Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-24

form with a mans team consisting Of a
donkey, a dog, a goat and a polecat, the
team representing the four branches,
The comparison was mad apparent By
the fact that the team comprises q
kicker, a barker, a bucker n a bad
smell. Great applause.)
He said Bryan had 10 paramount issue,
but had issues to suit the occasion. He
had heard him speak in Michigan and
in that speech he said nothing about i'm
perialism. In Pennsylvania he said
nothing about anything but labor and
roasted Imperialism, and in New Jersey
he had spoken about imperialism and
trusts.
Mr.. Copeland paid his respects to Mr..
Bryan utterances about government by
injunction, prefacing his remarks with
the statement that he vas once an at
torney, but had reformed. He explained
the general formation of the government
OF the United States, taking it's branches
from their very infancy and carrying
them upward to he highest point OBJ
tainable. He redited Bryan with having
attacked the supreme court of the United
States in his speeches, adding that he
himself stood on the platform in the
name of the government as a believer
in law and order and that any man who
would attack the decisions of the su-
preme court of this land and seek to dis
credit them, was just as much of a trait
or as though he defied the president and
congress and tore down the American
flag. If he were elected president and
then disrupted the supreme court, which
he proposed to do, it would be treason.
Referring to trusts, the colonel said
Bryan rolled the question as a sweet
morsel beneath his tongue. He then ex-
planned the nature of the trust, which
Bryan had said was a combination of
capital. He did not believe in trusts any
more than did Bryan, but he believed in
consistency. He then gave his hearers a
list of the names of leading democrats of
the country who We're crying against
trusts and We're at the same time deeper
in the trust business than anybody. One
OF these was Richard Croker of New
York whose connection with the ice
trust of that city is patent to all readers
of English literature. The colonel said
the ice trust with which Croker was as
ISOLATED was one of the most damnable
combinations ever concocted. % z
IT even worked a great hardship on
the occupants of dis ease-breeding tene-
ment houses. He referred to the impu-
dence of one Jones, the m~outhpiece OF
- y SAA 0itN NioASA Ai1AAo AAA"i " So eIAho
head over heels in the trust business,
but claimed it was not a trust because
the articles handled We're patented, anu
1T was therefore "a patented trust. They
were all dividing n pocketing divi-
dends and howling down their own bust
ness for political effect. Bryan's remedy
for the trust, he said, was to put every
article on the free list and thus estab-
fish free trade.
II wonder how that sounds to wool
growers and importers in Montana?" he
asked. II have journeyed over all of
this world, up one side and down the
other, east and west, north and SOUTH,
and When I say that free trade would
be disastrous to this country I know
what I am talking about. During the
Cleveland administration I saw factories
closed down everywhere in this country.
l saw thousands and thousands of hun
cry faces t%hronging the streets of cities
in search of work they could not find,
and it was all due to the damnable prin-
ciples of free trade which Bryan pro
poses to inaugurate in case of his cleo
ton. Today I am again going up and
down the breadth of the land through
which I traveled five years ago. 1 See
prosperity on all sides. Factories tina
We're closed down under the free trade
principles of Grover Cleveland are run
ming full blast, and the 20 per cent of the
laboring people who were then out of
work are busy and happy. Statistics
show that only 2 per cent of the working
class are out of employment and hall
of them need not be SO situated"
Mr.. Copeland told a story about a doc
tor who mad been called in to treat the
fractured leg of a woman Instead of
setting the fracture he had given her
some medicine to make her have fits.
with a view to curing the fits because
he did not know how to set the leg. He
likened this treatment unto that pro-
posed by Bryan. who would throw the
country into fits and treat it for that
alone.
q really believed at one time,'' said
he, that Bryan was fond Of the work
ing man, but since I heard his declara-
ton of free trade principles I have re-
covered from it. If anybody present
takes exception to my remarks let him
bark. l am not a tenderfoot. I roamed
your hills before your smelters were
built and your mines developed"
No one took exception and the colonel
continued: -
Bryan, in his speech at Columbus,
Ohio, spoke IN imperialism and our
standing army, saying the army CON
tanned 100, 900 men. When he made thai
statement he falsified the records. H
knew that of the 100. 900 men 60, 900 woul,
be discharged on July /, 1901-their TIM
will expire e 1 belonged to the stand
ing army when it numbered less thar
$4,000 men. We then had Sc, 200, 900 peo-
pie in this country, while today we nav
$4,000, 900. Bryan is always talking i'm,
perialism,' empire and William McKin-
ley as emperor. ! wonder what he take.
the people of this country for, any
how?"
The speaker referred to thhe attitude
df this government towards Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Philippines, and the mari
WiiLiam j. Bryan played when the oues-
tion of ratifying the treaty to purchase
one of the three came UP. In concludirg
his remarks on the subject, he said:
William ]. Bryan, the contemptible