Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-26

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you to remember what Webster said
and see whether you can find good
4 reason for differing from him.
| DANIEL WEBSTER'S WORDS.
The freest government cannot long
endure where the tendency of the law
is to create a rapid accumulation of
| property in the hands OF few, and
| to render the masses CT the people poor
| Il want you to consider that in this
nation is monopoly, and that it Is rap
| idly approaching an industrial despot-
ism. / want you to consider whether
| it is well for free government to have
| its industries collected under the man
| agement OF few men, so that the
rest of the people will receive their
daily bread at the hands OF thGD few.
Many of you are preparing yourselves
| for the legal profession, but you will
find under the system of monopoly
that the law business OF the country
will gravitate towards the offices of the
\
rest of the lawyers will be law clerks
| in the Offices Of those attorneys. You
will find that as monopoly increases
| the chance of the young man becomes
| less, and when you take away the hope
that has inspired him you render him
less effective man. This nation is
the greatest nation in the world, be-
cause here there is more hope for the
young man. Here life is before the
young man; there is no class distino-
ton; there is no caste. In this country
the son of the humblest citizen may
aspire to the highest rewards in the
industrial and political world; but
under an industrial despotism you take
away the prospect of independence,
and under this system you will find
that political despotism will follow,
for when one employer can coeree
thousands of employees, and threaten
them with idleness and starvation I'M
less they vote the ticket the employer
favors, you will find a government OF
the people, by the people and for the
people will be thing of the past.
Il want to call your attention to the
system which is now being proposed
by the Republicans, known as the col
onial system. One of our great insti-
buttons of learning has established in
the college a department for instruc-
ton
Dealing With Our Dependencies
and colonies. Young men, we have
never had colonies before and history
teaches that republics cannot have col
onies, and when We have reached the
point where we want colonies we have
reached the point where We do not
have a republic. You cannot have one
idea here and another idea in the
orient. Governments cannot come UP
from the people here and in the Phil
ippine islands come out of the mouth
of the cannon"
Mr. Bryan then ridiculed the destiny
argument, saying that that idea would
make chicken thief out of a man
provided he is near enough to the hen
coop to grab the chickens, He said
that this country as republic had
achieved more glory than all the en-
pires of the world combined during
the last ten decades, and without a
large army and large navy.
The Brunswick meeting was the first
of long series held after nightfall.
in the center of the city, and was very
largely attended. There was no great
deal of enthusiasm manifested while
Mr. Bryan was talking, but majority
of the asemblage rushed after his car
riage to the train and gave him most
demonstrative escort.
In front of Mr.. Bryan and only a
few feet distant was monument erect
ed to some of the victims of the Maine
disaster. In his speech Mr.. Bryan re-
ferred to the monument and to the
Cuban war, but before doing so he
made a general talk of about fifteen
minutes. He referred to the fact that
New Jersey had formerly been a DEM
oeratic State, and said that on this ac-
count he felt he could appeal to the
residents of this State with some de-
gree of assurance for return to the
support of Democratic principles.
Referring to the Maine monument.
he said:
''You have here a monument erected
to the memory of those who went
down with the Maine. We entered the
Spanish war on a high plane, but did
not maintain that plane to the end. For
myself. | protest
Against ToboGgan Slide
from war of humanity down to a
war of conquest. If the Good Samari-
tan had found a man beaten and brus-
ed had taken and healed him. and had
then said, sfter looking him over,
This is likely fellow, and | think |