The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-10-06

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away. There we're present on the plat
form many well-known reformers, among
whom were Messers. Kesling, Thorpe,
Winchester, Mathews, Goodwin. Cleman,
Berg, Bland, Smelling, MacCrimmon and
others. Judge Preble in his trenchsnt
style introduced the orator Of the even
ing, James Hamilton Lewis, who soon
had the vast audience under the spell
OF his magic voice.
The masterful speaker opened by say
| ing that he could not be expected to re-
spond to the eloquent eulogium by Judge
Preble, as his health precluded him from
making an extended address, but with
ont further preface he plunged medids res
into the midst of his subject. Col. Lewis
told how the house of representatives in
the fight for Cuban independence was
embarrassed by certain republicans who
tried to drag politics into the service of
the government, Wall street and the
Spanish bond spectators. He produced
| the Congressional Record, and giving
/ page for page, read he speeches OF Con-
/ gresham Grosvenor OF Ohio saying that
/ the war should I've Republican var"
respects to the Post lnteli yencer aud
proved by public documents that either
! the so-called "letters" of Grosvenor and
Dngley were fakes or were absolutely
false. The audience highly appreciated
the confusion the republican spelI-bnd-
ers were thrown into by the disclosures
Lewis made of the traps the P.-I. had
fallen into. lie then took up the state
republican platform and showed how,
from silver coinage and International sill.
yer and then no silver, they had wabbled,
and finally plain profession that their
previous actions were a fake, pure and
simple; hypocrtical and false. COL
Lewis showed how congress, by it's brutal
majority, had beaten the postal savings
bank scheme and now they defeated the
farmers free silver proposition; how they
destroyed the farmers cattle and horses
and destroyed free rural mail delivery to
the farmers, and finally, by the notorious
Loud bill they struck at free speech and
at the free press Of the poor by prohibit
| ing all printed matter, including weekly
papers, from going through the mails.
| The colonel then took up the bond fea-
ture of the war loan. The silver men
are charged, he said, with voting against
it, but he showed from Dingley's speech
on April 81, '9S, that $500, 900, 900 were
! needed for one year, while at that time
1912 600, 900 were in the treasury that to
this 1850 100000 was added in war bills,
and 1896 ,00O, 600 Ia the tax bill, exclus-
i've of the bonds. The colonel then
showed how all measures looking to tax
alton in the cases of the rich were voted
down by the republican majority in the
house, and 30 were six consecutive
amendments taxing the rich corpora
tons. The fusienists were defeated on
the inheritance tax bill against the rich.
They were then defeated in the attempt
to tax the franchises OF the railroads and
banks, while the republicans gave $780,
100000 to the railways, flched from
the pockets of the taxpayers of the ma
ton. The colonel showed that the bonds
were to be $500, 600, 900, with 5000, OOO,-
600 interest," that the national bonds
were to be $200,0O0.0OO of these bonds;
that these bonds had been arranged by
Secretary Gage for the bankers months
before the Maine was blown up or war de-
clsred; that the tax laid upon the peo-
pie to pay for the expenses of the war,
which cost only $3.50, 000, 900, reached
~, 600, 100000; the full amount of the
debt Of the late civil war. The audience
seemed to be greatly impressed with the
terrible import of these facts which Col.
Lewis showed from indisputabe records.
! The speaker then proceeded to prove
how the old soldiers had been neglected
| by the pension department OF the govern
ment. He read from the report OF the
| G. A. r. at their national encampment
at Cincinnati, and then, in a most pa
thetic way he described the treatment OF
the volun GERS their starvation and death
for want OF food and medicine on their
home soil, and because of Ayers APP
| pointment OF rich mems sons to places
OF temporary power. He read from Re
publican papers, and the chief of them
all, the Oregonian. describing the heart
reDding condition OF our helpless volun-
| teers.
| The audience was visibly affected by
the fearful condition OF our boys as de-
picted by republican newspapers. Col
Lewis then branched out and gave the
audience the full exposition of how Mark
Hanna had used the war for himself and
his pets, selling his brothers. yacht for
| $3.50, 900 and selling his own coal from
his mines in Ohio at $3.50, 900 profit-a
quarter Of million cool gain-above the
market price OF the coal. He proved his
statements by reading from republican
papers and official documents. The audi
ence Indignantly Kissed Mark Hanna's
name. The speaker gave glowing de-
scription OF the achievements Of the SOL
diers of the United States in the late war,
and complimented President Mckinley
as commandment He demanded
that the people be not blinded by the cry
OF war 80 as to allow traitors, who stole
the republican garb, to smirch the presi-
dent by using his name az a fence to
these public lnfamies. He was app'aud-