The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-12-03
Mr.. Bryans Speech.
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draw the salary of the president and
low the conspiracy to go on. In this
campaign we have had new question
that has been brought before US be-
cause of the panic of last year. Four
teen years ago l tried to get a bill
through congress that would protect
depOsitors in banks. | found that the
bankers opposed it and that the mas
ses of the people did not demand it.
could not do anything with the mat
ter then. But last fall, that is year
ago this last fall, a panic spread over
this country and they suspended pay
ment on checks all over the United
States and we had in some respects
the most serious panic the world has
ever known. 1t developed the ques-
ton TO the effect that the banks in
steadof giving your money to you
when you wanted it in an emergency,
would give it to you when convenient
to them. We had in our platform a
plank demanding that the depositor
be secured. We putt in our platform
in Nebraska, you put it in yours in
Texas. l intended to make a trip to
South America this winter but I
found that | had to be in Nebraska,
that our Legislature is going to meet
there and | want to give the people of
Nebraska whatever help can to get
through this Democratic triumph in
Nebraska. We have several demo-
Gratis in Nebraska this year. | appre-
ciate the splendid majority that you
gave me down here in Texas, but l
am not unmindful fthe fact that Ne
braska is an oasis in the desert of the
North. I believe that when a man
has made money and saved his money
and put it in a bank, laid up for old
age, he ought not to have ii swept
away from him by the criminal act
of man whose appointment he can
not control l believe that the DEM
ocracy of Texas and Nebraska is on
the right track. l believe that the
movement will go on until the banks
will be compelled to furnish the Sc
curity that the people need. The
banks protect theselves against the
burglars without; why not protect
their depOsitors against the burglars
within?
There is another thing. We tried
to get congress to act on the subject
of publicity and I believe that we are
going to secure it eventually. We
have taken a step in advance this
year in this matter that has never
been done before. Before our party
demanded publicity, the Republican
committee never preached the sub
ject. We published a list of our cam
paign fund contributions. They
promised to publish theirs after the
election. They did publish a list
which was nearly three times as much
as we had and stated that they were
unable to get an accurate accounting
from the committee on congressional
contributions This was their meth
cd of eluding publicity and we
challenged then repeatedly to make it
public, of publishing the source of
that tainted money-the money of
the trust and monOpOlies.
My friends what pleased me most
about our Democratic platform was
that it set forth the high ideals to-
wards which our party is striving
Ideal is everything ] see about me a
great many students, and I am sure
the teachers here will endorse what
say on ideals. The most important
thing in dealing with child is to get
the child TO take hold of a high ideal
Give a man bread and he viii hunger
again, give him clothing and his
clothing and his clothing viii wear
out, but give him a high ideal and il
will be with him through life. Go
l.
struggling as the Democrats are here
to make government and the life of
the people more free and to leave this
hope or ideal as a legacy to their
children.
when l travelled in foreign lands
our officials brought me in contact
with the officials of that land. but in
every country the Teformers of that
country came to me without intrOduc-
ton and l thus got at their idea of
the question. | found it in China,
Japan, Aarabia-Aye. even in Turkey
i found everywhere reform and re-
formers. When I went into Russia
had the pleasure of meeting members
of the Douma. and they unfolded to
me some of their plans In Turkey l
met a man on the boat going up the
Bosporus who was telling me of re-
forms. While talking to me he sud
denly turned pale and walked away
without any apology a short time
ago ] received a word from this man
whom J met that day EXPLAINING to me
that he recognized a government spy
watching us talk and knew that his
life was in danger. He also stated
that today a man can speak in Turkey
without the fear of being arrested. Go
where you will Democracy is growing
and it is only matter of time until
our ideals will be realized.
Now We come to that engrossing
monster the tariff Last summer ex-
Senator Davis of West Virginia told
me in a conversation that he had had
talk with Jim Hill He found that
Mr. Hill was building a road, part in
the United States and part in Canada
and when Mr. Hill bought steel rails
from the American Steel Trust he
used part fthem in the United
States and part in Canada. He paid
$40 for those to be laid in Canada
$2S for those to be used in the Unit
ed States. The same man the same
rails, the same company and yet he
paid almost 80 per cent more for rails
to be used in the United States than