Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-09-01

prosperity And the Bryanites ask th,,
the party under which all this has hoe
achieved be put out of power
| Senator Burrows then touched upon tho
trust question. The Democratic cure for
trusts is to kill industries. Then there is
no danger of great trade combinations
| Under Republican rule there are moro
trusts because industries are boomino
And If two or more manufacturers or two
or more merchants wish to combine their
business to lessen expense, how can they
! be prevented? 1t is an economic. not n
political question. There are already
; laws making it Illegal to try to control
prices. The Republican party is the only
party that has ever framed an antitrust
| law. In view of the operation of the sill
Yer trust and ice trust ii is poor taste Tor
the Democrats TO attempt to pose as an
antitrust party The tariff is not the
cause OF trusts, for they abound in free
trade ENGLAND. The tariff is the cause of
trusts only as it promotes industries and
| thus makes combinations possible. The
Republican party does not propose to
solve the trust problem by killing indus
tries. but by minimizing the evils of
trusts.
In closing. the speaker took up the
ghost issues" of imperialism and
| ''militarism" raised by the Bryanites as
a bluff to deceive the voters of America
and screen the monumental follies and
dangers of the Kansas City platform. He
showed how the war with Spain was
forced upon the country. 1t was not a
party war. Out of it have grown grea.
responsibilities. some of them unexpected
but not to be evaded. We are keeping
full faith with Cuba, lettering the con-
dition of Porto Rico and when we have
suppressed the Philippine instruction,
which the Bryantes are encouraging or
der and peace will prevail in that archi-
pelago and the blessings of a Christian
civilization will be given it. Porto Rico
and the Philippines are ours by treaty
the highest law of the land. Bryan him
self favored that treaty. The first duty
of the government is TO suppress the in
surrection. Then will come the highest
degree of liberty and self-government of
which the people are capable. The whole
history of the country has been that OF
expansion, and the people of the United
States are to be trusted to preserve he
republic now as in the past. The cry OF
emperor and imperialism" is an old
one used for campaign purposes from the
time of Washington.
1t never meant so much to be an Amer
lean citizen as it does. today, and our
flag is now respected the world over In
three years the Republican party has led
the nation out of the dismal swamp onto
the highest summit. For the first time
in all history the nations of the earth
take off their hats to diplomacy, in which
We lead. The title of an American Cti-
zen is as proud a title as that of a RO-
man citizen was in the palmiest days OF
that great republic. From this great
summit We have a broader horizon. our
view goes beyond the Pacific and takes
in the islands of the sea. We have grown
to be a world power which the world re-
spects From this eminence we can see
the mighty future before u.s. The great
sun in its course never sets upon our flag
and wnen the stars grow dim in the ORR
eut that moment they are reliShted on
our Eastern borders. From this emnence
Bryan and his party sounds the retreat.
Mckinley is in Cuba rocking the cradle
Of the infant republic and in Porto Rico
giving liberty, justice and equality to its
people. In Hawaii our flag floats over a
free government. Across the Pacific il
waves over the Philippines and maintains
order. justice and humanity, and far
across the sea in imperial China ii thun-
ders at the gates of the forbidden cI.y
and brings our ministers and our people
under its protecting folds. Tremendous
APPLAUSE. From this Bryan would have
us retreat and lead US back into the
swamp. We will not obey the command.
Great applause. We will stand by Nc
Kinley and the flag where he has placed
it," (Renewed APPLAUSE.