Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-01-18
BRYAN is SANGUINE.
Saws Democrats Are United for the
Coming Fight.
The Prospective Candidate for Pres
ident Warmly Received at jack
som Day Banquet I'm
Chica@@.

The jackson day banquet at Chicago,
Saturday, January 6, was, according to
William J. Bryan, ''a credit to the city S
! democracy" The Nebraska leader was
| principal speaker, and in his address
said:
show how the voters of the party. when
| their conscience, their judgment ard their
determination are once aroused, can resist
| the foes within and the foes without and
| keep the party true to its high mission as
the representative of the struggling masses
| in their never-ending contest with the
| privileged classes. The plutocratic infiu-
| ence which won the last national campaign
and which have rioted in power ever since
/ have not been abe to force the surrender
Chicago platform.
after a three years burial of the money
question by our opponents they recently
have accentuated it's Importance by pre-
senting a currency bill which would have
condemned the republican party to over
whelming defeat if it had been proposed by
the president in his letter of acceptance.
The bill is so bad that it could not be forced
through the congress chosen in 1886, but in
1898, when the people were engaged in war
for humanity, the financiers captured con
gress while the republican leaders with
perspiring patriotism were pleading to the
people TO upnOlQ the pTeSIOeAI "Ai4e tiiC
treaty with Spain was being concluded
The people were intent upon the conclusion
OF the war, waged for the political indie
pendence of the Cubans, and the wall
street magnates were building for the
financial subjugation of the producers OF
wealth in the United States.
Deerfes the Currency Bill.
THE currency bill fastens us to the finan-
>.ial systems of the old world and subjects
us % all the disturbances which affect them
while it places the control of the volume OF
paper money in the hands of a bank trust
which will be as merciiess to the people o.
this country as Weyler was to the recon
centrados. The fight for bimetallism at
the ratio of sixteen to one has not been
lost. The increased production OF gold mas
shown the advantage of more money ana
has answered the argument SO often made
that the parity could not be maintained
because of the overproduction of silver.
The fight against bank note circulation
will grow stronger as the big banks swat
low up the little ones and as the people
learn that a permanent national bank note
circulation secured as at present necessi-
tates permanent and increasing nationa.
debt.
II have discussed the trust question in
this city so recently that it is only neces-
sary for me to say that the democratic
party will meet the issue with plain and
positive remedy. The republican party is
unable to enact and enforce efficient anti
trust laws. When new legislation is de-
nanded republican leaders say that the
present law is sufficient; when new trust
Is pounded out republican officials say that
the law does not cover the case. This ad-
justa bic view of the law reminds me of the
little boy at the table. His father was help
ing plate and the boy exclaimed: What,
all that for grandma" No. replied tn"
father, this plate is for you. my son. oh.
what little bit" complained the boy.
Imperialism Strong Issue.
THE question of imperialism will occupy
a prominent place in the next campaign. 1t
matters not whether the war in the Philip
pines ends in the near future or continues
until election. The people must determine
the policy to be pursued in regard to the
Fiiipinos. That policy must contemplate
the ultimate independence of the F'ilipinoS
or their permanent retention under Amer
lean sovereignty. If the Islands are to be
retained permanently the inhabitants must
be given the hope of full citizenship or they
must be condemned TO the lot of subjects.
Who desires to admit them to share and
share alike with US in the destiny of this re-
public?
THE McEnery resolution, which passed
the senate last March by republican votes,
announces that the Philippine islands We're
never to become integral part of the
United States If we retain possession per-
maneGtly, then, We must be prepared to
support by force a war which will never
cease to be obnoxious to the native popula-
Colonial Policy Is Opposed.
England has been in control of India for
a century and a half, and yet, according to
Mr.. Morrison, an Eng .ishman, in a book re-
Gently published, there is not in India a
native paper of influence which defends the
English government. He also complains of
the ferocity of the educated classes. No
one who understands history or human
nature can expect an alien government to
be satisfactory. We cannot adopt a colonial
will ipn q f.
government, so long cherished in this coun-
try, and we cannot ignore that doctrine in
dealing with the Filipinos without endan-
gering it's existence in the United States.
Upon what ground can forcible annexa-
ton be defended? Is it on the theory that
the Filfpinos are incapable of self-govern-
ment? Clay, in discussing the revo -utions
which led to the establishment of the South
American republics, declared that self-gov-
eminent is the natural government and as
serted that those who deny the capacity of
any people for self-government impeach
the wisdom of the Creator Clay was right.
The doctrine that it is the duty of power
full nation to cross an ocean and force al
alien government upon another race which
happens to inhabit valuable lands is a doc
trine conceived in avarice, born in iniqutty
and defended always by hypocrisy.
when we enter upon policy of empire |
we cease to be mural factor in the world |
progress. Heretofore we have sympa thized
with all people struggling for the right to |
govern themselves, but now when the Beers
are willing to die in defense of their repub- |
tic the advocates of an imperial policy are
unable to express sympathy because we
are ourselves engaged in a war of conquest.
The opponents of Imperialism sympa thize |
with the Beers not because England is the |
aggressor, but because of the American be- |
lief in the Declaration of independence.
The Gold Standard.
do you know what the gold standard /
means?" he asked. why, when the Eng
lish armies lost three battles in South At I
It manifested itself in New York and it was
necessary for the great financiers to rush /
in with 600 of gold to bring interest
down from 1856 per cent. and necessary for
the treasury to step in and help Wall street |
out. If a few reverses in a war with |
handful of Beers shakes New York with |
the gold standard, where will your gold
be if England ever reaches a ma
ton of her size?
has been some prosperity, but the larger |
portion of prosperity has gone not to the I
masses of the people, but to the few who
nave been favored simply by republican
egislation. Nearly half of the people of
his country work upon the farm, and there
s not a republican policy that can brig
anything of good to the farmer. The good
he farmer enjoys must come from one of
wo sources-either from an increased crop |
~ from increased prices Can the repub-
lean party bring an increased crop? You
~1'lld suppose from the way republicans
}, ~ about large crops that the republican
-1:ty held in it's hand the showers and gave
.oundant rains when the people were good
Ind republican, and drought and hot
winds when they voted against the repub-
lean party. Why, my friends, If man will
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