Gloucester County Democrat., 1900-02-01
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W CCH1lISS 6ao oCSoAoS0
royal welcome to New Jersey by the
Democracy of Hudson county last Wed
nesday night. He was entertained at
luncheon by the Robert Davis Association,
and later he addressed an audience of
many thousands, many being turned away
from the hall because every inch of space
was occupied. Mayor Hoos presided. We
quote few paragraphs from his speech =
There were cheers and tiger for the
next President as Mr.. Bryan opened his
speech.
$ must confess said Colonel Bryan,
that when men indulge in the pleasing
prophecy that / am to be the next Presi-
dent of the United States it does not
make my heart beat as quickly as once it
did, for / recall that from out the last
Presidential campaign there now remain
some 500 unanointed and unsuccessful pToph-
cts who testified in their time to this same
thing. / want to tell you that the election
of 1896 has been a great boom to some
people, but l do not believe the policy of
the Republican party is much good for the
majority of the people"
Colonel Bryan began early to pay his
attention to Senator Hanna as the embodi-
ment of Republicanism"
" IF the Republicans" he said, wish to
conceive how great has been The fall of the
Republican party, let them listen to this:
Lincoln stands at one end of the Republican
party, and Hanna at the other and then look
az the t060ggan slide 5etaUeeR them Have /
not the right to ask Republicans to compare
Hannaism with Lincolnism, and if Han
naism is not the same as Lincolnism, then
do you not think you had better choose
between the two.
Now to show you that the Republican
party has fallen from its high state, ! want
TO remind you that Mr.. Hanna came back
from London last Summer and was inter
viewed. l read it in a Republican paper
A reporter asked him what he thoRght.Oi
the English system. He said it was great
system. Their system of government is as
good as ours and perhaps better. / only
quote his words tonight to say to the Re
pubIicsns present that there was a time
when the Republican party would not have
at the head of its national organization
man who thought that the English Govern
ment was as good as ours and perhaps bet
ter.n
THE INCOME TAX.
When the bill was before Congress East.
ern Democrats said that if the Democratic
party favored that law the rich Demo
Gratis would leave the party. l said that
no rich Democrat would leave the party to
avoid just law. did not know the rich
Democrats as well then as l do now"
THE BoER WAR AND MONEY.
The pro- -Boer-anti- English sympathies OF
the audience were perfectly brought out
when Colonel Bryan in touching upon the
gold standard said If they had panic
in LondOn because of the reyerses in South
Africa, and then that was followed by
panic in New York, and money went up to
1876 per cent. / suppose to show that there
was plenty OF it, and the Secretary of the
Treasury rushed in TO help them out from
the National Treasury if a few reyerses
when the English Government is fighting
handful of Beers will cause such a small
panic as this, what will happen if Eug-
land should meet nation of her own size
and engage in a real war? Bat gold is a
legal tender for the payment of which we
shall De chained to Europe's golden chariot
and every time there is disturbance there
there will be a disturbance here, and we
will have to stand in the way of every
difficulty over there, because it will be ours
as well as theirs.
BOERS AND A PANIC.
The fnanciers to-day are trembling for
fear there will be panic if the Beers win
in their fight for liberty. You can find
that out from the inanciers if you are in
touch with them. They will tell you that
if England wins everything will be all right,
but that if the Beers win it will be pretty
near as difficult to get money as they said
it would be if l was elected
This means that men who in their heart
love liberty, men who in their heart sym
pa hize with people who are struggling to
be free, that these men have pecuniary
reasons which compel them to pray that
the dominion of the Queen shall be extend
ed and the republic destroyed, lest we shall
have trouble in the money market.
We want an American financial policy
now that will enable us to sympathize with
any nation that is fighting for a right to
govern its own citizens
HIS ASSAULT ON TRUSTS.
In his general assault upon trusts of all
sorts and descriptions Colonel Bryan paid
particular attention to the paper money
trust. He spoke of an elastic eurrency
such one as was desired by the national
banks of this country, an elastic currency
with bankers holding both ends He added
that the national banks had more influence
with the Republican party than all the
other Republicans put together. That
they could say at election time substan-
TALLY, you vote our way or we won't let
you have our money!
During the last three years you can
scarcely find Republican who will de.
nouDce trust. This is so because Repub-
licsns are in power and more trusts have
been organized during the last three years
than in the entire previous history OF the
party.
If you say anything to a Republican
now about the passage of a new law to
kill trusts, he tells You that we have law
that is broad enough to answer the purpose,
that you do not need new law. Then
you point out trust and ask him why the |
Attorney General does not destroy it and
he says the law does not reach this
case.
Or you can take Mr. Hanna, who said
in the last campaign in a speech he made
He said first, There are no trusts Then, |
The trusts are necessary evolution of
business, and finally he said. Do not be |
afraid of the trusts; they caunot harm you
If they are Injurious we will take care of |
them.
There is no good monopoly in private
han0s, not until God sends US angels to |
take care of monopoly will it be safe to
trust them to private hands, and from our
experience we are inclined to think that |
they come from below, and not from above |
The trouble is that these people want to |
run monopoly on the doctrine of pocket |
Cannot man use his money as he wants |
to? You cannot use a club as you want to,
even though it is your own club. You |
cannot use revolver as you want to, even |
though it is your oWn revolver"
Colonel Bryan called trust man.
made giant" considering it as something |
far in advance of an ordinary corporation. |
Even when Colonel Bryan, by slip of |
the tongue. made Admiral Dewey The com
maDder of the feet which destroyed the
Spanish ships in Santiago, no one laughed. |
Each one was too seriously interested in
what the orator had to say,
After be had closed his speech he was
unable to avoid an informal reception.
England was ready for war but entirely
unprepared for defeat.
The Queens troops evidently need fewer
Lords and Dukes and more Colonels and
Nartasno