The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-10
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mountains alike We stand for 1t ev-
erywhere. for we are fortunate enough
to have issues which do not wear thin
In any part of the country. Now gem
tlemen. some people say that the sill
yer issue is dead. Silver cannot be
dead when people are uncertain as to
how candidate of one of the two
great parties would pay the obligations
of the government. No issue is dead
when you cannot tell whether a credit
tor, or pensioner whoever he may be,
is to bet forty-eight cents or one hum
dred on the dollar. 1t is dead to the
extent that nobody ventures to argue
in it's behalf But If they paid our
debts in forty-eight cent dollars, we
would care little as to the precise ar
guments by which they reached the
conclusion that warranted that con-
Duct.
All want you to do from a material
standpoint is to exhume Mr.. Bryan s
prophecies of four years ago, and then
for yourselves, compares these pro-
phecies with their signal non-fulf1ll-
ment. The spirit moved Mr.. Bryan and
s-ire prephecied. He prophecied unless
YOU had free silver the wage worker
would stand idle in the market place
THAT was the prophecy. The fulfill
7nent was that the wage-worker Ras
had very nearly double as much work
as before. And he prophecied again
He said that if we elected Mckinley
the farmer would find the products Of
his farm diminishing in value; but they
have increased from Is to 60 per cent.
in different products. You do not have
TO take my word for anything of this.
Simply look at the statistics, or tlnd
out what has happened among your
friends.
And Mr.. Bryan prophecied again
The savings banks attracted his atten-
tion. and he said If we had not free
silver. >the deposits of the savings banks
would diminish; and they have in
creased rs per cent. He said that the
amount of money in circulation per cap
tia would diminish, and 1t has increas-
ed from twenty to twenty-five dollars.
So far Mr.. Bryan had been saying that
everything would go down He said
mortgages would go up; and they were
cages have diminished in amount by
nearly 40 per cent. When these things
were pointed out to MI Bryan the
other day, and it was shown to MIN
that we were prosperous, he answered
that it was not the republican party
hit Providence that made us so. Now
ann perfeotly willing to admit that
there has, been a fusion between Proyi-
dence and the republican party. me
democracy has fused with about every
thing else but somehow or other 1t has
never managed to connect with Provl-
dence.
The last paramount issue that seems
IN have been developed on the other
side is the issue of trusts. I am only
roine, to ask your attention for just one
moment to that. BY trusts of course is
now meant the great aggregates of cor
pcrate wealth, which although not
technically trusts, are such as we com
monty underst and the word In speaking
20 one another. 1T is idle to say that
all these great corporations do evil. II
YOU knew them well and understood the
circumstances under which they exist
Won would never in the world go back
TO some of the conditions that preceded
the present system Of consolidation
Take, for instance, the great railway
lines in my own state of New York. AT
one time. in order to get from New
York to Buffalo, you had to change cars
five times and get on five different lines.
1t was four times as uncomfortable and
three times as costly to travel and ship
freight then as now. A measure OF
great positive benefit came from the
consolidation The whole development
of our highly specialized and highly
complex modern industrial civilization
has tended to produce these great ag-
eregates the corporate wealth. In their
development there has been good and
there has also been evil. The man who
denies the evil is just as foolish as he
who thinks that it is all evil. There
have been evils and there are now evils;
they have got to be cut out, and they
are going to be cut out, not by oratory
but by common sense and resolution,
incidentally, one of the first things to
do is to make UP your minds that while
getting rid of the cancer, you wish to
avoid killing the patient. The very
fact that the problem Is complex means