The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-01

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Here in Yale It costs 1T least $500 n year
70 educate a hoy. That sum would educate
cen children in Japan. I believe that when
tho real conditions over there are known
We Americana will be willing to sacrifice
a little to help educate those people. The
1850 that one friend Of mine pays per
year TO keep one son in Yale would put
sixty students through school in China
Mr. Bryan then spoke Of the growth
Of Democracy in Europe and Asia. He
spoke Of the Russian Duma and referred
20 the meeting Of the Peace Congress he
attended. He continued along general
4. liaes, scrupulously avoiding anything that
might be construed as smacking OF the
JefYersonian. and recapitulating on the
influence Of altruism through education.
Gov. Garvin Of Rhode Island followed
with a long speech, and George Fred Williams
Of Massachusetts spoke at length n
delegates Of the various state central COM
mittees prese mt then withdrew into 0on-
ference with Mr. Bryan at the Tontine
Hotel, with the promise that he would
be Al tie village gIcan at SO O'Clock TO
speak.
While the delegates Of the State CEN
trail committees were in session the open
air meeting ON the green was started by
John J. LntZ OF Ohio. Mr.. Lentz has the
reputation Of being one Of the strongest
silver voiced ;spefbinders that support
the Nebraska Idea.
He made good. even. though he told the
eco or 1000 'OddEcitizeHs, aseeJhbled about
tho band stand that It il New En- gland
that has ~broadened in its ideas in the last
ten years and that Mr.. Bryan has not grown
narrower. He referred to the fact that
ten years ago Mr.. Bryan had eceived
a heavy early frost on the spot where
he was being welcomed TODAY, and he
animated. without ret e r~vation, that the
citizens Of New Haven had learned wisdom
and had even broken through the shell
OF their conservatism.
Mr.. Lentz made significant reference to
William Randolph Hearst. which was
received with cheers. in all the days Of
history, from CrGsus TO d. r. Morgan, =
said the orator. there has never been 30
good a millionaire as Mr.. HeoGst." And
he touched upon President Roosevelt. too.
He is the John the Baptist of.the twentieth
century, preparing the way for William
Jennings Bryan
- George Fred Williams of Massachusetts
wa the next speaker to fill in the interim.
As he spoke the crowd grew, until 5000 had
crowded into. the Green about the speakers
stand. When Mr.. Bryan appeared from
the Tontine Hotel across the street the crowd
gave q cheer that was quite hfesized, he
was escorted across the Green bya large
delegation and o his place on the plat
form. Chairman. Hewitt, who took charge
Of the outdoor. meeting, introduced Mr..
Bryan who spoke IN part az follows:
Let me give you a rule for Judging a
party. II you have two parties and one Of
them clearly tells what il wants to do al
Why, and the other party refuses to take tie
people into its confidence you can decide
that the latter party either does not trust
the intelligence of the people, or wishes TO
take advantage OF them. The experience
Of the Democratic party proves that the
votes we get. To-day the Democrats have
q party platform. The President " em-
b~arrassed by the fact that he can search the
Republican party platform with a magnify
ing glass and cannot find a party principle
70 stand on. When he wishes TO whip the
party into line for reform he has to do it
with the tenets Of a Democratic platform,
The only way yon can stand with the
President Is to give him a nehorcatic
Congress to back him up. Take tariff
reform. Is there any Republican who
can point to a tariff schedule that is to be
reduced and say his party will do it? No.
Why2 The moment the Republican party
tries to touch thet tariff the man who made
the particular section assailed gets out
and makes a fuss. They know they have
to bang together or they will all hang
THE Republican party will not touch the
schedule on wool, for instance. IL was
first put on as a civil war revenue measure,
then it was kept on TO protect infant in
dustries, now to keep the laborer's price OF
his living in his pocket. Yet the combina-
tons of capital can sell their woollen goods
abroad cheaper than in thisc country. This
condition exists. What remedy is oferedP
Il want to say, in appeal to our con-
science, hasn't the protective tarif caused
~ great DEAL of corruption? Money col
Lected fof campaign purposes qua rantees
that the contributors will not suffer by
tinkering With the protective tariff.
If a. man steals 800 he is a thief; but II
he gets 81 600, 900 We are not sure whether
he Is a larcenist or a genius. Suppose the
question Of usury was before the country.
Who would be so foolish as to say, Don't
reduce the rate of interest until you consult
the money lenders?' Yet the Republican
party says, Don't raise the tarif until
you consult the men who made it,
: unless we are going to abolish the policy
Of equality before the law we must enforce
the punishment for robbery On the big
thief a. we'll as the small one. Tn rich
man says l am an anarchist. | say that
they are the anarchists. and I want to rid
this country Of anarchy by putting rich
and poor, high and low, On the same plane:
, l believe a private monopoly IL an inde-
fensible thing. You can't find any plank
, In the Republican platform that promises
20 squelch the monopolies.
you can't regulate corporations; they
regulate you. You might a. well take OF
the mask and declare that you are for the
trusts as to try to regulate the trusts.
fear that our regulation Of the railroads
will Immediately put the railroads deeper
into politics, where they will feel that they
must rave the Legislatures, the Senate,
the President himself.
Il feel that there is danger in centraliza-
ton. Instead Of having all the railroads
turned over to the Federal Government,
so that their officials would be appointed
from Washington, / would ave the Cow
eminent control only the greatest trunk
lines in the land"
Mr.. Bryan then Fppeatcd what he had
given az his vie gs on Federal ownership
OF railroads in his Madison Square Garden
speech. FROM that he turned TO the re-
laLion OF capital and labor. He said:
. In this country IL a mar dies he divides
his property and gives each heir a share.
Why doesn't he do as the Republican party
does in treating the relation of employer
and employees and give his estate TO an
uncle, ordering him to give TO the children
what he thinks they need2 Tn Repub-
lican party has thrown millions Of dollars
into the laps of the employers and has said