Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-01-26

full of Beers will shake our financial
system, where will be the gold stan
dard IL England ever attacks a ma
ton of her size and gets into a real
war? When we join ourselves to the
gold standard, when we make gold
alone the legal tender for the pay
ment of debts, we connect ourselves
with every disturbance in Europe and
make ourselves dependent upon their
condition for their prosperity"
Col. Bryan said that the Republican
party seeks to fasten upon this
try a perpetual and
Ever Debt
in order that the banks may control
the volume of the peoples money.
When a man tells you now that more
gold means more money and that more
money means better times you tell
him that he has admitted the %Quantita-
tive of theory of money and that is
what we eontended for in 1896. We
wanted more gold and wanted more
silver, too. If we had bimetallism we
should have all the advantage that has
come from an increased production Of
gold. And. in addition thereto, we
could have had the advantage of silver
being used as a standard money along
with gold.
On the question of trusts Mr.. Bryan
said:
IF they are bad are you going to
say you cannot help yourselves. that
you have got to submit to the trust or
to the monopoly? The American peo-
pie don't have t submit to anything
that is detrimental to their welfare. In
a government like ours If things are
bad it is because the people permit
them to be so. You can destroy the
monopoly when you want to. The
trouble is that the monopoly
makes an open warfare in its defense,
but secretly controls the instrument
talities of government and thus pro-
tects itself"
Mr.. Bryan said he believed that Con-
gress has the power to and ought to
exercise it to say that no corporation
organized in any State shall do busi-
ness outside of that State until It Sc
cures permission from Congress or
somebody created by it and that per-
mission can be granted only when the
corporation shows that there is no
water in its stock and that 1t is not
attempting to m%onopolize any branch
of business or the production of any
article of merchandise. Monopoly in
it cannot be delegated and therefore,
you must devise and enforce such rem
edies as will be safe for the protection
of the people.
Let us tell the Filipinos that, hav-
ing driven the Spaniard out, they are
to stand up and be free, and then TO
say to all the world: Hands off, and
let that republic work out its des-
tiny Tell me that we are pleading
the cause of the Filipinos? No, we
are pleading the
Cause Of the American People.
If the F~ilipinos were to die tomorrow
the world would go on; but If this
nation ceased to be a republic the light
of civilization would go out forever.
To what nation, then, does struggling
humanity look for hope and inspira-
ton? If you want to see the sad in
roads of this doctrine upon the con-
science of the American people, let
me point you to what is going on down
in South Africa. A republic fighting
with an empire. In every contest
heretofore between monarchy and re-
p~ublicanism, the American people
have expressed their sympathy. When
Greece was struggling to be free, Web
ster and Clay exerted their eloquence
in defense of a resolutixl ~pledging
sympathy; when the Cubans were
fighting for their liberty all parties de-
clared the sympathy of the people, but
what do we find now? We find that
when the British government is at
tempting to take from the people OF
the Boer republic the right to govern
themselves the people who believe in
imperialism in this country dare not
say a word to express their sympathy
with the people over there. This is
the paralysis that is already creeping
over this nation"
TO THE PENITENTIARY.