Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-07-06

Of the Philippines. Ths speaker
laughed at Roots statement that of. |
tenders had been relentlsssly pun
ished. The secretary boasts that the |
per capita Of circulation money amonOI
people had increased from 93S.l4 In |
March 1897 to $S1. to May last and that
the credit for that and consequent
prosperity was due to the republican
party. What curious boast this n for
those denying 30 strenuously that the
quantity of money had anything to do
with the value OF money. Of price or
other things AZ measured in money or
with an ascending scale Of prices or
with national prosperity This was all
denied but yesterday. Now Il 10 az
serted that the volume metallic money
has been immensely increased and that
It has brought prosperity all due 70 re-
publican legislation. Was republican
legislation operative in South African
and in the Klondike? Was II repub-
lican legislation that made Immense
crops? What partnership II there b.
tween gold ana human industry and the
republican party OF which the republi-
can play II self assertive sencer menu
ber! what monumental effrontsryi
Turning TO the republican platform
Williams declared It to b. chiefly =
boast that the republican party II re-
sponsible for every good which has
happened. This ne denied. referring to
its present obstructiveness and its eva
sion Of live issues. referring to indus
trial depression which the republicans
attempted to shoulder on the demo-
cratic administration. When Cleveland
came into ONCE he found things on .
downward path, as TO reviewing OF that
depression he explained that the India
famine and the immense wheat crop Of
the United States brought the price to
70 cents. When wheat went up silver
bullion went down there necessarily
was q connection in price between the
two. Thus II came about that Nc
Kinley was elected because wheat went
up. The boast that McKinley's election
was responsible for high prices was
false. As to Cuba. public demand led
the republican party to tall into line.
The democrats voted for the war meas-
ure and az enthusiastically as repub-
licans. It would be invidous % state
the politics Of heroes but he had heard
that Dewey was democrat that echley
| was democrat, that Miles was democrat
and 1t seemed to him he had heard thu
republican administration has snubbed
the first, tried to disgrace the second
and insulted the third.
g.. a. 49, - Y
language Of the republican platform
and went on to show that Attorney
General Harmon under Cleveland's ad-
ministration really started the suita
against the trusts ana the boast that
the administration has executed the
anti-trust laws II ridiculous for the
attorney general In respense to reso-
luton OF his (williams) frankly cons
fessed nothing had been done. and II
left In force nothing would Be done.
Williams attacked the tariff plank oi
the republican platform vigorously and
/ then scathingly referred to Hydra Head
/ Of special legislation advocated by re-
publican subsidies. He claimed Il
| would be far more justinable OF pass a
law to give every sailor and every mar
and woman in the country earning less
| than a dollar a day, an increase Of 81
per cent than It would be by protec-
tionism or ship subsidy to pretend I.
have that end in view. The orator
| launched into the constitutional limi-
tations Of the franchise proposed fol
the southern states. and said the rea
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