Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-16
COL. BRYAN At DES MONIES.
Addressed a Great Gathering Of Demo-
Gratis on Live Topics.

THE POWER OF THE TRUSTS AND
THE PLANS BY WHICH THEY
MAY BEGGAR LABOR-THE
MONEY TRUST THE WORST OF
ALE-IN 1896, NONE VOTED
FOR GOLD, BUT THE FEW PAIL
MER AND BUCKNER ADLER
ENTS-THE WAR IN THE PHIL
IPPINES AND THE DANGERS
OF TIA SPECIAL SESSION OF
CONGRESS SHOULD BE CALL
ED.
DIES MONIES, Ia, August 15-Wm.
Jennings Bryan spoke for two hours
at the Auditorium tonight, to an aud
fence of $500 people. The house was
crowded and the audience, which in
cluded practically all the delegates to
the Democratic convention to be held
tomorrow, took every opportunity to
applaud.
MIR. Bryan 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 be-
cause the balance of trade is in favor
of the United States, give away their
own position, and admit the Demo-
cratic view of the quantitative char
acter of money is correct. The finan-
ciers of England control the English
government, through England the
rest of Europe, and through Europe
the United States.
The 100000 Democratic voters of
the Democratic party in 1896 were for
silver. The 100000 Republican vot-
ers were for a platform which called
for international bitmetallism. Only
lnO dlllCl duQ DuChClli NOtClo NSiO
for the gold Sandwiches than one
per cent, yet now the Iowa Republic
can platform goes step farther and
is for gold alone. Moreover, the Re-
publicans threaten to retire the green
backs, though they have never been
before the people on that issue.
The speaker next went after the
trusts, but said if the Democratic party
neglected the silver question to attend
to trusts, it would rightly forfeit the
condolences of the people. The money
trust is the biggest trust of all. He
was glad that travelling men were fight
ing the industrial 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 &Aem, are the
bankers. A new danger of the trusts
has just been developed. When a trust
gets control of all the factories in Civ
en- line and the hands in one factory
strike, the trust will close that one es-
tablishment and make its goods at the
others. When the workmen at the
pidSO dlG SIdi FCd W luC punt VI NOi n
ing for any wages offered, that factory
will be reopened and lockout to re-
duce the wages will be inaugurated at
another factory. Mr. Bryan closed his
speech by lengthy discussion of i'm
perialism. The difference, he said, be-
tween a republic and an empire is this:
A republic needs an army of $4,000
for 70,000000 people. An empire needs
four times that large an army, when
100000 population is added. This
suits the young men who get fat jobs
in the army, but not the people who pay
the 81, 500 a year needed to maintain
each soldier in the Philippines Mr..
Bryan gave figures to show that Eng
land and other nations do not colonize
rapidly and said that with twenty peo-
pie to the square mile in America and
sixty to the mile in the Philippines,
there is no opportunity there. Even if
we succeed in killing off all the natives,
you cannot get young Americans TO go
there-they prefer to live in Iowa and
Nebraska. The profit will not equal
the cost and the profit will not go to
the right people, but to investment syn
dicates. Even if any man is willing to
trade for pottage, and does not have
taste for birth-right, he had better in
vestigate the pottage. As the Tagals
are largely Christians and our native
allies are largely Mohammedan, We
ought 10 ask the Sultan of Sulu to help
us subdue the Christian insurgents.
This government ought to make a
declaration of good intentions towards
the Philippines, as it did toward Cuba.
The President ought TO have done so,
or if he did not have the power should
have asked Congress for it. Now, he
might call special session to ask for
the power.
Cleveland called a special session to
repeal the Sherman act. and Mckinley
called one A special session now would
cost much money. but not nearly as
much as the continuance of the war.
MORE FEUDS.
LONDON. Ky. August 15.-As mat
tiers now Aand in Clay county. four
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