Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-05-04
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William J. Bryan was welcomed in
Syracuse last Thursday night ION his way
West from New York City by an immense
assemblage of the people of thu Central
City. headed by the Mayor and in Buffalo
en- Friday evening. In each of those cities
the largest halls were packed to overflow
ing by earnest and enthusiastic audiences
of more than three thousand-though there
was but brief notice when he consented to
stop.
10 Buffalo, two daily papers which have
heretofore opposed Bryan very feTcely,
have come ont in warm support of bis
visws-the owner and editor Of each openly
acknowledging that they have been wrong
and Brayan uBaDswearbly right.
Among the many telling points in these
speeches the hostile press dispatcher per
mitted these TO come over the wires -
.sYop heard me called hard names fn 1895. but
you haven't name hard enough TO keep me
from protesting against handful of English
bankers controlling 7o,c09t 600 people in this
country. said William ]. Bryan in his speech
here last night. $. Your State delegates went 10
Chicago and then voted as though in a Repub
lican Convention. Then they went 10 Indiana
polls and threw of the mask.
= In 1855 we opposed the trusts so much that
they opposed US. We oppose all trusts, especially
money monopoly. The Republicans are Try ing
10 0FkA1thS q paper AtDbSt trust 10 tHfh over
the money market TO the national banks. Unless
trusts throttied there IS no chance for the
young man of to-day We ask Republicans to
help US save the Government.
large standing army is burden TO tax
payers and menace TO the republic. This
nation can depend upon its volunteers They
can defend 1t IN the hour of danger sNocifeTous
cheeriBg).
!" What has happened to make more soldiers
necessary? Nothing but Republican admins
tretien. The President says our occupation of
Is is MT ff.p
Rico. Seventy thousand soldiers are wanted 10
carry the benign blessing of freedom to 9n00,0e0
FilipiBos. Who will pay the cost If the Filipi-
nos they must be taxed four times as high as
Spain taxed them. II they paw it. ask gold
man TO show how it viii get back to tax payers.
Common people furnish soldiers, and syndicAtes
get the money paid for war. / don't want q
single soul TO be brought under the American flag
unless he can share in every blessing Of this
J government (ApDiausel
Shall we cali our Chief Executive President
Of the United States and Emperor Of the Philip
piness Government by one man backed by force
& despotism. People who are opposed to taxing
the Philippines plead not tor the Fipinos, but
far the American people who may not by be-
coming accustomed TO despotism be prepared 70
Weld 10 despots. / oppose the pretense of
Christianity fired out e q atling gun The man
who ID hit does not need the Gospel
Does the laborfng man want Oriental labor
10 compete with hAmf Every nation Ia Europe
wants as TO be guilty OF conquest. II we are 10
become an empire let us send BaItholdi's s atue
back to France and go to England and borrow
ssefute of William the Cououeror Let us treat
the Fiiipinos as we would the Cubans and we
will erect ia the harbof OF Manila neE statute
Of liberty In the old world