Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-01-21

any old thing to put q stamp on and
you ran across the stamp taxes all
the time. Every time / send a tele-
gram, | have TO pay the regular rate
and in addition to that one cent is
added for the beneficial assimilation
of the Filipino.
Why is it that the man who sends
the telegram has to pay the tax? Be-
cause the telegraph company says so.
and why was the law so made that
the telegraph company
Could Shift the Burden
onto the man who sends the tele-
gram? Because the telegraph compan-
les have more influence with the Re-
publican party than all the poor Re-
publicans who use the wires"
In an hour of peril this government
can take the son from his mother, the
husband from his wife, the father
from his child, and stand up in front
of an enemy's guns, but in an hour OF
danger this government cannot lay its
hands upon accumulated wealth and
make that wealth bear its share OF
the expenses.
why is it? Is it because the Re-
publican party has made money more
precious than blood. My friends, you
heard men denounce our income tax
in 1896. / want to say it is stronger
to-day than it was then. And if those
who have been sinking their taxes
think that they have settled this ques-
ton forever, / want to tell them that
the incor,e tax will be in the next cam
paign, and it will be in the campaign
until the constitution of the United
States is so amended as to specifically
authorize an income tax, so hat nei-
ther one judge, nor nine judges, can
build a bulwark around the fortunes
of the great and throw the burdens OF
government on the poor.
"But this is only one question. / am
going to speak of another question
which shows how the Republican
party is looking after the interests OF
wealth and neglecting the welfare OF
the people. l am going to say a word
on the money question. | know they
say that the money question is a dead
issue. But, my friends, silver has been
buried so often that a little thing like
a funeral does not bother us like ii
used to. When reverses in a war with
a handful of Beers will shake our fin
ancial system. where will that gold
standard be if England ever attacks a
nation Of her size
And Gets Into n Rea Wars
when we join ourselve to the gold
standard; when we make gold alone
the legal tender for the payment OF
debts, we connect ourselves with every
disturbance in Europe, and make our
selves dependent upon their conditions
for our prosperity.
"You tell me it is e sound system.
1t is false. That system is not sound.
Tell me. is 1t an American system !
It is q lie. There is no such Amer
lean system; there is no American
| system that makes Us tremble every
| time there is trouble among the gold
| standard countries of the old world.
Continuing upon the currency
| question, Mr.. Bryan asserted that in
| 1896 all of the leading political par
tiles demanded a double standard, cliff
ering only in the method of obtaining
it Now, the Republican party insists
upon a single standard and a bill Is
pending in Congress which, not only
seeks that end, but also ~endeayors to
perpetually force upon this country the
present national banking system. II
the Republicans had advocated such a
measure in 1896 he declared, Mr.. Nc
Kinley would
Never Have Been President.
| After fully discussing the currency
question, Mr.. Bryan took up the trusts,
which he discussed at great length, in
| sisting that the Republican party had
no intention, whatever, of interfering
with such corporations under any cir
cumstances. From the trusts he pass
| ed to a discussion of the standing army
and declared that the presence OF 1O0,-
600 soldiers in the Philippines, was
but a step toward militarism. He then
| discussed imperialism arguing That
there was a great difference between
that and expansion. The present poll
cy of the administration, he asserted
tended toward Imperialism although Its
| friends and upholders endeayored to
| show that it was expansion.
Il want trade" he said, Il want tc
expand our trade by peaceful methods
| but | would not put n American boy
on the auction DOCK anu Sell I'LL ACi
| all the trade OF the universe. CAP
plause). And yet the man who says II
will pay must be prepared to figure
with pencil how much the boy il
worth"
He discussed the problem Of the Phil
ippines from the point OF commerce
| civilization and religion, and cited th'
results Of English government / n Indis
TO show that none of these would b'
accomplished in the Philippines.
you cannot find an argument, sak
he, for the permanent holding of th'
| Philippine islands that would not ap-
ply to Cuba
Il want" said Mr.. Bryan, In conclu.
sion, IF / can, to help to restore Z
government founded upon the declara
ton of independence and decided &C
cording to the doctrine Of Jefferson; Z
doctrine that will stand az it did IL
Jackson's day, between the bank arts
tocracy and the people"