The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-07-15
WILLIAMS SHARP TALK.
Temporary Chairman of ST. Louis Conven-
ton Makes Special Point of Exposing
Republican Claims That Party
Makes Prosperity.

These duties affect vast number Of in !
terests which are often conflicting. II !
necessary for our welfare, then Of course |
congress must consider the question OF
changing the law as whole or changing
any given rates OF duty, but we must re-
member that whenever even a single
schedule is considered some interests
will appear TO demand change in al
most every schedule in the law; and
when il comes TO upsetting the schedules
I generally the effect upon the country
would be ruinous' Verify, Two souls
with but a single thought, two speeches
/ that read like one.
And that single thought so harmoni-
ously expressed is not 10 force sin
gle special interest to take its lips from
the public breast for fear the public
finding them unnecessary might shake
them all OF
But to 90 on to- the authoritative ut
terance OF the republican party in con-
vention assembled. The platform. like
the temporary charmans speech, deals
chiefly in the boast that the republican
party is responsible for everything good
which has happened. Ii also deals
much in ancient history. IL did well TO
go back so years ago The y sent re-
publican party needs a running start OF
fully so years to enable the imagination
of the American people to jump over it's
present obstructiveness and its evasion
Of live issues which lie in its pathway
to success in this year of 1904 The plat
form in speaking OF the access Of the
republican party TO power after MT
Clevelands second administration had
expired. uses this language we then
found the country. after four years OF
democratic rule in evil plight oppressed
with misfortune and doubtful of the flu
ture Public credit had been lowered,
revenues were declining. the debt was
growing, the administrations attitude
towards Spain was feeble and mortify-
ing. its standard OF values was threat
ened and uncertain. Labor was unem-
, ployed. Business was sunk in the de-
preston which succeeded the panic OF
1913 Hope was faint and confidence
was gone" Suppose paraphrase that
utterance by saying that when Mr..
/ Cleveland succeeded TO yhe presidency
t in March, 1898. after four years OF re
I publican administration under Mr.. Har-
rison. the democratic party found the
] country, after a long period of public
misrule and extravaganza. in evil plight
: oppressed with misfortune and cououul
= OF the future Public credit had been
I lowered, the revenues we're declining.
/ RI. .f,,fe 80. Tor, ~
i pairing and had prepared to issue bonds
d A government deficit was confessed.
4 The panic which had devastated tn,
, world was relentlessly approaching oul
4 shores. A long saturnalia of extrava
r gance, public and private, and of reck
e less speculation had been already fol
i lowed by depression. Corn was burned
i for fuel in Kansas and elsewhere in th'
L west in 1890 and after Cotton was at oil
n below the price OF production. Th'
9 acute reaction which we call panic wa
& inevitably approaching, even before Mr.
II Cleveland was elected. Business wa
IS sunk in the depression" which preced
d ed the panic of S93 Labor was unem
o ployed." or poorly remunerated in fac
t tory or field. especially in the latter
e Indeed, business depression. especial.
J. in agriculture and the lack Of adequate
d remuneration for labor. taken togethe
y with the high prices of manufacture
n under the Mckinley act thigh prices
o especially accentuated TO public realiza
V ton By the contra sting starvation price
IT of agricultural products which had be
80 nd nQpftn
r ued more or less persistently since)
,r these constituted the chief industrial
Is reasons in the public mind for turninl
Mr.. Harrison and the republicans GU
10 and putting Mr. Cleveland and the dem
s. ocrats in. To go on with the para
Is phrase: Under Harrison's administra
H. ton for three years hope was faint an
n confidence gone The plight of tn
- people" was so desperate that. lik
Is drowning men. they were catching a
$. straws" Many nostrums were bein
Of suggested AgrarIansm and state SO
ID cialism I'm the shape OF subtreasury an
N other schemes were rife from 1890 an
" thence on. The two old parties" a
IN they we're called. were blamed for II al
Of but the one in power was blamed mos
OF hence the out of power got In. Men ad
or vocating these nostrums in the stat
n Of public desperation then existinl
re counted their audience throughout th
to suffering west and depressed south, n
nj longer BY numbers but by the acre.
Is Who will deny the historical truth {
r q single sentence OF the paraphrase
a Why pretend TO have forgotten all this
be Whv not be honest with the people q
rs men ought to be? II IS true that afte
n the election Of Mr. Cleveland tn
m chronic business depression continued
!" II is true that Il became acute; In wor
in reached the banks-nnd then the frigf
in or panic Of 1898 came. which was not
in local or American condition. but on
r. which had existed from where Vienn
II. nestles on the Danube to where Buenc
II Ayres commands its bay. one who's
10 foundations had been laid long before
n reached us. almost last among the nj
nc tions. Then with the panic upon 4
&C more nostrums OF a national charactt
es we're suggested 70 cure an evil OF worl
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