bill has beer
written. Congress met. Congress die
not have time to abolish government By
injunction, but Congress did have time
to turn over the taxing power of this
nation to syndicate OF the United
States.
"a Republican in Nebraska was asked
last Monday whether he thought The
Dingley bill had anything to do with the
rise in wheat. WELL" said he, it was
ut least striking coincidence Now,
don't know whether you have anybody
in this State who sees a striking co
incidence in the rise Of wheat just about
the time the Dingley bill was passed
but if there is / want to call that per
sons attention to another striking co.
incidence Wheat has fallen 10 cents
from the highest point it reached. II
was up to a dollar one day in Chicago
I think it is down to something like 81
cents. 1t has been as low as 81 cents
and what worries me is how can thu
Republicans account for the fact tina
after the Republican party raised whea
to a dollar, it let it go down again! |
is striking coincidence. Now, if it il
a good thing to have wheat at dollar
and the Republican party put it there
in the first place, how can it excuse ltsel
for letting it go down again?
"Well, then, there is another thing that
to my mind, is a striking coincidence
Now, the rise in wheat, unless it is fol
bowed by rise in other things, nigh
not be a universal blessing. Take m!
own case, for instance. My farm is il
corn. ] have five acres near Lincoln
which / had saved. | had saved thu
FIVE acres for a dumping ground for tn
worlds silver. Great applause) / hat
some Republican friends who seemet
to be afraid that if we had free coinag
our country would be used as dump
ing ground for the worlds silver, and s.
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