Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-11-02

and the giving OF rebates another
step advocated IN plank of the Dem.
ocrattc platform of 1896,
Imitation and Ftattery.
I'VE are told" said the speaker.
that Imitation Is the slnccrest flat
tory. If this DO true. the Democratic
party never had n more fulsome flat
tcrer than II has In Theodore Roosc-
welt" At this point Mr.. Jones gave
brief history of the rate legislation.
II believe" he went on TO say.
that the most important Issue in this
campaign Is the tariff question--and
the tariff and the trust questions arc
one and thc same thing.
What the Trusts Own.
Before the Dinglcy tariff bill was
put into effect the total value OF
property owned In the United States
by trusts was sS0O.00O,OO0. Now one.
The most powerful and robust the
most rapacious- the United States
Street Trust. owns s1,OOO.50O, 900
worth of property In the country.
The Tariff
After discussing the tariff question
briefly. the speaker said that n slight
increase in the state. county or mu-
nicipal tax rate would be considered
an outrage. but there was no man IN
tho house SO poor that hn did no, pay
SlO0 in This Indirect tx - ,hc INIT
cd States government
Attention was called to Secretary
OF War Tafts speech In Baltimore
last Friday. In which the secretary
declared that the thrift laws should
be revised. Here the speaker raid n
tribute to the secretary. saying 'If
there Is one honest. upright Repuhli.
can IN the United States II is William
II. Taft"
Trusts Own Congress.
Saying that the trusts owned the
Congress OF the United States. the
speaker recalled Secretary Tnn's
warning to American manufacturers
and shipowncrs not TO try to rob The
government In connection with the
building Of the Panama canal. and re.
lated what followed this warning.
Senator Al,lrich. Of Rhode Islnnd offer.
ed just before the close OF the last
session of Congress u bill compelling
the secretary to buy MI material.
equipment. etc. FOR the work on the
isthmus from American firms. This
BIZ was railronded thrangh Senate
and House. When bids for steel rails
were called for. there was but one bid
and that was from the United States
steel Corporation. The bid was 500
per ton and everybody Knows that il
costs not over $l2.5O per ton tl man
ufacturc the rails.
Secretary raft has not vet accents
this bid. but unless he can wait nmul
the nest session of Congress- and then
get relief. he Will simply have 10 sub
init To this robbery. MIR. Jones said
that Spoakcr Cannon aud his associ.
ates were afraid to allow this measure
u h" discussed upon tho floor. know
Ing that II It's import became known II
would creatc such n stir that they
would not dare BASS II.
Tribute to Bryan.
The speaker mentioned the splen-
did welcome accorded William Ien-
ninGs Bryan upon his return To Eli
rope and paid II glowing tribute to the
great COmmonor. He went on to say
that Bryan's statements In regard to
government ownership of railroads
had been misquotcd; that he himself
endorsed everything Mr.. Bryan has
said along this line. He said that 1t
was too soon to select man for the
party's presidential nominee. that we
might not be living two years from
now, but that the man who seemed
to have been selected by some people
already was "the greatest living OK
'ponent of Democratic principles"
Vote for Democracy.
In closing, Mr.. Jones thanked the
audience for It's attention and asked
that the voters go to the polls next
Tuesday and cast their ballots not so
much for him rs for the principles
of Domocrncy