The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-29

you expect the Republican party 70 at
,empt 10 crush the power Of the trusts
and restore healthy competition? You
might as we'll expect the trusts 10 fight
themselves. You might we'll expect
them 10 commit suicide, for really the
trusts and the Republican PARTY are one
and the same
what remedy do we offer? One so
simple that a child can understand il.
Let us not promise anything we cannot
perform. and then let us be careful TO
perform what we promise. That is the
way to win Now under tho constitu-
ton of our country a corporation is an
individual and it is doubtful, to say the
least, whether Congress can pass any
legislation which would prevent these
monopolies from placing whatever prices
they see fit upon the products they place
Upon the market. The trusts are not
afraid of the man who promises some
thing impossible. But there are two ways
by which we can effectually deal with
hem: !. BY taxation; 2. BY reducing the
import duty upon articles which come
in competition with their products.
We are told that during 1901 four hun
dred millions of dollars worth of Ameri-
them were sold cheaper to foreigners than
10 Americans. Is this right? l am not
talking negro rule now. | ask the con-
science OF every man here. is that right
or wrong? Why can't we buy these goods
abroad and bring them back home? Be-
cause the freight and the import duty
would more than cover the difference and
not being idiots, we do not attempt it.
T. nj 10 col1 bif1n
abroad for so less than the same ma
chine is sold here? Is it right to allow
them to sell harbed wire for dollar a
hundred and nails at nearly a dollar
keg less than they are sold here? | am
not talking negro rule now. Let the
conscience of the American people an
swer, and the Democratic party is con-
tent to abide .he result.
What is the remedy? In defining it !
think / proclaim the great issue upon
which we will elect the next President
of the United States. 1t is this: Reduce
the duty on trust-made articles at least
TO that point which will force them TO
sell rs cheap to Americans as they do TO
foreigners We have several bills now
pending in the House which would tend
to accomplish this result, but they will
not pass. Why9 Because the trusts own
the Republican party. Senator Pritchard
SAYS vote he Republican ticket because
his party has put up the price OF lumber
from SO TO $40 per thousand. II this was
correct. how does 1t appeal TO you people
who are building houses? Now If my
friend Charlie Horne did not know that
a tariff of 81 per thousand could not
possibly accomplish such g result, and il
retxsCc stFa
Democrat, such an argument might arrest
his attention for a moment for he is en-
gagged in selling lumber, but how is it
with you people who are buying lumber
The truth is the tariff has nothing to do
with the price of Southern pine lumber
Nov lust a few words more. ! beg TO
address this to the intelligence and con-
science of my fellow citizens Twice in
nv life I felt like putting on the uniform
&C a United States soldier and doing
little shooting in the name of heaven and
humanity. The first time was when the
miserable Turks were numbering thous-
andg Of helpless Christians in Armenia
and the nations of the earth stood of
regarding each other with Jealous mien
while the slaughter of men, women ana
children went on. felt then and feel
now that a good deal of shooting would
have been righteous in the sight OF
God.
Again when the battleship Maine
was blown up by the treacherouS span
iards and nearly three hundred Amerl-
cans sent into the presence of their Goa
without warning, | felt that it was time
to shoot again, but when we commenced
doing the very things for which we had
fought Spain my party and my con-
science said it was wrong. | didn't want
to feel that way either, for | want you
10 understand this country belongs 10
me Just as much as it does TO any
Yankee The flag belongs to us as much
as it does to them. We have always
done more than our part in defending its
honor in every war the country has ever
fought We furnished 80 per cent OF the
soldiers of the Revolutionary War, 52
per cent of the war of 1872, 64 per cent
of the men who went to the front in the
Mexican War. and we offered more men
than the Government would take IN the
Spanish war. But, gentlemen, we nave
done wrong-deny it we cannot. Here
is the indictment against US, according TO
Senator Hoar:
10000 American soldiers killed.
100000 Filipinos killed, including chill
dren.
100000 in money wasted.
What have you got in return for 1T
all? Think and answer. Be honest
Tell the truth, my Republican friend.
What have you got in return for all this
that is worth having? Anything? Oh,
no. Nothing but national shame and
humiliation. Gentlemen would you have
ordered the conquest of the Philippines
when the war with Spain ended? Would
you have ordered the slaughter of boys
and the torture of women? Was this
right? If you would not have done it
yourself, then you have no right to per-
nit your government to do it without
protest You cannot fold your arms and
say my government did this, | am not
guilty
MY party says it is wrong and that
these people are entitled to their lib
erty just as the Cubans have theirs, and
under the same conditions and subject
to the same reservations. This is not
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