Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-04
lossal monopolies. These prediction
have generally been verified.

! lOssal mon0pOlies. THESE pfedlcuohs
have generally been verified.
AVENUES OF INDUSTRY CLOSED.
Democratic defeat had scarcely been
| recorded when the march of consolida-
ton was resumed. Every avenue of in
dustry is closed TO the competitive ener-
gy of the citizens, has been listed on the
stock exchange and rises and falls with
the turn OF the gamblers card, Consol-
idatons succeed consultations, and as
they lessen in number they enlarge in
the volume Of their real and fictitious
Accommodations. and their more despotic
sway over all material and political in
terests. These evils, startling in their
magnitude. and inevitable I'm the con-
sequences, must either eliminate In
one immense aggregation. all-pOwerful
and all-absOrbing, or be arrested and
dissolved by the force Of an aroused
public opinion finding expression at the
polls in support Of the nominees Of this
convention"
AGAINST CURRENCY BILL.
Governor Thomas then spoke OF the
currency bill passed by the last session
Of the national Congress, giving a re-
sumo OF It's most important features,
adding:
Against this iniqutous scheme Of
finance Democracy protests. We win
have no money system founded upon
the public debt and dictated by those
who hold II. We stand for the gold and
silver OF the Constitution. for a paper
currency founded upon them and issued
by the government as the embodiment
Of our sovereignty. We will not tax the
g.. Fv,t % n 70.
money system. We would pay and not
perpetuate our public debt. Those who
assert that the money question Is dead
have given but little heed 10 the lesson
of experience II can never die until II
shall receive a righteous solution"
THE WAR WITH SPAIN.
Referring to the war with Spain, the
governor said;
THE prevailing sentiment OF Demo-
cratic sympathy for all people strug-
Cling for the blessings Of liberty inn
PEELED the administration two years ago
to interfere with the despotic tyranny
Of Spain over Cuba and secure to the
oppressed people Of that island the right
Of government. Our ultimatum de-
livered. we sOlemnly and officially de-
clared them 10 be free and Independent
and disclaimed 20 the world any dispo-
sition or intention 10 exercise sovereign
~. Jurisdiction or control over the
island, except for the pacifcation there
OF and asserted our determination when
that was accomplished TO leave the gov
eminent and control Of the island TO its
people.
CUBA, PORTO RICO AND PHILIP
PINES
THE conditions Of the ensuing war
sent Admiral Dewey to the distant
Philippines where another people
engaged in the same struggle with the
same oppressor appealed TO the same
impulses Of cur nature There he broke
the power Of Spain, which, suing for
peace, submitted to the liberation Of
Cuba. and the cession OF Porto Rico.
our government disdained the spirit Of
its manifesto Of April, and became the
purchaser Of the Philippines In Janu-
airy. Since then we have given Cuba
the benefit Of our civic institutions 20
govern her through the war depart
ment. We have kept faith with Porto
Rico by substituting the sugar baron
for the Castiian duke, ana confirmed
the Philippine estimate Of the white
man by prolonging the Spanish method
Of colonial government I'm those islands
Of the far-of seas The national SYM
pathy for all who seek government
has been made the instrument by which
cupidity and greed acquire and hold a
feeble nation in thralldom against It's
will. The right OF purchase is invoked
10 justify the adoption by the great
western Republic Of so-calcd colonial
policy and her glorious institutions are
declared 10 be for home consumption
with prohibltiye duties against their
expectation"
DENOUNCES EXPANSION.
Continuing Governor Thomas said:
I'VE believe In that system of eX-
pansion which. under Democratic rule. |
brought half the continent as a galaxy |
Of commonwealth into the Union. We |
denounce that expansion which by con- |
quest overcomes the people OF another |
hemisphere under the preteXt OF Civ |
ing them liberty which governs them |
by force, which denies 10 them the /
right Of citizens, which subjects the |
American workman 10 increased and |
deadly competition by confronting him /
with hordes OF Orlentals coming hither 1
from so-called provinces 10 take his |
place at the forge, in the mine and the |
factory
WANTS CANAL FORTIFIED
Said Governor Thomas:
I'VE would build the Nicaraguan |
canal as an American enterprise for the |
American people. We would operate 10 /
in times OF peace and control II In times |