The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-24

| So they strike insincersly at any real abuse OF
standing f ready T. hamper those Who would
| really offer one. and when they propose REM
edy. II ts measure which would asgrayate ten
| times whatever Of evil actually exists.
There is not an issue they raise on which We
| are not more than anxious 10 meet them more
| than hall way and on at least one OF the issues
you will see that they will try as far as may be
| 10 shuttle out Of anything more than a per
| They wish TO discuss the question OF trusts. an
| economic question. and OF expansion. which Is
honor OF the flag and the interests OF the ma.
| ton. and Of making us Sc level to our duties
mS the s ney 6Eps ayoa d.
| cusson of their advocacy al dishonest dollar:
trusting that thereby they shalt be enabled
yet 70 fool the men who stand Tor
not live issue. Ny fellow citizens. II is and it
most importance to the welfare Of this nation
aud OF every man in II. and especially ot every
Of the chief OF live issues until it is not merely
| suboldinatsd. but definitely Abandoned or
5 he nob ey ,hs b aSsns sr q,
| long as they are for II. II makes no difference
whether they shout or whisper their allegiance
| Our opponents denounce trusts. But they
propose not one remedy that would not make
| the situation ten times worse than at its worst
speeches OF Mr.. Bryan and OF his fellows to hnd
out what they propose to do. have found
plenty OIL vague utnunclhtlOn. nave not
found so much as an attempt to formulate a
| rational policy OF relief.
measure. OF relief are proposed The first.
that you should change the tariff because u
iayors trusts; and the second. that you should
| to the action OF any other nation. They pre-
tend that the tariff favors trusts. They know
the STANDARD oil and the Sugar Trust are utterly
unaffected by the tariff. They know we'll that
spread and deepest dissat staction. the Beef
| Trust 10 utterly unaffected by the tariff; and
in my own State one OF the largesttrusts the Ice
| Trust which is said TO have as Its most promi-
| nent member and pronoter that ardent anti
trust ehamplon and advocate o. hr Bryan. Mr.:
the tariff. They know all this. for they cannot
! but know it II they possess the Intelligence to
against the tsriii knowinc that wha, they say
j; false. because. as they have no remedy.
%edy run they ns' sa EH0G ss people
their own benefit six years ago you
they they now %rv ask A you 10 return. 'A And " You
! were suffering from the threat OF free coinage
people Of THIS saany so
! they forget the nissrles OF six years ago! Do
they forget the bread riots. the poverty. the
| to work. appeal to the evidence OF your own
senses, Are yod or are you not better OF than
you were six yearsago: The farmer; the trades
| man. the man with the dinner pail. the wage
| worker. are these men as whole better or
worse off than they were six years ago: In a
| great community there is and there alwaysw!l
| b. individual suffering. not only among the
shiftess and the ne'er- do weels. but at certain
| times aud in certain places among tho honest
| and industrlous with whom fate has gone hard.
We cannot by any laws bring happiness and
| R-pu blcan party has actually done that Is. by
wise legislation and wise admin! stration secure
! the chance for the great bulk OF our people to
! live out their lives and do their work with the
odds as much as possible N their favor. the
You caMnot by law maze Nan prospect
Gus. You can only do what we have
prosperous by his own eHertions But You can
very readily by law lake away tn. chance from
il YOU do what our opponents ask you To do, II
you upset our present tarih policy and plunge
us back into the economic chaos N whi:n We
were founderInG six years ago. and II you up
set our system Of finance ana destroy our ma
tional aud business credit; then YOU Will cast
misery. a misery which viii be felt by ali. but
which vii! be felt most severely by the wage
workers. TO " HON our foes especially appeal
The second great remedy they propose for
trusts is the free coinage OF SILVER at III
bcy antSa S9I Proposo 10 reoEr that
! the trusts deprive certain men OF part q! their
es[ninEs or ihr9T Ger. gerfain BODY Of men ont
cree!nS that the men who still have employ
ment shat he raid 4s ce99ts on tile
/ securing the free coinage of silver, the effect
community: for there is. in spite o: what
say rss and
| to the bottom from the east 10. the
wesI from the 1.sih 10 ,hs soq'n nn ana you
! class without including other classes therein
! to a greater or les. extent; but remem Der that
! the disaster would fall with most crushing
! weight. not upon the men against whom the
! demagoeues rail. but upon the wage workers
! with whose interest they profess themselves to
! be primarily concerned. The utter unsettle-
ment OF values consequent upon complete
! upssttinK OF our financial system would give ii
Fl nDpOTtu1lty for TO every
I scrupu!ous Dspecu! ator in the country and
probably the pIope who would suT e the ne c least
bnation have created the great truss: They
could and they would partly protect them
/ selves Here and there they would even wiring
profit for themselves out OF the distress caused
10 the multitude by tn" folly which had made'
ADVISERS. But the wage-ea!ners. the wage
workers. they could not protect themselves
and there would be no help Tor them
, When il comes to serious Iy grappling with
h: ps2p ssT+ ,b a9 the sG
| hand when he kusws nothing and processes to
know nothing about what j. really is but the
make tiae nosis o: the case, and then 70 cure
each bad feature "a the diagnosis ,rareals its
existence. Let me illustrate what l am about
recsntiy Occurred in my own State. For a
o has hs p9saa a. Pe in Ss
! enemy OF corporate wealth. and in its platforms
has Re Id !Sn
the vote OF the workngman. The Republican
| party / am glad 10 say. has not gone on the
| principle OF promising imposslbilities wit the
| hope Of get ting votes. but has promised what
| il could perform. and has made its performance
square fully with It's. promise. We never
| posed as the enemy OF the rich man. as the
| enemy OF the corporation. We merely said.
and We meant what we said that SO lar as
treated alike: the corporation sa.e-guarded
| whom II did well made TO pay its lust ob!iga-
tions whether it did well or Ill and il it did III.
brought to summary justice, During the time
| that the Democrats were in power not ono
effective law was put upon the statute books to
carry out the threats they made. As matter
OF fact. their threats were so large and vague.
! their promises 50 ample and 20 Incapable OF
fulh,ment, that there was not one thing
, they could do which would in any way meet
! the expectations thcy had aroused
NEW YoRK's FRANCHISE TAX LAW.
We came in, not promising the millennium
not saying we could remove all the in
! eGualities which have existed on this earth
| since our skin.c!ad ancestors came out
OF their caves: but bent upou doing what
! IN us lay to tighten to some extent the
burden OF injustice. to make conditions little
| inirer a little more equal. In consequence we
| now have put upon the statute hooks Tor the