The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-10-03

| important election. This fact is recog-
nized from San Francisco to New York.
If we are vigilant we will elect Bryan
and Stevenson. We in New Jersey pur-
pose to have out share of the glory. II
we believe in Democratic government we
| want to make our party the dominant
political party
Mr. McDermott predicted that the
electoral vote would be cast for Bryan
and Stevenson. He was interrupted at
this point by a Republican. enthusiast
The enthusiast was quickly hustled from
the scene, in accordance with Chief of
Police Murphy's orders to his men to al
low no disturbance at any political meet
ings
''You needn't put him OUT said Mr..
McDermott 'sThe only man we want to
put out is William Mckinley" Cap
plause)
AIR. McDermott discussed trusts. He de-
clared it was wrong to make men rich
by legislation. The trouble about high
tariff was the tendency toward corup-
ton. Men like Carnegie got more than
any man should have. Concerning the
placing of tariff on Porto Rican goods,
the speaker said, this government had no
more right to do it than to place
tariff on goods imported into another
State from Arizona, New Mexico or
Oklahoma. 1t was one at the behest of
the sugar barons. He said he objected to
such taxation. The constitution he de-
clared gave them no more right to i'm
pose such a tax than 1t gives to Phila-
delphians the right to tax goods sent or
taken there from New Jersey. This prin-
ciple, urged the speaker, relegated minor
questions to the rear and in settling it
the county should be guided by the
standard of Thomas Jefferson
Mr.. McDermott reviewed the history of
the Sugar trust for the past twelve years,
and told how it had gro n to such an ex-
tent as to crush out all o. sition and Sc
cure IT'S own price. He also alluded to the
Coal Trusts and Oil Trust.
Individuality is dead in American COM
merce. Sympathetic bonds between en-
ployer and employe are dead This is not
an advance step in civilization" he de-
clared
Mr.. McDermott occasioned considerable
laughter in .alluding to the fact that Han
ma was perspiring in the interests of the
miners in the coal fields of Pennsylvania.
He said he had no objection to the accum-
ulation of capital if honestly acquired.
But capital. he said, was working over
time in buying votes. He called attention
to the Oil Trust as an organization that
extended from Maine to China. He also
referred to the fact that the Steel Trust
had with in the past few days thrown out
of employment $4,000 employees. This, he
said, affected prosperity and individual
progress.
Discussing the money question Mr.. Nc
Dermott declared first that no man had
a right to question a mans right to think.
The Senate, he said, could not be changed
in the next four years. The financial laws
could not be changed in the next four
years. On the money question the speak
er declared that neither party was right,
and neither could alter the law of supply
and demand any more than it could alter
the harmony Of the spheres. No political
platform could create values. He referred
to the Bland dollar a creation of Repub-
licanism. He declared that no Demo-
cratic Congress would ever debase the
currency, and if they attempted it the bill
would be vetoed by William Jennings
Bryan.
Mr.. McDerrhott said he did not believe
the question of coinage was an issue.
That would be regulated by the law of
supply and demand. Then he got down
to the subject of imperialism, which he
considered the dominant issue of the
campaign. He believed that the question
was whether this nation should continue
Republic or an Empire Imperialism,
he said, did not mean government by one
man, but central government that held
in subsection 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 Imperial
ism. Republicans called it territorial ex-
pansion, but a fair name never excused
or covered an unfair transaction. The
Filipinos, he said, were fighting for pre-
cisely the same principles as those for
which our forefathers fought in the his
tory of the American colonies. Mckinley
and his aids and abettors, he said, would
sooner or later shrink from the eyes of
civilization He attacked Senator Bever-
idge's announcement, ''We propose to
nOlQ LQ6In IOr COliliei Sio'S Pun PcoSo.
ssThfs." declared Mr. -IcDermott, "is
placing the dollar above the man. The
purchase Of the Philippine Islands by the
country was the biggest gold brick trans
action i'm the history of nations. We have
coast there to cover greater than that
of the United States, and he Government
will have to establish a bureau of earth
quakes Think of it. 1t cost US $2O0O0,O00
for the privileges of picking weeds. 1t
will involve an expenditure of millions of
dollars a year and will not add to the
exports of this country one hour OF
manual labor. A nation cannot exist half
slave and half Free England holds mil
lions in India. We are about to enter
upon her career by holding 100000 slaves
in the Philippines. No one knows what
the conquest has cost.
when we purchased Louisiana France
did not relinquish her claim until she saw
to it that every citizen of Louisiana
should be a citizen of this country. Shall
we tread the way of empire that has
sounded the death knell of every Republic
from the days of the Roman empire?
Last year we forced the Republican party
to wipe out Algerism. This year we will
wipe out McKinleyism." Cloud and con-
tinous applause)
Mr. McDermott scatMngly denounced
MCKINLEY for saturating the soil of the
lPhiInnina Islands with the blood of