THE PEOPLES' INDEPENDENT PARTY CANDIDATES.
HON. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
: WASTED AMERICAN MILLIONS. :
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WHAT M ACAULEY'S NEW ZE ALANDER MAY SEE; THE SLAVE
TRUST AND THE MONEY TRUST; THE WHIPS OF SOLO-
MAN AND THE SCORPIONS OF HIS SUCCESSOR; MISERY
OF THE PEOPLE AND A BANKRUPTED NATION.
(E. F. Tent In World-Herald.)
When Macauley's New Zealander
comes to write the history of the Amer
ican republic, and the attempt to In
stitute an empire on Its ruing, he will
pass over such Incident ax our bad
faith to Cuba and the Porto Rlcans;
the slaughter of a few thousand Fili
pinos who loved liberty, and the lack of
sympathy of this government for the
republicans of 8outh Africa.
He will dwell at length on Ha finan
cial legislation, and condemn It as the
colossal blunder of the ages.
He will not such legislation as the
beginning of the downfall of the great
republic.
He will condemn It as the result of
knavery rather than of Ignorance.
He will we the stealthy advance of
the crime of '73. when the president and
the nation awoke, astounded at the
elimination of the standard silver dol
lar from the list of coins.
Falling to perpetuate the bondage of
the black man through the slave trust,
he will see the Improvement to enslave
all men white, black, brown, yellow
and red, through a gigantic money
trust,
lie will observe the first step, so
sneaking It was several years before the
people realised they were betrayed and
robbed; that they had exchanged the
whips of Solomon who made silver ai
stones in the markets of Jerusalem, for
the scorpions of his successor.
He will not see the nation rent asun
der, as the kingdom of Israel was then
divided, but he will see a favored clash
enriched by the favors of the govern
ment, controlling the money of the na
tion and the world, doubling the weight
of debts, depreciating the value of land
and merchandise, closing the Industries,
turning honest laboring men Into home
less tramps roaming up and down.seek
ink work when there was no work, wo
men and children starved, the flocks
and herds reduced, the price of farm
products too low to pay the cost of rais
ing, and men once affluent reduced to
beggary. .
He will not the cries of "the reapers"
from their mortgaged farms, and con
trast their lamentations with the ex
travagances of the Bradley-Martins and
the manipulations of Standard Oil.
He will study the sweatshops of the
east, the railroads plunging Into bank
ruptcy, and the stifling of the mining
Industries of the continent.
With the elimination of the silver dol
lar he will not the immediate collapse
of the banking house of Jay Cooke, the
ruin of the Northern Pacific railroad,
and the defeat of Thomas A. Scott In
Ms efforts to procure funds In Europe
to complete the Texas & Pacific.
He will wonder at the widespread
lanlc of '73.
He will be startled at the Indignant
demand of the people to restore the
dollar of the fathers in 1878, and he
will be astounded at the veto of re
publican president who refused his
Administration.
Johnson
Orsnt, First
Orant Second
Hares
Oarileld-Arthur
Cleveland
Harrison
Cleveland
JMcKlnley, three years
ToUls ,
I tri- in 1171 ha will that under I
the administration of Johnson ami
Orant the coinage vslue of silver was
less than the commercial.
After 1873 there was a steady decline
of the commercial value under Orant.
Hayes, Garfield and Arthur.
Under Cleveland's first administration
tka p refuse use of the warehouse pruv
sanction to the wishes of the people.
In its restoration he will consider the
fatal words "unless otherwise specified
in the contract," by which the people
were again betrayed Into the hands of
the money trust striking at their lib
erties and prosperity.
He will puzzle over the problem as to
why men, rendered Insane by their
troubles, preferred suicide to life, why
our prisons were filled, and why the
poorhouses were crowded by the help
less Indigent. .
Going farther, he will see Great Brit
ain closing the Indian mints to the pri
vate coinage of silver and reducing the
unfortunate natives to the' deepest
wretchedness, overwhelmed with pov
erty, plague, pestilence and famine, un
til millions perished from the earth.
Coming back to the United States, he
will see an honored statesman repudiat
ing his first sentiments, working hand
In hand with favored plutocrats and
using his high position to repeal the
purchasing claune of the Sherman law
to increase the misery of his country
men. He will see a president of the United
States, twice elected to his high posi
tion, overturning the traditions of his
party and ignoring the institutions of
his country to protect the Interests of
bondholders doubly enriched by the de
monetization Of one of the precious
metals.
Further along he will see the treas
ury storing up 11,000 tons of silver coin
and the secretary thereof turning the
treasury Into a free storehouse, with
negotiable certificates passing from
hand to hand, while England buvs our
sliver bullion at half price, coins It at
full (coinage) value and uses it against
us In the markets of the world.
Still further he will find our gold
duiriH'd Into this free warehouse and
certificates Issued therefor, to make
way for the circulation of British gold
In the markets of the orient and other
countries, to enable Ureat Britain to
hold the trade of Europe, Asia, Africa
and America against the United States.!
While he sees this banker's free ware
house as it flourished, he will contem
plate the Inconsistency of this republic
In refusing a warehouse to the farmer,
or the merchant, for the free storage
of his grain and merchandise, and free
stock yards for his herds, on which cer
tificates could be issued.
If s farmer's free warehouse was not
permissible, he will ask, why was a
banker's free warehouse permissible?
It Is not the duty of government to
operate free warehouses for any privi
leged class.
Finally he may turn to this state
ment, and assuming each fiscal and
presidential term as beginning with the
calendar month he will analyze the
movements of silver under each admin
istration and find this excess of Imports
over Imports with the commercial and
coinage value.
Average. Average.
Commercial Value. Coinage Value. Difference.
52.5s5.J06 f 61,026,249 t 1,669,057
70.302,963 6H.2M.570 2.014.413
15.912.106 88.126,237 2,203,131
30.OK.0O9 33.4.683 2,583.574
26,962.424 41.3sO.282 S.407.8M
4H.S34.61t 64,386.324 14,S50,913
49,271,(& 66,232.603 16.961,044
113,S67.31 124.754.79 111,197.435
II.234.9C8 176.789,919 95,664,951
$58,43,227 $814,611,563 $246,175,336
clnle. throuch the Issue of temnnrarv
certincstes, tne commercial value shows
a marked fall. The Sherman law tem
porarily arrested It under Harrison, but
the free warehouse principle was still
at work.
Under Cleveland the repeal of th
purchasing clause of the Sherman law
and the Indian demonetisation of silver
HON. CHARLES A, TOWNE.
let down the bars. This was continu
ous under McKlnley, with the free
warehouse principle still at work.
British financiers fooled the American
people Into the belief that silver was
cheap; that to advocate It as a money
standard was disgraceful. But under
Cleveland and McKlnley, exports of sil
ver, mainly on British account, rose
prodigiously, greater than at any tother
known period In the history of the re
public. Instead of coining the silver
bullion and shutting off Great Britain
they sold It at commercial value, Tnd
lost the difference between the coin
age value to the extent of $206,752,000 In
seven years, and $95,555,000 under the
administration of William McKlnley In
three years.
In seven years, under the administra
tions of Cleveland and McKlnley, . the
American people imported an excess of
a little more than 1100,000 in gold over
lhe exports to compensate them for
this gigantic mismanagement of their
finances.
MONEY AND MEN.
A New York financial paper, possess
ing exceptional sources of information,
reports the following as the "earnings"
of some of the principal trust compa
nies of that city for the year 1S99:
Per Cent
Central Trust 263
Farmers Loan and Trust 88
N. Y. Life Insurance and Trust 80
Union Trust 78
U. 8. Mortgage and Trust 80
State Trust 50
United States Trust 47
Mercantile Trust 44
Manhattan 42V4
N. Y. Security Trust 41
Continental Trust 41
Guaranty Trust , 40
Meanwhile the farmer who makes 4
per cent on the cost of his farm Is
lucky, the worklngman who will aver
age 115 a week the year round Is ex
ceptionally fortunate, and Wall street
wonders why these classes do not share
In Its enthusiasm over revived pros
perity It Is not necessary to be a populist
to discover in thene figures a most un
just disproportion between the earn
ings of money and the earnings of men.
REPUBLICAN PAJtTY AND TRUSTS
Republicans are not going to destroy
all the trusts Just the hurtful ones.
Whenever you divide trusts Into good
trusts and bad trusts and let the re
publican party draw a liny, you will
find that every trust that contributes
liberally In a campaign Is a good one,
and that the bad ones are life stingy
ones that refuse to come down. There
Is no good monopoly in private hands;
there never was and never will be un
til God sends angels to take charge of
the monopolies.
"You cannot have industrial des
potism and political Independence, and
the republican party stands today for
Industrial despotism and industrial ar
istocracy as dangerous to human lib
erty as the landed aristocracy against
which Jefferson contended In the early
days of the republic. A landed aris
tocracy is Innocent compared with the
aristocracy that the republican party
Is creating. W. J. Bryan..
ASSIMILATION IMPOSSIBLE
It has always been true when the
white race has gone to the tropics. The
Netherlands have dominated Java for
300 years, and yet there are less than
60,000 people In Java of British birth
out of 25,000,000. Spain had dominated
the Philippines for 300 years, and yet
there are less than 10,000 resident Span
lards In the Philippine Islands out of
8,000,000 or 10,000,000 people. England
has dominated India for 160 years, and
yet there are only 100,000 people of
British birth In all India out of 30,
000,000; and If you think the Indian are
glad to have the English there, let me
tell you that It takes a British army
of 70.000 to tske care of the 100,000, and
It takes a native army of 140,00 to help
the British army of 70,000 take care of
100.000.-W. J. Bryan, Los Angeles, Cel.,
April 10, IK ., ., . .. ,.,.,(
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.
London manufactures $10,000,000 worth
of umbrellas annually.
The Cunard steamship company ac
counts for the past year show a profit
of $1,200,000, and a dividend of 5 per
cent on the ordinary shares Is proposed.
In America Japanese service is not
cheap. A Japanese going out to service
expects to get $25 a month, no matter
what he does, and a chef will have
from $35 to $50. On a yacht a man will
g,t from $0 to $100.
. One of the largest railroads on the
Paolflc coast has decided to substitute
oil in place of coal as fuel In Its en
gines. It Is claimed that considerable
wor will be saved, and that It is much
cleaner and will not create any smoke
or ashes.
In New York there are 5,000 Idle cl
garmakers. Last week It was officially
announced by the committee that $12,500
had been paid out to 3,600 strikers.
The union strikers each received $5 and
the non-union strikers $3 each,
were no social, religious or race prob-
A Philadelphia firm of iron workers
has refused to furnish the war depart
ment building In Washington with a
tube-cutter, needed In the r rglne room,
on the ground, that, being Quakers,
they disapprove of war and cannot sell
material to any building connected
with war.
Organized labor In New York has re
solved to inaugurate a movement on
the lines of the demand for public own
ership. It will start at first with an
agitation specifically for municipal
manufacture and distribution of tee.
Delegate Lord stated that the American
Ice company had brought 300 drivers
to New York from New England and
was paying them $1 a day less than the
union rate for truck drivers.
"A large number of railroad men,"
says Congressman Dolliver, "live in
our state, and when we consider that
the railroads are employing 100,000 more
men than they did in 1895, and are pay
ing out fully sixty million a year more
In wages, you will see what an im
portant factor railroad work Is to the
country. The roads made good money
last year, but this has not been at
the expense of the farmers, because the
freight rates are lower than they were
four years ago. I am within the mark
when I say that there were over 200,
000,000 tons more freight carried by the
railroads last year than In 1S!)5."
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
It Is generally the small fish that
make the biggest fish stories.
There probably never was a woman
so frendless that she didn't have some
one to tell secrets to.
The plea of the British soldiers for
better clothing might indicate that they
are marching to rug-time.
It would seem that the people in Ma
feklng had suffered enough without
Alfred Austin writing verses about It.
"Madam" asked the honest photog
rapher, who failed In business, "would
you prefer a likeness or something re
ally handsome and artistic?"
Willie I had a funny dream lasl
night. Papa Did you; what was It?
Willie I dreamed I had an automo
bile, ud I only had a nightmare.
Smuggled tobacco confiscated by the
British customs authorities was for
merly burned In the huge furnace,
known as the queen's pipe, but for
some years past this has not been done.
Instead, the tobacco Is cent to the publlo
asylums for the benefit of the In
mates. The Medical Journal says that the
curved pages of the ordinary book are
Injurious to. the eye of the reader. The
curvature necessitates a constant
chnage of the focus of th eye as It
reads from one side to another, and
the ciliary muscles are mlcr a constant
strain. Moreover, the I'ght falls un
equally upon both sldi of the page,
further Interfering wifh a continued;
clear vision field. It m suggested that
the difficulty might L obviated If the
lines should be prln ed parallel to tho
binding, Instead of . right angles with
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FOR BRYAN.
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS WILL
SUPPORT HIM.
PLATFORM ADOPTED.
Reaffirms Allegiance To Bimetal
lism and Denounces Trusts
and Imperialism.
New York. (Special.) The democrat
to state convention today elected these
delegates at large to the democratic
national covnentlon:
David B. Hill, Richard Croker, Ed. R
Murphy and Augustus Van Wyck.
Alternates Frank Campbell, Jacob
Ruppert, jr., C. Morgan Sanford and
James Shevlin.
Electors at Large Frederick Cook of
Rochester and .Robert C. Titus of Buf
falo. The platform adopted contains no ex
plicit reaffirmation of the Chicago plat
form of 1896, but a declaration that the
party in the state will support the plat
form of the Kansas City convention.
The platform declares against war tax
in time of peace, declares for parity of
gold and silver as currency, demands
abolition of all customs and tariff du
ties between Porto Rico and the United
States, condemns trusts and monopolies
and entangling alliances, demands just
and liberal pension laws and election of
United States senators by the people
and favors the nomination of W. J.
Bryan.
The convention gave promise of be
ing very stormy, but ended quietly. The
particular feature of the convention
was the domination of affairs by ex
Senator Hill. The silver men profess to
.be satisfied with the result.
The democratic central committee to
night elected Frank Campbell chair
man. SCORES ROOSEVELT.
The convention was called to order at
11:5 by Frank Campbell, chairman of
the state central committee, who an
nounced the selection of John T. Nor
ton of Troy for temporary chairman.
Mr. Norton on assuming the chair
attacked the administration of Gov
ernor Roosevelt, saying in effect that he
had wo nhis way to the executive office
by false pretenses; that Instead of "do
ing his own thinking" the governor had
taken his orders from Senator Piatt.
At the conclusion of Mr. Norton's
speech the roll of delegates was called
and then the customary resolutions, in
cluding one providing for the reference
of all resolutions to a committee, were
Introduced and adopted.
The convention took a recess until 3
p. m.
It was an hour after the time set for
the reassembling of the convention
when Temporary Chairman Norton rap- j
ped for order. The committee on con-
tested seats reported in favor of the
sitting delegations from Allegheny and
Chautauqua counties. The committee
an permanent organization reported the
name of Eliot Danfortn for permanent
chairman.
DANFORTH APPLAUDED.
Mr. Danforth was constantly inter
rupted by applause, especially in his al
lusions to the Boers and America's lack
of aid. The mention of bimetallism as
an Issue created great applause. Allu
sions to Mr. Bryan caused a tumult of
hand-clapping and cheers. Mr. Danforth
Inished at 4:23 amid great applause.
LIST OF DELEGATES.
It was within fifteen minutes of the
time set for the close of the conven
tion by the lessers of the hall when
Senator McKee, chairman of the com
mittee on electors and delegates, enter
ed the hall. He presented his report
and when the name of Augustus Van
Wyck was read there was a storm of
hisses which the Tammany and Kings
county delegates vainly tried to drown
with applause.
The list, including district delegates,
was read also and the report was adopt
ed without a dissenting vote, as fol
lows: For delegates at large: David B. Hill
of Albany, Richard Croker of New
York, Edward Murphy of Renssalaer
and Augustus Van Wyck of Kings. Al
ternates: Frank Campbell, Seymour
Van Zandt, James Shevelln and Jacob
Ruppert.
The committee on resolutions report
ed the platform, which was adopted. Its
planks follow:
"While recognizing the fact that as
the nation grows older, new issues are
born of time and progress and old Is
sues perhaps, we Insist that the fun
damental principles of democracy which
have been so frequently approved by
the voice of the people must ever re
main as the best and only security for
the continuance of free government.
"We hold to the doctrine that public
taxation should not be Imposed for pri
vate purposes and adhere to the prin
ciple of a tariff for revenue only. We
are opposed to governmental partner
ship with protected monopolies and we
demand that Import duties, like other
taxes, should be Impartially laid.
"We assert our opposition to the con
tinuance of the war taxes In times of
peace.
NO MONEY QUESTION.
"We favor both gold and silver as the
standard money of the country, the
money of the constitution and of our
fathers each to be maintained at a
parity with the other In purchasing,
debt-paying power which has been the
steadfast stand of the democratic party
since the days of Jefferson, who declar
ed that 'the monetary unit must stand
on both metals.' Wc pledge our best ef
forts to continue the work of moae.ary
reform.
"We are opposed to that foreign ajel
Icy of the present administration, loss
monly known as 'imperialism,' whit Is
contemplates, in accordance with
ish theories and practices.
large standing armies for purpose of
subjugation, Impoverishes the people
with fast expenditures, creates horde
of officials to rule over people woo
should be permitted to rule themselves,
disregards the principles of the Dr-1
claration of Independence and materf
ally changes' the nature of our repnb
lican form of government. We earnest-'
ly protest against the wrong's, th
usurpations and suicidal follies Involv
ed in such an un-American policy.
There is no place for subject colonies
under the American flag. The constitu
tion does not contemplate the estab
lishment of colonial systems.
"We demand that our solemn ante
war pledges made by congress to Cnb
and to the world should be speedily
fulfilled In good faith, preserving; our
national integrity and honor.
"We maintain that the constitution,
follows the flag over every Integral part
of the United States, affording the la
habitants the protetion and benefits ot
its guarantees of life, liberty, and ha
beas corpus, freedom of speech, free
dom of the press, trial by jury and
form tariff laws.
NO RIGHT TO GOVERN.
"A -republican congress has no
right to establish or govern a terri
torial or a colonial system outside .
the constitution than It has to create)
a king. We demand that every part of
our possessions shall be governed ac
cording to American principles.
"Our plain duty is to abolish all cus
toms tariffs between the United State
and Porto Rico and give her preduct
free access to our markets. We con
demn President McKlnley and a I
lican congress for a flagrant
of this plain duty, for their hypocrisy
and inconsistency.
"We express our unqualified oppeet-
tlon to those immense combinatloae of.
capital commonly known as trusts.
which are concentrating and monopetlB
ing industry and business, crushing out.
independent concerns of limited means,
destroying competition, restricting; op
portunities for labor, artificially limit
ing production, raising prices and by .
reason of their alarming multiplication)
throughout the country are rapidly cre
ating a condition which is becoming; In
tolerable. 'These trusts and combinations ara
the direct growth of the policy of tasi
republican party, which has created.
and fostered them. It receive their
support and solicits and accept their
prodigal contributions to aid In It re
tention in power, incapacitated and. un
willing to abolish and destroy them or
even to properly regulate and costtrot
them.
"The necessary relief by legislation -
otherwise for the correction of these:
evils can only be received from their
opponents and not from their tools,, as
sociates and apologists.
SOLIDLY FOR BRYAN.
"The democratic party pledge 1 1 sell
that if Intrusted with power, in either
the state or nation, it will devote its
best energies to the relief of the p sepia
from these oppressive monopolies."
It declares for the "vigorous mainte
nance of the Monroe doctrine and em
presses opposition to any alliance wUb
any foreign government.
"The democracy of New York, favor
the nomination of William Jenninc
Bryan of Nebraska for president ot the
United States at the coming conven
tion, and the delegates selected by thi
convention are hereby instructed tot
unite with the democracy of the other
states of the union in making; uch
nomination, and we pledge the unfail
ing support of the democracy ot New
York to the platform adopted at awe hi
convention."
The convention adjourned at 6:55 p.nv
THE MISSOURI DEMOCRATS.
Try To Defeat Stone for National
Committeeman.
Kansas City, Mo. (Special.) A pro
tracted wrangle in the credentials com
mittee over ten contesting delegation
from St. Louis and three from. Kansas
City, blocked the deliberations ot th
Missouri state democratic convention.
that met here to name a fulL
ticket. In both instances It is a
test between police machine and antt-.
machine factions. The indications are
that the anti-machine men will win a.
majority of the seats. The committee
will probably remain in session all ot.
tonight. The committees out of the
way, the convention, It is believed, wltf
finish its work promptly. The resolu
tions will more than likely indorse Bryw
an and reaffirm the platform of 1IML
and condemn imperialism and trust.
The only important feature of the day
was the rumored effort of National
Committeeman William J. Stone's one
mies to block his way, both to
(nation as national committeeman
delegate at large to the national
ventlon, with the Idea of getting?
out of the race to succeed United I
Senator Vest in 1903.
At the evening session the credential
committee was still not resdy to report,
and the convention adjourned prnptly
until 9:30 tomorrow morning. The -mlttee
was In the midst ot a wrangle
that may las tall night. The sent! meat
favors the seating of the anti-
delegates, but the police crowd
making a hard fight.
As President McKlnley will be k.
Canton, O., on the Fourth of July, j
para Hons for a big festival are beta
made, and Governors Roosevelt
Nash, Senators Hanruj and Foraner,
and Admiral Dewey have been InvltaO
to iW present.
