The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-10-27

protective tariff protects. (Applause.)
There is money in pottery. money In
farming. money In everything produced
by the hand Of the laborer. When you
buy any product OF Europe you pay the
price OF the product. plus the freight.
s45,000.OOO was the amount We paid In
freight last year. Look at the money
that would remain In this country II we
had only rs per cent OF that carrying
trade. ".
Mr. Bryan says there is great objec-
tion to this policy. They say 1t Is i'm
bued with militarism and commercials
ism. They say We arc saturated with
trusts. Now we have trusts and II you
want to get rid Of them put the Demo-
cratic party In power and there will not
make trust. Will not deny that
some trusts are bad. There are two
and one-half millions OF our wage ear
ncrs that are only earning 81 q day. We
need uniform wage. II the man In
one state is paid less for the same work
than n man In another state, he has Il
right to object.
The Standard Oil Company was a
great trust; 1t Is now 4 great corpora
ton. Mr.. Bryan says he will destroy
all trusts. After denouncing all monop-
oles Mr.. Bryan said he was willing
that the inventor should have a monop-
oily of his own invention II he had
thought u little further he would have
allowed Mr.. Jones to have q monopoly
OF the cotton bale trust. Laughter)
II he he'd thought little further he
would have concluded to allow Mr..
Croker to have monopoly of the see
trust. daughter and npplause.)
The Philippines.
Mr.. Bryan says we are saturated
with Imperialism also. He evidently
does not know the history of the coun-
try. He says we have no title to the
Philippines. l wonder Il he has ever
examined the title Of that little farm
Of his out in Nebraska? Uaughter.)
That farm was part OF the Louisiana
purchase, which came from Spain. Gap
plause.)
The Porto Rican3 have published 10
the world twenty-five reasons for
which they blessed America and
thanked heaven. We are building a
macadamized road around that island
at the cost Of $4,000 mile. We are es-
tablishng schools there as we have
here. Do the Porto Ricans complain?
Not word. 1t Is only Mr.. Bryan and
his followers.
They complain Of Cuba. They say
we are after those Offices down there.
These offices number just 224. Eighty
six per cent OF these are filled by native
islanders. We have organized over
1900 schools and employed over 1000
school teachers. We have spent thou
sands of dollars for school books The
Cubans on Bonded knee have thanked
hA Arparlcon nanYNn nil no &ya
done for them. This is not paid for by
the American citizen, but out OF the
revenues Of the island.
Mr.. Bryan says our conduct In the Is
lands is inspired by cOnlmeroialism. He
thinks we ought to teach them to be
Christians and then not sell them
goods. Can we make the Filipino maid
Cody and have her wear nothing but n
fig leaf? (Eaughter and applausc.3 Can
we make these natives clean IL we do
not sell them soap? Mr.. Bryan sayswe
are doing all these things without the
consent of the governed. Indian Terri
tory and Oklahoma were taken In in
the Louisiana purchase and they are
still territories. They have been gov
erned for ninety-seven years without
the consent of the governed. This talk
of governing without the consent of the
10 u lhNS. NfhpPiouoS'
1t is q bluff to keep you quiet on free
silver.
Mr.. Brown closed his speech with n
talk on free silver. That issue was set
tied. he said. There was no such
thing as oxide Of gold. God had made
1t indestructable and that was why all
nations had adopted 1t as their stand
ard. II you want prosperity; II you
want this great constructive policy car
ried out, vote for William Mckinley
and Teddy Roosevelt. (Applause.)