The Portland daily press., 1898-01-10
BRYAN'S BLAST.
He Spoke to Jacksonians of the
Windy City.

Dingley-A. Bryanesque Picture OF
Commercial Calamity.
Chicago, January 8.--A host of Demo-
cats, quite a number of them from Iowa,
Indiana and Wisconsin, celebrated Jack
son Day by banquet at the fremont
house this evening. Hon. WM. J. Bryan
was the principal guest. He reached
Chicago from Lincoln this morning, being
net at the depot by National Commander
Gahan and others selected to welcome
him, For an hour or SO prior to the feast
MIR. Bryan held reception in the hotel
parlors and shook hands with large
humber of callers. Nearly 500 persons
were seated at the banquet. Mayor Har-
rison presided and acted as toastmaster
Mr.. Bryan was received with cheers when
introduc sd AMI spoke in part as follows:
.'It is especially eJting that at this time
the American people should recall che
name of Andrew jackson and gather in
spiration and encouragement from his
public career. We are engaged today in
q contest very similar to that in which
he ulayed so conspicuous and honorable
part. During his term of office the nation
al hanks attempted to overawe the repre-
sentatives of the people and control the
government. He grappled with 1t and
overthrew it. Arrayed against him were
q
continuance of the gold standard in the
United States in spite of the almost
unanimous protest of the peopIe-the same
classes which are now trying to coerce
the government into the surrender of the
sovereign right to control the money OF
the country. 1t seems that every genera
tion presents q com bat between the pro-
aucers of wealth and the money changers.
The latter, conducting their campaign in
secrecy, fasten themselves upon the body
polite and prey upon industry until their
hold is broken by an awakened and
indignant public. The present Secretary
Of the Treasury. Mr.. Gage, Is eminentiy
fitted to be the instrument of the finanoi-
ers in their effort to complete the scheme
commenced twenty four years ago and
continued without interruption until the
present day. He possesses a sublime faith
in the superiority of money ovor man and
q supreme contempt for the rights, the
interests and the opinions of the people at
large. He knows that the gold standard
was adopted in the United States without
any party ever asking for it. He knows
that for twenty three years after its adop
ton no party ever dared to commend it;
he knows that in the campaign of 1886 the
party composed of bolting Democrats was
the only party which dared to declare the
gold standard blessing; he knows that
at the polls SO per cent of the voters reg
istered their opinion to a single gold STAN
dard, differing only as to the means of Sc
curing Di-metallism; he knows that the
President to whose partiality he owes his
position, sent commission to Europe to
beg other nations to help Us get rid Of the
gold standard; he knows that the Senate
and House with scarcely a dissenting
voice appropriated SOD, 600 of the peoples
money to pay the expenses of the commits
sion while it was seeking relief from the
gold standard; he knows that France by
Joining in the demand for international
bi-metallism condemns the gold stand
ard; be knows that the farmers, the
Iaborers and to a large extent the manu-
faeturers of England, desire international
bi-metallism; he knows that the main-
tenance of the gold standard means un-
Inerited advantage to the money owning
and the bond holding classes and un-
deserved punishment to the vast majority
of the people OF this country and of the
civilized world; and yet in spite of his
knowledge of all these facts, he Is deliber-
ateIy planning to fasten the gold standard
perman sntly upon the people of the nited
States. Not content with advocating a
policy which places the destinies of 70, ,000,-
coo of free men in the hands of foreign
financiers and permits few London
bankers to control our standard money,
he proposes to give to the national banks
full and complete control of the paper
money of the nation.
"Mr. Gage knows these facts and yet in
spite of that knowledge he is seeking to
organize money trust more dangerous,
not only to the industries, but to the
trusts combined. At such q time and
under such circumstances the memory of
the hero of New Orleans ought to be fin
voked in every state, county and hamlet
to arouse the people to sense of their
danger. -
"Twelve months have elapsed since we
celebrated this day, yearsago. and every
month has borne witness to the failure
of Republican policies to bring relief to
the people. just after the passage of the
Dingley bill our opponents were bolster
GUS in their announcement that prosperi-
ty bad returned.
Read the daily papers and'you will.find
the items of news arranged under two
heads-the formation of trusts and the
reduction of wages. A few days ago
picked up copy of the St. Louis Globe
Democrat and found under the innocent
and unpretentious headlines 'Weavers
and Spinners' several notices Of wages
reductions from four of the six New |
England states. One of them from Lewis |
ton, Me-, the home of Mr.. Dingley, the |
father of the Dingley bill, reads as fol- |
lows: The agents of all the cotton mills |
in Lewiston and Auburn received direc- |
tions to makes a generalT reduction in |
wages on and after January II. Notices |
conforming with these instructions have
been posted. The reduction of wages |
includes the Lewiston Bleachery and Dye
Works
sis this the result which they promised |
would follow the opening of the mills
instead of the mints'? If our enemies
boast that they have buried bi-metallism,
we point to these wage reductions as the
weeping willows which have sprung up
about it's temporary court. Why is not
some court asked to enjoin the employers
from uniting together to reduce wages?
Can combinations among employers be
innocent If cooperation among miners is
a crime? If this grinding process con-
tinues the laboring GLASSES will lose all of
the advantages which they have gained |
in the last quarter of q century. Instead |
of shorter hours for adults and more edu.
cation forichildren, we shall be asked to |
lengthen the hours of labor and dwarf the |
intellects as well as the bodies of the chill |
dren by manual labor during the years |
when they should be in school. How |
many plaques will be required to soften |
The heart of our financial pharoah? Does
he not know that now, as Of old, bricks |
without straw but presage the coming of
the day of deliverance?"
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