New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-05
SPEECH BY WALLACE BRUCE
BE GIVES FOUR REASONS WHY RE
PUBLICAN WOMEN SHOULD BE
INTERESTED N POLITICS.

The West End Woman's Republican Association
held its weekly meeting yesterday at $50 O'clock
al the clubroons, No. 2307 Broadway. Tho gath
e-ing was the first OF the campaign ueettnga,"
and Wallace Bruce was the principal speaker. His
speech abounded II amusing stories and Witty al
lustons as vel rs ardent politics" He began by
saying that there we're four good reasons Why
women should BE interested IN politics, and those
were sound money, the Supreme Court, patriotism
and American industry
Woman IS stamped as an emblem on the coin
OF the country. and she can countenance no de-
based currency. she holds the scales q Justice
over the courthuuses and she VIII have no ta-nper-
ing with the Supreme Court As Columbia she
holds the torch Of liberty and Will suffer din1inu-
ton OF patriotism. and the hand OF 2 wo-nan-
Betsy Ross-made the first American flag, woman
viii always stand for the protection OF American
industries"
Nj Bruce treated the silver question as the real
issue Of the campaign, and stated that free silver
would depreciate all values and cut money IN
two" THE man who has $500 IN the
bank" he said. will ind It reduced IN purchasing
The HAT idea Mr. Bruce disposed OF by a story.
'T went last summer 10 my boy graduated from
Yale" be said, and there met a chum OF his
q young Kentuckian-who told this story. that
seems 10 good analysis OF some Demo-
cratic arguments that pass it Il at
Republican meeting A IN the audience arose
and asked the speaker II he might put q question
Re was told 10 ask anything he liked, and inquired
W hen me United states Stamps anything as
money doesn't Il become money!
The speaker invited him TO 10 the plat
form Ee had long gray whiskers reaching nearly
70 his waist, and was typical Populist. Now, IL
the Government said the speaker. should chop
those whlsksrs Of yours into pieces. tie them in
bales and label them hay. do you think that any
donkey IN Connecticut could be induced 70 eat
them
The audience howled." said Mr.. Bruce and the
man retired wiser If not happier"
The speaker then gave some interesting figures
OF foreign commerce. proving that business has IN
creased greatly in the last four years.
The Democratic party likes ghosts" he con-
tinued, and, IS ghosts live only in graveyards and
deserted houses they feel right at home with the
not the ghost Of chance il has tried to scare up
q few other kinds. so they have the trusts ghost
them They overlook the fact that Bryan is no
enemy 10 trusts, but the contrary. IN 1885 he
for their suppression was kept carefully in his
desk so that Congress had no opportunity act
On L Il has been passed since by a Republican
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Bruce's speech which
was earnestly appIauded, Mrs. Cornelia s. Robin
so the president sad that Il the speaker could be
all over the United States at once no one else
would be needed
after the audience sang The Star spangled Ban
ner' Mrs. William H Trafton read an able paper
On silver, the Eeal Issue OF the campaign, bring
ing & Iorrlldable array OF statsucs 10 prove that
since the binetac standard had fallen into disuse
perity had increased IN ali directions.
Mrs Harriet A. Ostrom. who has just returned
from Europe. gave pleasant little message from
Mrs. Clarence Burns to the club. Mrs. Burns viii
sal on October % for home.
4 Committee OF the Campaign Fund was appoint
&c, ana CONSISTS OF MIS- aEnes q: Nentz. cnalT-
nan: Mrs. Manchester, Mrs. William Jebb Mrs.
v 4 Trafron- Mrs c o. irwin Miss Mildred
Reed and Miss Edith Granger. A resolution de
plorng the death OF Judge Lansing was passed and
ordered 70 Be sent 70 Mrs Lansing.
enjoyed.