The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-22

''They said in 1896 that il I were elected
there would b. another panic, out l
can take what they said then would
happen il 1 were elected and thereby
prove that am now President, for
those things have happened.
.'They said we issued bonds in times
of peace, but they did not tell you
that they were printed on plates that
were made by them in anticipation of
the issuance of the bonds. They have
since made bond issues, and didn't
use plates that we made. They paid
3 per cent. on the bonds and loaned
them to the banks for nothing, and,
for the first time in u history, banks
told a depositor how much of his own
money he could have to do his busi-
ness.
81 would not blame the President.
Had l been elected they would have
blamed it on me. In financial matters
the President says that he only turned
on the light, but the trouble is that he
has been working five ear on the gas
fixture in order TO turn on the light. =
"Financiers got the benefit from is
sues of watered stock, but there was
one law they could not repeal, a law
of God, that the wages of sin is death.
and now the Republican party is coll
lecting the wages.
Democratic Party United.
1.-The money question a been taken
on of politics. not by legislation, but
by force of circumstances. and now
the two wings OF the Democrats
are united. having healed their diff
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stands together. The question with
the Republican party is whether
IL shall do what the people want or
whether the Democratic party shall.
The Republican reformer is going
about ringing a bell and shouting
Wake up, wake up while the Stand
patter is travelling with a bottle of
chloroform and whispering Sleep on,
sleep on An idea cannot be born
without a CONFUSION, and the Repub-
lican party is now having severe con-
vulsions."
Mr.. Bryan said that Democratic prin-
ciples had since been proved true on
Republican authority. He took up the
trusts and said that although Taft
stated that some of the magnates
should be in Jail the President has not
put one of them behind the bars.
The birth rate is bigger than the
death rate, and the trust family meas
ures up to the Presidents theories"
remarked Mr.. Bryan, who went on to
say that the historian, Josephus, tells
how in ancient Palestine a merchant
named John had a monopoly in olive
oil and sold 1t for ten times the price
he paid.
81 have been wondering said Mr..
Bryan, whether Our John got his
ideas about oil from his namesake de-
scribed in Josephus.
Death to Trusts.
determination of the trusts" said
the orator later, 'smeans a revival of
profits to be used to buy titles for
financiers' descendants in foreign coun-
tries.
Sentiment is growing on the labor
question, and the President seems to
be coming to it. but he's not up to the
question of government by injunction
though he may be coming to that, too
Secretary Taft. though, doesn't feel that
way. He's the father of government
by injunction. 1 believe that the right
VI tridl ny jury snail not De TAKEN lToH
the wage-earner."
Referring to the tariff, Mr.. Bryar
said that he had lived to see every Re-
publican argument refuted, and thu
party is now beginning to see ligh'
and are talking of reforming the tariff
but desire to put it off until after cleo
ton, when, If it is needed, and it is, /
should be done now.
NJ De-. -
had pictured him as a bird withou'
feathers and the President as heavily
adorned with plumage and in a nes'
feathered with Bryan's ideas. He said
however, that he had one feather left
and more growing, and that If he coulo
secure reforms for the country he die
not care whether or not he was the
direct instrument.