The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-11-08
SoroeiS.
CONGRESSMAN McRAE SPEAKS

A small but intelligent audience
greeted Hon. 7. c. McRae at the
Miller county court house last
night. MIR. McRae was in good
voice and without attempting any
oratorical display at times became
quite eloquent.
He urged everybody not to be
carried away by the enthusiasm
arising from our victory oyer Spain
He made it clear that the patriot
ism of the republican leaders
meant dollars to them and their
pals, and that their ideas of ex-
pansion included the expansion of
their pocketbooks-that trusts and
monopolies were standing OPEN
mouthed to take advantage of the
innocence of the American people,
as the carpet baggers robbed the
south and after stealing the ayaila-
BILE funds piled up bonds and debts
on the country.
He explained that we cannot
stand on a monument to liberty
and a government by and with the
consent of the governed, and at the
same time annex an unwilling peo-
pie. That he had opposed the an
nexation of Hawaii for that
reason and because we already had
a coaling station there by purchase
and didn't need it, and because the
inhabitants were unfit for citizen
ship, composed of japanese, Chinese
and natives, lower than our negroes
and only about 1900 whites, who
were the owners of land and people.
So he opposed the annexation of the
Philippines. We already had tried
ciyilizing the red man and we have
failed to do anything but drive him
out of civilization entirely. He does
not civilize, he leaves. So with the
negro. After thirty years OF ex-
pensive education, from taxes wrung
from the white people, the problem
is still with us what to do with him.
Shall we undertake another race
problem 5000 miles away?
He charged the Republicans with
adding to the hard times by impos-
ing one hundred and fifty millions
of dollars revenue tax, over and
above the Dingley tariff, and showed
that the Republican party refused
to coin the seignorage, refused to
tax incomes, although the Supreme
Court had decided an income
tax for war purposes would be rails
ed, but reaching out after the poor
had imposed stamp taxes on medl-
cine and business transactions but
left the wealth OF the country un-
touched.
This and much more, the dis
tinguished speaker explained and
insisted that the leading question
would be in 1900 the silver question,
with VIM. j, Bryan as the standard
bearer of the Democratic party.
He showed the fallacY of the idea
that we could not maintain our
own financial policy, and the neces-
slty for us to be upon bimetalic
basis to get the advantage of the
extended commerce of the world
opening before us, He recalled
the promises of the Republicans in
the last canvass and how they hum
bugged some of the silver men, but
that President Mckinley after his
inauguration, at a banquet IN New
York, disclaimed any idea of be-
frieuding bimettalism, and then
destroyed the standing of the silver
commission we then had in Europe.
With this exposure the speaker
predicted a glorious success for
Bryan in the next campaign as the
representative Of free silver.
At the conclusion of his address
the speaker was warmly con-
graduated by a number of our citi-
zens and the crowd dispersed with
that feeling of satisfaction which
comes from hearing an address
which entertains and instructs the
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