The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09
BRYAN OPENS THE
WISCONSIN CAMP PAIGN
Democratic Candidate Given Rousing Reception at
Milwaukee, Where He Delivered Speech.


says that he does not like the menace of a
large army, If he says that he does not like
Imperialism what is the Republicans an
swer to him? 1t is not the gold standard,
1t Is the full dinner pail Uaughter) If
man says, 1 have ideas in my head, the
Republican party Says, What do you talk
about your head for If your stomach Is
full?' The full dinner pail arguments Is an
insult to the man who is complaining that
there are forces at work which mean his
destruction and the overthrow of the gov
ernment he loves
But the dinner pail Is not always full.
Q4aughter.) 1 read in this mornings paper
"a Republican paper down at Chicago-an
article which describes a threatened strike
In the anthracite region, and find the fig
ures given by a member of the National
Board of United Mine Workers of Amer
ica now in session at indianapolis; L find
that the average daily wages received by
miners is H.35. The average wages TO
men at mines is 80 cents, and one of them,
Fred Bilscher of Ohio, it was stated, spoke
for all when he said it is merely a question
whether the men would starve to death at
work or starve in idleness. (Applause)
Ninety cents a day for their work at the
mines! Six days in the week-six mines,
fifty-four-think of it, my friends; 50. 40
week for man to support family on. 1t
gives no chance for man to rise in this
world. ..s..
Take the statistics furnished by Dun's
reports, in which you will find every week
the number of failures. This week is a
little larger than the same week last year,
and every month of this year has shown
more failures than the same month OF last
year. You will find that even the prosper
ity that the Republican party has boasted
of has not reached all the people, and even
that that we have is on the decline,
"You will find If you will read the Iron
Age that last month the decline in the pro-
duction of iron amounted to more than oo-
600 tons. You will find that down IN Massa-
chusetts the operators were discussing the
reduction of the wages of the employees IN
cotton mills 10 per cent, and this morn
ing's paper announced that man in New
Haven had discharged 100 men, and, Delng
Republican and not willing to ADMIT the
truth he said he did 1t for fear l was going
to be elected, and he could not take them
back until the danger was over.
but what did the Republican party
promise in the way of money? Nothing,
and that what we get we get not because
of the Republicans, but without regard TO
them. Did the Republican party discover
gold in the Klondike? There is nothing
said in the platform about 1t Qaughter),
although we might know that II the Re-
publican party expected to discover goio
anywhere it would do it in British posses
sions. They had a famine in Europe ana
we sold them breadstuffs at hiSh price
and got in some money. Did the Repupn-
can party cause the famine. The Republic
can party is coming silver and coming 1t
at 16 to 1 Qaughter), and the money IN
creases the circulation. 1t was the oppo-
nents of the Republican party who forced
them to put in bill passed during the
Spanish war that provided for the coinage
of this money. '.-'..-#-
ASuppos ton
Suppose the Republican party was re-
sponsible for everything that has happened
for wages, the Republican party has Offset
also the benefits that the laboring man has
received by allowing trusts to extort from
him when he comes to buy what he has
to buy. (Applause). Let the laboring man
spend his money for something that he
needs and then he will find for whom the
Republican party has been looking out. He
will find that the trusts have raised the
price for what he has to buy more rapidly
than any Republican legislation has or can
raise the amount of his income.
You will find that the laboring man, the
ordinary business man has no share in
these trusts, and yet he suffers from all of
them.
THE wars for liberty have been fought
by men who would rather die for liberty
than live fat under slavery. (Applause).
The slave had always full dinner pail
but under the Industrial despotism that
the Republican party Is forcing on the
United States, men who own the labor of
the rest are not under any obligation to
see that they have either food or clothing.
Applause).
I'VE charge that the Republican party
TOOK stands for large military establish
ment. Twenty-Five thousand soldiers were
enough when the government rested on the
consent of the governed, but 1t takes one
hundred thousand when the government
rested on the doctrine of brute force, for
that is the foundation of an empire. (Alc
plause.)
'It only took about s25, ,0O0 900 to support
our standing army in 1896. 1t will take about
500, 900 to support an army of 100000. A
large standing army can have but two pur-
poses--to carry on the wars In other coun-
tries for the benefit of those whom we ex-
ploit with their lands and to suppress by
force in this country the discomfort that
ought to be cured by legislation. But If we
are going to have war, If we are going to
cross oceans and search out inferior races
as the Republican party now speakes of
them, we are going to drag the people un-
der our flag and then notify them that they
are not to share in the doctrines of this
country. We will need large army to keep
them from making faces while they swal-
low the benevolent assimilation. Gaughter)
We have had expansion; we have had no
Imperialism. Heretofore, whenever we have
expanded the limits of this republic, the
constitution has followed the flag Imper-
ism has carried the flag where the constitu-
llOn cannot go.
Striking Comparison
After referring to the Porto Rican tariff
Mr. Bryan said:
"If you will take the colony tax procla-
nation issued by King George III, and lay
by the side of 1t the Philippine plank in
the Republican platform and let a Repub-
lican go in without knowing which is which
and ask him to pick out the proclamation
of the King and the Republican platform,
the chances are sixteen to one that he will
pick out the proclamation. (Applause.) Let
me SIX of you Republicans did you buy the
Filipinos from Spain? Spain found the Fill
pinos there, went in with club, beat them
into submission and then sat down holding
the club. We found her sitting there, paid
$20,000,000 for the club and then sat down
there ourselves. Great applause)
"Benjamin Franklin said that the secur-
ing of trade was not a cause for which we
can Justly spill each others blood. be-
lieve Franklin was right. We have lost
more than 1000 soldiers in the Philippines
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