The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-17
PROMINENT
DE- N0CRA1S
Meet in Chicago at the Audi
forum Hotel.
ANNUAL IR0QUOIS BANQUET
Leaders From All Over the
Country Respond to Toasts.

Chicago, March 16.-Prominent Demo-
rats from all parts of the country gath
red here today to attend the banquet
f the Iroquois club at the Auditorium
aotel. Preceding the banquet, many nota-
les in the party held long talks together,
discussing suggestions for the presiden-
ial campaign of next year. The speakers
at the banquet made strong pleas for
unified party and the adoption of plat
form that would meet general approval.
Mayor Carter II. Harrison, who today
was renominated by the Democratic city
convention, was the first speaker. After
welcoming the visitors to the city, he re-
sponded to the toast, The City of Chi
cago." He was followed by Edward NJ
Shepard, of New York, who spoke on
Present Duties of a Patriotic Opposi-
ton" Mr.. Shepard said
1.-THE talk from one end of the land to
the other, in every shop, on every farm,
in every street, in every parlor and club,
IS not Panama canal, or Venezuela or
China 1t is not even free trade or pro-
lection, or the gross wrong and folly of
pur foreign policy, or the alarming ex-
ravagance of the administration The
ak is of trusts on one side and trade
mons on the other. There is a deep and
Tidespread fear that American industrial
utilization may come to a mere inter
play between those vast forces, in which
The body of independent, small producers
will cease to be independent
Il believe the economic efficiency of
our own country has vastly been in
.reased and justice promoted by trades
rrafn No
see that, with every Capitalization of
economic power by artificial limitation of
UT incoming or outgoing markets. with
very increase of the power of captains of
industry over the United States senate
and over divisions of cur government
must go an increasing Danger that, in
sheer self-defense, the organization of la
Dor may become unfavorable to liberty
Can anything involve more danger 10
conservative interests than union interfer-
ence with personal liberty, such as was il
Illustrated by the injunction order granted
in st. Louis the other day by a federal
Judge of ability and character
I'VE ought to have a vigorous inter
state commerce bill providing for the eff
fectual enforcement of public and equal
rates for equal service. We ought not to
be content for moment with the sham
law the Republicans have given us.
Il should rejoice to hear the Democratic
party propose not a general revision of
he tariff with all of its difficulties and
complications, and with all of the wide
spread popular belief, faulty as it be-
iieves it to be. Of great masses of Ameri-
can business and laboring men in the pro-
tective tariff. but in the first instance a
removal or reduction to a revenue basis
of the duties on goods the production Of
which is today practically monopolized.
Upon this program, then, let us make
the campaign. The establishment of
equal rights; the abolition of special priv
ileges, the maintenance of domestic self
government. The program means resolute
tariff reform, beginning with the goods
(which have fallen under monopoly; reso-
aute and practical prevention of inter
state commerce preference and abuses;
rigorous reduction in cost of adminstra-
ton, the protection of Philippine self
government and independence, and the
provision of fair and secure, normal and
normally distributed currency by all
banks. which hold banking charters from
the government.
jackson and the Renewal of the Bank
Charter, was the topic chosen by Judge
Judson Harmon. of Cincinnati. attorney
general under he second Cleveland ad-
ministration. Judge Harmon spoke as
follows
! Jacksons veto of the bank bill is one
Of those events which have a lasting in
crest because they show an idea or prin-
iple in action, and so illustrate and en-
sasizc it. The member OF this club who
ggested it TO me knew IL was rich in
mocratic texts. The subjects they lit
ali about us.
here are some who seem TO think the
lid progress of the country has whirled
out of range Of the laws Of expert
-, like a man who thought his balloon
~ ID take him above gravitation. But
= know the motives and results of hu-