Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1899-07-27

seats on the platform, the balance Of
them failing to put in an appearance.
In short speech Gov. Altgeld said:
sour country hos hit upon an evil
time; the foL ndations of the republic are
being undermined. The declaration
! of Independence is being sneered at; the
liberty of the citizen Is being destroyed
and republican institutions are being
| ass 7e mated IN the name of patriotism.
| (Great applause.) The country is call
| lng for earnest men. 1t is presenting
problems that will require the abest
| men of this land to solve"
Mr.. Bryan among other things said:
In the brief time that I shall occupy
! your attention l desire to crowd into
few propositions an argument on three
SUBJECTS. I need not tell you that the
democratic platform OF 1896 will be re-.
| affirmed as the fret plank Of the demo.
cracy of 1900.
| "Accasionally someone talks about
getting off that platform, but upon IN
vestigation it is generally found that the
man who wants to get off of 1t WAS
never. in face, upon the platform. The
people who made the fight are still firm
IN the faith, and there is only one plank
in thai platform of which I shall speak
to night, and that is the one plank to,
ward which most of the criticism is di-
rected.
"If they tell you that the discovery Of
gold in the Klondyke and the impor-
tation OF gold from abroad has given US
more mouey and made better times,
you can reply to them that when they
say that they confess the truth of
the quantltatlve theory OF money, and
you can add that if little gold from
the Klondike or little gold from
Europe ls able to make little better
times than it we would open the
mints to the coinage OF silver as we'll as
gold and take The money out of our own
mountains and have our own money
now and at all times we could have
great deal better times and not depend
on English gold either from the Klon-
dixie or from our exports"
On the subject OF trusts Mr.. Bryan
said the trust is so bad that even Mark
Hanna's controlled Ohio convention re-.
solved against the trusts. The mono
poly feature Of the trust ls it's worst
part, says Bryan, who adds: when
few people control product necessary
to human existence, then those few con.
troll to large extent the lives and the
happiness OF all who produce those arti-
cles, all who work in producing and all
who furnish the raw material used 10
it's manufacture. And can We afford to
build up in this nation system by
which few shall traIsmit wealth from
generation to generation, where the
masses can only hope for clerkship IN.
under some trust, and if they say thst
there is no way to stop the trust, that
the republicans are doing all they can;
remember that 1t is within the power OF
tho president to appoint an attorney
general who will enforce the law against
trusts, even il be has to go out OF the
republican party to get the attorney
general. And il the law upon the sta
tute books 10 insufficient, it le within
the power OF the attorney general to
propose laws which aye sufficient, and if
the constitution stands in the way it is
within the power Of the attorney.gene
al to recommend an amendment to the
constitution, which will give to congress
pleneary power to deal with this sub
1ect.
"But the republican party is powerless
to annlhilste the trusts so long as the
trusts furnish the money to keep the re.
publican party in power, so that the ad-
minlstrat;on has it in its power to ex-
tinRuish the trnsts il 1t 80 desires"
On the subjugation of the Philippines,
Bryan said:
"If the doctrine set forth in the de.
claration of independence 10 sound, then
we cannot riRhtfully acquire title by
conquest. II the doctrine set forth in
the declaration of independence is
sound, We cannot riehtfully purchase
100000 of people at 50 apiece from an
alien monarch, whose rebelllous snb-
ects We ourselves armed to fight against
their monarch. There is a principle In.
volved. and when the principle is once
understood It's application is not diff.
cult, and if the people OF the Philippine
Islands are and Of right ought to be free,
then thie nation should now, without
one moments delay, announce to those
people that We are there as friends and
not as enemies. to establish govern
ment which shall be their government"
! Mr.. Bryan believes in doing with the
Fllipinos, who are making great strug-
gle for liberty. the came az We did with
: the Oubsns in their struggle.
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