Iron County register., 1899-08-24
THE ISSUES OF 1895.
W. j. Bryan Says the Chicago Plat.
form VIII Stand.
SILVER Champion Addresxes the
democrats of Iowa at De.
Mofnes Republican.
ArraiSned

William j. Bryan was in great de-
mano at the state democratic conyen-
non, Des Moines, on the 18th. He spoke
10 an audience of 5000 persons in the
AUDITORIUM, and then delivered a sec
ond address to 1000 more in the taber-
nacle- His remarks were thoroughly
IN line with his earlier declarations and
with the position taken by the state
central committee and the party man
ayers, who are anxious TO reunite the
party if possible by throwing overheard
sixteen to one.
MI Bryan first reviewed the record
OF the republican party, accusing it of
putting the dollar above the man. He
then took up the silver question, saying
prosperity did not set in until six
months after the election, when the
Klondike gold mines began to be heard
from.
THE republicans who claim that times
are better because the balance of trade is in
favor of the United States" he said, give
away their own position and admit the
democratic view of the cumulative char
acter Of money is correct The financiers OF
England control the English government
through England the rest of Europe, and
through Europe the United States
The s,50o.01o democratic voters Of the
party in 1895 were for silver The 700
eoo republican voters were for a plat
form which called for international bi-
metallism- Only the Palmer and Buckner
voters were for the gold standard-less
than one per cent--yet now the Iowa repub-
hcan platform goes step farther and is
mainly for gold alone Moreover, the re-
publicans threaten TO retire the greenbacks,
though they have never been before the
people on that issue
The speaker next went after the
trusts The money trust, he said. is the
biggest trust of all. He was glad the
travelling men were fighting the indus
trial trusts now, but sorry they had not
seen the logic of events in 1896 and
helped to fight the money trust then
''The men who make trust speeches and
applaud them" he asserted, ARE bankers
A new danger of the trusts has just been de-
veioped- When trust gets control of all
the factories n given line and the hands
in one factory strike the trust will close
that one esta blishment and make its goods
at the others When the workmen at that
place are starved TO the point OF working
for any wages offered that factory will be
reopened and q lockout 10 reduce wages VIII
be inaugurated at another factory"
Mr.. Bryan closed by lengthy dis
cussion of Imperialism
THE difference" he said. between re-
= public and an empire Is this- a republic
needs az army OF ,, COO Tor Ig,ett.Hpt peop-e-
An empire needs four times that large 2
army, when 10000 coo population is added
This suits the young men who get fat Jobs
in the army. but not the people who pay the
$3.50 a year needed 70 maintain each SOL
der il the Philippines"
Mr.. Bryan gave figures to show that
England and other nations do not col
onize rapidly, and added:
with 20 people 10 the square mile in
America and 60 10 the mile in the Philip
pines, there is no opportunity there Even
# we succeed in killing off all the natives
there They prefer 10 live in Iowa and Ne
and the profit viii not go to the right peo-
pie but to investment syrdicates- Even
if any man is willing 10 trade for pottage
and does not have taste for birthrighI he
had better investigate the pottage-
"As the Tagals are largely Christians and
our native allies are largely Mohammedans
we ought to ask the sultan TO help US 10 sub
due the Christian insurgents
This government ought TO make a dec
laration Of good intentions toward the
Philippines. as II did toward Cuba The
president ought to have done SO. or II he
did not have the power should have asked
congress for II. Now he might call a spe-
ciaI session TO ask for the power Cleveland
called a special session to repeal the sher-
man act and Mckinley called one A spe-
ciaI session now would cost much money,
but not nearly so much as the continuance
Of the war