Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-02

polite, who could tell us Just what allied Us
| simply by looking at our tongues. They de-
clared that he had discovered that the dose
previously administered was a mistake. lie
told us that unless we wiped out the crime
Of 1873 and opened our mints to the free
coinage of the dollars OF our daddies, all
sorts OF evils would overwhelm us But we
didn't believe him. 1t reminds me OF the
| story Of an old tavern keeper down in Mis-
souri, He was great believer in the theory
that history repeats itself once every thou
| sand years. One night two young men came
| riding up to his tavern and put up for the
| night. He explained to them his theory and
endeavored to impress 1t upon them with
great earnestnese., When they retired he
| adjured them to think 1t over during the
| night In the morning the young men arose
| and after breakfast called for their horses
and started on. just as they we're riding
| away without settling their bill he stopped
them. Say said he, haven't you fellows
! forgotten something?' The young men
thought to perpetrate Joke upon him, and
replied that they we're believers that his
! tory repeats ITSELF that in just a thousand
years they would come back again just as
they had come, that they would find him
there and that II it was just the same to
him they would let the bill go over until
their return. But the old man was too sharp
for them, for he promptly replied that that
would not do. for come to think about 1t,
after a good look at them, he was convinced
! that they were the same two fellows who
had come the same trick upon him a thou
sand years before. And so we told the dem
ocrats that we recognize them as the same
fellows who fooled us in 1892. We elected
that Christian statesman, William McKin-
ley, to be president He at once called a
! session of congress, the mongrel Wilson bill
was repealed and the republican Dingley
tariff bill enacted. The factories were at
once reopened, the Coxey armies disappeared
and honest labor is finding abundant en-
ployment all over this country"
Plenty OF Work.
The speaker said that he had passed
through Omaha during the 1896 campaign.
He had found many vacant stores here They
were filled with men who had nothing bet
ter to do than to hang around political meet
ings. "Is there man in Omaha today who
is willing to do an honest days work and
who can't find employment" number OF
voices in the audience answered in the neg
ative. In 1896. the speaker declared, there
were two kinds of institutions only in Kan
sas City that were prosperous, the pawn
shop and the soup house.
Statistics were given to show that dur
ing the past three years the number OF Ia
borers in certain specified institutions had
increased 40 per cent and the amount paid
them in wages "a per cent, that the prod
ucts of our factories and foundries are go
ing everywhere that our steel has been used
in bridging the Nile, the screech OF our
;., or5 oil world and
that $500 900, 900 has been added to the value
of our domestic animals in this country
Bryan had declared that under the repub-
lican system of finance there would be nc
increase in the circulating medium and yet
in twenty-four months up to July, 1898, the
circulating medium had increased nearly
$4O0 900. or from s21 to over s25 pei
capita. Bryan had proclaimed that the
policy OF the republican party was to make
money dear, and yet money was never az
cheap in the United States as it is today
The volume of business is Ill per cent
greater than it was in 1896.
He referred to the lamentations that were
heard over the encouragement given by the
Mckinley bill to the tin plate industry. He
was even a little scared over it himself. He
did not think that this country had the tir
to make it success. But he found thai
in one year before the passage of that bill
the American people bought from the Welsh
tin manufacturers 100000 worth OF ti-
plate. The American got the tin all right
and the Englishman got the money. Now
under the impetus given the tin plate in.
dustry by the Mckinley tariff it is giving
employment to 2S, 900 American laborers ant
sustenance to 100000 American people.
Alleged New Issues.
This year the democrats announce tha
: they have laid away free trade and free sill
r yer in the political garret. Now they com,
around with fearful faces that would max,
the weeping jeremiah jealous and tell III
| that new issues have arisen that overshadov
t all others and are threatening this nation
Now 1t is trusts and militarsm and i'm
y perialism and expansion.
a. AS to trusts the speaker recalled the fac
that 1t was the republican party that passe
the first measure against them, the Sherman
Z antitrust law. During the time that BryaI
n was in congress, it was Attorney Genera
n Olney, democrat appointed by Cleveland
who gave it as his opinion that the law wa
so crude as to be ineffective and was un
constitutional. Was Bryan asleep at tha
g time? "Of course am not here to set u
the opinion OF Attorney General Olne
c against that OF the great constitutional law
a yer OF Nebraska" Recounting the test cas-
g brought in the United States supreme cour
4 and how Chief Justice Fuller democra
a appointed by Cleveland, had declared tn
law unconstitutional. the speaker again re
q marked sarcastically: But who would sc
: up the opinion of Chief Justice Fulle
, against that Of the great military geniu
. of Nebraska?" Congress had met imme
p diately thereafter. What was William Jen
nings Bryan, the watchdog OF the people
doing then. and why did he not take step
for the relief Of the people from the evil
y y OF the trusts? With scathing sarcasm tn
speaker ridiculed, from lawyers stand
= = point, the remedies recently suggested b
= Bryan. and declared that the only remed
was an amendment to the constitution, G
: which he declared himself in favor.
\ Treatment of Imperialism.
Imnerialism handled nj