The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-10-26


| longed aplause) The laboring man wants
shorter hours of labor that he may be
| with his family more. (Applause.) He
wants protection from the black list and
| from government by injunction. Cap
plause.) He wants arbitration of his diff
ferences with capital, and he wants a rep
| resentative in the Presidents Cabinet
| (Applause) that Labor's voice may be AL
ways heard in the official household of
the Chief Executive. "a voice. '.You are
| born for this country" and applause.)
you are not interest In me- continued
Mr.. Bryan, smiling at the interruption,
'but in yourselves, you have only a tenn
porary interest in me because stand Jas
a candidate representing certain prirfci-
pies and through me you can work cut
your own salvation (Applause) The Re
publican party permits a few men to get
fortunes while the very men who pro-
duce the wealth don't get their share.
You can find trust magnates who will
break down the stock market and make
more in one day than you or would in
a lie time. (Applause.) Hanna says that
there are no trusts. Gaughter.) Every
ban knows that there art. The RepubMa
cans have no plans to destroy trusts.
We have. We say put on the rec list
every trust-made article in order that a
trust can no longer hide behind tariff
wall and plunder people at home with
high prices while it sells abroad in COM
petition with the world. We would not
only protect the people rom extortion, but
| rom the principle trusts. Let Congress
declare that any private corporation
organized in any State cannot be allow
ed to go ounside the State of it's origin
or else it must take out a license from the
Federal Government and before that
license is granted we propose that the
water shall be squeezed out the stock
(applause) and the corporation shall show
that it is not trying to nonopolize any
branch of business
why not squeeze the water out of the
stock? Is there a laboring man who can
object to squeezing the water out of the
stock by corporation? Why, if a labor
ing man works for corporation that has
water stock doesn't he know that that
corporation must collect enough from the
people to pay dividends on its fictitious
capital? That if corporation shall have
no watered stock the corporation could
spend more in wages than 1t does: hit
instead of paying money in wages it paws
money in dividends never invested in the
enterprise. Why can the farmer object to
squeezing the water out of a corporation?
The business man cannot initiate the value
OF the goods upon his shelves. We snail
squeeze the water out of the stock There
viii be flood for awhile, but there will
be honest corporations afterward.
And why not require the corporation
TO SHOW that it is not attempting 10
monopolize any branch of business? II. it
IS going out to deal in interstate COM
merce, why not compel it to show that it
is going out for good and not to prey
upn the public? believe with this REM
edy you can destroy every private mon
opoly now In existance and prevent the
creation of a new one. But if YOU have
better plan, let us have it. I will take
your plan if II be better, for want to
make 1t impossible for any monopoly to
exist. (Applause.) Our party is against
trnsts and if l am elected President of
the United states everything that Presi-
dent can do to wipe them out will be done
py me- tremendous cheering)
am unalterably opposed to a big
army. What is the difference between a
republic and an empire? The one REQUIRES
an army of 25,0o0 and the other four times
that amount. It takes 5000 men to force
on 100000 people taxation without rem
resentation. If you have never voted for
big army, vote the Republican ticket and
you will get it. If you have never voted
for imperialism, vote the Republican
ticket and you'll get it. Jefferson wasn't
an imperialist. He believed in expasion.
He believed that in carrying the flag he
carried the Constitution with it. (Ap-
plause.) The Republican party wants to
carry the flag to the Philippines and leave
the Constitution at home Maughter !
Iney say they can't spread the Constitu-
ton over there, but vet they would spread
the President all over the world. Gre
newed laughter.) It's all President and
no Constitution. QMore laughter, and a
voice, That's just about it.'o Our revo-
luton was fought as a protest to coIoniza-
tion, yet today we are doing precisely
what England did to us, taxing us with
out representation or voice in the govern
ment imposing the tax. If we continue in
our administration in the Philippines the
next thing you will see is we will be send
ing down carpet-baggers of governors and
the colonization line. Look at the state
of India today. Why doesn't England send
to her starving millions in India instead
Of sending troops to South Africa to crush
| out the freedom of the Beers. Applause
Don't tell me the native of India loves the
English Government. Read the books
written by fair-minded Englishmen on
that subject and you will learn what
colonization means. If you are going to
| govern the Filipinos like that what will be
| the result? Think of Filipino under
such conditions on seeing the Stars and
Stripes floating over his head, singing
MY country It's of thee
| Sweet land of liberty OF thee / sing''-
| (Roars of laughter.)
Eve can't send them that hymn but
We'll send them. 'Theren be Hot Time. K
| (Renewed laughter.)
! Now, my friends, we have a plan. and
| it is simply this: Treat the Philippines as
we have treated China. When order is re-
stored we will allow them to manage their
own affairs under the protection of our
/ flag. Tell them that Tell them now.
Don't kill them first and then tell them
afterwards If Republican President
can protect a Mahommedan Sultan of
| ssulua Democratic President can protect
Christian people. (Cheers) We spent
hundreds of thousands of dollars and
| thousands of lives to take out a clause of