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course of this prosperity, evils crepta
in, abuse crept in; men forgot the
rules Of honesty; men forgot the law,
who are in the management of great
corporations and railroads, and Theo-
dore Roosevelt, with the congress be-
hind him, took those evils by the.
throat, and they have made such pro-
gress in the last three years that it is
marvellous to contemplate the change
that has come about. Now, the re-
publican party is pledged to the con-
tinuance of those immense Roosevelt
policies, and / am glad in the presence
of tuls immense audience here to
plight my faith that no energy of
mine will be lacking; that every reso-
luton in my nature will be firm to
carry out those policies Theodore
Roosevelt has made. Well, have
talked myself out. I thank you. 1
have got to go and talk somewhere
else."
Speech at The Rink.
Il am going to invite your atten-
ton this time to the attitude of the
farmers-to the treatment of the far
mers by the republican party. and the
tariff as it affects them. In 1892 the
people of the United States voted to
put in power democratic president,
a. democratic senate, and democratic
house of representatives, and In that
house of representatives one of. the
most prominent, able and enthusiastic
democrats, a member Of the great
ways and means committee was Will
liam Jennings Bryan. The ways and
means committee of which he was a
member. devised a bill for the purpose
of changing the customs taxes from
a high protective system, as it had
been under Gen. Harrison, under the
Mckinley bill, to revenue tariff bill,
called the German Wilson bill. .s..% s>::2
Y Now, in 1893, Immediately after
the election of Mr.. Cleveland, and be.
fore the Mckinney tariff bill was sre-
pealed there came "a panic, and that
lhas sled our democratic /, friends to
seek to escape responsibility forsethe
panic which followed, and the fnan-
cial depression, by saying that. the
panic came before the Mckinley bill
had been repealed. But the demo
ocratic platform promised to the peo-
pie that a revenue tariff bill would be
placed upon the statute books. And
as soon as it was determined in No
vember that, a democratic majority
existed in both houses. with a demo
cratic president in the chair, the very
threat, we'll sustained, Of a change
l from the protective system to the re:
venue tariff system, brought on the
| panic, and the democratic party pro.
| ceeded to carry out Its promise. a.s@ T
"The, Gorman-Wilson bill first went
through. the house It received :: 500
amendments. In the senate the. SOC
4 amendments were sent back to the
1 house OF: representatives, and by force
Of those rules introduced by Speaker
/ Reed and taken up BY / the demo
4 cratic members of the house and nov
3Eheld up by Mr. Bryan as q means o.
j defeating the i rule OF the people
4 those 500 anne ndments were adopted
a In the house, and Mr.. Bryan and an
q other; gentl tleman5 on his side carried
4 Mr. Wilson. the author Of the bill, ! or
5Itheir should ders, out of the house 81
i repre atives In 10y and jubilatior
1 that the bin had passed. Sj555;
. S3s Period of Depression.
$t.l Now what olloWed the passage 9.
4 that bill. kn oW s,Ich depres
I ;Ision 81 durs indu such distress
tto our business, such an interference
with the prospe ofs5s the farmer al
Eneyers had been seen III: this country
sEin itas whole hist hea ven
Il down below 80 cents; corn went $doWI
4 S2l cents; I oats went down to8 1-s
cents ana /. potatoes OWE t0s
i cent The farmer was loaded will
4 NOR tgagea and with deb is, and tthpgs
Il four years were burnt into the heartt
j or tlls farming and the business and
II the working communlt lies by the sui
q lfering that the slbroug
When at the end of that admins
n Itrat Ion. the question came on assst
IWho AZ I'M hat party the American peo
Il Il pie were TO elect, 4 Bryan, aeizint
d 1.-THE demoe oeratic party from the con
Il troll or Grover Cleveland, announces
Il in the denlocratic convention whils
SIprote lection had destroyed thols
Il lands, the gold standard had destroyas
slits tens OF thonsan ID. and therefore
Il the SoaI lope of the American
4 people was nttroduee an act pro
Iyyiding for free COMA silver
u sItfls Inevitable en- ffect Rhicii ,,lls
a have been to red dlice the value of
q monetary yard stick me- value "a i
u about to rdH
be prop posed 10 l,e peopI tl,iil
country epudi ton by lasi isIatiyt
q q he ysls neopss syVai
q There preseMt ted siea alliriag bait
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