Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-06-02
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hb9 CAuoa W OEucE ny Jud&o oAunos
q. Tarv,n, President Of the League
who delivered II lengthy address
from which we clip the following:
Those who call themselves Repub.
licans today ought to take Ecm 20
heart the words OF Abraham Lincoln;
Il soc in the near future n crisis ap.
proachiug that unuerres me and
causes me to tremble for the safety OF
my country. As a result Of the war.
corporations have been enthro.Ied and
an era of corruption III high
places will follow, and the
money power OF the country will
endeavor to prolong its reign by
working upon the prejudices OF the
people. until all wealth ia aggregated
in a few hands and the Republic is
destroyed. / feel ut this moment
more anxiety for my country than
ever before, even in the midst OF the
war
Il suggest to those who call them
selves Republicans to compare the
words OF Lincoln with those OF Han
ns, the words OF Secretary OF War AL.
ger, and the course Of the nominal
President, Mr.. Mckinley, ! am not
one OF those who believe in denounc
ing President Mckinley. l don't be-
lieve he ever caused anything TO hap
nan c,pra Ia una hnrn-
Contrast Lincoln with Mckinley
Remember the lives that were lost,
the blood that was shed, the property
that was destroyed. to bring freedom
to the blacks. Then remember that
more helpless Filipinos have been
shot TO death by this administration
than have been killed by the Span.
iards i'll three hundred years. and
then imagine what Lincoln would
have done had he been conducting
the administration. These Filipiuos
have never harmed this country; they
have never harmed or attempted tn
harm a single citizen OF this govern
lltlllt hIlu III TIC AtCC VI NIGcS AaSlSt
there eau he no reason or excuse Ill the
heart OF any citizen for their murder
The proposition that this government
has bought them at 81 a head does
not justify their killing. We do no:
cnticise or do we denounce the SOL
dIers. Their duty is to obey orders,
and they are not responsible. We
honor the heroic deeds and mourn
their courageous dead. Those who
are responsible are in no place Of
danger, nor will they be. The bullet
has never yet been made to go ont OF
the mouth OF a gun that could catch
up with the rear parts OF Alger OF
Hanna.
Il know that it was declared by
those who opposed US in 1896 that the
gold standard advocates " all the
intelli gence aud all the knowledge Of
the country, and that we were too
ignorant and too stupid TO know what
was best for welfare, and that we
should leave the Sc matters to the gold
standard people,, whose only desire on
earth was to benefit somebody else at
the expense OF themselves. But it
seems to US IN our feeble, ana5chistic
way OF thinking, that il there is any
thing in this government too big for
the average lawyer, mechant, doctor
or farmer to understand that thing is
too big for the government and ought
to be put out OF it. IL our gold stand.
ard brethern have monopUlized all
the intelligence and knowledge rs
well rs all the money they ought not
to abuse If. but ought to look upon
US with sympathy and listen to what
We have TO say with or%bcarance. or
course, we cannot hope to think with
the intellect OF n gold standard man,
but il does seem to me, with all the
certainty possible accorded TO the
feeble mind OF a Democrat, that " l.
liam Jennings Bryan, George Fred
Williams and Charles |. Towne are
the finest specimens o; youth, vigor.
eloquence and brains OF American
citiz .nslnp. II the gold standard can
furnish a higher cls4s than these rep.
resented, then ! have failed to I'M
derstand or to fully appreciate the
possibilities Of American develop
ment.
In conclusion ] will say that ! be
live it to be the judgment and sound
sense Of this convention that the
Democratic National convention OF
1900. after adopting a platform made
10y Democrats, should place upon il
b! acclama;ioD the leader Tor that
year the man who led them against
such fearful odds in 1895 and that IN
the campaign Of 1910. as in 1896. tbe
real and only Democrats of this coun.
try will and ough: TO be satisfied With
that for which they contended in 1896,
Bryan aud free silver.
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