Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-11-01

the European doctrine Of protectorate,
not the American. 1t Is the doctrine
behind which tho monarchs CT the Old
World have hidden when they have
wanted to plumber people under the
pretence Of protecting them. Ours is
different proteotorate We lend to
the nation protected the shield Of our
strength, but we do not make II the
victim OF our greed. But, my friends,
l have little later authority | want
to read what the President says In his
letter OF acceptance about our inability
to protect the Filipinos, and then l
want to read article ID OF the Sulu
treaty. Have you ever read that treaty.
daughter.
| Well, my friends, you ought to read
IL. suppose the old slang phrase, that
it Is Lulu, will disappear, and it
will be u Sulu now. daughter
Here Is article thirteen: 1.-THE
United States will give full protection
to the sovereign aud his subjects in
case any foreign nation should attempt
to impose upon them What is that?
Are we going 10 protect the sovereign
and his subjects in case any foreign
nation tries to impose upon them9 That
Is Just what we have agreed to do in
the treaty made with the Sultan of
Sulu, and II Republican President
can protect a Mohammedan Sultan, a
Democratic President can protect q
Christian Republic. Laughter.
Now, my friends, when the Republic
cans get through answering those five
questions l will have some more for
them. daughter.
The trouble Is that the Republican
party Is not attempting to meet the
issues Of this campaign. The Republic
Ia ts..s, fT. mt
to the public it's side Of these great
7 questions. We have in this campaign
, one economic question that has grown
ID Importance since 1896, and We have
T two new questions that the American
people have never considered before.
II Republicans ask you why we spend
: 80 much time on the new QUESTION:,
, you can tell them, first, that our posi-
. tion on old questions is known, and
I thus do not need to be reiterated In
every speech, and, second, that the
Republicans have been guilty Of so
much meanness since 1896 that they
keep US busy in prosecuting them for
:, what they have done in the last few
!. years. daughter. II the Republicans
had wanted to remove the trust ques-
tion from the campaign they might
:, have done so, How? by removing the
trusts. hui Grey did not do it. We had
some trusts In 1896. We have more
= now. We had few then. We have Z
to great many now. My friends, IL you
ID put a leech on a man, and he is good
o, strong, healthy man, the leech car
re draw all the blood it wants and thu
as man will still live, but If you cove
IL. him with leeohes from head to foot
~ and they all draw blood, he will want I,
II do something for the leech habit, laugh
q teri, and the American people, tigura
i'm lively speaking, are now covered from
in head to foot with these trust leeches
re but the Republicans seem to thinl
nu there is going to be no trouble. The
ne feel about IL as the man down Soutl
I'm did about the mosquitoes. A man wen
mt from here down there, and he was yer,
p' much bothered with the mosquitoes
DIV One day he said to oolored ma
'ar Don't these mosquitoes almost xii
a your masterYn "Oh, no." he said
ne master newer bothers about mos
us quitoes. By night master ia SO drum
we he does not know the mosquitoes ar
To- biting, and by morning the mosquitoe
res are so drunk they don't care to bit
u any more" Laughter. The Reput
me licans seem to think that The people ar
rat SO attached to the Republican part
he that II will be good while before tn
es; people know what the trusts are doing
Is! and that by the time the people
ave that they won't care to bite any NOR,
re, Within the last three years and ha
rec more trusts have been organized tina
ave in all the previous history of the ooui
we try. The President in 1897, in his il
ing aueural address, promised to enfort
an, existing law and to recommend ne
co, laws. He has done neither. His a
are torney- general has not enforced existir
his laws and the President himself b,
allowed four sessions Of Congress
tif- convene and adjourn and has never y
IS recommended remedy for the trust
he IL l had heen elected and had done
the President has done, there is not
AIDE Republican who would have defend,
his me and yet, my friends, you will fiji
1T Republicans defending the Republic,
70 President for doing what they won
OF have denounced 10 Democratic Pres
rice dent. Republicans have no plan {
hat overthrowing the trusts. Read Il
deY Presidents letter of acceptance.
nan spends more time warning you not
the hurt good trusts than he does tellii
the you how to hurt the bad ones. Re-
you the letter Of acceptance of the Repub
love can candidate for Vice-President.
can spends more time denouncing tho
oui. VINO denounced the trusts IMAM ne &c
by in denouncing the trusts. But W
pom speak Of these lesser lights in the Il
'nds publican party, when can quote fro
the head OF the party, and u you th
very Mr.. Hanna says there are no trus
put daughter. And yet, my friends, | c
lock nov prove to you that TO Repub
the can has any regard for Mr.. Hanni
veracity, for every Republican kno
you that there is an ice trust. Is not Il
n to sos Laughter. Now, II there are
pack trusts how can there be an ice tru
ting and IL there Is an ice trust, how can
life. be true that there are no trusts9 Is
With not strange, my friends, that the
'ome publioans OF this town know all abe
lin. the Toe trust that is confined to N
York, aud do not know anything abe
rade the sugar trust, the oil trust, the s
that trust, the cracker trust, or any Of
ause trusts that reach into every househ
each and exiort tribute from every fam
ty is today Is it not stranger Is it ign
8 to ance, or is 1t lack Of interest that ma
i'll all Republicans talk about the
has trust, and talk about no otheiY j,
\ friends, every director OF the ice trust
J say Republican. Is there any oonsolat
limos to Republicans in that9 The COVER
The of the State is a Republican, the Leg
ince, lature is Republican. and when
al to publican tells you that there is an
cite trust Eurtlng people in New York,
dis him that ls impossible, for II any
trust was hurting people in New Yo