Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1904-01-13
COMMON PEOPLE
AND WEALTH
Battle of Man and Mammon Held
Most Important in Speech at New
Haven Banquet.

New Haven, Conn, Jan. 12.-"The
great issue at this time is the issue
between man and mammon, between
plutocracy and democracy. All sur
face questions Of taxation, regulation
and Of finances are but phases OF that
century-long, that worldwide strug-
gle between the common people and
organized wealth.
In these words William J. Bryan
laid down his idea of the leading IS
sue of the coming national campaign
at a banquet which was declared to
be prelude to the opening OF the
presidential campaign in New Eng
land. It was held in Warmers hall
and 80 Democrats were present. Mr.
BRYAN was the guest of honor.
Governor Garvin of Rhode Island
and Congressman De Almond OF Mis-
souri, we're among the guests from the
other states. The occasion took the
form of a celebration Of jackson day.
w. H. H. Hewitt was POSTMASTER.
Speaks of Conscience.
Mr.. Bryan s Topic was g A Con
science Campaign He said IN
part:
ssThe word campaign suggests
warfare. It is good tactics to strike
the enemy where he is weakest and to
use the weapons that are most effec-
tive. The weak point of every bad
policy is that It sacrifices human
rights to selfish interests, and today
to prove its system evil we only have
TO show that it violates the sense OF
Justice that is satisfied with nothing
less than equal rights to all and
special privileges to none. The only
appeal that is permanent in It's ettec-
tiveness and enduring in its useful
ness is the appeal to conscience, and,
while it may seem weakness to the
brutal and folly to the sordid, 1t
arouses a response that is at least ir-
resistible.
eff we would touch the conscience
of others we must give evidence that
our consciences have been quickened.
Moral Power For Trusts.
.'The great issue at this time Is
the issue between man and lnammon,
between plutocracy and democracy.
All surface questions Of policy of
taxation and of regulation and of
finance are but phases of that cen
turv-long, that worldwide struggle
between the common people and or
ganized wealth. To say that it does
not pay for a nation to violate the
rights of the people of another ma
tion involves so much of addition,
substraction, multiplication and di-
vision that many get lost in the maze
of mathematics. But to say 'That the
wages of sin is death is to give an
epitome Of history that accords with
each person IS experience. In dealing
with the trusts, with finance, with la
Dor problems, and with all the other
questions at issue, we must view them
from a moral standpoint and arraign
every evil at the bar of the public
conscience.
"Will it VIM Nothing else will
give permanent success. AS the mar
tyrs, who eighteen hundred years ago
kneeling in prayer while hungry
beasts devoured them, invoked pow
er mightier than the legions of
Rome today, the same, it is not only
possible, but necessary to appeal to
that moral sentiment which when
aroused will prove more potent than
the purse
Later at the Hyperion Theatre,
Mr.. Bryan delivered the first, in the
Philo s. Bennett course of public
lectures, his topic being "The Value
of An Ideal.'