Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-26

common level. Spoke of an incident in
his early public life when he had been
introduced by a chairman thus, MIR.
O'Brien is here and will now spake to
ye." He believed that was the best in
PRODUCTION ever given him.
Tonight am going to speak on some
of the great questions before the Ameri-
can people.
Political parties are good thing. if
for nothing more than to watch each
other. | am of the democrat party. but
believe the republican party is Il good
thing because they watch the democrat
party, but just now we have too many
republicans and we want To convert
some of them so that we may have more
democrats to watch the republicans
The democratic party has ever had
| for its foundation the Declaration of
| Independence and that document is of
itself good platform for any party.
The republican party is not the party
OF its founders, it has become the party
of Incorporation 1t used to boast of
its love for freedom but now it has be-
come the tool of despotism, and in the
Interests Of freedom, justice and human
| ~ should be oyerthrown. 1t has be-
come the association of athletes and
plays the part of turning somersaults
1t is no longer the party of Lincoln and
his associates but instead has become a
party of flop" Abraham Lincoln in
dorsed the income tax and the republi-
cans said it was right. Now when the
combinations of wealth oppose the in
come tax the republicans say it is
wrong. When Lincoln and Blaine and
the great leaders of republicans of their
day said silver and gold should have
equal privileges the republican party
said it was right, and in 1888 declared
for silver, but now it says gold is the
standard. At Minneapolis the platform
drawn by VIM McKinly declared for
bimetallsm. In 1896 they qualified it
with clause for international agree
ment" In 1892 they complained that
Grover Cleveland was trying to make
money master and now Mckinley has
made money the master. In all previ-
Gus records of the republican party
they have declared for reduction of
the national debt, now they declare the
national debt a good thing, and WANT
to increase it. In the campaign of 1896
they promised bimetallism by interna-
tional agreement, thing they knew
to be impossible, and after Europe
spanked the commission and sent them
home, they have Topped over to the sin
gle gold standard and now advocate it in
the same form as in the platform of the
National Democrat party of '96 which
carried but one precinct in the U. 5.
The democratic party believe in a
'bimetallism that will make silver and
gold dollars of equal value, and main
tanning them at party. The natural
ratio of is to / has been the ratio of
the past and until conditions change is
the proper ratio. We believe that this
nation is great enough to make its own
money and dictate its own financial
policy without the assistance of any
foreign nation. Since 1896 new issues
have confronted us and we are told
that the silver issue should be dropped
But it will continue as an issue to be
settled, until it is settled right even
though new issues do arise. When
child is born in the home, the other
children should not be neglected or
sent raway. The Chicago platform is
the platform Of the democratic party
today as it was in 1896. Without doubt
the Kansas City convention will re-
affirm it. | am glad the late democrat
convention Endorsed the Chicago plat
form, and | want to you friends that |
am not as DESTROYS of my nomination
as | am for the reaffirmation of the
Chicago platform.
The trust question will come up in
this campaign. The republicans will
never crush the trusts, they are the
party of the trusts. 1t is the source of
their great campaign funds, without
that great campaign fund they would
never have won in the campaign Of '96.
They must have campaign fund again
this year and from what source From
the trusts
1t is queer that the republicans who
oppose trusts do not know how to vote
and the trusts do. And yet there are
republicans today who believe the re-
publican party intends to destroy The
trusts and continue To vote with the
trusts to destroy the trusts
Hanna tells them to leave the trnsts
to the republican party leaders and
they will take care of the peoples in
terest. This reminds me of the familiar
fable of the farmer, his chickens and
fox in which the farmer is pictured as
making preparations to care for his
chickens, and the fox generously adj
vises the farmer to go on with his
other labors and he (the fox will take
care of the chickens
There are two kinds of men in this
country God-made men, and man-made
men. The trusts are man-made men
soulless corporations. We believe in a
government of the people, by God-made
men, and that the man-made man
shall be subject to the government of
the people and beneath it.
You will hear of a constitutional
amendment to destroy trusts. We need
no constitutional amendment to destroy
them. Congress has that power now.
But Congress in the hands of the re-
publican party does not intend to
destroy the trust. / have recently read
of a petty thief who was hunted with
blood hounds and severely punished
for his crime Ii man steals a horse
he is severely punished but if a trust
magnate steals million he is ban
quoted | am not complaining be-
cause the small thief is punished bnt T
believe the large thief should be pun-
ished too. | think if the small thief
would contribute his share to the re-
publican campaign fund he would oo
unpublished too.
The republican party is putting the
dollar before the man, and if aporeoate
wealth votes with the republican party
the people should vote with us. The
republican believes the corporation
made man should rule. The demo.
cratic party believes in the rule of the
peOple-the man-made man. and we
assert that the republican party is to-
day using its power of legislation to
favor corporate wealth at the expense
of the people. My friends, you have pot
to meet the trust question A trust In
the republican party on its cry of pros
perity will not reach it, Before party
is credited with the prosperity of \
country you should find what they have
enacted into law or practice to bring
that prosperity. The republicans have
done nothing for the prosperity of the
country. If they have brought prosperi-
ty what act of theirs done it. In 1896 we
spoke for higher prices and the repub-
licans ridicuIed it. Now higher prices
have come and they are believers in
higher prices. What have they done TO
bring better prices. Are they respon-
sible for the famine in Europe. Are
they the discovers of gold in the Klon-
dyke or were they the cause of war with
Spain which drew two hundred millions
from the vaults and placed it in circl,-
lation. Are they responsible for the
good crops or the bad crops. Were