Evening journal., 1897-03-17


by hireling and prostituted press is
the main reason for this feeling.
ATTACKED THE NEWSPAPERS.
In one of his letters Thomas Jeffer-
son said that as between a government
without newspapers and newspapers
without government, he preferred the
latter, but God knows Tom did not
know to what depths of degradation
some of the newspapers could reach.
I'VE have been restless this last
twelve or fourteen years In 1884 the
/ people became tired of the long stretch
of Republican rule and elected Demo-
crat. In 1888 they were disgusted with
/ the Democrats and elected a Republi-
can, and in 1892, utterly worn out and
/ disgusted they elected another Demo
/ crat. We have jumped from the frying
/ pan into the fire, and from the fire into
! the frying pan and then back into the
! fire again. and we have been unable to
tell which was the hottest. But for my
part and my country these last four
! years have been the very hottest we
have ever experienced.
One party last Fall said we want
more tariff and more money. the other
said more money and more economy
The majority chose the man who repre-
sented more tariff. Well you've got him.
1t is tariff or a change in finance we
need? And if the tariff cant cure us,
and / hope to prove that it cannot not,
what will?
So far as | am concerned you shall
have as much tariff as we can force
down your throats. Wall street has
got you by the throats and will force
you to do anything, and / intend to
help it so that maybe you will wake up
and save yourselves. But you have got
your king, and it will take four years
to get relief
4 What is money? You know nothing
about it. You only read one side of It.
Why the farmer in my state who drives
an old black bull to a plOw knows
more of the question from reading the
local press than the average Eastern
banker. Money is a measure of value
not value itself. 1t is only a means OF
fixing prices, and the prosperity of the
country depends on the quantity Of It in
circulation.
do you know that there are mil
lions of bushels of corn and wheat and
b thousands Of pounds of meat piled uT
in Nebraska, the corn bringing only 6
8 or cents bushel, while hundreds oil
J thousands of men in the East are beg
2 ging for food? Yet they tell us NOR,
tariff is needed.
we had no change in government il
b 1892. Mckinley is carrying out Cleve
lands policy, as Clevland carried ou
2 Harrison's policy.
} The East with all her factorie.
closed and no money. and the Yves
with all her products and no money arr
. ] fp ha1 oh,
, buy the products and they cannot bul
: your manufactures. The East has de
: stroyed its home market by lending il
} self to England's policy of gold mono
{ metalism.
t why you poor devils don't get tn
e. advantage of the tariff. There are 35.
r OOO 600 Of people in the United State
e who live directly or Indirectly by farm
D ing, and they buy one-half Of the good
!, manufactured in the United State:
d Every article in general use. fror
j. matches to kerosene, is in the contrc
Of a trust, and as a would-he great ma
= said recently, where combination is DOS
e sible, competition Is impossible. So ia
!. prices OF our goods are fixed and "
n have TO pay them. Mr.. Cleveland say
n trusts are dangerous, but he doubts
T. the government can deal with them. S
r do |, as long as We have a Federal judg
s in every state who yanks up the ma
= who interferes with a trust and SAYS [
r him Here, you can't meddle with this
s Ihis Is Interstate commerce We ar
oyerburdened with trusts and syndi
Gates and monopOlies and combine,
n and 1t locks like you want EN-, for yo
a ! send men to Congress who are thei
e agents. What are you going 10 do abou
II 1t? That's what they say to me,
can't do anything but talk. but as 500
% as | catch them stealing talk Of it o
a the floor of the Senate"
Il Here Mr.. Tillman reverted to th
money question, and explained that 81
yer was as good money as gold if it bl
had the stamp of the government on /
/ which after all makes money what 1t i
n whether is be gold, silver or paper.
N Mr.. Tillman referred TO the comme
10 ton aroused by the alleged assaults O
10 the Supreme Court in the Chicago pla
10 form, and said that it was mild con
IA pared to the assaults on Il in 1857 ov,
the Dred-ScOtt decision by Lincol1
Chase and Seward. He said he believe
that Lincoln was a better Democra
10 judged by Jefferson. than Jefferson ID,
i Wis, and Bryan was a better Republica
Ia than Mckinley judged by Abraha
~ Lincoln.
"a Someone in the audience asked NJ
N Ttllman to tell of the armor plate stea
10 but he said that he had simply found
steal of one and one-half millions
NJ dollars and exposed it. He said il W.
laughable to see the Senate fight all ds
20 and raise cain over a $4,000 appropri
~ ton and pass a bill for a million-do
"a lar steal like creased lightning. He sa
Is that the last civil war was over son
= black slaves. but should there ever
another, it would be caused by whi
10 slaves, four times as many Of them
- there were black. He closed with d
~ hope that the people would study d
m money question and solve by electing
u man to look after their own interes
rs in 1900.
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