The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

members of Congress called atten-
tion to a recent decision in a Ger
man court in which the court held
that the trust was in keeping with
the idea of protection, that if you
gave tariff to a manufacturing in
dustry, you expected the industry
to take advantage of it, and if it be-
comes necessary to form a trust in
order to get the advantage of that
tariff law, then the trust must have
been in contemplation of those
who framed the law. That is not
the exact language, but if you will
read the quotation from the Ger
man court you will find that he sus-
tains our contention, that it is alb
surd to give a trust the protective
tariff and then complain that they
did not mean to take advantage of
it.
MY friends, the tariff bill has
been written. Congress met. Con-
gress did not have time to abolish
government by injunction, but Con-
gress did have time to turn over the
taxing power of this nation to a
syndicate of the United States.
"A Republican up in Nebraska
was asked, last Monday, whether he
thought the Diugley bill had any
thing to do with the rise in wheat.
Well he said, 1T was at least a
striking coincidence. Now, L don't
know whether you have anybody in
this state who sees striking
coincidence in the rise of
wheat Just about the time the Ding
ley bill was passed, but if there is [
want to call that persons attention
to another striking coincidence.
Wheat has fallen 10 cents from the
highest point it reached. 1t was up
to dollar one day in Chicago;
think it is down now to something
like 80 cents. 1t has been as low as
88 cents, and what worries me is,
how can the Republicans account
for the fact that after the Republi-
can party raised wheat to dollar
it let it go down again? 1t is a strik-
ing coincidence. Now, if it is a
good thing to have wheat at dollar
and the Republican party put il
there, in the first place, how can il
excuse itself for letting it go dowr
again?
"Well, then, there is another thing
that, to my mind, is a striking
coincidence. Now, the rise il
wheat, unless it is followed by /
rise in other things, might not be {
universal blessing. Take my owl
case, for instance. My farm is il
corn. | have five acres near Lin
coin which 1 had saved. 1 haC
saved the five acres for a dumpinI
ground for the worlds silver
Great applause.) L had some Re
publican friends who seemed to b,
afraid that if we had free coinag
our country would be used as
dumping ground for the worlds sill
yer, and so | just saved the fiv
acres, and if 1 had been elected
, was going to surprise my timit
Republican friends by Offering it a
: a dumping ground for all the silve
| of the world-it would hav
held it all-so that the Republican
: would not have been bothered b.
5 having it,. But the election Wen
/ against us, and [ saw that for fou
= years, at least, my land would no
be needed for dumping ground
] ana so put it in corn. But it
70 Just my luck. | am something lik
8 the man who, after a series Of mis-
= fortunes, said if it rained soup h
. wouldn t have any spoon. You see
e | didn't know that Hanna ha
5 planned famine in India. Now
D my friends, don't speak Of it wit
= any feeling Of sadness or disappoint
q ment, because | have no right to eX
S pect any inside information unde
4 this administration. But as I car
4 no, expect to get in on the grOun
moor when these famines are goin
e to be scattered over the worlds SUI
= race for the benefit Of our people,
nave made up my mind 20 do whs
e every man must do when he has t
a take his chances. / am going to pu
S a Part Of my five acres in wheat,
e part in corn, part in oats, and
e part in potatoes, and then Ham
Y can't have famine anywhere bU
n what 1 will be on top.
y "But let me pass to another sui
iect. We said last year that th
o gold standard was bad and we d,
S nounced the gold standard, said
e was anti-American, said it was III
S American, declared war against j
e and announced to the world that
o was Il war which would not end VI
It til that gold standard vas drive
d from the United States back to En-!
# land. You heard Republican speal
d ers say that the gold standard w;
r the standard of civilization. Yo
e heard them praise it, and vet, m
/, friends, the first act of the Republ
l. cans present administration was
r ask for an appointment of a commi
If sion to go to Europe and try to g
e rid of that gold standard, which I'll
It Republicans praised last fall.
z "Republicans, you think a hig
e tariff is a good thing. Don't yC
1t know that whenever you have hie
n tariff you always have some par
j denouncing it? Democrats, VI
1t think low tariff is a good thin
n Don't you know that whenever yC
o have low tariff you generally. fir
is some party denouncing it? All
3. yet we have bimetallism for eigh t.
r one years, and no party ever d
If nounced il. That is record whiC
l. any party can be proud of. As
S your Republican friends what the
have to say against so unanimous g
/. endorsement of bimetallism.
st "But there is harder propositic
t.. than that. We have abandont
% bimetallism and adopted the go
q standard without any party in n