Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-09-20
ROOSEVELT'S ROAST
Bryan Drowned and Basted by New
York's Governor.
Democratic Policies strike mt the
Root of National Honor and
Prosperity-Popocrn Proph-
ecies That Failed.

owing Importance is whether shall con-
tinue or abandon the governmental policy
which has brought this country to the
highest pitch of prosperity at home, and
which has kept the national honor un-
stained both at home and abroad. TO de-
Iiberately undo the work would be to dis
honor the national reputation and to throw
us into dreadful industrial chaos. The
Kansas City platform commits our oppon-
ents to policy which means material dis
aster and moral disgrace; which means
a violent panic in the business world, and
therefore widespread and prolonged mis-
cry among all our people; which further
means upsetting the courts, the violation
of the nations faith in financial matters,
and the unworthy abandonment of our
duty abroad.
IF you think l am using strong language.
let me read to you from Mr.. Carl Schurz'
speech in Chicago, September >, 1896 in
which he says:
And a what price will the ultimate re-
suit be gained in case of Mr.. Bryan's cleo
ton? AT the price of the most violent
and destructive crisis on record, such a
crisis can only be brought on by sud
den subversion of the standard of values
and of the whole business credit. At the
price of indefinite business paralysis and
distress. At the price of the ruthless spoil
alton of the savings accumulated by the
toIlng masses At the price Of robbing
war veterans of half the value of their pen
sions AT the price of greatly increasing
ing enterprise, and of curtailing the value
of wages of those remaining at work.
At the price of the respect of the world for
our intelligence and practical sense. And
worse, far worse, than all this, at the price
of something that has never been forfeited
since this republic was born-at the price
of the greatest good nation can possess
and for the preservation Of which il should
shed its last drop of blood-at the price of
our national honor. For this nation, so
piH q nd mo- nj STA and hAfn he.
world as a wanton, reckless repudiator,
nothing better than fraudulent bank
rupt This will be the cost of the expert
ment. Are you willing to pay this price?
Fellow citizens, it is a grave matter, q
matter of vital import to the existence of
this nation. The public men who teach
such moral principles to the people, edu-
cate the people for the contempt and abb
horrence of mankind. The nation that ac-
cepts such moral principles cannot live.
1t will rot to death in the loathsome stew
of its own corruption. If the nation adopt
ing such moral principles be this republic,
1t Will deal a deathblOw to the credit of
democratic institutions from which the
cause of free government Will not recover
for centuries.
'Now, mind YOU the platform on which
Mr.. Bryan stood in 1896 has been reaffirmed
without the alteration of a letter and with
an explicit reatiirmation of the free silver
plank to which Mr.. Schurz particularly re-
ferred. Mr.. SchurZ told the exact truth in
his scathing speech of 1896, and therefore
what he said then is, of course, the exact
truth to-day. In this campaign the issues
involved strike at the root of our prosper
ity and national honor If the American
people are true to themselves they must
in the most unequiVocal manner repudate
the populistic and cOmmunistic doctrines
enunclated in the Kansas City platform.
exactly as they repudated them in SO.
The existence of any considerable party
which affirms and reafirms these doctrines
is in itself a serious menace to the nation
moral and material welfare, and we have
a right to appeal to every far-sighted and
patriotic man, whatever his political afl-
iations in the past, from no matter what
section of the country he comes, to stand
with us in this struggle for national in
tegrity.
1--WE have a right to insist upon both wis
dom and sincerity in the leaders of any
party who appeal for popular confidence.
Now, let us see if we can trust the wisdom
of our present opponents, by comparing
their prophecies In 9G with the actual
events since.
In 1896 Mr. Bryan insisted that 'plutoc-
racy was on one side and democracy on the
other Speech of October 10, and that if
he was beaten the wage worker could not
prosper Well, as matter of fact. the
wage worker during the past four years
has prospered as never before; and the
same is true of all our citizens. On Sep
tember l9 of that year Mr. Bryan said:
Is nothing before the people but four years
more of hard times and greater agitation
That statement carries with it it's own re-
ply. Have the last four years been easier
or harder than the three preceding? You
know we'll enough that they have been in
iinitely better; and it is the republican
party which has restored prosperity, for
1t has secured the conditions which gave
free play to enterprise and thrift. Mr..
Bryan continued in the same speech: DO
f,Is ~
row to its dress? No. my friends, you can
not set a limit to the present hard times
But, as a matter of fact, they did set
limit, for the limit Mr.
Bryan's defeat was secured; and the limit
would be instantly removed if he were
now elected. We would all return at once
into the very condition from which the
election of President Mckinley rescued us
four years ago.
'In the same speech Mr. Bryan said:
business men complain that business con-
ditions are bad. | warn them that these
conditions cannot be improved by follow
ing up the policies of the republican party.
Well, let business men answer whether
that warning has or has not been justified
What do you think of business conditions
now as compared with four years ago?
again, on September %, Mr. Bryan said ::
The republican party produces a policy
that makes hard times. All those who love
hard times ought to vote for the republican
ticket, and all those who tired of hard
times have got to vote the democratic
ticket II they would expect any relief.
Now, as have said before, what Mr.. Bryan
promises should be judged by the way
the past events have squared with his
prophecy. The event showed that voting
for the republican ticket put an end to
hard times. You need not take my word
for this. You need only consider the con-
dition of yourself and your neighbor5 now
as compared with the time when we were
all paralyzed by the threat of Mr.. Bryan $
remedies.
1.-TWO days afterwards Mr.. Bryan said
Remember if you continue the present
conditions you will have nobody to blame
except yourselves for four years more hard
times and if you want this sort of thing
then prepare yourselves to grin and bear
it without complaining for four years
more On October l3 he said: These are
hard times, but they will be harder yet
If the gold standard continues and on