Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-09

your sympathies to 30 1900 miles
away to people who are In armed re-
bellion against u.s.
Col. Freer said he was proud that
America has become world power,
and is debating terms Of peace to all
the nations.
Senator Burrows, who came in while
Congressman Freer was speaking, and
was warmly applauded, was next in
PRODUCED and was cheered as he arose
to speak. He promised in his opening
remarks to prove that the Democrats
are seeking by false pretense to secure
control of the government. He charac-
terized Imperialism as a blind" to
conceal the real issue in the contest.
Senator Burrows said the only SOW
ereigns in this country are the people,
and il the government Is ever de-
stroyed. it will not be by the President
or Congress, but by the people. He
emphasized the point that the election
OF Bryan means a change in public
policy. He placed stress upon the fact
that the Kansas City platform reaf-
flrmed the Chicago platform, and sim
gled out for especial mention that
abomination of all declarations, the
free and unlimited coinage of cheap
dollars He referred sarcastically to
the GLORY of free trade and cheap
money" He asserted that it meant the
closing of industrial plants, and the
national disgrace of destruction of
the public credit. In reply to the
statement that the Republican Senate
could tie the hands of Bryan, with
reference to disturbing the gold stand
ard, Senator Burrows gravely asserted
that it would be impossible because
Senators Teller and Allen could con-
sumo the entire session in talking.
The speaker illustrated the difference
between government coinage and free
coinage of silver. He said the latter
meant that any man could take an old
teapot to the mint, and have it melted
and coined into dollars to carry away
with him. Government coinage means
that the parity between gold and sill
yer will be maintained. Il have no
| more doubt of the destruction of the
credit of this country, in the event of
the election of Mr. Bryan, than that |
stand here. We will be launched again
upon the troubled sea of an uncertain
and unstable currency"
Senator Burrows attacked the con-
sisteney of Bryan, accusing him of
demagogy, and of trying to stir up
strife between capital and labor. He
said capital and labor were allied
powers, and must not be separated.
The cry OF imperialism is intended only
to intlame the passions of men. 1t
makes my heart ache to see man in
ditch working for a dollar a day.
It's a hard lot But that man is not a
friend of labor that would assassinate
and burn the capital that gives employ
ment to that labor"
The speaker said free trade is alb
solutely certain under a Democratic
administration, and he charged that
free trade drove 100000 workingmen
into the streets during Cleveland's adj
ministration. 1t was the price of the
experiment by the American people.
Just as sure as Bryan is elected on
November 9th, on the 7th the mills
will begin to contract their business,
and on the Sth therell be a further
contraction"
THE laboring man would rather pay
little tax on the dinner pail and
have it full, than to have it on the
pantry shelf covered with dust"
Don't look at Imperialism or mill
tarism. That means nothing. It's only
a ghost, and a ghost is the hardest
thing in the world to fight
On the trust question, Senator Bur-
rows said there were trusts in free
trade countries. He asked how any,
| body was going to prevent one man
from combining his capital with that
of another man. He said that under
protective tariff, trusts can be form
ed because industries exist, but under
| free trade trusts are impossible be-
cause industries are destroyed. The
| trust question will adjust itself in time,
and the Republican party, without pas
sion, will so legiSlate as to minimize
the evils growing out of these combin-
ations, without at the same time de-
| stroying the industries.
The Republican party, said Senator
Burrows, did not bring on the war
with Spain. If there was one man who
was determined not to have it, it was
President Mckinley. II it had not
| been for the blowing up of the Maine,
Mckinley would have solved the ques-
| ton without war. The war was not
TO seize Cuba but to relieve the Cubans
of the tyranny OF Spain. 1t was a
fight for humanity. 1t broke the
sceptre of Spanish power in the west
| ern hemisphere.
"They are criticizing u.s." said Sen
ator Burrows, but not about Cuba.
All but 5000 troops have returned to
| America, and great reforms have been
| inaugurated on the island. In week
| the people will vote for a convention
| to draft a constitution for the repub-
| lie of Cuba. In less than a year we
will welcome into the family Of ma
tions the republic of Cuba. Porto
Rico belongs to us, and Is given terri
torial form of government. It is for
| Congress to determine what will be
done with Porto Rico.
I'VE hold the same title TO the Phil
| ippines that we do to Porto Rico.
am not going to discuss 1t. What we
are going to do in the future can't
tell. | can't say what we are going
to do with those eighty different tribes
| that speak sixty different languages.
We could take an army of 5000 men
and drive them into the sea, IL we
| wanted to butcher them. But we are
establishing schools. and opening
churches and cleaning the island. What
are we going to do with them? I do