Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-09-06


tween the bulls and bears of Wall street,
the bulls horn him, the bears bite him,
and when he is through with them he
has to meet the goldbug. A good crop
is made the occasion for praising the
Republican party, while bad crop is
taken as punishment for voting the
Democratic ticket The claim is almost
made that the Republican party con-
trolls the rainfall. but this cannot be
true. for if it were there would be a
monopoly on rain the price would go
up.
"What does the Republican party do
to help the farmer? Has it any means
of raising the price of what he has to
sell? You are told now that you have
more money than you had in 1896.
want you to read the speeches made in
1896 and see whether the Republican
party promised any more money. You
cannot find in Republican speech Of
'96 promise of more money. The Re-
publicans said then that it did not mat
ter whether we had much money or a
little. lust so it was good. They disputed
the quantitive theory of money, and you
cannot find where any Republican said
i'm 1896 that we had an insufficient
amount of currency and promised that
the Republican party would bring more
money. Yet today the Republican party
boasts of. an increase in the volume OF
money.
1.-The increased production of gold has
been help. We wanted more gold and
more silver. The quantitive theory of
money has been established and the Re-
publican party today does not dare to
brag of an increased quantity of money
and at the same time say that the guam
tltive theory of money is incorrect.
1--WE got money because of large crop
| i'm this country and famine in Europe.
Did the Republican party make large
crop in this country? Did the Republi-
can party produce famine in Europe
| If not, how can it claim credit for the
increased volume of money?
1--WE have had war on hand. We
have been mortgaging the future and
spending the money of the present. We
have been putting some money into cir
| culation which was stored in the vaults
and it has been helpful. Did the Re-
publican party bring on the war in order
| to increase the volume of money?
The war in the Philippines has fur
nished some demand for money and it
has taken 1000 men out of the labor
market. The South African war has
also helped some in the matter Of in
creasng prices by creating demand
for goods Did the Republican party
| bring on the war in South Africa?
My friends, the Republicans cannot
point to one thing that has been done by
their party to raise the price of farm
Il wi hpnt HAVING
| policy to raise the prices OF what the
farmer sells, the Republican party does
promote the trusts and raises the prices
| of what the farmer buys. And if the
| Republican party can raise the price OF
what the farmer buys, then the farmer
suffers rather than gains by the Repub-
| lican administration. The Republican
party today has arrayed itself against
every proposition of Importance for
which it stood 10 years ago, except the
| tariff question"
Discussing the Philippine question
Mr.. Bryan said in part:
Republicans tell us that the Philip
pine war is the same as was the war be-
tween the States. A man does not need
to have much intelligence to see the
difference between the principles in
volved. In the Civil War the North was
holding the people of the South in the
| Union, but the people were TO be
citizens. They were not held in the
Union to be denied the privileges of cit
izenship. They are today sharing with
the citizens of the North in the citizen
ship of this Union, and they are vieing
with the citizens of the North to see
which section can add most to the gran
deur and glory of this our common coun-
try
! Philippine Islands. We are not bring
! ing the Filipinos in as citizens. We are
bringing them in as subjects, and if you
want to know the difference between
| the South, sharing as she does in the
| guarantees Of the Constitution, and the
! F'ilipinos, weighted down by a colonial
! system. such as is practiced in other
! countries just compare the South today,
self-governing, with the South during
the carpet-bag period. If you want to
know what colonial policy will mean
in the Philippine Islands just remember
how white men at home were treated
by a carpet-bag government, and then
| imagine how, brown men, 1000 miles
away from home, will be treated under
carpet-bag government.
''You farmers who have been held to
the Republican party because you be-
lieved it the party of liberty want to
remind you that the Republican plat
form of 1860, upon which Abraham
! Lincoln was elected, contained the four
great principles of the Declaration OF
! Independence. That first platform of
| =, tbat
! 'All men are created equal; that they
are endowed with inalienable rights
that governments are instituted among
men to secure those rights that gov
ernments derive their just powers from
the consent of the governed YetthiS
year, when the Republican convention
met at Philadelphia-me under the
shadow of the building in which that
Declaration of Independence was signed
the Republican party dared not men
ton the Declaration of Independence
because its present practices violate
every principle in the document.
do you believe that a man elected
President, according to the Constitu-
ton, who takes the oath to support the
! Constitution, should then administer a
government without the limitations of
! the Constitution If President elect
ed according to that Constitution can
| govern $780, 900 Porto Ricans entirely in
dependent of that Constitution then he
can govern 100000 Filipinos without
the restraints of the Constitution, and
if he can govern 5000 900 Filipinos out
side of the Constitution he can govern
400, 10000 Chinese without being dis
turbed by the limitations of that Con-
stitution.
you once admit that President
created by law is above and beyond
the law and you will have established
the doctrine of despotism on the ruins
of republic. Do you believe that
Congress elected by the Constitution,
limited in its powers by the Constitu-
ton, can disregard it in dealing with
people anywhere l deny the doctrine.
| | DENY that tho President mr. CONGRESS