The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-01
JOURNAL AND COURIER SEPTEMBER

ic party. Roosevelt, he said, was the John the Baptist in the party prepar- | ing the way for William Jennings Bry- an. He spoke at some length on muni- cipal ownership, which, he said, was to be one of the most insistent demands of the party. He closed With a eulogy
 of General Miles of Massachusetts, to lwhom he attributed the first move in the exposure of the beer trust
 MT. Bryan was then introduced by MT. Hewitt during deafening applause,
 and he held the attention of his big
 audience for nearly three-q quarters of Ian hour. He spoke in part as follows. l I have found that the government is l to very large extent very accur- ate reflection of the intelligence of a | people. Where there is great ignorance | there is usually very bad government. | Where the people are not trained to | studies and do not think for them selves and do not understand. the is- | sues they are taken advantage of by l
 those who do understand And l have Ibeen encouraged that everywhere there | lis tendency to enlarge the sphere of |
 ducation, for it means that there will l also be growth in government towards perfection. |
 Now, to-day the democratic party
 has a policy The republican party
 does not outline it's policy as the demo-
 cratic party does. The president to-
 day is embarrassed by the fact that lyou can search the platform upon
 which he was elected with a magnify ] ing glass, and you cannot find one sin
 gle promise of reform upon any sub-
 ject. It has made the presidents task idificult. The trouble with the presi-
 dent is that when he tried to do any
 thing he had to whip the republicans in
 line with the democratic platform, in-
 stead of with the republican platform.
 And the trouble with the republican
 party in this campaign is that its mot
 to Is Stand pat, defend what you have
 and don't promise anything more. They
 say stand by the president. Well, my
 friends, the only way you can stand
 by the president if you really want re-
 form, is to give him democratic con-
 gross to back him up instead of a re-
 publican congress.
 My friends l believe that private
 monopoly is an indefensible thing
 You cannot find republican platform
 that denounces the principle of private
 monopoly. The line is going to be
 drawn. We are going to find out who
 is in favor of exterminating trust, 1, and who Is not in favor If it, and the 1; line is going to be drawn on that prin- : eiple. The man who is in favor of reg ulating it might just as we'll take off the mask and declare himself, for you cannot regulate private monopoly-it regulates you. l My friends, the republican party has
 said much about the laboring man and has voted a great deal of money to the 3 laboring man indirectly with the en- 5 phasis on indirectly Please notice that whenever the republican party 2 makes up it's mind that the laboring l man needs some money it always makes up it's mind that it should give the 2 money to somebody else and let him : give it to the laborng man. There fore when 1t is declared that the labor ing man must have higher wages in- stead of voting it in such way that
 he can get them certainly, it votes the < money to the employer and then trusts = the employer to make a proper division ? of the amount to give him.
 They tell you that arbitration Is a n fanciful thing. I tell you that the 1 president of the United States has tc . his credit a great achievement. He e settled the coal strike after a loss of 5 ninety-nine millions of dollars. I glory
 in the fact that he settled it; I think Il ' is one of the proudest acts of his off. o cial capacity. But, my friends, l an y not satisfied that we shall have ont
 strike settled after a loss of ninety-nint a millions of dollars want a system 0 that will make 1t unnecessary for s man to starve his wife in order to ti1 - the price by which he can live.
 - But. my friends, no American car : travel through other lands without feel n ing his heart glow with pride that hi Il lot was cast in the United States '- have never felt so grateful in my life al
 I have, since 1 have seen the old world '- that kind Providence cast my lot un l. der the Stars and Stripes.
 1T MT. Bryan spoke at some length ol l. the Philippines. He argued that the e people were competent to govern them IL selves, and the quicker this governmen y gave them the privilege the quicke
 would it redeem itself
 n At the conclusion of the speech Il crowd congregated around MT. Bryal d and shook hands with him. Man, d women were included in the handshak y ing. Mir. Bryan then quickly entered D. carriage and was driven, behind band to the station, followed by a grea '- crowd all the way to the train. Tn J. crowd went through the station wit l. him, and a rousing cheer was given a U the train pulled out for Bridgeport. a A CABINET ART POSITION.