Gilpin observer., 1900-09-13
SENATOR TELLER ADDRESSES
THE SILVER REPUBLICANS

dition. He is the man who told the
Democratic convention that If it left
16 to / out of its platform they could
find some other candidate. There has
not been such an instance of moral
courage in the history of the country.
Il hear men say, L can't stand
Bryanism.' | say Organism is Ameri-
canism, and if we could have less Han
naism and more Organism we should
be better off. / won't compare Presi-
dent Mckinley with him more than to
say that if Bryan is elected he will be
the President of the United States and
not n little hunter of money changers
and politicians.
The policies of the Republican par
ty are dictated by coterie of men who
can be put into n room twelve feet
square. y member of the Ssnate said
we are a party of caudus, Il party die
tated to by outsiders, and | state
this to you as fact. l don't think
that the Republican party will reform
itself and | do not low of an instance
where a party in power has reformed
itself
THE President in his letter says,
trusts must be regulated, but he says,
too, that there must be care not to in
terfere with commercial interests of
the country. DO you think that the
trusts are afraid of such talk?
I'VE can deal with trusts only when
we put out the men who now control
the government.
Il want to say word about eXpan-
sion.
Il found no authority in the consti-
tuition to interfere with affairs in
Spain. But | found history and truth
nc inst fnr A ,aull fol
low international law when peace was
established, and that means | did not
want to return the Philippine islands
to Spain. They had been governed
worse than Cuba | was for holding
the islands, but on the republican prin-
ciple that government rests upon the
consent of the governed we should
have declared To the world that these
islands are ours in the sense that we
will not permit interference of outside
powers. We have not given Porto
Rico such government as we should.
when before did the American peo-
pie recognize the right of any nation
to say that it would give such govern
ment as 1T thought best to some other
people? l think that any people above
savagery can establish II government
suitable to themselves. They can
have n government such as suits their
ambitions and needs. Are we not to
continue the light of the world? Has
commercialism overthrown this?
Whenever we shall forget that liberty
is for all mankind as well as us we
have lost liberty. Whenever we con-
slider that the principles of the declara-
ton of independence do not apply to
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines,
as well as in the United States, then
we have made great step toward los
ing those principles altogether.
Il think that the election of n few
more Republican presidents would ul-
timately destroy the government.
When l hear grave senators saying
we need a large army | am serious.
There are men who think the constitu-
ton is worn out, and we should have n
monarchial form of government. 1t
is an outgrowth of the nation that the
dollar is greater than the man.
81 have voted since | have been in
public life for every appropriation for
the navy. But want to see the Amer
lean people rely upon the American sol
dier, the volunteer. A great standing
army is n threat. \ hundred thousand
n mere bagatelle. But it will be 1OO,-
900 this year and 10000 next.
''Do you know that we owe S5i0, ,OO0,-
600 more than when Cleveland was in
auguratedI DO you know we are TAX
ing S2,0OO,OOO per day from American
people, | think that we will have to
appropriate $500, 100000 at this session
of Congress. and think that 1t is
wonderful that we can do II. We do
this without an income tax on wealth,
while great concern is making S40,-
100000 per year.
MIR. Bryan has a good chance to be
elected. But | would hate to think
that the country depended upon any
one man. If / knew that not "A state
in the Union would he carried for Mr..
Bryan | would still vote for him.
Turning his attention TO the Rcpubli-
can nominee for vice president, Senator
Teller referred to him as the "distin-
guished skullier of san Juan hill, the
man who has taken the credit for what
the negro regiment did,
lie said in closing:
Il desire to see, ! wish to see, very
cordial fusion of all the silver forces.
We must be patient and prudent. We
must not expect that we will get all we
want. | can vote for n man who does
not agree with me ON all questions, If
he does on the question of finance.
IL want something more for the
American laborcr than the full dinner
pail. As II young man | labored hard
and callouscd these hands, but | had
an aspiration beyond full dinner pail.
There Is something better than satisfy
ing hunger. The American laborer
must have something more than
enough to eat. We will make the cam
pnign ON the theory that the American
people demand prosperity for all, equal
opportunities for all When men say
to you. the dinner pail Is fun say to
them: so Is the hog trough The dol
lar is nowhere MS compared with the
man"