Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-09-19


expands as population increases, you Will
have an expanding debt for II to rest
upon. You cannot hear Republican
speaker defend permanent national
debt. You cannot read In Republican
paper an editorial defending permanent
national debt and yet you cannot have
permanent bank currency resting on bonds
without permanent debt for II to rest
upon. Republicans, 1t is tough. (Great
laughter). DO you like It? (Renewed
laughter and prolonged cheering).
Republicans on Trusts.
1t used to be that the Republicans
denounced the trust. Now Republicans
make speeches and do not say anything
about trusts. man told me today that
OF the six speeches made when the Re-
publican campaign was opened in this
state. not one of the speakers discussed
tho trust question. The presidents mes
sage had two or three sentences about 1t
I notice In the paper that the message as
first written contained 10000 words but
was cut down to 10000. l suppose the
1000 words we're on the trust question, but
were cut out. (Great cheering). The Re-
publicans boast of present conditions. The
trust Is a part Of present conditions. Why
is It that the Republican party does not
fight the trusts? Why is 1t that IL does
not discuss the trusts? Why is II that II
does not point out the evils OF the trusts
Well. the Republicans ara in this dilemma
II they attempt to defend the trusts, some
one in the audience will point TO the plat
form which denounces the trusts and II
II they attempt to denounce the trusts, some
one in the audience will call attention to
four years of Republican administration
with no effort to destroy them. Long con.
tinued applause). So the best thing is moi
to say anything about them. I want &c
submit the question to you Republicans
who are here, Is the trust good or bad
You dare not say II is good, because IL yor
do you cannot explain the platform de-
nouncing the trust. You dare not say the
trust is bad for when you say that, you
condemn Tie administration that has done
nothing to overthrow the trusts. PRO
longcd applause).
Republican Responsibility.
When party has power, It assumes the
responsibility. The Republican party
wanted the power. 1t got the power, II
got the president. 1t got the senate and
II got the house. II had a chance to Leg
islate but it has not done so. The presi-
dent appoints an attorney general The
attorney general is the officer who en-
forces the law and yet trusts have grown
and grown until almost every great
branch Of industry today is controlled by
trusts. and the trust is making Its in
fluence felt not only on the man who buys
the finished product and lives upon the
farm or works In tn. factory, but 1t is
making its inuaeuce felt upon the
laborlnp man who Is at the mercy o.
those who control that branch of Industry
1T is making It's influence felt upon
other industries. For instance, suppose
man wants to engage In some kind OF
manufacturing which uses tin as a basis: |
He finds tin trust controlling % per
cent. OF the output of the nations tin and
he has to buy what he uses OF that one
firm. He finds that steel and iron are
controlled by trusts, so that what he
has to use he has to buy from these
trusts And what Is the effect? The ef-
feet of 1t Is that the small manufacturer
y being ground to pieces. the result is
that II man is selling In foreign mar
ats, then the trust II 1t raises the price
his raw material, has hampored him
In his competition with those in other
lands who can buy our own product here
at lower price often than that product
is sold to our own people. Great ap-
plause and cheerlng)
Trusts Supply Hanna's
Campaign Funds.
What is tho Republican party doing to
protect the country from the trusts? Moth |
Ing. whatever And why not? Why u the
Republican party were to kill the trusts
st might be prosecuted for murder. more |
spplause). Not only for that but II might
be prosecuted for destroying It's own of
spring. Prolonged applause). 1t would
lie invading its own family circle and II
the Republican party destroyed the
trusts, where would It get It's campaign
funds from? CONTINUED APPLAUSE
Now isn't II strange that the people who
are not benefited by trust can be blind
to the evils of the trust or can be deluded
by Republican promises? You read In
the paper that a sugar dividend has been
declared. ! want you lahoring men to look
among your effects at home and see " you
have any stock In the sugar trusts? Figure
up what your per cent. Ia OF the dividends
declared and you will find that you did
not get any of the dividends. but whenever
you buy sugar you contribute towards the
trusts. When you see that the Standard
Oil company has declared dividend Just
hgure out what your share of the dividend
is and you will find 1t Is nothing Yet
every time you buy OIL you contribute to
tho dividend, When you sec that the barb
wire trust has declared dividend of 3S
per cent You farmers ask yourselves what
your share OF the dividend was? You got
nothing of It, and yet you got caught on
lOnged cheering and applausel
Isn't 1t strange that Republican, who
cutters from these trusts. can he blind to
the feet that his party maintains these
trusts In control of the government? Isn't
1t strange that, while the man al the
head OF the trusts knows which party to
help, the man who ia employed by the
trusts, sometimes does not realize what
Is going on, or does not seek man OF
Ia going on on the trust question, | am
going to believe that there is stil a
chance for YOU to sec what is going on.
on the army question
Increase of the Army.
For when you come to the army you are
dealing with a subject where the figures
are 80 plain that there is no reason why
every one should not understand. IL | |
had a blackboard hcre | would write on
the blackboard twenty-five thousand"
and after that number ! would write "the
slze or the standing army when the pres
ident entered the White House" Then I
would write "ono hundred thousand" and
after II "the size Of the army asked for
by the president within two years after
he entered the White House" Then !
would ask him to multiply twenty-five
thousand by four and he would find that II |
would make one hundred thousand. That
Is why the president asked for an army
four times as large MS the army was when
he went into office,
He asked It after the Spanish treaty
was signed and before hostlities broke
out at Manila, Aud a lower house a
house OF representatives, prompt to do
the bidding of the president. passed a bill,
raising the standing army to 100 900, end
but for the opposition OF the Democrats
and populists and silver Republicans of