The sun., 1898-10-15
AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING
Hon. L. Irving Handy, EXON
gressman Turner and J. G.
Gray Make Addresses.
THE GLORY OF PLUTOCRACY
The Administration Scored for the
Manner in Which They Treated
Uncle Sans Dying Heroes.
Tributes to Handy's
Worth.

thuslastlc mass meeting at Filth and
Pine streets last evening and it is
estimated that over 1000 persons were
present.
Councilman James Kane opened the
meeting and Z. B. Frazer, secretary of
the Board of Health, was called upon to
preside, and the first speaker introduced
was Hon. L. Irving Handy.
During his remarks he called the at
tentlon of the people to the demoralizing
effects of the Dingley bill and the ab-
surdity of the issuance OF $500, 600, 600 in
order to carry on the war with Spain.
He designated Uncle Sam as being six
feet high with his 10000, 900 population,
while Spain, with her population of
l7,0G,0oO was only foot and half in
height.
The tax placed on Delaware alone by
issuing these $500, 600, 900 was 81, 900, 600,
and he claimed it was not question. of
who was right but plain matter .Iof
arithmetic.
He stated that Mr.. Mckinley had only
spent $3.50, ,0O0, 900 Of the $500, 600, 900 and
had thus saddled debt of $3.50, 900, 600
on the people of the United States
in order to benefit lot of bloated bond
holders
Continuing, he said that the United
States treasurery now had surplus of
1907 ,0OO, 900, but that the remainder of the
money raised for war purposes, or $780,
100000 had been deposited in the large
national banks of Philadelphia and New
York for the benefit of these moneyed
institutions, and for nothing else, for the
reason that the government did not Sc
cure one penny of interest for the money
SO deposited with them.
This clearly demonstrated one fact, he
said, and that was that the Democratic
party was for the taxpayers and the Re-
pubicans for the moneyed institutions.
He next reviewed war, and stated that
the smartest act that American hero Ad-
miral Dewey did was when he the cut
cable at Manila so that this administra-
tion could not wire him dictatory mess
ages, and then sailed in and secured the
greatest naval victory in the world.
The administration he: said, claimed
all the glory for this victory which
had startled all nations but hey
had not been willing to shoulder all the
shame that followed during the reign of
Algerism. They, he stated, were to
blame forthe hundreds of soldiers who
contracted the fever that had sent them
to their last rest; they were to blame for
these dying heroes not getting enough
food to keep body and soul together;
they were to blame for sending them to
the front shoeless and almost without
clothes; they were to blame for furnish
ing inferior weapons and they were to
blame for not furnishing doctors and
nurses and bringing sorrow and desola-
tion to thousands of homes in free
country where all men were supposed to 7
be equal.
Spain, he said, as poor as she was in
resources took better care of her soldiers
than did the United States with all its
boasted wealth. Spain's soldiers, he
had tie best of weapons and I
used smokeless powder while ours were
to fall back on the old black
powder, wien du Points who turned out
10000 pounds of smokeless powder per
lay could have manufactured enough in
,wo weeks to have supplied all our sol.
1iers with sufficient for the time the war
as;ed.
Mckinley, he stated, was we'll in
tended, we'll meaning inefficient man
md he thought Hanna had rung more
han one cold deck in on him during the
wo short years of his administration.
he contended that it was only by the
election of Democratic Congress that
he horrible secrets OF the Hispano-
American war would be revealed. ,
cnnpluSi, N ha raforro1 n fta ~ffook 4
# the strike in Illinois OF capital against
abor and how the taxpayer and laborer
we're shot down in cold blood while in i
lefence of their homes. This, too. was
lue to the greed of the Republican Ad-
which was in favor OF the
and contractor, while the
Democrats had always taken up the q
ause of humanity. t
Ex-Congressman G. H. Turner OF New c
,ork was the next speaker and he in his I
pening remarks also referred to the i'm.
to Illinois Of colored criminal +
abor from the south, and graphically
escribed the details leading up to the
Gene of riot and bloodshed.
He next called the peoples attention 4
, the fact that William Jennings Bryan =
'ent to war with the rest of them, and !
sked them how much gold they had \
cen during the two years OF the McKin- q
~ administration, and told them that if y
hey had enough money to live on to
ote the Republican ticket, but if not to
ast their suffrage for the Democrats.
He next pointed out the ill effects of 81
lie Dingley bill by claiming that it had ft
lade taxation higher, decreased wages n
nd increased the price Of clothing and t,
her commodities. He further said in
lis connection that during the first ten
onths of the Dingley bill the govern.
ent sustained loss Of $4,000, ,OCO, and n
zen the war came and Mr.. Handy had :,
Id them the rest. ~ ~
He then dwelt on the necessity of the y. VI
of the state to registrars now ~
as the opportunity which they had :,
zen waiting for. He next paid a glow "
g tribute to Delaware's unbroken line =,
statesmen for the past forty years and H
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