Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-10
WATSON ASSA|lS WEALTH
PoPULIST CANDIDATE NOTIFIED
OF HIS NOMINATION.
Raps Ryan and Belmont and Quotes
Eng!and's Experience With
Warren Hastings.

ATLANTA. Ga. July lo.-1'homas f.
Watson was formally notified OF his nom
inaton for President by the populiSts or
the United States at mass meeting he'll
here las. night. Judge J. w. Forrest OF
Albany. y. Y headed the notification
committee.
MIR. Watson replied to his speech OF no
tification. in part. as follows:
Caesar revived the law against hoard
ing. Any capitalist who kept out, of CITY
culation q greater sum than S3,0V be
came a criminal subject 10 severe penalN
ties. Oh. that we had r. Caesar in tn"
White House last October. when those
Wall Street rascals drew into New York
al! the available cash OF the country.
boarded IL and created the panic.
Suppose you compare the plutocra"N
of Rome TO that of these United States
!. =. Morgan has more money invested
in art treasures alone than the richest OF
all the Romans was worth. The summer
cottage OF Cornelius Vanderbilt costs ="
OO0. 600 TO say nothing OF the land and
the furnishings. John d. Rockefeller
yearly income IL greater than was IN"
entire fortune OF the richest Roman.
From one little railroad. the Central
sortment of participating thieves stole a
larger sum than Caesar wrung from con-
auered Gaul The victorious Sylla as
tonished historians by levying x2o.OOO.UA
upon the rich cities OF Greece. The susa
trust levied an annual fine Of twice tha'
amount upon this republic q few years
ago to recoup itself for contribution OF
$4,000 which II had made to tho cam
paisn fund of the democratic party.
Steel Trust and the Tariff.
by judiciously placing its contriou-
tons with both the Old parties. the steel
trust gets the privilege to 20 arrange our
tariff schedules as TO extort net proet.
every year ten times larger than the en-
tire revenue Of the Roman republic.
From the traction lines OF New York
city. Ryan and Belmont have taken
greater amounts OF plumber than w ARA
Hastings wI1Ing from the princes OF Hin
voracity of Hastings. Her greatest ora
tors, Burke. Sheridan. Fox. thundered
against him at the bar OF the house oil
lords. denouncing him in language thai
will live forever.
THE British government threw it,
whole power against Warren Hastings In
the effort to punish him for crimes com
mitted against a foreign people or al
alien race and creed. but who talks Of In
dieting such men as Ryan and Belmont
as Morgan and Hartman? Miserabie
towards that we are! We crouch befors
| the gigantic iawbreakers and allow them
To run our government.
Last fall there was panic. In spite
of the fact that We had greater amount
Of material wealth than ever before
Bankruptcy went stalking through tbs
land and tho cry Of distress rang from
sea to sea. How did OUT republican
President-our friend of the big stick
deal with the panic? He followed prece-
dent. doing just what our democratic
President, Mr.. Cleveland. had done. J. Z
Morgan was commander -in-chfef Of the
Wall street patriots who forced the
panic, just as he was in lsa3, ana t.
Morgan Roosevelt's administration vir-
tually said. as Mr.. Cleveland had said in
1893: IT nothing else but bonds Will do
YOU come on and get the bonds.