The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-16

a horseshoe of flowers was presented to
Colonel BRYAN. who arose and bowed.
John S. Crosby spoke on civil Lib
erty"
Judge Tarvin prefaced his speech by
saving that "The repubIicanism of Lin
coin is greatly different from the reve-
nueism of Hanna" He said in part:
The Enemy of Freedom.
"Organized wealth is the enemy of
human freedom and ORGANIZED wealth
in this land has become a public en-
emy. 1t cannot exist under a free gov
ernment because it cannot exist at all
unless it controls the government and
through the government dictates to
the people. 1t cannot exist if 1t Is
less than the government, or subordin-
ate to the government 1t can only
exist when it is greater than the gov
ernment, and superior to the govern
ment.
But in the contest now impending
organized wealth is face to face with
an opposition such as it has never be-
fore seen. The world has never be-
fore known such a people as those of
the United States. ',hen they once
become awakened their force will be
such that nothing can Withstand it.
With their attention and thought once
aroused, they will remedy their own
evils, and they will Ca it by process
of law. and by and through the means
of the ballot box. But it is well to
fully know and estimate the power
with which the people have to contend.
Organized wealth is the owner of a
great political organization and many
republicans fail to draw the distinc-
tion between the republicanism of a
Lincoln and the repubhcanism of a
Hanna. 1t has a national administra-
ton behind it. 1t owns many of the
| courts of the land. 1t can dictate leg
! islation and ofttirnes can dictate ad-
Indication; it reaches into towns and
controls the great cities Of the coun-
try to such an extent that it has come
/ to pass that with those in political
control in those cities, repubicanism
and democracy have alike ceased tC
| have meaning, and the only effort
| is by those in control to become the
| wards and beneficiaries of the enemies
of the people and of free government
There is no difference between a Gro
ker and a Platt. between a Roosevelt
! and Van Wyck. The hope of success
! lies in the country outside the great
, cities and success to be attained mus
be attained in the face of the opposi.
ton of corrupt and debased munich
| pal political conditions.
Will Inspire the People.
But the instinct Of human freedom
! is a great factor. Organization of al
| artstocracy. of wealth and of parties
| will fall before it. 1t Will inspire thu
people as of old. 1t will gather then
together under the banner of democ
racy upon a platform of self defense
and bind them together in hope, as
piration and belief; and I believe tha
the time is near at hand when the!
will be so awakened that their end
| will be accomplished that government
will be made the serEan+ and not TIL
master of man.: :eiha 6 ieeislation viii
be for mars ben&ilt alsd net for hi
undoing and that the common and uni
versal hope and cry will be No master,
of money, no tyranny of wealth.
The next speaker was Jerome O'Nei
| who spoke on "Labor's Hope
Ex-C Congressman Charles f. Town
spoke on "Americanism.'
The great crowd waited patientl.
through all the speeches. There wer
at first many calls for Bryan, but whe
it was seen that the programme was t
be adhered to they stopped calling an
waited. Mr.. Bryan sat in full vieN
of the entire audience, in calmly in
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