The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-04-05

land was doing; and all you republic
cans say hurrah for the man who who
has the courage to follow in the footsteps
OF Grover Cleveland and make money
the master and all things else it's servant
(Applause.) A few years ago all you re.
publcans denounced the trusts; all your
leaders denounced the trusts, and now
you have republican administration, a
repu blican president, republican SEN
ate and republican house, and more
trusts have been organized in the last
three years than in all the previous his.
tory of the country! And now you don't
denou nee the trusts any more. Now you
say there are good trusts and bad trusts !;
and now you spend so much time trying
to prevent the good trusts being hurt you
haven't any time to destroy the bad
trusts; and you who denounce the trusts
have got to turn sonersault and say
there are good trusts and bad trusts.
That is only half over, and it is only a
little while until you will have to go all
the way and say the trusts are the great
est benefits this country has ever known /;
and you will have to do it il you follow
the republican party.
believe he great majority of the peo-
pie of all parties are honest; and if |
didn't think the great majority of repub-
llcans were honest wouldn't try to ad-
dress an argument to them, for there is
no use to try to talk to dishonest man !;
you cannot do anything with him; but
you can talk to an honest man and show
him he is mistaken; and l want to tell
you republicans your party prActiced a
deliberate fraud on you in '96. Your
party wrote a platform that pledged that
party to do what it could to secure inter-
national bimetallism, and that it would
do what it could to get bimetallism, and
that it could get bimetallism; and when
the election was over the president sent a
commission to Europe; but want to re-
mind you that while that commission
was in Europe goldbug secretary OF the
treasury was making gold speeches in
the United States all the time and when
that commission came back Mr.. Wolcott,
republican member OF the commission,
made speech in the senate in which he
said that Mr.. Gage by making gold
standard speeches here had interfered
with the success of the commission and
then when England spanked the COM
mission and sent it home not a republic
can of prominence complained. The re-
publican leaders never intended that you
should have bmetalism and as soon as
they dare to do it they will tear off the
mask and come out for the gold standard
They couldn't get gold standard bill
through the congress elected in '96.
In '9S the people we're engaged in war
and the republican speaker went through
the country telling you how you must
hold up the hands OF the president in
this war. and while the people were
holding up the hands OF the president the
fnanciers were preparing to hold up the
people. Gold standard never won VIC
tory in daylight; the gold standard never
made an open fight in this country. In
1896 the victory was won behind the
mask OF bi-metallsm and in 1898 it was
won behind the war fever; and yet the
first thing that the republican congress
did was to bring in and pass bill that
took step toward the gold standard and
when the bill came up In the house there
was nothing said about silver at ALL and
/ all the little republican members of con-
gress who look up to Mr.. Hanna every
morning and cay, "Give US this day our
daily opinion" voted for that bill. Re-
publicans, | want you TO read those
speeches made by republican members of
congress and see if there is any promise
OF bi-metallism there. They exploited
the gold standard as the permanent
standard and the bill went through the
house and every republican voted for it !;
and it went to the senate and the senate
committee reported back the gold stand
ard bill and then the republicans got
scared they began to be afraid they
weren't willing to 20 out and make q
gold standard fight, and 30 the commit
tee put in an amendment that was put
on the bill, and it is section IA of the cur
rency bill. and provides that that bill is