The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-10-23

AAote. Ilc ifiIpuuctu SeVSrdl eXcellent
measures, which had they become laws
would have been of great benefit to the
State at large. But unfortunately the
Senate both years was overwhelmingly
Republican,, and no measure, however
good. emanating from Democrat could
pass that body
During the past week Mr.. McDermott
has made several speeches in different
parts of the county, in which he has
SCI forth the issues of the campaign in
manly straightforward manner. The
other evening he dwelt at length ON the
question of laborers being poorly paid,
and said their salaries were being cut
every day. IF you elect me to Con-
gress,'' he continued 81 will not allow
the passage of any bill that would take
away one-millionth of cent from the
wages Of laboring man.
Mr.. McDermott said that the silver
question was not an issue in this cam
paign. and he did not believe in arguing
dead questions
but I must say something to you," he
said ''about the statement made tonight
in the local papers by President Edward
w. Kingsland, of the Provident Institu-
ton for Savings in this. city, that the
purchasing power of a dollar when the
l IT, 1
about one-half of the purchasing power
| of the dollar today; that the savings
bank depositor. after getting 100 cents for
every 100 cents he put into the bank,
would find when he came to exchange
that money for commodities that the
prices of those commodities had advanced
| SO much that his dollar would be worth
what it was before the new standard
was adopted
when President Kingsland makes this
statement he says what he knows not to
be true. He knows a Republican Senate
| cannot be elected for five years or more
| and consequently there can be no change
in the money question:
In speaking of the full dinner pail. Mr..
MeDermott declared The Republican
administration never filled any of your
dinner pals. You filled them by the
sweat of your brow
as powers doing all they could to reduce
the workingmans wages He also made
mention Of the gigantic sugar trust that
threw any number of workingmen out of
employment, and asked ''if the Republi-
cans called that economy
He scored Attorney General Griggs for
being friend of trusts. Hanna says
there are no trusts said Mr.. McDer-
mott. but he has been running about
Wall street the last week or so trying
| to prevent any trouble in the coal trust,
at least until after election He spoke
also about the wire trust, and how the
price of farming implements have in
creased, while the wages of those em-
ployed in manufacturing them have not
I'm glad to say that 1 have not a, dol
| lar invested in any corporation so regu-
lated that it deprives the wage earning
/ class of people Of a cent" was state
ment made by Mr.. McDermott
l
Mr.. McDermott, in talking about the
Philippine Islands said the United States
bought gold brick when it paid $40, OOO. 900
for them. Ninety per cent of the in
habitants were of the Indian and Chi
nese races, he said, and asked if the
/ government, according to Mckinley,
wouldn't have nice time educating and
! subduing these people and these islands.
which have. besides the money paid for
| them, cost the United States over $780,
100000. Mr.. McDermott said he believed
in higher education but could not see
how these savages in the Philippines
| were to be educated.
LET the Philippines alone until the
slaves of the Pennsylvania coal mines are
freed, and God save American exclaimed
Mr. McDermott
i On another occasion Mr. McDermott
said he did not believe the question of
coinage was an issue. That would be
regulated by the law of supply and de-
mand. Then he got down to the sub
ject of imperialism, which he considered
the dominant issue Of the campaign. He
believed that the question was whother
this nation should continue a Republic
or an Empire. Imperialism, he said. did
not mean government by one man, but
| a central government that held in SUBJ
| lection countries not allowed a voice in
the government. He alluded to the aping
by this country of European forms of
| government and declared the thousands
of American soldiers dying in a climate
unfit for them to live in was the first
step in the direction of Imperialism Re-
| publicans called it territorial expansion,
but a fair name never excused or covered
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