Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-30


 CT with other misuses of public funds,
 MT Mooney said, has had wonderful
 effect upon the people. In June of the present year there was surplus or
 ninety-one million dollars ill the na-
 tional treasury, but according to the
 last statement, issued in August, there
 was deficit of sixty millions. Noth-
 ing has been heard from that source
 since an order having been issued that
 no further statement relative to the fi-
 nancial standing of the country be
 made public until after the election.
 MT Mooney then went on to show the
 marked increase per capita of the run
 ming expenses of the government since
 the time of Buchanan, when it was $2, to Roosevelt, who brought it up to
 $7.10. It was $5.87 under Harrison
 and $5.10 under Cleveland. Since that
 time Mckinley and Roosevelt boosted it to the present figures.
 The Philippines, Mir Mooney said, cost the country $800000,00O. After conquerlng the Spaniards they paid $20,000,0 GOO for the islands,) about $2.3S q man; but they didn't buy the people and therefore they should not make slaves of them. He would have the Ftlipinos treated in the same manner as the Cubans,. because he considered that no country can long remain free
 that denies freedom to others.
 "They tell us," continued the speak
 CT, that this Philippine question is too
 much for the ordinary mind, but there
 is one phase of it which all of us can understand, and that is that every man charged with an offense is entitled to fair and speedy trial by jury of
 his peers. At the present time two ] American editors are in Jail in the i Philippines whose sole offense consist | ed in criticising two commissioners. They thought freedom followed the 1 flag and appealed to the authorities at
 Washington, but the supreme court decided that they were not entitled to trial by jury.b Fifteen of our pro. vincial officials, appointed by the ex,
 ecutive, are in jail in the Philippines 1 for embedding. As soon as man
 gets position in the Philippines he
 starts to loot the people in the name
 of the United States. These are sam-
 ples Of the moral side of the Philippine
 question"
 MT Mooney then dealt with the treat,
 ment accorded to Admiral Schley and
 General Miles, the pension funds,
 which now come from the president l instead of emanating from the bounty
 and love of congress, and Roosevelt's
 elevation of Colonel Leonard Wood to
 major-generalship, a man who had
 been but six years in the service, not
 withstanding that hundreds of vet
 are on the list and entitled to promo l ton.
 MT Mooney was liberally applauded. l Mir Mooney was followed by Colonel Pope of Florida, a typical southerner,
 He handled the republican party and ! President Roosevelt without gloves, and pleased the audience immensely. 4 Mir Pope quoted history to show that for the first sixty years of this govern
 ment the republican party had noth-
 ing to do with 1t, and he believed 1t
 would be a good thing for everybody
 if the same thing could be said of 1t
 up to the present time. Every remedial
 measure passed by congress for the
 good of the masses originated with
 the democratic party and 1t was to
 the democratic party that the work
 ing people owe what little they have
 in this country. He knew that the
 common people are not getting what a belongs to them, but demonstrated very Eclearly that this is not the fault of the democrats. What they have they
 came by 1t through the democrats,
 united action on their own part and
 a constant clamor for relief. It was
 the decision of that modest, simple man. Judge Parker, the democratic
 nominee for president, who as judge
 of the supreme court, announced the , decision on the eight-hour day Ques. ton making 1t the law Of the land. It Is the easiest thing in the world to get , up statistics showing how much more money we are earning now than in the past. Anybody can get up statis' ties to suit himself. But take it that : you people here in Waterbury don't l need statistics to prove that your earn . ings do not go as far now as when things that enter into the cost of liv' l ing were cheaper. The tariff has been
 kept up on flour and other breadstuffs but the price has been produced on nutmegs. This Is the Nutmeg state and probably the reduction in the tariff 7 on nutmegs was made to catch the : vote of Connecticut. The tariff Is high ' upon what you need In your every day z life, four, sugar, coal, hides and lum l Der. You must have had object les } sons enough In this according us you 3 ahve gone out to purchase something ' for your homes. The working people I are not getting their due from tho t combinations, and they are not going 7 to get 1t while the republican, party is in power. It is the party of monopoly
 and once it gets it's clamps on mar f 1t believes in holding him fast
 t "They tell us we ought to let well enough alone. There were men who | thought that way during the revolu : tionary days--men who claimed it sui cidal to make fight for better things :, because they said such a course was Q bound to end in failure and financial - ruin. They called them tories. Theii s descendants are here to-day and I ven 2 ture to say that every blarsted one ot them Is identified with the republican F party. They invested the country 2 s century and more ago, they are here ' today and if allowed to have things ; their own way all the time they wal n soon own the country and the people s Speaking about the race question e MT Pope said that there are more l. white electors In the country than any - others by large majority and that { : majority of the white people vote tho > democratic ticket There is no tes Q anrlied tn the black man in the mnaltA