The age-herald., 1899-01-08
Su|zGr SquaTe|y On the Chicago
 Platform. TIE DUTY OF DEMOCRACY Is to Revive Our Once Grand Merchant Marine. DENOUNCED BRITISH ALLIANCE All We Need Is a Firm Reliance on Our Own Greatness and Our
 Power to Defend
 Our Rights.
DENOUNCED BRITISH ALLIANCE

Omaha, Neb., January 7.-What the mem- bers of the Jacksonian club, of this city assert was the most successful banquet held, took place in the dining room of the Paxton hotel, which could hardly accom- modate those in attendance. Democrats from all parts of the state were present and with them many leading populists, includ- ing all the state officials. Ex-Governor Altgeld, of Chicago, ex-Vice-President Stew enson, of Illinois, and Congressman Sulzer, of New York, as the guests of honor, made the principal addresses. MT. Altgeld had as his subject:
 "The Situation"
 MT. Stevenson's subject was "The Demo- cratic Party" and his address was devoted to history of the party and an argu- ment against expansion.
 MT. Suzer's subject was ''The Day We Celebrate" He prefaced his speech by say ing that he stood squarely on the Chicago platform and brought from the earnest democrats of the east their fraternal greet ing and their message of hope for union and harmony in the ranks and triumphant victory of their grand old party in the years to come.
 The mercnant Marine Tt is the duty of the democratic party" he said, ito restore our merchant marine. We must combat the disastrous policy of the republican party against merchant marine and repeal it's vicious legislation. Tonight, as democrats, we invoke the spirit of Andrew Jackson in favor of volunteer forces of the republic and against large standing army in time of peace composed of men who are not taxpayers, but are tax nn nfGrG T Arfo the republicans to pass the act to create a great standing army, and if it succeeds it will burden the taxpayers of the country for it's maintenance s150,00 900 a year. Every democrat in the land should be alive to the dangers of this republican movement, and do all in his power to frus- trate 1t.
 We need no allegiance with Great Brit ain. All we need now, as in the past, is a firm reliance on our own greatness our own ability, our own integrity, our own power, to defend our rights, protect our citizens and legisate on every proposition regarding our own welfare our own happi- ness, our own wel-being and our own prosperity.
 To-day, the great trusts of the country are particularly supreme. Many of them are so entrenched in power that they are 10 all intents and purposes above the law and no longer amenable to legislation. The crying evil of the times is the power and sway of the trusts They endanger not only our free institutions but our freemen
 Trusts Must Go
 "The battle-cry of the democratic party should be- the trusts must go. All legisla- tion bestowing special benefits on the few is unjust and against the masses, and for the classes. It has gone on until less than s per cent. of the people own more than two-thlrds of all the wealth of our coun- try. It has been truly said that monarchies are destroyed by poverty and republics by wealth. If the greatest republic the world has ever seen is destroyed, it will fall by this vicious system of robbing the many for the benefit of the few"
 MT. Altgeld was the only one of the speakers who made any reference to free coinage, and he only briefly The two or three references to w. J. Bryan as the democratic candidate in 1900, each created great enthusiasm.