The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-09-20

lit. Everybody else will do that when
ever he can. But no democrat wants
: to make law 10 authorize them To
do it, and no democrat except Mr..
Bryan ever suggested that a demo-
cratic partss would. ever make such
law.
Mr. Bryan says that if you cheap
en- the cost of production you cheap
en- the price of the finished product.
| deny it and | affirm that if the
American manufacturer has an adj
vantage of 100 per cent he will
charge the American people twice as
much for his good whether it costs
him more or less to make them. And
the American manufacturer is not
different from the average American
jcitizen in that respect Every man
Engaged in any business charges as
much for everything he sells as he
can get. Farmers do that, merchants
do that, lawyers do that. | offer no
complaint against the man who does
lit, because | am not complaining
against the human nature that God
planted in the bosom of us all. What
II complain about is the law that al
lows any man to do it by Sitting the
competition to which the American
people are fairly entitled. That's
what | object TO.
My countrymen, | do not claim
that | am any more anxious than
any other man to serve the interest
and protect the welfare of this
great state | claim no advantage
over any man in point OF patriotic
. for a man to want to do what is
right. That is desirable, but that is
not sufficient A man must not only
, want TO do what is right, but ne
must know how to do what is right
r before he votes for a tariff law. II
you want Jaw to prevent manufac-
! turers from transferring their tax
, to the American consumers, there is
one certain way TO do it, and that is
= the way | have just presented 10
you.
, Now, my countrymen, Mr., Bry-
- ans third reason for wanting to ad-
p nit raw material free is because he
= says that the later you wait to levy
the tax the higher the tax will be
THAT depends entirely on who levies
& lit. If a republican levies it, he begins
= high and makes it higher as he pro
f crosses.
n MIR. Bryan's fourth reason is ;
n political one. Now let me tell yol
l. one thing. If the other three reason
O had been sufficient, there woul'
il have been no necessity for thi
/ fourth reason. | say that because
V it Is right to do a thing, that is
N sufficient reason for doing it. Blu
If Mr.. Bryan says that If you Will tax
It will reduce the number of men IL
# terested in the protective tariff an
If convert them to democracy. Now, "
e are not talking about a proteciiv
/ tariff we are talking as democrat
S and in the democratic idea there j
: mo such thing as a protective tariff.
It In speaking of the binding fore
t of platform demands Mr.. Bale
said
q THE mistake that Mr. Bryan ant
d all OF those who insist with him OF
r a blind obedience to a platform OF
l. convention make is this: They as
O sumo that the platform of conven
IL ton is the will of the people, ant
t that is oftimes a grave mistake. !
# vention of the people. 1t is only
$ convention of the peoples agent
O and a delegate TO convention is ~
q more an agent of the people than
n senator in congress.
l. Listen, the delegate to politica
convention is simply the agent 0
h the people A senator in congress /
II simply the agent of the people. /
Is one agent tells the other to do wron
n the other might not do it II h
d knows it is wrong. He ought to re
: fuse to do it and refer the question
n back to the people, who are the prin
;. cipals of the agents. Now, my fellow
j. countrymen, when the people tell
i imam what to do, he must do II, o
0 he must give up the peoples o1flce
/, Whenever the people tell me Wha
f to do, | will do it if it is right, ant
I if | don't think it is right ! Will re
n sign my office rather than do it.
r Referring to the Denver platform
Il demand for free lumber, Mr. Bale,
Il said:
0 with logs left out, because the.
r were already free, the Denver con
|, vention demanded three articles u
e be put on the free list and there ar
n more than 1900 articles subject to
n tav Thaca 15O0 articles include al