Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-10-18

Waukesha, Oct. 16.-Senators Han
ma and Frye, and Victor B. Dolli-
yer of Iowa spoke here to large audi
ences yesterday. Senator Hanna's
speech, in part, is as follows:
81 consider the issues and results
of this campaign second in import
ance to none other since the founda-
ton of the republican party. l con-
slider it of such Importance because
it comes down to pure business
proposition-a proposition in which is
involved our well being, the comfort
nd happiness Of our families, the
maintenance Of a policy in the admin
istration of our government, which
means a continuation Of prosperity
which brings happiness to every fire
side and wealth and greatness to the
nation. l say it is a business propo-
sition because in the great widening
and spreading Of our influence and
development the United States OF
America has taken a front rank; it's
influence has spread beyond the Dor
derS of our country, and the wealth
that is being gathered to our shores
is the result of our industry and a
tribute to the intelligence of our peo-
pie (Applause.) l do not propose
because time will not permit-to go
into a discussion of the subjects
which Senator Frye has touched
upon. 1t is an impossibility that i'm
periaiism should find any foothold
in the minds of a single inhabitant OF
the United States, foreign or native
born. But our adversaries have seen
fit to call this patriotic development,
this evidence of evolution of business,
merely a commercial affair. Well, my
friends, if the great development of
our resources, the energetic appear
ance 0f industry and ingenuity, the
opening Of the markets of the world,
which brings wealth to our shores
and happiness to our people-1f that
is commercialism. l am III favor OF
commercialism (applause). Now we
are right up against this one ques-
ton. We have had the object lesson
of 1893 to 1897, Do we want to go
back to that period of distress and
poverty and want, or do we want to
continue along the straight path to
development and prosperity, which
will extend far beyond the four years
of President McKinley's next admins
tration, because these theories,
wicked and deceitful as they are,
will have been buried SO deep that no
party, however brave, will ever at
tempt to mystify an American people
by them again. l do not propose to
permit w. ]. Bryan to appeal to the
prejudices Of the people in arraying
class against class without calling
him down. Today, having forsaken
his free silver issue, having abandoned
his imperialistic issue, having run
away from his trust issue, he now
brings before the intelligent people
of the United States that dema-
gogical cry of class against
class, the poor against the rich, the
employer and the manufacturer
against the employe, and appeals tc
the prejudices and not the reason Of
people, Why have often said, it ani
| shall always repeat it, that | consid
er it is an insult to the intelligence oil
the American people for man who
aspires to the high office of the presi
dency of the United States to attempt
to array class against class and expect
that either class will follow him. W
]. Bryan when he stands before the
workingman of the United States anC
attempts to array them against their
employers is occupying the position OF
demagogue and trading on what ht
imagines to be the ignorance of the
people. At Anderson in Indiana the
other day before an audience com
posed entirely of workingmen, work
ing in the tin factories of that town
several thousand, he rallied against the
so-called truSts-and remember tha
he puts in that category every indust
rial concern in the United States, ev
cry large manufacturing establishment
in the country which has been success
full, which has multiplied its useful
ness, enlarged its sphere and buildeC
up a business which gives employment
10 lllOuStuuS Vi men. mo matter o.
what kind or nature that manufacture
may be, he calls it trust, and he calls
the National Tin company a trust, be
cause it is an amalgamation of severa
companies, and he also calls it
monopoly Why, there isn't a mar
who has money to invest in this coun
try who cannot build tin mill if he
wants to.
There is not any capital in this coun
try seeking investment which cannot
enter into the manufacture of every
and any commodity which is made Il
the United States, except that which
is patented by United States patent
(Applause). There are no monopolies
in this country except these which are
protected by patent right given by
the government. Every branch of ev
cry industries is open to the cOmpeti
ton Of any and every man who wants
to invest his capital in that kind OF
venture. Now he told those working
men from the tin mills that was the
way to put an end to trusts. The con
stitution does not reach them all, OF
the laws upon the statute books Of the
United States. The Sherman act
passed by a republican congress has
wiped out all the trusts that can be
reached under the constitution AnC
when | say trusts l mean the combina
lions of capital whose investments are
in the hands of stockholders, but