The age-herald., 1899-06-01

! tempted to harm a single citizen of this | government; and n-;the face of that fact, | there can be no reason and no excuse in f the heart or mind of any honest or humane I man for their murder The proposition | that this government has bought them at | S2 a head does not justify their killing. We do not critieise nor do we denounce the 1 soldiers; their duty is to obey orders, and l they are not responsible. We honor their heroic deeds and mourn their courageous dead. Those who are responsible are in no position of danger, nor will they be. The | bullet has never yet been made to go out | of the mouth of the gun that can travel 1 fast enough to catch up with the rear parts of a Hanna or an Alger.
 ] I know that 1t was declared by those | who opposed us in 1896 that the gold stand ! ard advocates own all the intelligence and 1 all the knowledge of the country, and that 1 we were too ignorant and too stupid to un- ! de-stand that which was best for our well ! fare and that we ought to leave these mat ters to the gold standard people, whose only desire on earth was to benefit some body else at their own expense. But 1t seems to us, in our feeble anarchistic way of thinking, that if there is anything in this government took big for the average lawyer or doctor or farmer or laborer or merchant or manufacturer, to understand
 that thing is too big for this government, and ought to be out of 1t. If our gold standard brethren have monopolized all the intelligence and knowledge as well as all the money, they ought not to abuse us, but ought to look upon us with sympathy and listen to us with forbeaTance UT course we cannot hope to think with the intellect of a gold standard man, but it does seem to me, with all the certainty possible to the feeble mind accorded by the gold standard man to the democrat
 anarchist, that William Jennings Bryan, George Fred Williams, and Charles A T'owne are the finest specimens to De found of the youth, vigor, eloquence ana
 brain of American citizenship, IT the goiu
 standard brethren can furnish hlgner
 class than these represented, than ! haVe
 failed to fully appreciate or to 1uily ui~
 derstand the possibilities of American ue- velopment
 "In conclusion I will say that I believe
 1t to be the judgment and the sense or lhiS
 convention that the democratic natlohal
 convention of 1900, after adopting S plat
 from made by democrats, ought 10 p4ace
 ,1t,on if by exclamation as the leader or the
 democracy in that year the one who led
 them against such fearful odds in 1886, ana that in the campaign of lMO, as III 1o9V' .,1 tn9
 real and only democrats or ths laha VII ~tit
 be satisfied and ought to be satlsHeo wnA aoc
 that for which they contehueo h A''''
 Bryan and free silver
 Ex-Senator J. c. S. Blackburn Was to
 have spoken this evening, put ne WAS u
 tained at home on account or the iiii'O''
 of his wife. o,ar,o,,
 Following Judge TarVln, Cois osali'+,r, a,,
 James M Robinson of Indiana made an
 imnromntu speech. In reference to the
 coming campaign of 1900 the speaker sslld
 that if law with the democratic party lo
 name the victor, and that they "ou,u ii5ano @F'
 A great mistake if they did not select MT
 Bryan The votes which MT. bryFi eoI ..t
 19o6 he said. were only pledges on the part
 To oarr the cruSduS Ol Dl-
 n,atallisn to A triumphant finish. Ihese
 pledges. he said, were still 1resn III tito
 hearts of all champions of the sllVer clueo
 and need no reiteration. D
 President Tarvin introduced the l1oii D'
 g Oliver. of Cincinnati who presented FIX
 co,,arror Jobn p. Altgeld of Illinois. The
 srraatest enthuiasm prevailed when the llll-
 noiea statesman arose to address the con
 vention. The delegates rising to ther feet
 waved hats and cheered Justify untll tne
 ex-governor had acknowledged the coilpl
 ment He spoke as follows
 ."rhe evils that result from the gold stau-
 dord have not been exaggerated or over
 slated Time has sustained the plinetal-
 list and that man makes mistake Wno
 thinks that the American people are feauy to abandon this cause, and inasmuch as
 the ratio practically amounts to the aban-
 donment of the cause the politician makes
 a fatal mistake who thinks the ratio can De
 abandoned without disintegratng and Ge- stroying the democratic party. For every
 score of wealth worshipping gold demo-
 crats who would be brought to our stand
 ard by such an abandonment of principle,
 ten thousand men of deep convictions would leave us.
 Not the Only Question
 'But tho money question is not the only great question that confronts us. Caamities go in groups which threaten the life of the republic. There is the great question of government by inJunc- tion, system under which federal judges, elevated to offices by corpora tion influences, strikes down the right of free speech and with a contemptuous wave of the hand brushes aside the right of trial by jury, that bulwark Of English liberty.
 Tt is found by concentration the cost of production can be cheapened, and if the public got the benefit of this 1t might be a blessing. It would shorten the hours of labor and advance civilization; but in stead of that the benefit of it under the republican administration goes to few private individuals, who, by making the l most of it. the output is entirely controlled and the price of articles are fixed arbi- trarily and we are unable to fix wages ar bitrarily These monopolies are not any incubus to the country but are threatening to overthrow our institutions, for they fur | nish the corruption funds that are dis | lItSSlIS us.
 For quarter of century both politi- | cal parties have denounced corporations, | trusts and monopoles. Nearly every state | in the Union has egslated against tkem. | The federal government has legislated | against them, yet in spite of this denuncia- l tion. in spite of all his legislation, state | and federal, they have gone on multiplying. State Legislation Futile
 ''State legislation has been found to Sbe 1 absolutely futile, bebcause the federal | judges uniformly declared it to be unconsti- l tutional.
 | "The trusts are masters of the sltua- 1 tion., It is evident that to simply go on denouncing trusts is to insult the in telligence of the American people. It | is the cheapest kind of political dema- gogy. The experience of other coun- 1 tries, as well as through consideration 1 of the question, shows that it is impossi- | ble to reduce many of these monopolies back to their original element. They | have come to stay and therefore it is I ,,,i-e of ha ptU tn