The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-11-03
ALTGELD ON ISSUES.
Former Governor Of Illinois Ar
raigns Republican Party.
Mckinley Administration Charged
with Favoring Trusts and Carry
ing On nm Expensive and
Unholy War.

lllllOlSs cBohC ~ ~
at the Chicago Auditorium. Tuesday
night, October 90, taking as his text the
issues of the campaign. In the course
of his speech he said:
THE republican party once stood for
the people that did the work OF the ianu,
but Ii has gone clear over to the other
side. Mark Hanna has told us that this
election is to be decided by the full din
| ner pail. See what that means, my friends.
| When Lincoln guided the republican party
1t said that elections snouiu De oecioeo
nv great moral principles. When Hanna
| guides /. is to be decided by a dinner pail.
| Now, l have recently been over the west
| some. have been in the middle states, have
been in the east, trying to hnd out whose
dinner pail it is that Is to decide this cleo
ton.
II find that the property of the average
| citizen all over this country instead OF
| rising in price is sinking in price; 1t Is
not his dinner pail. The farmers OF Amer
| lea have to sell their products In the WORLDS
| open competitive market to a low average
| price level. that is as low now as 1t was
in '96. and they have to buy their neces-
saries in an arbitrary market. where they
have to pay double what they should pays
it is not their dinner pail.
Thousands of small business men and
manufacturer all over this country have
been squeezed out by the monopolies; tens
of thousands Of young men are emerging
to manhood and looking for a career ana
| they find almost every avenue in life, IN
less a little ~clerkship, closed to them by the
trusts; 1t is not their dinner pail. Thou
sands of commercial travellers in this coun-
try are idle because they were discharged
by the trusts; tits not their dinner pail.
| Hundreds of Industrial establishments
found all over this country have been
closed by the trusts and the thousands Oh
employees nave been turned out; it is not
| their dinner pail. The $4,000 iron workers
| of the Amalgamated union in Pennsylvania
alone lately were forced to accept a re-
duction in wages Of eight per cent; 1t Is
not their dinner pail. In the anthracite
coal region of Pennsylvania there are over
100. 900 miners who have been working their
| lives out for one of the greatest monopo-
lies on this continent and earning on an
average sl.35 a day for mining and on an
average 80 cents a day for labor. Reduced
to the level of starvation, they were Obliged
to strike in order to maintain life; 1t is
not their dinner pail.
Remember the Dinner Pail.
1.-THE men and women doing the work Of
| America find conditions getting harder and
| harder. They are sinking to a lower and
lower level; 1t is not their dinner pail,
During the Mckinley administration the
people of Indiana have had to increase
| their mortgage Indebtedness s55, 946. 745. 1t
is not their dinner pail. Whose dinner pail
is It, then? 1t is the dinner pail of the
monopolies. The dinner pail of those men
who eat the bread that is earned by the
sweat of other mems brows; they alone
get any meat or any pie out of that din
ner pail. Does any intelligent man be-
lieve hat II the monopolies carry this
election that then the trusts will be de-
stroyed? Nay. the election of Mr.. Mckin-
ley means that conditions will get worse
instead of better.
You ask what will we get IL We make
n phanpa0 Let me remind YOU OF this.
Amid all of the vilifcation and m%isrepre-
sentation Of the last four years no man
n this country has dared to stand up and
say that the trusts and syndicates could
control William J. Bryan. He stand for
what Jefferson stood and what Lincoln
stood for. That is. the great masses of
the American people. The question Is,
shall the government at Washington be
run by birds of prey or by the people who
are doing the work of the country and who
make civilization possible?"
Mr.. Altgeld reviewed at length the
tacit alliance between the present adj
ministration and the government OF
Great Britain. He criticised the presi-
lent sharply for his failure to extend
sympathy to the Beers and for hi
willingness to cede a portion of Alas
ka to England. Continuing, he said
"In the spring Of 1898 the democrac,
forced the administration to begin IA wa
of humanity for the relief of the Cuban
That war is the browning glory of tn,
close of the nineteenth century,; neve
was there a nobler spectacle. A grea
people offered It's blood and treasure sole
! ly for the cause of humanity. That wa
was fought to a successful close. and whei
1t was over and when the purpose wa
achieved, then this administration. with
] out an act of congress, which alone ca
declare war. used the armies OF the Unite
States to begin another war in anothe
hemisphere. Not for liberty and humanity
but solely for conquest and for urpos
of ~subjugation.
I "In February, 1898, two months before W
declared war against Spain in behalf @
Cuba, our consul at Manila advised tn
department at Washington that rebellio
was then raging in the Philippine island
and that Spanish authority was going I
be overthrown and that the Filipino pee
Pile were already fighting for indepent
n ence. Subsequently we cooperated wit
e these people. We furnished them arm
We asked their cooperation against Spail
. They did all the fighting that was dor
on land against Spain in the Philippine
s. They established a government modele
g after ours. Why, even Mr.. Barrett, WI
Is now supporting the administration the
{ declared that 1t was the best governmei
that the islands had had.
l. Work of FiIipinoa.
e 1--WE held Manila and a little ~territol
Is miles square and the Philippine COVER
ment and the Philippine army captur.
|, the whole of the Philippine islands. too
70 every Spanish fort and every Spanish sc
der. Then at the suggestion of the Bri
" ish ambassador and at the demand of Il
American syndicates We turned aroui
and we did the meanest thing that al
nation could be guilty OF. We began
war against our allies and for two yea
,u nave been carrying on a war for the sc
y purpose Of subjugation and conquest. Be
is In mind that there Is no question of e
v, pansion before our people now. The m
who talk to you about expansion are simp
trying to mislead you Expansion mea
'd development. enlargement and growi
lk We have expanded repeatedly. We e
banded IN 1903. when we got the gre
:. country west Of the Mississippi; we G
panded In 1919. when we go. Florida;
As. when We got Texas; II AS, when
got New Mexico and California, and
the eos. when We got Alaska.
in But in all of these cases It was provid
that the new territory should form
integral part of the republic and that I
Mt Inhabitants of the new territory should
an citizens of this republic. We extended
principles of free government to more p,
u pie. We carried the blessings of the d,
d. laration of independence to more of