The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-10-05
ROOSEVELT At OMAHA.
Demonstration In Honor of the
New York Governor.
BIG MEETING HELD IN TENT

| BIG MEETING HELD In TENT
! Political Issues of the Day Discussed to a
Large Assembly--sfakes Ten Addresses
at Various Points In Observation-Disclosures
| Night Scenes at Omaha.
! Omaha, Oct. 5.-Governor Roosevelt
( was met at the train last evening as
it rolled into the station after a day of
strenuous effort, in which no less than
| ten speeches were made, by the recep-
tion committee of this city, and after
| q parade through the streets he was
conveyed to a tent where an enormous
audience had assembled to hear him
| speak. The street reception accorded
the governor was an extremely warm
and brilliant affair, and enormous
crowds lined the streets. Ills speech
was one of the ablest efforts he has
made on his journey. He spoke an
hour and half, and was listened to
with profound attention by an audi
ence much above the average of polit-
ical audiences in intelligence. At mid
night Governor Roosevelt departed on
his Iowa trip.
Governor Roosevelt said, in part:
1t is pretty difficult thing to know what
| issue to discuss because our opponents
| change the paramount issue so often. |
am perfectly willing to meet them on any
issue If they will only stay long enough
! on it. Now what need is there for me to
discuss economic and financial questions
,ba,, tbnvy n ,a% Iora 10
\ themselves.
| Now take the question of free silver. II
| any of you are fortunate enough to know
| whether Mr.. Bryan, IL elected, will pay the
obligations Of the nation in gold or in silver,
| l wish he would divulge his knowledge,
| for Mr.. Bryan will not. There is no doubt
| about where we stand. We stand on the
| gold standard and we stand on it on the
Atlantic seaboard and in the Rocky noun
tains-anywhere. We are fortunate enough
in having issues which stand wearing in
any part of the country. Now, gentlemen,
1 some people say that the silver issue is
1 dead. The silver issue cannot be dead when
1 people are uncertain as to how candidate
| of one Of the two great parties would pay
| the obligations of the government. No is
| sue is dead when you cannot tell whether
| a creditor or pensioner or whoever he may
| be is to get 4S cents of a hundred on dol
1 lar. 1t is dead to this extent. that nobody
4 ventures to argue in its behalf .x
All want you to do from a material
| standpoint is to eXhume Mr.. Bryan's proph-
| ecies of four years ago. and then for your
selves compare those prophecies with their
| signal non-performance.
/ The spirit moved Mr.. Bryan and he proph-
| ecied that unless you had free silver the
| wage worker would stand idle in the mar
ket places. That was the prophecy. The
fulfilment was that the wage worker has
| very nearly double as much work as he
| had before. That was the way it come
| out, and he prophecied again. He said that
If they elected Mckinley the farmer would
find the products of his farm diminishing
| in value, when in your own state of Ne
| braska they have increased from 10 to 60
per cent in the different productions. You
| do not have to take my word for anything
of this. Simply look up the statistics Iand
find out what has happened among your
| friends.
| The last paramount issue that seems to
| have been developed on the other side is
| the issue of trusts. / am only going to
| ask your attention for one moment to that.
| BY trusts, of course, is now meant the
| great agregations of corporate wealth
which, although not technically trusts are
| such as we commonly understand the word
in speaking one to another. 1t is idle to
say that all of these great corporations
| do evil. If you understood the circum-
stances concerning them all, you would
never in the world go back to some of the
conditions that preceded the present system
of consolidation. Take for instance the
great railway lines in my own state of New
| York. At one time. in order to get from
New York to Buffalo you had to change
cars five times and travel on five different
lines. 1t was four times as uncomfortable
and three times as costly to travel and to
ship freight then as now. There positive
benefit came from consolidation. The
whole development of our highly specialized
and highly complex modern industrial civ
ilization has been attained and produced
by these great aggregations of corporate
| wealth. There has been good and there
| has also been evil. The man who denies
the evil is just as foolish as the fambuoyant
person who thinks that it is all evil. There
are evils and they have got to be cut out
| They are going to be cut out. Not by ora.
tory but by common sense. One Of the
first things to do is to make up your mind
that you want in getting rid of the cancer
to avoid killing the patient. The very fact
that the problem Is complex means that
there will probably be a remedy to cure it.
Governor Roosevelt discussed at
considerable length the franchise law
passed in New York and it's operations
He also illustrated what he denomi-
mated the twin phantoms, Imperialism
and militarism, and appealed to all
true Americans to stand by the poll
cies which had made the American ma.
tion powerful among the other nations
of the earth.
Hanna Target for Chunk of Ice.
Chicago, Oct. 5.-Senator M. A. Han
ma was the target for ten pound
chunk of ice last night at the Thirty
first Ward Republican meeting, at
Sixty y-tirst and Halstead streets. The
ice was dropped through an aperture
in the tent directly over the speakers
stand. 1t did not miss Hanna's head
over two inches, and had it struck