The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-11-02
BRYAN ON "DREAMS"
a Large indianapolis Audience
Hears Him Answer Repub-
lican Complaints.

Before an audience at Indianapolis
last week that was estimated al from
1900 10 10000 people. William j
Bryan referred 10 the Republican
charge that he is a dreamer. and took
occasion To show what he ana the
Democratic party have been dreaming
about Extracts from the speech are
given below
II find the bible speaks OF dreams
Yes. the bible speaks OF dreams and
OF dreamers and have made a care
iul Investigation. and SO far as have
been able 20 find. the most prominent
dreamer mentioned in the Bible was
Joseph His brothers called him
dreamer When one day his father
sent him 10 visit his brothers while
they kept their hocks in Dothan they
saw him coming and they said Here
comes the dreamer. and they plotted
TO Kill him. And then they decided
that they would put him in a Dit and
say that some animal sle& him. and
then. when some merchants came
along. they said. We will sell him 10
the merchants. and the merchants
took him down into Egypt and after
a while his brothers went down and
got corn OF the dreamer"
Some fourteen years ago the Dem
ocrats dreamed OF the election OF sen.
ators by direct vote OF the people
They saw vision OF a senate resting
not upon corporations. but upon the
peoples viii. and hey started 10 re.
hlize the dream for the benefit OF the
people. And they put IL in the form
Of resolution. submitting the neces
ssry constitutional amendment. and
II passed the ffty-second congress.
Democratic congress And then they
put Il In the form OF resolution again
and IL passed the nifty third congress
Democratic congress. but the next
congress was Republican. and they
didn't dream any on that subject.
And the next congress was also Re
publican. and II didn't dream. either.
on the subject. but after a while ;hey
had Republican congress and that
dream had become so vivid that even
4 Republican congress passed the
same resolution that the Democrats
had
What else. We'll. years ago the
Democrats dreamed that there ought
10 b. tariff reform. and they told the
Republicans about il and the Repub-
licans said * wasn't a dream-it vas
a nightmare But the Republicans
said you could trust them TO reform
the tariff through its friends Well
my friends that was ten years ago
that they made this promise No. il
vas longer than that remember
that they promised Il eighteen years
ago think | might 60 back twenty.
SIX yeaTs-for that was the first time
ever made q political speech. and
he Republicans were promising then
hat the tariff would be reformed by ,
Is friends"
why can't the Republicans reform '
he tariff? Why Because every b
ime the Republicans attempt 70 re- !
iuce a schedule some man says. Not 4
hat not that We bought and paid r
or that schedule with a contribution II
o your campaign fund They arc I,
elpless. They can't reform any L
hing on the tariff. Why. my friends. II
you want TO know when the tariff
: going 10 be- reformed by its friends.
will give you the sign-a sign that u
sill not fail II would be an awful R
arn reform II without giving the II
eople any warning But am going 4
, give you something that you can 70
III the day beforehand that il is N
DING to be done When all the mon ii
y loaners in the United States get hr
'gether in convention and demand rr
in the rate OF interest. you ,e
atch the papers next day and the N
Iriff will be reformed by its friends. Il
nd then the next day will be the h
illennium" II
Well. the Democrats had another ~
'eam They dreamed that the trust ~
as an evil and that II ought to be
medied. and when they told their liz
cam the Republican leaders scoffed dr
them remember that one Repub- ar
an made three defenses OF the ro
usts within a few months He first m
I'd there were no trusts But that
fense didn't last long Then he said liz
q trust was a natural thing. an IN
development. and had come bo
stay. but that didn't last as long in
the other And then he made a "a
Ird defense He says Don't wor- "a
(: II the trusts are bad We Republi. nm
ms will take care of them %
MY friends. President Roosevelt ha
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