The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28

who wouid make II false to the past, false
to the country, false to the ideals Of its
best men. So 1t was In the civil war, when
the war Democrats honored themselves BY
standing BY the country; and 50 1t will be
now, for We have q right to call upon all
sincere levers Of the nag, upon all believers
in national honesty and civic uprightnsss
upon all men who wish TO bring about the
bsttsrment ana uplifting Of the mass Of ths
people, to stand with NJ until the hsresieS
for which our opponents now fsht have
been rslegatsd b the unolean dust where
they belong.
Democrats Propose No Remedy for Trusts.
Our oppoaents depounce trusts But they
propose not one remedy that would not
make the situation ten timss worse than at
ts worst 1t now n I have read through
carefully the speeches Of Mr.. Bryan and Of
his fellows to find out what they propose to
do. I have found plenty Of vague denuncia.
tion I have net found 20 much ~ an at
tempt to fornmlsts o rational policy Of re-
lief.
More and more - we study their speeches.
1t must be impressed deeply upon u that
they ars not seeking to secure remedy for
the grave economic evils that have made
themselves manifest In connection with the
speak Of as the growth Of trusts; that
they are not honestly striving for . remedy;
that all they are seeking to do - to raise
a CITY which will ndame the people. that
thereby they themselves may come back to
power. They are not striving to bsnent the
people. They are striving to ho6dwink the
people IL order to benent thsnselves.
In the Democratic platform In Ohio 3ust
two measures Of relief are prcpsstd: The
frst, that yen should change the tarin be-
oauss II favers trusts; and the second. that
you should coin silver at the ratio Of 16 to
without regard to the action Of any sther
nation.
They pretend that the tariff favsrs trusts.
They know well that the greatest trusts In
this country--the Standard Oil and the Su-
gar trusts--ars utterly unaffected BY the
tarin. They know well that the trust with
which there IL the most Widespread and
deepest dissatisfaction, the Beef trust, 10
utterly una affected by the tariff; and In my
own state, one Of the largest trusts, the Ice
trust (which b said to- have a. lts most
prominent member and promoter that
ardent antitrust champion and advocate Of
Mr.. Bryan. Mr.. Richard Croker. il also
wholly unaffected by the tariff.
They know all this. for they cannot but
know 1t, II they possess the intelligence to
draw up platform; and yet they inveigh
against the tarin, knowing what they say 10
false. because. as they have no remedy.
they trust, by proposing a false remedy,
they can mislead the people for their own
benefit and to the peoples destruction. Six
years ago you were under a kind Of tariff
to which they now ask you to return. Ana
you were suffering from the threat of free
coiuags-ths threat which they now revive.
Six Years Age and To-day.
Are the people Of this country 20 short.
sighted that they fosget the niseries Of ak
years ago? Do they forget the bread riots,
the poverty, the squaiid want, even Of those
able and anxious to work. appeal to the
evidence Of your own senses. Are you, or
are you not better OF than you were SIX
years ago2 The farmer, the tradesman, the
man with the dinner pail, the wage worker,
are these men a. whole better Or worse
on than they were six years agNf
In q great community there is, and there
/ always will be, individual suffering, not
only among the shifttess and the ne'sr-do-
| weels, but at certain times and In certain
| places among the honest and industrious
| with whom fate has gone hard. We cannot
~ any laws bring happiness and prosperity
1
| publican party has actually done; that 10, by
| wise legislation and wise administration ss.
| cure the chance for the great bulk Of our
people to live out their lives and do their
| work with the odds a. much a. possible in
their favor; the conditions a. favorable ~
| they can be made.
| You cannot By law make q man prosper
QUA You can only do what we have dons-
give him the chance 10 become prosperous
" his own exsrtions. But you can very
readily BY law take this chance away from
him, and as sure 40 there 10 4 sun IN
heaven. II you do what our opponents ask
| you to do, II you upset our present tarin
policy and plunge us back Int the economic
chaos in which we were hounAer1ng sir
| years ago, and II you upset our system Of
finance and destroy our national credit. thsr
you will east this country into q condition
Of appalling misery, a misery which will bs
felt by al, but which will be felt most -
verely by the wage-woqkers, to whom oul
foes especially appeal. Surely. the country
has had enough Of tariff tiukering BY tn,
opponents Of prstsctivs tariff.
Free Silver and the Wags-Earnsrs.
The second great remedy they propose fol
trusts 10 the free coinage Of silver at 10 to
the coinage Of . Ascent dollar. They act
ually propose to the people that, If tn,
trusts deprive certain men Of part Of thei,
earnings, or throw q certain body Of mel
| out Of employment, this shall be remediet
| by decreeing that the men who still have
employment shall be paid 4S cents on th
dollar for the work they do.
If they carry through their proposition, |
they succeed in securing the free coinage o
silver, the effect would be indeed disas
trous upon the whole community; for ther
10. In spite of what demagogues may say
real and ever present brotherhood Of In
terest throughout this whole nation, fron
the top to the bottom, from the East to tn
West, from the North to the South, an
you cannot cause widespread disaster t
any one class without including other class
es therein to greater or less extent; bu
remember that the disaster would fall witt
most crushing weight. not upon the me-
against whom the demag guss rail. but upo
the wage-workers, with whose interes
they profess themselves to be primarily cor
cerned.
The utter unsettIemsnt of values conss
. | Quent upon complete upsetting Of ou
financial system would give q great oppol
tunity for gain to every INSCRIPTIONS spec
ulator In the country, and probably the pee
pie who would suffer the least from
would be the very people who by combiui
tion have created the greatest trusts. The
could, and they would partly protect then
selves. Here and there they would eve
wiring profit from themselves out Of the dii
trsss caused to the multitude by the foil
l x1-lt tnh hau Ia tb.,v. .l.lH ~.