Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-03-04

say Is tlnt the masses Ot the people
are not rclting their rights. And il is
the Democratic partys business to
get them their rights to make war
upon privilege. which is depriving
them of their rights"
Here. with blow of his sledge-
hammer, Lawyer Wood shvered and
shattered the house of political cum.
ming, tcrgiversation. fraud and false
pretense which David Il. Hill had
so luboriously planned and built. And
he did not end here Having thus
unmaskcd the hollow sham of man
stalking up and down the country,
prating parrot-wise Il am Il Demo
crat," and all the while showing by his
votes, his conduct and his influence
that he was an utter stranger to what
the word Democrat in any true sense
means, and preaching of tariff reform,
when too MS votes and influence had
al pc'h un'u W p'lpttuh'c anu III
trench the worst tariff abuses fathered
by the Republican party, having, we
say, thus pulled off the Manhattan
garb in which David B. Hill had IL
| moment before been nasqucrading,
the same Mr.. Wood went on to SHOW
that the people of the West, people
not within the Manhattan sphere Of
| Influence" are desrOus of being heard
before the mOmentous issue of 1904
is made up, and that they are not
ready to swanow the dose which the
quack of Wolfcrt's Roost has prepared
for them. And so he remarked fur
ther:
Perhaps this is not the view of
Democracy here But want to say
| that ! have been called TO speak for
the West coast; and my say is that
| the pressing, palpitating thought
among the great mass of men there
/ Is that somewhere, somehow, there
Is a great wrong that causes some
men to have II superablndancc and
other men not enorgll to live good
| lives, though they work with all their
might. And ] want to say that this
thought is going down TO the ,founda-
tions. 1t Is going down to the roots.
Men are asking themselves why it is
| that some few human beings are nc
corded tho right to keep all others
from the use of the land; why II is
tlat persons who call themselves own
ers arc permitted to lay claim and
keep idle great stretches of country
while other men are forced TO compptc
win ench other for living: 1t Is not
right. Anybody who thinks about II
can see that it is not right. and I
want to say to this meeting of Demo
Gratis that the real principle of Democ-
rncy has sooned or later got to take up
that question and settle ii on the prin-
clple Of equal rights, Notwithstanding
titles and. pnrchments."
Mr.. Hill stands for the very reverse
'of all that is here so truly set forth,
and as the resolutc and interested
enemy OF every reform here so clo-
quently advocated. No wonder the
syndicates are not sending out boiler
plates of Lawyer Woods speech into
the highways and hedges. for consump-
tion among the barbarians. And that
this should be done with the sermon
of Mr.. Hill. rcformer, is passing
strange upon any other hypothesis en-
cept that the people have forgotten
him and what he Is.
He was u member of the senate at
II time when his party was in absolute
control of all branches of the govern.
ment, and when that party had been
commissioned by the people. in a most
emphatic aud solemn manner, 10 right
the abominablc wrong embodied in the
Mckinley Act, and to redress other
popular grievances for which the Re.
publicans were responsible, He was
leader IN his party, and was admit.
ted on all hands to he able and nfI-
entail in Its councils. The Wilson
bill, when II left the House, while
not the Ideal measure which rcformers
hoped for and had right to expect.
nevertheless contained a large meas.
urc OF relief to the masses from the
exactions of privilege. 1t Includcd a
tax on large incomes. Mr., Hnl We
homently opposed this. And when the
senate, dominated by little coterie
of so-called Democrats. but really
attorneys for and beneficIarles of the
most flagrant abuses of which the
Mckinley Act was guilty. got through
with the Wilson bill II had wrought
no material change in It's worst cnor
mites, except TO switch its benefits
FROM the trusts owned by Republicans
TO others owned by themselves or
their clients, Not only was the sugar
trust abundantly taken care of by these
rcformers, but with nm assurance that
amounted to blasphcmy they retained
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