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fro TTH3 OXATIA DAILY SVXD AY. OCTOBER 21, 1000. Rosewater-Hitchcock Debate (Continued from tho center of the district Is llio city of Washington, with 2..)00 population, and tho vlllnge of Georgetown. Hero la tho capital of the Uiilted States and under Its very dome the democrats of tho United Etater, and William Jennings Bryan and William V Allen, have continued to gov ern tho District of Columbia without the conr.ptil cf Ihe people. They cannot elect a ronstnldc, they uinnot elect a city coun cilman tluy cannot plrrt a mayor; thoy have no representation anywhere. Aud 7 t thesi people have tho audacity to come before yr.u and nay that they nlone rcpro arnt the Declaration of Independence. (Apphuse.) I'or four years Ilrynn sat In the house of representatives nfl a despot; ti r eluht years Allen has hern there as n d. tool These people living In the city of Washington have never been asked to I eoii' n. to Hat style of ov rnment " ' bj mmmlsslon. The president ap points n eommlsslon under the rules of c(nKi"s. and. while It Is constitutional, Just tH lh tho government of tho Phlllp plnes. Just as Is the government of Alaska find tho noernnienl of New Mexico, It Is In flagrant conlllel with the principles hlh these jeoplo profess to advocate and of which they seem to bo now tho only champions. (Applause.) Now, my friends, I havo Mated the case of Florida. Allow me to state tho case of Alaska. In ISO", when Nebraska was about to bo admitted Into tho union, the govern ment, undor Andrew Johnson and by and with the consent of the father of this gen tleman, who wn then a delegate from thlfl Uriltory. bought the territory of Alaska for h .jO.Oco. They did not give the Alns knns any opportunity to suy whether or not thoy wen ted to secede from Hussla and be come eltlrns or subjects of the United Btates. They were taken Into the union, that Is, under the (lag, but not glen any rights not given nnythliig moro than tho natural rights that nil men havo to live tho right to be free and tho right to pursue their own voea' Ions They have been governed for thlrty-thrco years and aro still gov erned without nny territorial representa tion In congress nnd without any voice In their government, and yet wo are told that wo' nro vlo'ntlng tho declaration and con stitution In tho Philippines. It Is a que, tlon even now whether If tho I'lllplnos had tho right they could govern themselves. But let us see. What does tho democratic party proposo? Thoy havo Bald thnt tho re publican party has done wrong. What do thoy proposo? They say they are down on Imperialism nnd militarism. Thoy proposo, thoy say, to disband tho army nnd at tho same tlmo thoy proposo to protect the Fili pinos agnlnst their own local insurrections and rebellions and agnlnst the encroachment of foreign nntlons. You ennnnt ent your plo and still have It. (Lnughtcr.) You cannot protect tho Filipinos without an army. You cannot keep foreign nations fiom this little naton without an nrmy and navy and you havo got to tnalntajn nn army whether you act on a protectorate or whethor you act ns a sovereign power, nnd yet all tho responsi bility for property, for life and for tho wel fare of tho Filipinos Is and would be with tho United Htutes government. .ink 1'rrtlupnt Qnrntlon. Now Jet me ask my friend a question: X)ees ho believe thnt a protectorate can bo Mabllshcd on tho Hues of tho Declaration of Independence without first obtaining tho consent of thesu pcoplo? You say that theso people aro exasperated. Thoy know that we havo shot down some of thrlr pcoplo nnd h,urnod their villages. They hnto tho pcoplo of tho United States today aud they bate each other at least tbose who aided In tho loynl support of tho United States aro hated by tho others, and you say that they must submit to a protectorate. Now suppose that thoy choose not to submit and do not ask for a United StateH protectorate. What would you say to that? Thoy havo a right to do It If the consent of the governed properly applies. (Applbuso.) And then bow are you going to govern? For example, I am walking down tho atrcct, or my friend, for ho Is a tnllcr man and a moro gallant gentleman. Ho steps up to a young woman walking In a rain storm without an umbrolla and says: Miss, I want to hold my umbrellai over you to proteat you from tho rain, and tho Miss turns 'round and makes a face at him and walks across to another follow nnd gets him to protect her and leaves hl3 umbrella vacant. (Laughter.) Now that Is likely to happen. Suppose we hnd a protectorato and actually conceded to theso Tagalo Filipinos the right to govern themselves, by what right can thoy govern the other tribes In these lBlnnds without tbolr consent? Flvo mil lions on one side and about H, 000, 000 on the other. What right havo these Tagalos to force upon tho sultan bf the Sulu islands, About whom wo will hoar presently (ap plause und laughter) what right have thoy got to go to all theso other different potentates and ask them to submit to their government In prefercuco to tho government of tho United States? Havo you got tho consent of the gov erned? You must go clear through with It oil the way. You must nsk all these pcoplo whother they want to bo governed that wuy. If they don't, what Is going to hap pen? Tho government of tho United Stntea Is pledgod to all the nations of tho tarth for good government and It will havo to Intervene und tight battles for tha sako of the FUlnlnos In oritur to rn.ihln them to lord It over tho other peoplo. Why, wo might JubI as well havo decreed that tho Blnux Indians shall govern tho Cheyennes nnd tho Arapahocs and glvo tho privilege to the Sioux of whipping them In while wo support them with our army and become responsible for what property they might icstroy lu their wars with other Indians ENT FREE TO A Most Remarkable Remedy Tliut Quickly Host ores Lrt vigor tt .Men. A "Frco Trial Package Sent by Mh To All Who Write. Free trial packaga of a most remarkable remedy aro being' mullod to all who write tha Stute Medical Institute, Thoy cured so many men who had battled for years against the mental and physical suffering of lost manhood that the Institute has de cided to distribute free trial packages to all 'who write. 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It Is absurd to talk about the constitution following the Hag. At Kansas City all tho Mags hanging on tho walls of tho demo cratic convention hall bore this Inscription: "The Constitution and tho Flag, Ono aud Inseparable, Now and Forever." As a matter of fact the populists at Sioux Falls wont It ono hotter. They had It; "Tho Declaration of Independence, tho Constitu tion and the Flag, One and Inseparable, Now aud Forpver." (Laughter.) Hut the fact Is that they both borrowed It nnd simply plagiarized Daniel Webster, who sold: "Liberty and union, one nnd In separable, now and forever." (Applauso anil laughter ) Now, whero Is there nny relation be- ween tho constitution and tho flag7 Tho flag Is tho emblem of Amerlcnn sovereignty and power. It flonts on overy sea In tho world: It floats above every war ship; It s placed above the legations of tho United States In all foreign lands. Dut the constltutltin does not follow It. Tho flag Is In China now, but tho American constitution has not followed It Into China or any part of It. (Applause.) 1 ho flag Is an emblem of sovereignty, I ay, and the constitution Is In force simply n the states that went Into tho compact and under which the union was formed. Hut tho territories and dependencies for pay dependencies and I defy my opponent to disprove that wo hnve hnd dependencies from the beginning; of our government are governed by congress and the president of tho United Stntes, as our supremo court decided tlmo and again. Whenever a new tato In admitted two acts havo to be passed by congress. One, nn enabling act giving the citizens equal rights and Im munities enjoyed by all the other citizens. And let me remind this gentleman that when Nebraska first offered her constitu tion to congress it was rejected without he consent of the peoilo of Nebraska. Applause.) We made a constitution for ourselves nnd had In It tho word "whlto" and they struck out that word and wo had to take the constitution back and revise it. That prlnclplo Is well laid down that two cts havo got to bo passed, tho enabling net and an act extending the statutes of the United States over the state to bo ad mitted. Tho statutes of tho United States do not govern anywhero except In tho stoles. They nro not self-expanding. Thoy re not like nn India rubber blanket. Thoy havo got to bo extended by congressional act. And all tho territories of tho United States and tho peoplo thereof must ro main under congressional supervision until they aro received as Btates into the union. Whllo I have had my views as to the policy of expansion clear out Into Asiatic waters, I have no question at all as to tho right of tho United States to govern their newly-bought territory and the duty of the chief executlvo to compol evory man, woman and child living therein to submit themselves to tho laws, even by forco of arms, it need be. (Cries of "Hear, hear," and prolonged applause.) I think that ought to bo answer enough to that question. Now as regards the regulation of tho debate. Of course my friend Insists that ho has got to regulate me, but I am going to regulate myself a Httlo bit when I get to It. I have a right to discuss this nucs- tlon of Imperialism even a Httlo bit furthor and put a nail In the coflln of this bugbear. I will have tho spook well nailed down before I get through with it. (Applause.) BEGIN TEN-MINUTE SPEECHES (taxation of IIott to Deal with Trnats la Otacnaaril ly the Delintera Hitchcock Opeua. Mr. Chairman, Ladles and ClonUemenj I would not tor a moment have my opponent suspect that I have any hesitancy about spending tha rest ot this evening, or all of next week, In discussing Imporlallsm. When, however. It was decided to go into this debate each specltlod that trusts should bo one ot the subjects discussed and I en deavored to Introduce It. Now, however, as he desires to go further upon this ques tion of imperialism, I am rejoiced to moot him. Ho says that tho United States haa always had dependencies. He refers to territories, and evory one ot these territories, all the people In those territories havo always had before them tho star ot hope and the promise of tho futuro that ono day they would be como sovereign states of tho United States and citizens with tho American people. Do you hold out that promise to the peoplo ot tho Philippine Islands? That Is all they want. He says that tho flax Is In China. Does he proposo to keep the flag forever In China? He says that whoro the flag has onco been raised Mr. MoKlnloy will always maintain It. I ask him why why hasn't ho kept It flying In thoso twenty broad miles of Alaskan territory (Applause.) Why at tho behest of the gold-grabbing cmplro ot Great IJrltaln did ho pull It down? Ho goes tar back In my nowapaper an cestry and recites that once upon a tlmo the old Herald condemned Abraham Lin coln. Well, I want to remind him thut tho man who was the editor ot tho Herald In that day Is today support ing William McKlnlcy. (Applauso.) Again I como to tho question of tmsts. A trust Is an evil. In tho present administra tion, It has beon computed by an eminent authority; the great anti-trust attorney gen eral ot Ohio, who has been driven from tho republican party because he fought tho trust, has computed that not less than 40t great trust corporations have been or ganized during this administration, moro than during tho whole previous history of tho United Btntoa. Wo havo upon our federal statuo books, passed In 1890, tho Sherman nntl-trust law, of tremendous power to crush tho trusts. That great statute empowers the federal congress to punish thoBo who cngngo In trusts crimi nally. It empowers congress to act wlthtn the United States by Injunction to restrain trusts from operating. It provides for dis solving nnd wiping out trusts and It pro vides practically for outlawing trustB by di recting that when a trust is known to exist and when It has Its products traveling be tween the states It Is the duty ot tho at torney general of tho United States and his seventy-six district attorneys to selzo tho proporty of the trusts and confiscate It. And yet during this present administration thcro bus only beon three cases In which the trusts havo been brought Into court; one against a coal company and failed for lack ot Jurisdiction, and ono against a coal com pany that succeeded, and another Is pend ing. And with all these district Bttornoys. llko Bummers, the attorney general of the United States has never Issued an order to nny of them to proceed against trusts be cause the president of tho United States, elected by the trusts, haa never told him to do so, (Applause.) Talk about tho danger of Imperialism In the business world imperialism has already arrived. Tha trust Is an Imperial body. It levies Its tribute from the people. It sends forth Its Irresistible decrees. It taxes all tho pooplo. It Invades congress. It dictates legislation. It affects tho courts of the laud. The Imperial trust Is hero and yet there has not beenan earnest i effort of this attorney general to prose cute the tmsts. Wo know, who must buy, wo know that the evil of them Is on ono side, but wo do not know all of the evil that cornea from trusts. It I havo the tlmo I want to tell you a lit tle story, a true tnle, which I have verified by n traveling man In this state a few months ago. He represented tho Pago Iron Fence company of Adrian, Mich, To a hotelKeeper hosnys! "I do not know when I will como to yon again because thi fenco company for which I work Is up Rcalnst tho real thing." Ho snys: "It was asked to go- Into tha Iron fenco com bination nnd It refused. A week after that time my employers tried to buy some fenco wire. The sent an order to a wire factory. Tho factory refused to fill it. Another did nnd n third ono did nnd Anally thoy found cut that all tho factories were In n wire trust nnd the wlrn trust had ngrccd with the fenco trust that It would not sell wlro to nny factory not In the wiro fenco trust nnd this man, still courageous, finding that ho could not buy In tho United States, nny wlro, tele gtaphod to nngland to get the price and no cot It, but when ho added the tariff to the price ho found ho could not Import It Into this country and manufacture his fence at a profit. There he was, between the trust on ono side and the tariff on tho othtr, absolutely prohibited from doing business unless ho went Into tin trust. The trust on ono side nnd the tariff on tho other tho tariff, tho mother of trusts, nnd tho ropubllcnn pnrty, the father of the trusts. (Applause.) Now. I nsk my friend again to say, whit does tho republican party propose tn do with this great evil? Tho democrntlo pnrty has a remedy. Most of tho articles mnnufnetured by tho trusts aro pro tected from outaldo competition by tho tariff. Wo propose ns ono of tho remedies of tho democratic party nnd of tho great William J. Hryan, when ho Is Inaugurated, to tear down tho tariff wall and bring In tho competition from abroad, which will forco tho trusts to sell their goods at fair prices, (Applause.) Iti"icvui(pr Corrppt llltulirnck. My friend has put so many garbled edi torials Into UIm paper wlthtn the past ten years that ho bus becomo usod to garbling other pcoplo'a languago oven whon It Is expressed from u platform. Ho tells you that I said here that wherever tho flag floats McKlnlcy Is bound to keep It floating for ever and ho haa made tho declaration horo that wo havo committed ourselves to the perpetual government ot tho Philippines whatover may happen. Now thoro Is no truth lu that. I havo never given utter nnco to nny such language. On the con trary, I stntod that whllo tho flag Is In China tho constitution has not followed It and never would. Ho wants to know how soon tho flag will leave China. Tho flag will leavo China when Chinamen will respoct tho rights of humnnlty. (Applause.) Whon China becomes clvlllzod so that oho will ro spect tho rights of Christian nations tho flag of tho United States will bo withdrawn from China. Tho action of McKlnloy, whloh was one that every human being on tho face of iho globo who haa any sontlmont of humanity has approvod, haa been con demand In this campaign whon all tho world 'had nothing but respect and ndmira tion for tho policy that our president has pursued In China with tho rest of tho na tions, yet tho administration Is ridiculed and It Is charged with Imperialism. (Ap plause.) It has been charged that the Filipinos are being treated na alavea nnd vassals, and what Is the foot? Hero are the Instructions that were Issued by tho president for the government of the Filipinos: "Until congress shall tako action I demand that: "Upon evory division nnd branch of the government of the Philippines must bo im posed these Inviolable rules: "That no person shall bo deprived of life, liberty or property without duo process ot law. "That private property shall not bo taken for public uso without Just compensation. "That in all criminal prosecutions the ac cused shall enje- the rtzn to a speedy and public trial, to k . .ixned of tha nature and cause, of the accusation, to bo con fronted with tho witnesses agnlnst them, to hava compulsory proceiss for obtaining witnesses In tholr favor and to havo tho assistance of counsel for their defense. "That excessive ball shall not bo required, nor excessive flues Imposed, nor cruol and unusual punishment Inflicted. "That no person shall bo put twice In Jeopardy for the same offense or be cora polled tn any caso to bo a witness against himself. "That the right to be secure against un reasonable searches and solzurcs shall not be violated. "That nelthor slavery nor Involuntary servitude shall exist except as a punish ment for orlme. "That no bill of attainder er ex-post facto law shall bo passed. "Thnt no law shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or tha rights of tho people to peaceably assemble nnd potltlon tho government for a redress ot grievances. "That no law shall ho mado respecting the establishment ot religion of prohibiting tho freo exerclso thereof and that tho free ex crclso and enjoyment of profession and wor ship without discrimination or preference shall forevor bo allowed. "It will be tho duty of tho commission to promoto and extend and, as they And occasion, to Improve tho system of educa tion already Inaugurated by tho military authorities. In doing this they should re gard as of first Importance tho extension of the system of primary educatlan which shall be free to all nnd which shall tend to tit the peoplo tor tho duties of cltlzon shlp nnd for tho ordinary avocation of civilized community. Uapcclal at tention should bo given to nffqrdlng opportunity to tho peoplo ot tho Islands to acqulrn tho usn ot tho English language. "Upon nil officers and employes of the United States, both civil and military, should be Impressed a sensn of the duty to observe not merely the material, but tho personal and social rights of the people ot the Islands and to treat them with the samo courtesy and respect for tholr personal dignity which the people ot the United States are ac customed from each othnr," Now I ask, follow citizens, whether this makes tho Filipinos subjects or makes them vassals of the United States ot Amorlca? (Cries of "No, no.") It gives them pre cisely tho samo rlghtB that you enjoy ex cepting tho rights that are acquired by statehood tho right to vote and tho right to participate In national government, nut even these rights and privileges may In due tlmo bo extended to them. Now what Is best for these people? What can bo dono undor the conditions? Can you abandon tho Islands now? (Voices; "No, no.") Can' you glvo them a protectorate without main taining your nrmy there? Will you coun tenance tho farco of self-government with revolution after revolution? Can you do this and have any assurance that this govern ment will not be brought Into a clash with some great nation and hava a war that will cost precious lives and hundreds ot millions In money Ilrynn ita u Tlirorl.l, Now Mr. Hryan Is a very great theorist. He la great In theory but poor tn practice. (ApplauM and laughter.) He hu ever raised his voice In the house of represent atives against the tnlsgovernment of the territories that are governed precisely like tho Philippines nnd so he Is estopped now fiotu arraigning tho republican party tor misgovemment, Tho fact Is the democratic party bus bocu out of practice In govern ment for forty years and whon It tried it for eight years It brought this country to tho vergo of ruin and desolation. (Applause.) Now wo will come to the trusts, because I am not afraid to talk on trusts, (Ap plause and laughter.) My frlond has not a bushel ot editorials to exhibit tn this houso published In Tho Dee on trusts, for 1 havo boen a pronounced nntl-monopollst at nil times. I have attended every anti trust convention that hns been held, na tional or state. I was a delegate to the lirst ono held In Chicago seven years ago and was tho chairman of the committee on resolutions aud delivered to the demo cratic president tha resolutions that were adopted by tho anti-trust convention, and they were pigeon-holed and never hoard of again. (Laughter.) My opponent quotes the Sherman law, Ho has forgotten thut John Sherman Is ono of the most rautankerous republicans that every lived lu tho United States. (Applauso nnd luughtcr.) John Sherman was the father of this anti-trust law which thoy say Is not being properly enforced. The anti-trust law of Nebraska was engrafted on our statute books In a largo nieasuro through my own pcrsonnl efforts, Just as much au has boen tho antl-Plnkorton law that was put upon tho statuto book after years of fighting. Tho anti-trust law that Is now on the statutes of Nebraska was passed by a re publican legislature eleven years ago and signed by a ropubllcnn governor. (Ap plauso.) Woll, now, we aro told that tho presi dent ot tho United States should have given moro consideration to tho trust question. I havo talked to tho president personally on tho trust question, nnd only laut spring ho requested mo to formulate or draft somo fow recommendations on that point. (Laughter.) Yes, you may laugh, If you please, but I challenge a contradiction. And In tho Chicago trust conference, held last year, Mr. Hryan and mysolf were both dologates. In that trust conference at Chicago I formulated cer tain propositions of a rcmedlnl nature, but tho chief remedy proposed was tho re- vision of the constitution of the United Btates by a national constitutional con vention. (Applauso.) Mr. Hryan fully agreed with mo that tho present laws- daughter) well, I don't take a back neat for Hryan. (Prolonged applause and laughter.) I claim to bo his peer In all things except tho accident ot birth. Voted Dotvii It- Uriuoornta. Now Mr. Hryan admitted that a con Btltuttoual amendment was necessary In order that wo might havo tho trusts prop erly regulated or abolished. Thoy now protend that they want to destroy them. Lot ua look at It. When the houso of representatives last June passed u con stitutional amendment, an amendment thnt would authorize congress to regulnte and abolish trusts, thoy deliberately voted that constitutional amendment down 130 democrats tn the house of representatives voted against It. Mr. Hryan tries to malto light ot that matter, but the fact Is that they voted It down becauso It was voted up by tho republicans In tho house. (Ap plause.) The democratic party Is nothing but a party of obstruction and opposition. (Applauso and hisses.) In 185G wo do clared In favor of tho Declaration of Inde pendence, and they waited Just forty-four years to como to tho samo conclusion. (Applauso and laughter.) They havo al ways contented themselves with op position and dertructlnn rathor than w.lth construction. Their statesmen simply oppose everything that the other party udvocates and that Is tho reason why they do not succoed (applause) and that Is tho roason thoy will not succeed this fall. (Prolonged applause.) Now, the only true remedy evor proposed for tho regulation of trusts was voted down by tho democrats In the house of representatives on tho eve of this great campaign because of tho fear that tho re publican party might get somo credit out of It. It has been snld here by my opponent thnt tho tariff la tho mother of trusts. Tho tariff Is not an American Invention. Tho tariff -was Introduced In France, 200 yoara before tho Americans thought of It. Tho tariff was Introduced there and mado tho great Industries of France what they are today. It was through the interven tion of England after tho battle of Blon holm that tho tariff In France had to be abolished. It was repealed becauso the duka of Marlborough, commanding tho British army, dictated tho terms ot peace with Louis XVI and thoso terms were In part that tho tariff must be repealed In order to glvo tho English manufacturers tho advantago and give thorn an oppor tunity to compete with tho French in their own country. (Applause.) Tho tariff was Introduced in tho Unltod States by, the whig party beforo the birth of tha repub lican party. Tho tariff was advocated by Henry Clay, as great an American and patriot as ever lived. (Applause.) And tho tariff today, If It were romovad or If It were partially removed, would abso lutely ruin many of tho manufacturing In dustries of tha United States. (Applause.) Now. wo are told that the tariff has created trusts. Why, we know that potato vines beget potato buga. I kuow that out In Colorado they advocated the use ot parts green on the potato plant to kill off tho bugs, but they killed tho plant also. (Applause and laughter.) You can abolish tho tariff If you will and you can also de stroy nine-tenths of tho factories In tho United States and beggar almost all tho workmen Just to plcnse Mr. Hryan and my worthy opponent over here. (Applause and laughter.) Tho trusts, as I say, must be dealt with and should bo dealt with and they will be. Tho republican national con vention has so declared. Hut they must bn dealt with sensibly, You cannot destroy all theso corporate concerns. You can only regulate and prevent tho evil. You may have a cancer, but you do not chop oft the pnttent'B head to effoat a cure. (Applauso and laughter.) The fact remains that we must d;al with tho evils that beset us In a rational, statesmanlike manner and we are going to do It; and the republican party must bn retained in power In order to bring about the result. (Applause.) IIKclicouU Itrpllea. Mr. Itosewatnr Is afraid ot ruining the Industries of tho country If we tako the tariff oft from tho trusts. I want to read you a telegram which I received today from the mayor ot Adrian, Mich., and this Is tho second chaptor of the history ot the strugglo of the Page Woven Wire Fence company against the trusts. I havo been using this Illustration ot how tha trust could bo used as a conspiracy with another trust to destroy an Industry. I knew from tha traveling man that the Page Woven Wire Fence company, which has a capital stock of (800,000 and which Is marked In tho commercial reporta as of high credit, when It was brought face to face with the proposition that It could not buy Its wire In this country, It must either go lolo the trust or ruin or And some other device to continue Us existence, I did not know until today ,what effort Mr. Page had made to porpetuate his enter prise. So I wired tho mayor ot Adrian, who Is editor of a paper there, for informa tion, nnd hero Is his reply "ADRIAN, Mich., Oct 12 Page Fence compauy went Into hands of receiver two months ago. Their wire mill at Monessen, Pa., Is In bands of Union Trust company, FUUburc The factory, hero has Leslie M W&MMMM'S LIFE iil Often depends on the strength and skill of a man. In a time of danger there is nothing so comforting as a man's help and counsel. This is doubly true when the woman's danger is from disease, and the man is a physician whose skill and over half a million women from diseases As chief consulting physician to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, N. Y., Dr. R. V. Pierce has made a most remarkable record in the treatment aud cure of diseases peculiar to women. ' In something over thirty years, assisted by his associate staff of physi cians, numbering nearly a score, he has treated and cured more than half a million women. Not the least remarkable feature of these cures is the fact that in the rcat majority of cases the patients lived at a distance and consulted Dr. Pierce by letter, receiviug his free advice und counsel on the case by mail. In exceptional cases, only, where surgical aid was required, h is it been necessary to come to the institute for treatment. Women will be interested in these two example;; of what can be done for their diseases by Dr. Pierce's medicines. A Woman, HorQcSff a Piiysccian, Turns to Dr. Pioroo for Help snd Healing. "It la with extreme pleamtre that I make known to yon my rapid recovery from a long iljuew as n result of a compli cation of organic disearcs, the principal one being ovarian and uterine inflammation," writes Grace M. Di Mnrzo, M.D., Ardwick, Prince George; Co., Maryland. "It is a pleasure to recommend Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as tho best medicine I Lave ever taken for the disease in question. I have full knowledge of its properties nnd its power to draw one from the brink of the grave. Such has been tuy case. For three years I did not csperience one vrcll day. I was first under treatment, then the rargron's knife, ana through complete disgust I gave up both, and, acting under advice of a friend, I took Dr. Pierce's medicine with patience. Now, I wc my life to that wonderful ' Prescription ' of his, and I cannot recommend it too highly. Never in my profession have I seen such a ' miracle worker ' In the form of medicine." Esemfiod an Qporailan. It Is with pleasure that I write yon to let you know the rrcat benefit I have received from your medicines, and by roUowing your adrice regarding aclf-treatment," writes Mrs. 3ainxi Hrlcksou, oi 496 Rico Street, St. Paul, Minn. "You kindly advised me to take Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre scription and 1 Golden Medical Discovery ' nnd ' Pleasant Pellets.' When I first wrote you I had been to three differ ent doctors and two of them said I would never get better without going to the houpital for an operation. 1 just sat down and cried and said, ' If I have to die I will die nt home with my two denr little ones. I had a mishap in May, last, and was weak all summer. Was not able to do anything. If I would get up and walk to the kitchen and back I would have to lie tn bed for a day, or nometinies two days. Last August I picked up ono of Dr. Pierce's pa mphlcts and read of liia wonderful work, I wrote to him for information, and receired an answer within five days from the day I wrote, advising me to try his medicines. Nov I have used six bot tles of his ' Favorite Prescription ' anil tlx of the ' Golden Modicul Diawery,' aud the result la just wonderful. I did not tell the doctors what I was talcing. I have not been to any physician since the day I received the first letter from Dr. Pierce, and I feci as good aa I ever did before I had the mishap. I was so nervous I had to have someone by my aide all tho time, even iu da ytlme, and I could hardly cat anything. I took treatment from a doctor twice a week, and every time I would go thero I felt so sick, but since I quit all the doctors and began taking yoor medicines I gained right along. I weighed 125 pounds when I began taking yonr medidnea (iu August), and novr I am up to my usual weight, 165. I cannot thank you enough for your wonderful medicine , and I wish yon every success in the WIVES AND l"0X XJ"" vfoorw Thim grmat work oontalna 10Q8 largo Hsgaa, and la Bent fTlEE on reoepf of mUunmm tm may oxnvnao ot mailing ONLY. Sontl 31 one-oar stamps for oloth-hound volume, or ouly 21 staaisss It papas binding will bo satlafaotory. Itobortson as receiver. Factory runs right aloijg, tut wlro mill Is not running full force, owlns to Inability to cot uteol Ingots from the trust. The company refuses to Co into trust, borrowed money to Inilh! mill with, then was obliged to buy mines to get ere. Banks east crowded thorn for payments and trusts threw every obstruc tion In tholr wny. An effort Is being made to reorganlzo with half million cap ital paid stock to ko out of receiver's clutches and contlnuo tbo business. It tariff ot 3S ton woro off wlro the com pany could bo tree In one week. i "W. ETBAItNS, "Editor Tresa and Muyor ot Adrian." (Applause.) Now, I have ueed tills Illustration bo cause It Is a concroto case. All through Indiana, all through Illinois, all through Ohio, all through the mlddlo states you can go Into town after town and find tdlo factories, with closed doors and barred windows and rusting machinery, and hun dreds of pcoplo thrown out of work be cause the trusts have crushed out and closed thoso Industries. I aBk Mr. Itoso wuter it this la to go on forever? I ask If trusts, In addition to robbing the people,' are to be permitted to go on crushing out these Industries that have grown up and given employment to tho pcoplo of tho Unltod Statos. II y abolishing tho tariff you can save Individual Industry. If you will put such a. tariff Into effoct as to force the trusts to make a fair prlco and enter Into business right. He said tha democrats in congress voted down what tho republicans proposed as a constitu tional nmendramt. They did, and they did right. The amendment was a farcn. It was Introduced, not at tho beginning of Mr. McKlnley's term In March, 1S97. It was not Introduced In H9S. It was not Introduced In 1S99, " It was not Introduced until tlvn days beforo congress adjourned last June. It was limited to five-mlnuto discussion. There was no opportunity to amend it. It was upon Us face an In famous and Impossible provision. It pro vided for putting Into tho exclusive con trol of congress not only the regulation of trout, but the roculatlon of partnerships of the United Status. If It had been enacted It would have mado tho antl-truat law of j the state of Nebiaska, unuor wnicu our bravo attorney general la procucdlni; to drive trusts ont of Nebraska, It would bavo wiped away the anti-trust law, which vita B. C, Box 50. " Address : Or not patsed by a republican legislature, but which wan passed by a fusion legislature. I want to tell Mr. Hosewatur that tho anti trust law paused .by tbo republican legis lature of 1S9 Is a dead letter. There hai not been a successful prosecution under It In the history nt tho etato. It Is under the power of the fusion aot, passed lu 1897, with which our attornoy general Is now proceeding and thnt act Is the one which can protect this atato from trusts, It any act can. Mr. rtoscwatcr said that Ilrynn was In favor of that constitutional amendment. lie viib not. Mr Uryau had repeatedly Btatod that In his opinion the present Qherman bill Is sufficient tor the protection ot the peoplo of the United Btates, and It It Is not, ho bellovcs that congress has the power to pass a bill thnt will be, without a constitutional amend ment, At least we ought, with our army of soventy-ulx district attorneys, to sco whethor that powerful law, which has been throo times appealed to tho United States suproms court, Is not equal to the emergency. It has boen said by Mr. Itosowater, when Cleveland was president of the United Btates thero wero no prosecutions under tho nntl-trust law of Sherman. That la a mistake Tho two greatest cases In the United States wero begun by Attornoy deneral Harmon tho railroad case and the pipe case. Iloth of thoso great cases were bosun under I'resldent Cleveland nnd terminated after ho went out of offlco. (Applauso.) Itefcrenco has again been mado to the territories. Ono would think that theso territories of the United States were In rebellion against the government. Does any ono hear from tho territories a com plaint, They havo no sort of resemblance to tho Pbllllpplne Islands. They expect to becomo utates, They havo the rights of the constitution. Thoy look forward to the day when they will become states. Kach of our territories have representa tives In congrejs. Mr. IlnBcwatcr says how. can wo havo a protectorate over the I'hllipplno Island's without tholr consent. Isn't It a fact that without consulting the republics of Cenraf and South Amor Ira the United States, ever since the day of Monroe, has exercised n protectorate over thqso republics nnd said to tho mon archies of tho old world, "Touch them not?" And they have continued thnlr national existence not by their own force. experience have saved defying ordinary skilL treatment of other caces aa you have hnd in mine. When I think about how I suffered Inst summer it seems now like a dream, I will cheerfully recommend your remedies to all my afflicted friends, for tq-day I am us well and feel us good as ever." These testimonials are fair examples of the suc cess of Dr. Pierce's treatment in aggravated cases of diseases of women. As a matter of fact, a large percentage of Dr. Pierce's cures is of women given up by local physicians and appealing to Dr. Pierce as a last resort. ' Sick and ailing women are reminded that thev ore , invited to consult Dr. Pierre by letter free under a I guarantee of absolute privacy and a sncrcd preser vation of womanly confidence. Address Dr. R. V. ! Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Ihe satiafaction enjoyed by women who consult Dr. Pierce by letter is indicated in the following, from 3 Healthy, Happy Woman. "I am sopleawtd with your instructions, I hardly know what thanks to give you for your kind favors," writes Mrs. Milo Bryant, of Lota, Thomas County, Georgia. "You cnu publish tny few (.tntemento to the world, hoping all suffering women will know nnd be healed. I suffered so much with great pains in my back nnd the lower part of my stomach, and palpitation of the heart, that ut times I could' hardly lie down. Could hardly get up iu the morning, but after using three bottles of ' Favorite Prescription ' and two vials of Dr. Pierce's Fleasnnt PAllctP, I am like a new woman. I shall forever praise Dr. Pierce's medicines to all, nnd shall speak of its blessing to all poor suffering iuvalids." Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong and sick women well. It does this by curing the weakening and painful diseases which affect the womanly organs. It regulates the peri ods, dries weakening drains, heals iufkunmation and ulceration, and cures female weakness. It strength ens the nervous system, gives a healthy appetite and induces refreshing sleep. It is a boon to mothers, who are strengthened by the' use of "Favorite Pre scription " so that they do not experience nervous ness and anxiety in the days of waiting, and when baby's advent comes the ordeal is practically painless, 4 Motlter's AtJvico to Mothers. "I gladly recommend Dr. Pierce's Fnvt.rite Piescription," writes Mrs. J W. G. Stephens, of Mila, Northumberland Co., Va. "Before my third little boy was born, I took six bot tles. He is the Client child nnd 'has been from birth, nnd I suffered very much less than I did before in confinement. I nnhesitatingiy advise expectant mothers to use the 1 Favorite Prescription1' I am so thankful for what Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prrscrip- trtti linn ffntif- fnr wrltM Mm Toltn 1 RrtlltVi nf ftlrv-ati It helped me through the long monthti before bnoy came, it etirea me 01 a uiscase mat was talcing nway all my strength, an4 I liave a big, 6trong baby girl, the most healthy of all my three." "Favorite Prescription" contains no alcohol and is entirely free from opium, cocaine, and all other narcotics. Do not let an unscrupulous denier sell you a sub stitute for "Favorite Prescription." There fa noth ing "just as good " for weak and sick women. fL, V. PIERQE, Buffalo, K. Y. not by their ability to resist tho powers of Europe; they havo continued their ex istence becauso tho monarchies ot Europo know from the pronouncement ot congrtss nnd from our president that tho United States DronoBcd to nrotoct them and would I L ...' .. ,!, m ntiD.nlli.i, f UOb KilUn .UJ Ul ItlU ll.'ll.V-lt.V.J v. ... old world to encronch upon them. (Ap plause.) If wo havo u good title to tho I'hllipplno Islands, na Mr. Itosowator claims, surely wo can say to tliu rest of tho world, "Kcop off," anil If wo koep oft oursolvea nnd force the rest of tho world to keep off, that Is a protectorato. That Httlo republic can prow, nourish and develop, Increase Its schools and model Its government nftcr our own. That llttla republlo will have tho protection ot tho United States uudcr a stronger tltlo than Vonciui'la had when Oreat Britain at tempted to encroach upon her rights and u democratic! president stopped It. (Ap plauso.) , ItnnrTTiitrr Object to MUuuotntSnii. I always like to bo quoted correctly when I um quoted at all. This Is tho second tiro I have been misquoted by my friend. He bays that I declared that undor President Cleveland tho Shorman act was not being enforced. I had nld nothing of tho kind. I raid that under President Clovoland a con vention bad brcn held In Chicago to con sider and formulato remedies against the evil of trusts. I said that the recommenda tions of this convention wero Bent to the secretary of state nud to the president, hut that thoy had been pigeon-holed, That la what I Bald and that is a horso ot another color. (ApplauBe.) Now my opponent has declared hero that tho constitutional amendment which had been defeated In congress would hnve da Btroyrd tliu Kubrnnka statuto on trusts, and ho has also again inlsquotod mo by saying that Mr. Ilrynn hnd declared himself In favor of that particular amendment. I have paid nothing of tbo kind. Mr. Bryan wan against It Just aa were the democrats who voted It down In tho houso, but Mr, nryan bad previously declared himself In favor nt a constitutional amendment to regulate, or rather to destroy the trustB. Now let us me what that amendment was and judgu for youreelves. Hero Is what It read: "Artlclo XVI. Tho sixteenth amendment to the fount It u tlon of tho United States, "Section 1. All powers conferred by this (Continued on Twenty-first Pace.),