The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-07
GOV. ROOSEVELT AT DETROIT
HIS WESTERN CAMPAIGN OPENS
AUSPICIOUSLY IN THAT CITY.


gardine Militartsm-A Reference te
Bryan,s Speech in New Haven-Th'
Question of Expansion.
Detroit, Sept. 6-The initial meeting
of Governor Roosevelt's western tour
which was held in Detroit Light Guarc
armory tonight was all that the gov
ernor and the most ardent politicians
could have desired in point of attend
ance and enthusiasm. The floor and
galleries of the great hall were crowd
cd Many were on the outside unable
to obtain seats or standing room within
hearing distance. The vice presidential
candidate received a tremendously en-
thusiastic greeting as he made his way
up through one of the side aisles'
A large proportion of the audience
stood and yelled franctlcally for Teddy.
| When the governor arose to speak the
great crowd stood enmaSse and remain
ed standing and shouting for some time.
| The governors speech occupied about
an hour In delivery and was listened to
throughout with thoughtful attention
and the sarcastic and telling points were
quickly caught and applauded Cover
| nor Roosevelt gave the audience an OBJ
ject lesson regarding militarism when
| he asserted that our soldiers in the
| Philippines had less to fear from any
body of armed bandits in that country
than they had to fear from the prin-
ciples of the Kansas City platform, and
the success of the democratic ticket
t,,1a,e- Of aoi,
lar army were present and he asked
them to stand up that the audience
might see their tyrants. Five soldiers
from the infantry at Fort Wayne, who
occupied a front seat when thus invit-
ed arose and We're applauded until their
cheeks glowed with bushes.
Now" exclaimed Governor Roose-
welt. behold your tyrants."
The audience shouted with laughter.
There are here" continued the COVER
nor, five soldiers to 1000 people in this
audience, which is q larger percentage
of tyranny in this house than the per-
centage of the regular army bears to
the whole number of the people of this
country"
Later in his speech the governor said,
referring to Bryan:
Every single prediction he has made
has been falsifed by the event. On
October 10 he said: These are hard
times. They will be harder times If the
gold standard continues On Septem-
ber rs he said: If you ask how the gold
standard affects the farmer we tell you
that the gold standard lowers the price
of products of him who sells without
lowering his taxes or debts. If you ask
US how the gold standard affects the
laboring man we reply that II destroys
the opportunity for labor, multipies the
number of idle men and fills our streets
with those anxious for work who can
not find the opportunity, The gold
standard by increasing idleness brings
poverty to those who ought to have
enough and to spare On October he
said The gold standard means dear
er dollar and falling prices, and falling
prices mean hard times On October 3
he said: If we have a gold standard
prices are as certain to fall as stone
which is thrown In the air | do not
have to comment on these prophecies.
Their ludicrous falsity is patent to
every farmer, every business man,
every waee-worker.
Sometimes Mr.. Bryan would go into
more specific prophecy. In his Madi-
son Square Garden speech he insisted
that savings bank depositors under the
gold standard would be liable to lose
their deposits, and if the gold standard |
continued Indefinitely they would have |
to withdraw their deposits in order to
pay living expenses. Well last year |
ls99-there were in the United States |
5, 6S7, 900 savings bank depostors, as |
against 5OS5, 900 in the year when Mr..
deposits had increased by 1923, ,000,0 600.
Mr.. Bryan did not make a
happy shot when he prophecied that if
the gold standard continued the depos-
tors would lose their deposits or would
have to withdraw them,
again, in his speech al New Haven
ne dwelt upon the fact that If the gold
standard continued the number of fall
Tres among business men would In
crease. Well, In 1899, as compared to
S96, the number of failures had shrunk
rom over $4,000 to less than 10000, and
he liabilities from over $226000,ooo to
ess than 500 000,0 600 Again Mr.. Bry-
ms prophecy did not prove happy.
Speaking on expansion Governor
Roosevelt said "The policy of expan-
sion is Americas historic policy We
nave annexed the Philippines exactly
Is we have annexed Hawaii, New
Mexico and Alaska They are now part
# American territory, and we have no .
more right to give them up than we
lave the right to restore Hawaii to the
<anaka Queen or to abandon Alaska
q the Esuuimaux. There is not a par ,,
icue of difference between the cases
We cannot go back. first for the sake ,
# the islands themselves, and next for !
he sake of our own honor. The men 1
Who are making speeches on the un +
righteousness of our expanding in the !
might with as much Justih- :
alton incite the Sioux and the Apache
ribes to outbreak against us, on the j,
round that we have no right to re- II
ain South Dakota or Arizona. The a
oIicy of the Kansas City platform is a J
olicy of economic disaster and finan- i i
ial dishonor at home and of unworthy T
hrinking from duty abroad; and we !
ppeal to all honest, far-seeing, brave
nd patriotic men, north or south, east +
y west, whatever their political affili- y
tions may have been in the past, to Q
tand with us now against the men
-ho would bring such abuse and mis-
nv upon our country, and to support | G