The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-24
{, W POU IN MAINE
Speech at Thomaston to a
Large Crowd.
The Trusts and the Philippine Question We're
His Topics, Praise OF His 0raiory
and Personality.
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Rockland, Maine, Aug. 21.-Hon. Ed
ward w. Pou, member of Congress from
the Raleigh, Mort Carolina, district,
spoke at Thomaston last night to large
crowd of Democrats who were delighted
with his speech. At it's conclusion they
all pressed forward to shake Mr.. POu by
the hand and to congratulate him upon
his magnificent speech. Thomaston is the
home of Hon. Chas. E. Littlefield. who
has been deputed by the President to
write an anti-tariff bill. Mr.. Pou made
a polite thrust at him which was received
with great enthusiasm by the Democrats.
The Rockland Daily Star, one of the
strongest Republican papers in Maine,
gives the following report of Mr.. Pou's
speech:
1.-THE two topics which were the bur-
den of his address were trusts and the
Philippines. Mr.. Pou is a typical South
erner with a pleasing and unaffected
style of oratory. He used plain language
and few gestures and his attractive style
and pleasing presence held the audience
in closest attention.
"He charged the Republican party with
fostering the trusts after creating them
by high protection, and referred to
President Roosevelts strenuous attitude
against trusts as a huge joke He said
that at Pittsburg the President bitterly
denounced trusts and combinations of
capital to the people and after his speech
he dined with H. C. Frick. of the Steel
Trust. The only antitrust legislation
that had been enacted was done by the
Democratic party, aided by thirty three
Republicans, in abolishing the differential
duty on Cuban sugar. Although the
House passed the bill the Republican
Senate pigenholed it and there it sleeps
today. He said that Congressman Little
field was one of the Republicans who,
for time, was a Democrat and remark
ed that he regretted that Mr.. Littlefeld
didn't stay with the party longer.
Secretary Shaw declared, the speaker
said, that the tariff was not the parent
of trusts, but the convention of Iowa
Republicans had so declared it in their
platform. He referred to the concentra-
ton of the countrys wealth in the hands
of few, which he declared would not
be possible under Democratic rule. The
Republican party in Congress was guilty
of the grossest extravaganza, he said,
and that now it was no longer the billion
dollar Congress but the billion dollar
session.
HE quoted statistics showing that now
the expense of the government per capita
was 1888 as compared with $7.37 at the
close of the Democratic administration.
1.-The trusts. he said, would raise a
great corruption fund for the next cam
paign in order to continue their friends,
the Republicans, in power. The Republi-
can party was guilty of the greatest
crime of the age in the taking over of the
Philippine Islands in the face of the
Declaration of independence and the Mon
roe doctrine, and had led the nation into
unknown pathways, leading, God only
knows where.
"As a Christian nation we have slain
$50, 900 Filipinos, who were fighting for
their independence, and sacrificed 10000
lives of the boys in blue.
1T will be many years, he said, before
the stain of murder will be wiped from
the American name. The war cost $780,
0O0, 900 and benefited no one but the trusts
and combinations of capital which have
new fields of wealth to explore. The
American flag should not stay put unless
in the cause of justice and humanity"