The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-29

the Constitution.
 England's constitution is nothing like
 it was one hundred years ago. but the United States constitution, framed in l5S1. with a few exceptions made dur- ing the civil war, is the same to-day
 for our 10000, 900 of population as il
 was for the handful of people at the l close of the American revolution.
 When Bismarck was asked by friend
 of mine why the Germans were reach ing out for colonies in Asia and the I wilds of Africa, he said the people must
 have new markets and the demands for
 the employment of labor gFatified, and
 l say that when our democratic friends
 ask like question, the United States | also require an open door for the same
 reasons.
 once asked democrat what a trust
 was, and was informed that a trust
 was trust. I then said, give me some
 example. His reply was for me to consult democratic congressional
 campaign book I did so, and found
 they were going to wage a war against
 PSI industries, which included all the various forms of manufactures in the country. This, if successful, would en- ! tirely stifle the growth of manufactur- ing interests in this country. The democratic party was in power from 1S92-96, and that party never offered one bill to suppress trusts, although MT. Bryan was there all the time. The bills
 to suppress unlawful work in trusts
 have been introduced by the republican
 party.
 never heard a more eloquent speak
 CT than Wendell Phillips. once heard
 him tell a story which seems quite ap-
 plicable as regards trusts. A farmer
 was sitting in a country tavern when
 he was informed that his son in shoot ing at an owl had set the barn on fire
 and burned it and all it's contents to the
 ground. One of the loungers then spoke up and said. Did he hit the owl?'' And
 now, my friends, this will be the result
 with the democratic party. If they should put in force their methods for suppressing the trusts they would burn
 up all the tools of. manufacture and
 agriculture, and some one would rise up
 and ask him if they had hit the owl. It has been said that an American is the equal of seven foreigners and ten Asiatics, and I say that that is so.
 Some people say that prices have risen
 and so they have, but that shows that the demand is high and that people are
 so well employed that they earn wages large enough to make that demand. The republican party was in power | from 1865 to 1892, and during that time olI +Ia dnhfE about $200, 100000. The democratic party then came into power, and after short time issued $262, 100000 in bonds
 to raise money; and after it went out
 of power the republican party paid this debt also.
 MT. Coler, the freshman statesman who is about to be hazed, says 1t is the climate that causes all this prosperity, but if this is so we hope MT. Coler's party. that is such bad friend of the barometer, will never get into power again. The greatest labor fight in the history of the world is that which has | just occurred in the coal regions. The democratic party tests these questions by theory. So, as our state | is the largest in the Union, the leading democrats of the state,' under David B.
 Hill, met in Saratoga and argued that the best way to settle the strike was
 for the government to seize the mines and all the families in this country could have coal by December. Now. the only way to take possession of these mines, constitutionally, would be to buy them, and before there could be an | agreement made. and all the evidence | in regard to the valuation taken, it would be at least ten years before the government could get legal possession of the mines, and we want coal in De- cember.
 Now, according to the constitution, all the uses to which land acquired by seizure can be put is to build light houses, custom houses, postoff1ces and | forts, so that when the government had acquired this enormous tract of coal | land is could only be used for those purposes.
 Senator Depew, further in his speech, | briefly reviewed the issues of the last national campaign, and fully covered the present questions of public interest. He said President Roosevelt was the best man for that office that could be selected.
 In closing Senator Depew paid very fitting tribute to the memory of Presi-
 dent Mckinley and the good he accom- plished during his administration and his life.
 There were large number of the rep resentative men in New Haven who l In,n ,as Chairman Macdonald and the other
 members of the republican town com
 mittee are awarded much praise for the manner in which the affair was con- ducted.