The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-05

| tnese possessions we WOu1d WIN WIS
craftsmanship regulate the affairs !
those far away isles OF the Pacific so tina
the people would be taught the blessing
of self government and could be entrpste
with the management OF their own affairs
Coming down TO and speaking OF the Is
sue OF the campaign OF 1900 Mr.. Carut
said:
1896 Is in our rear 1900 is in front o
us. 1t is useless for us talk OF the cause
Of the defeat in 1896. We know that W
cast nearly one million more democratic
votes than were ever given to our can
dldates for president before, and yet w
lost. Everything that human pgenuit.
could contrive, every expedient which pes
peration could suggest were used in orde
to corrupt the franchise and secure tn,
presidency for the republicans. 1t is no
necessary to particularize, but the 'vot
INCEST people In the Union seemed to liv,
In Ohio where one out of every three o
the population was voter In 1896. pro-
portion startling, previously unheard OIL
and grossly untrue Take old Kentucky
my State, which gave Bryan In 1896 217,
600 votes to $4,000 votes given Cleveland
In 1892. an increase OF $4,000; and yet. In
1892, we carried the State by $4,000, and
lost 1t by PSI In 1896 1t was the desper-
ate effort on the part of the moneyed and
corporate powers Of this country TO ac-
complish the defeat of the will of the
| people by false clamor, and falling in that
| by a false count. But 1896 lies In the
past. and no regret repentance or repin-
Ing can bring 1t back again.
Let us cease to lament for what we can
not help,
And let us study help for that which we
lament,
1890 is before us, and to that year we
must turn for succor.
we can not. men of Tammany, expect
that $500 600 votes of this country will
ignore the principles for which they cast
their suffrage less than three short years
ago. Although defeat came to them. dem
ocrats over this country believe, or at
least majority OF them believe, and
democracy is but the will of the majority
that the platform laid down in Chicago
In 1886 states the cardinal doctrines OF
the democratic faith and on that plat
form they propose to fight The battle OF
1900. Although you may not be in thor
ough accord with the principles of faith
therein enumerated, those principles are
so far better and so much more preferable
to those OF the republican party, that
beileve the people Will rally around our
standard and carry 1t to triumphant VIC
tory
But there is on issue" said Mr.. Ca
ruth which has become more permanent
in the years that have gone since 1896 than
1t was when the great popular convention
assembled at Chicago and constructed the
democratic platform. and upon that sub
)ect we must speak In no uncertain voice
in 1900 The evil of which we complain
Is the natural offspring of the miscalled
american policy of The republican party
ne eVll is upon us because, as a nation
we nave been false to the principles Of
equality proclaimed in the Declaration of
Independence 1t is because we have not
given equal rights to all men and exclus-
i've privileges to no man. We fostered
manufacturers and encouraged infant in
dustries' until warmed into life and
strength they have turned to strike with
their poisonous stings the generous bosom
which nourished them. All through a
life coexensive with the life of the re-
public, democracy has sounded warning
TO the people, yet inch by inch, step Nv
step, the so-called doctrine of protection
mas advanced. Its advocates won their
way by insidious pleas and false repre-
sensations, but now, conscious of strength
they bodily throw off the mask and de-
mand protection for projections sake
on the floor of the house of represen
tatives OF the United States in the session
at which both the Mckinley tariff hin
and the antitrust measure were passed
! heard the Hon, VIM. l. Wilson, a demo-
cratic leader, thoughtful and scholarly
student of public affairs, warn the country
that the Mckinley bill would be breeder
OF trusts ana combines. He said. in illus
Halon OF the danger, i remember an old
rhyme which runs something like this:
= i heard lion in the lobby roar,
Pray. Mr.. Speaker, shall we shut the door
ana keep him there, or shall we let him
in
10 try II we can turn him out again.
This is your position in regard to
trusts Instead of keeping the lion out
Brother Mckinley comes opening the |
door and says: Let him In. and then we
are going to chase him around and trv
to get him out again.
me republicans not only opened The
uoor' nut they coaXed him in and pleased
win MS quarters, he stayed in and be- .
come more fierce, terrible and destructive /
IMAM any lion ever was before
"A bright newspaper man out in Min
heapoils mas given the brute name. He
describes him as species of hppopota /
mus because that animal has the thlckest
OF hldes and the biggest of laws and is
the ugilest Of Gods creatures How Noah
anu ms family stayed in the same ark
win pair of them | have never hesn
able TO understand He calls the beast
the Hipposat. and says of ii:
Look out look out. We merchantmen all
Look out for the Hippogat
" no eateth Industries great and small
AND waxeth so big and fat.
cradles and cfflns and babies milk
oii sugar. refined and raw
Newspaper print and the doldames' milk
All 30 TO the monsters NAV.
The greedy protected industries a,
america hrst demanded home marker
anu 'hls was secured by legislative enact.
nents under which the products of the
manufacturers OF other countries were kent
OUT OF the United States. and foreign cow
petition was thus driven away and Tho
homo market secured. We paid for tbis
concession 10 the favorite classes but tha
republican advocates of protection tried
70 make credulous people believe when
we said that the consumer paid tho tnx.
mat We were wrong, that foreign manu
facturers paid the tax. And tho maiorit,,
OF the daily newspaper press OF the Iinio1
sustained this contention and cried down
the democratic argument. But when fba
pracucal question came home TO tho neus
paper people and the paper trua, re
tered by an unjust tariff, raised The nr,oa G
OF printing paper So to $40 TON ,h 4
pretty soon discovered who paid the Inv
ina 10. aaiiy newspapers in all sections
Oh tne Union demandedfree paper and free n
wood pulp, because the turin on these ar ,
neies, as they said, a $4,000, 600 taxsn in /.
lelisenee Hence. the newspapers ioinad
,ne cry Dust the trusts The tariff bas {
arven out the foreign competition the 4
trust mas destroyed home competition ana /,