The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-07
RAILROADS AND
 TARIFF THE ISSUES
In Next Presidential Campaign
 Says Bryan
ENTERTAINED AT NEW YORK
Democrats Chance of Winning Good. They Are United, While Republi- cans Are Split Up-Speaks
 to Board of Trade.

Bryans stay in New York today was marked by an address at the Board of Trade and an interview he gave out on the issues of the next Presidential cam paign. MT. Bryan received a number of callers at his hotel In the afternoon and this evening was the guest of the Amster- dam club, democratic organization, the Tammany club of the fifteenth assem- bly, district. 4r
 MT. Bryan spoke in part as follows:
 While I am not ready to decide the question of my part in the next cam paign, I am most encouraged to know that democracy means here what 1t does not In any part of the country.
 T have been accused of being a dream CT and I stood up and took notice. There were four big republicans, who so ac- cused me, and so, I concluded to plead guilty and to justify myself, I went to the Bible to see if I could find any au- thority for a dreamer. So, I found out there was Joseph. He was a dreamer They got rid of him for a while, but then they went down to Egypt and they found Joseph had the corn. The greatest dreamer of all was Thomas Jefferson. He dreamed of the day when man would have his rights, and 1 am but toiler to build the structure of which he dreamed.
 'The triumph of the President of this country has been due to the fact that he had advocated democratic principles. No platform has been more completely vindicated than ours of 1896 by the his- tory since.
 We said the country needed more money and the republicans said mo- The republicans won. When the election was oyer new gold mines were discovered ana today we have more than 50 per cent per capita than in 1896.
 'The money question has been re- moved from the politics of the country by the act of God. When the republicans refused to give us more money, God came to the rescue" s-1s..s.. F. On the trusts, MT. Bryan said that the President had gone further than any other republican, but he had not gone far enough.
 God never yet made a man good enough" he continued, ito stand at the head of monopoly as against the in- terests of a community"
 New York, June 6.-Trusts, the railroads and tine tariff will be the issues in the next presidential campaign in the opinion of W. J. Bryan as expressed In an inter- view here today. He regards the outlook for the democratic party for next year as very good.
 Mir Bryan s in New York as a guest of the Democratic Progressive league, which was only recently organized.
 In the course of the interview today he was asked to give his idea of a progress slve democracy, and he replied:
 'In every country there are two ex- tremes in politics-the radical and the conservative. 1t is the aim of the pro- gressive democrat to steer a middle course between the two and to take up all great measures and solve them. This year 1 find the democratic party to be in excel lent condition, and more united than ever, while on the contrary the republicans are divided. There are two clements in the republican party, one which I might call the extremists and the other the stand patters,' the latter representing those peo- pie who have put their hands in other peoples pockets and wish to keep them there."
 Tariff Reformer.
 Asked if he considered the question of tariff reform as essential to the demo- cratic platform for the coming campaign, Mir Bryan replied:
 "I have been a tariff reformer for years; have talked tariff reform for ten years prior to the campaign of 1896; I believe it now, but there are other ques- tlons before the people relatively more important at the present, such as the trusts, railroads, etc. I believe that the democratic party In It's national platform will take cognizance of all three of these questions. But in my opinion the tariff will not be the paramount issue.
 ''The financial issue Is not the same now as 1t was In 1898. It Is not due to the republican party, however, but to natural causes such as the worlds increase of gold supply, which has accomplished in manner what l tried to accomplish in the campaign of 1896. As a matter of fact we are all repudiators now. The dollar of today Is not the dollar of 1896. The dol- lar of today Is at least 90 per cent less in purchasing power than in 1896 The cost of living has greatly increased. so that the face value of a dollar today does not at ell compare with the purchas- ing ability of eleven years ago"
 Mir. Bryan reiterated his belief in the principles in the initiative and referendum and municipal ownership.
 Board of Trade.
 In all address before the board of trade, where he was entertained at luncheon, Mir. Bryan spoke on the relations between the farmers and those engaged in trade and transportation.
 There has been a great deal of mis- understanding between the farmers and those engaged in trade and transporta- tfon," he said. We must get together The farmer is at the foundation of all wealth. Trade Is essential to progress and the farmer knows 1t. There is no feeling of dislike on their part of those with whom they have trade relations They have need of you gentlemen and the trade. but they hold in the economy Of things that you must furnish them cer- tain things for just compensation-they want you to let competition settle the amount of compensation. As a western farmer, l want to voice the complaint of the western farmer against the form of gambling in some of your organizations Speculating from the necessaries of life is a serious thing, and when by betting, for instance, on wheat, if the price of wheat is lowered. the farmer is hurt, and if the price is advanced the man who buys the flour is hurt. You seem to dis tingulsh between gambling and speculat- ing in a way which amuses the western farmer A man who bets on the turn of q card you call a gambler, and the man who steals a railroad you call finan- cier.
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