Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-30

out of handsome FarkeE anu nnNAo banner on Bank street and lecture ln the City hall, which considering the ln- clemenl weather attracted good au- dience. The Waterbury Military hand furnished music and lest the musicians should not make things lively enough the ele- ments came on with swish and roar that caused timid folks to think that the end of the world was at hand; the thunder's loud peal and the fight ninR's bright glare mingled with the patterinr of the rain on the roof and against the window glass, making such A racket that the speakers could not proceed until long after the hour men toned in the announcement or the meeting
 Edward L.. Maloney, city editor of +he Waterbury Democrat, presided. Ha introduced the Hon Edward l.. Mooney of New York as the nrst speaker. MT Mooney is quite young man. but he knows something about tha nolitical affairs of the nation and gave the audience the benefit of his knowledge. He commenced by stat ang that he knew everybody present was a good democrat or wanted to- De, else he would not have come out m the storm.
 eve are confronted in the United States" said MT Mooney, "and nave been for some time past with condl- tions which result in great hardsnlps on the people while at the same uHie enrdchinr the capitalists. The repub- licans are constantly talking prosper s+v. but they are careful not to intro dlice that subject everywhere. They don't advertise 1t in Maine, where there are thousands of abandoned farms, nor in Fall River, where large numbers of people have been lule nearly all summer and see no 1mmeda- ate prospect of securing employment, and you hear nothing upout it in Gar nersyille, near where live, and where the factories have not worked over three or four days week for the past six months. And I might go on, but what I have said will show you what this boast of prosperity all over the land amounts to. Connecticut as more fortunate in that respect than some other places, but this was so, long be- fore the present administration came into power and 1t will be so long af- ter 1t has disappeared. @St3ias ---~-~-44yve are told that the cost of living has not increased over one or one and half per cent in recent years. some hodv has said that figures cannot lie, hl,f a smarter man said that figures can't lie unless the man who arranges them is a liar. Notwithstanding what our republican friends say, flour and other staples have gone up twenty per cent and the average increase Tn our living expenses is 87 per cent. IT you have not heard this from your wives I should be greatly surprised All this is due to the fostering influence or trusts by the republican party. Has the wage scale advanced in proportion to the cost of livinE2 ra. .at ra \ "A few years ago we had but 80 trusts fin this country; now we have 3lS, one of which, the steel trust, almost rivals sn power and influence the government of the United States. Congress made an appropriation of $500.0OO to prose cute the trusts and see If their meth ods conformed to law. One prosecu' tion followed that of the Northern se- c,1rftiee. but after this when requested to submit report regarding the funds unexpended, Attorney General Knox said that S3S,O00 was still available Ryut that the government did not pro nose to run amuck with the trusts and instead of going back into the courts with the proof of the illegality of sucl combinations when the beef trouble started they appointed commission which is now sitting in Chicago, thus rsoing back to Kindergarten methods in the art of government.
 "The government authorized and es Nablished a department of commerce ana labor with MT CorteIyou at it' head. Every trust was required to til' a report with that department show anr its financial status and Its method nf fioino, business. We were told tha after the trusts had filed their reports and the government came Into posses sion of all the facts in connection witt their business methods that would b' the end of the trusts, but after MT Cor telyou got hold of all this information he abandoned 1t to accept the last DO eftfon an honest man should think O having anything to do with, the chair manship of the republican nat1ona campaign committee. But there ma! have been method in this. Mir Cortel you knows all about the trusts and hi drty now being confined to raisin' campaign funds, don't von think whel he calls upon the presidents of thes trusts. every one of them knows tihat h. has evidence enough of wrongdoini on record to crush them and they wtl give what is asked and more withou waiting to be reminded of all this h. the former head of the department O commerce and labor"
 Referring to Mir Roosevelt's letter O acceptance, in which he states tha never before has the administration 0 public affairs been conducted on
 hfgher or cleaner level. Mir Mooney ir troduced the postoftice scandals an handled the subject with telling effec He said that although all the evidenc of fraud was in possession of the ar thorities at Washington. no action wa taken about 1t until after the Washinf ton Post had published the facts m guaranteed that the proof was avai able. Even then the crookednes was permitted to go on and finall when the situation became so that at ton had to be taken it was done 1 such a way that most of the criminal escaped punishment Thir'tv-one wer indicted, twelve tried md seven cor victed. Before Roosevelt was rur nang for office he considered the pos office laws had been noboriously viC lated. but now he assures us that th