Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-19
BRYAN NAMES ISSUES
THAT ARE UPPERMOST IN THE
HEARTS OF PEOPLE,
We Must Release Ourselves From Finan-
cial bondage to England - The Great
Breeder of Trusts = Anglo A merlcan
Conspiracy Exposed to Light.


money question is compelling the peo-
pie to study the subject anew. The
fact that England's reverses in the
Boer war disturbed the New York mar
kets and caused drop in stock values,
variously estimated at from five hun
dred millions to one billion, has led the
people to inquire what would be the
result in case England should ever at
tack nation of her size and become
engaged in a great war, writes w. j.
Bryan in the New York Journal.
The gold standard plan will not be
complete until the gold is the only le-
gal tender, and when that time comes
1t will be impossible for the United
States to have an independent policy
on any subject, because the threat of
financial panic will be the answer to
every attempt at independence. This
danger is gradually dawning upon
those who in 1896 were deceived by the
cry of Sound money" and IAN honest
dollar"
The attempt of the Republicans to
establish a paper money trust and
give to national banks control OF the
paper money Of the nation is causing
alarm among those who seemed in
different to the gold standard scheme
The fact that a permanent national
bank issue upon present security will
necessitate a permanent and increas-
ing national debt is compelling atten-
ton, and those who believe that the
people should be consulted in matters
If legislation will not forget that this
change from green backs to national
'ank notes is being attempted without
The question ever having been sub
ion.
| have found the people rapidly
weakening to the dangers of the trusts.
Men who did not think the question
important in 1896 are now convinced
hat the private monopoly has reach
I'd proportions where 1t is dangerous
% the political as well as the Industrial
Welfare of the nation.
Give the boy chance" is slogan
hat will be repeated with increasing
emphasis by those who realize that
ander monopolistic tendencies the day
Of industrial freedom is fast passing
and the day of industrial servitude ap-
9roaching.
AS various branches of industry are
passing into the hands of few great
ba pf E,;c
products, the wage-earner and the pro-
1ucer of raw material, all realize that
.he evils of landed aristocracy are
small in comparison with the evils of
he threatened industrial despotism.
The attempts now being made to
destroy competition when fully con-
summated will substitute for a multi
tude of Independent and ambitious
producers, artisans, merchants, manu-
lecturers, bankers and professional
men a few men of immense wealth,
controlling all production, with many
employees, few great corporation law
yers, with many clerks. and one great
bank, with branches throughout the
country.
There is apparent among the plain
people feeling that they are not shar-
ing in the prosperity which Republican
orators and editors picture with so
much rhetoric. The Republicans as
sumo that man will vote the Repub-
lican ticket as long as he is not COM
PEELED to ask aims. They underrate
ha in foil at,,ia
masses when they think the producers
of wealth incapable of seeing the ten
dency of Republican legislation.
In all my speeches | devoted consid-
cradle time to the subject of imperi-
alism, and found that the arguments
against a colonial policy were well re-
ceived.
| am convinced that the effort to en-
graft such a policy upon our form of
government will ALLEVIATE more Repub-
licans than have left the Republican
party in any previous campaign. AS
the purpose of Republican leaders to
forcibly annex the Philippine islands
become more apparent, the defenders
of that policy become more and more
bold in their reputation of fundamen-
tai principles, and as the doctrine of
force is more boldly avowed the dis
affection among the Republicans in
creases.
When the Republican party meets
the speeches of Abraham Lincoln in the
next campaign it will find that the
gulf between Lincolnism and Hanna
ism Is so great that the admirers of the
former cannot be followers of the lat
ter.
If the Republicans assert that an i'm
perial policy will pay they will be
compelled to put pecuniary value
upon the lives that will be sacrificed
in the purchase of the supposed advan-
tages. II they assert that the nation is
following divine guidance in the prose-
cution of war of conquest they will
be compelled to show the credentials of
the man through whom the divine will
has been revealed.
II they assert that circumstances
make it necessary to remain in the
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