| Show TAMMANY AND TRUSTS new york politicians listen to a fourth of july oration devoted to the octopus key note of the campaign cry of eastern democrats for the presidential election approaching heard today in tammany hall new york july 4 the fourth was celebrated here under glorious weather conditions with much noise merrymaking a profusion of flags and excursions cur and sports of all kinds it was stated that there was more fireworks sold and more excursion boats running than on any previous independence day and therefore the police and fire departments expected to have more than their usual troubles tammany hall celebrated with formal exercises la the wigwam ex con gressman asher G caruth of kentucky the orator of the day said in part after speaking of the day then being celebrated throughout the union and the lesson taught by the declaration of independence mr caruth announced his allegiance to the principles of that great document the character of american liberty and sounded a note of warning against any departure from the theories of government therein contained proud as he was of the glorious achievements of our army and navy he would think that those victories were dearly purchased it they had to be paid for by a departure from the fundamental ideas on which the union had been formed and had grown fio great and mighty he thought the doctrine of human liberty announced in the declaration of independence which jefferson wrote and adams advocated voca ted intended for all time and he stood ready to say with the latter sink or swim live or die survive or perish I 1 am for the declaration it Is my ing sentiment and by the blessing of god it shall be my dying sentiment independence now and independence forever he announced alg ab horence to the theory of the monroe doctrine and his opposition to imperialism in speaking of the territory acquired under ohp treaty of paris he expressed regret at the acquisition of the philippines but trusted that when the flag floated in peace over those possessions we would with wise statesmanship regulate the affairs in those far away isles of the pacific so that the people would be learned the blessings of self govern ment and could be entrusted with the management of their own affairs coming down to and speaking of the issues of the campaign of 1900 mr caruth said lies in our rear 1900 is in front of us it Is useless tor us to talk of the causes of the defeat in 1896 wo know that we cast nearly more democratic votes than were ever given to our candidate for president before and yet we lost everything that human ingenuity could contrive every expedient which desperation could suggest were used in arder to corrupt the franchise and secure the presidency of the republic it is not necessary to particularize but the people in the union seemed to live in ohio where one out of every thres of the population was a voter in 1896 a proportion startling previously unheard of and grossly untrue take old kentucky my state which gave bryan in 1896 two hundred and seventeen thousand votes to one hundred and seventy five thousand votes given cleveland in 1892 an increase of forty two thousand and yet in 1892 we carried the state by forty thousand and lost it by two hundred and eighty one thousand in 1896 it was the desperate efforts on the part of the and corporate powers of this country to accomplish the defeat of the will of the people by false clamar and tailing in that by false count but 1896 lies in the and no regret tence or repining can bring it back again let us cease to lament tor that we cannot aly and study help tor that which we lament 1900 is before us and to that must turn for succor THE ISSUES IN 1900 we cannot men of tammany expect that six million five hundred thousand of this country will ignore the principles tor which they cast their suf frages leaa than three abort years ago although defeat came to them democrats over this country believe or at least a majority of them believe and democracy is but the will of the majority that the platform laid down in chicago in states the cardinal doctrines of the democratic faith and on that platform they propose to fight the platform of 1900 although you may not be in thorough accord with the principles of faith therein enumerated those principles are so far better and so much more preferable to those of the republican party that I 1 believe the people will rally around our standard and carry it to triumphant victory THE TRUSTS but ithell la one issue said clr caruth which haa become more permanent la the years that have gone since than it was when the great popular convention assembled in chicago and constructed the democratic platform and upon that subject we must speak in no uncertain voice in 1900 the evil of which we complain is the natural offspring off spring of the miscall ed american policy or the republican party the evil is upon us because as a nation we have been false to the principles of equality proclaimed in the declaration of independence it is because we have not given equal rights to all men and exclusive privileges to no man we fostered manufacturers and encouraged infant industries until warmed into life and strength they have turned to strike with their poisonous stings the generous bosom which nourished them all through a life extensive coextensive co with the life of the republic democracy has sounded a warning to the people yet inch by inch step by step the so called doctrine of protection has advanced its advocates won their way by insidious pleas and false representations but nov conscious of strength they bodily throw off the mask and demand protection tor protections sake on the floor of the houfak of representatives senta tives ot the united states in the session at which both the mckinley tariff bill and the antitrust anti trust measure were passed I 1 beard the hon william L allson a democratic leader a thoughtful and scholarly student 0 public affairs warn the country that the mckinley bill would be a brooder of trusts and combines ha said la illustration of the danger 1 I remember an old rhyme which runs something like this 1 I heard a lion in the lobby roar pray mr speaker shall be eliut the door and keep him there or shall we let him in to try it we can turn him out again this la your position in regard to trusts instead of keeping ithe lion out brother mckinley comes opening the door and says let him in and then we are going to chase him around and try to get him out again the republicans not only opened the door but they coaxed mm in and pleased with his quarters be has stayed in and become more fierce terrible and destructive than any lion ever was before A bright newspaper man out in minneapolis has given the brute a name he describes him as a species of the hippopotamus because that animal has the thickest of hides and the biggest of jaws and la the ugliest of all of goda creatures how noah and his family stayed in the same arch with 0 pair of them I 1 have never been able to understand he calls the beast the and says of it lookout ye merchant men all look out tor the who industries great and small and so big and fat cradles and coffins and babies milk oil sugar and raw newspaper print and the beldames bel dames milk all so to the monsters maw th gawdy protected industries of america first demanded a home market and this was secured by legislative under which the products 0 the manufacturers of other countries were kept out of the united states and foreign competition thus driven away and the home market secured we paid for this concession to tho favorite classes but the republican advocates said the consumer paid the tax that we were wrong that foreign manufacturers paid the tax and a majority of the dally newspaper press of tho union sustained this contention and cried down the democratic argument but when the practical question came homo to the newspaper people and the paper trust fostered by an un jus tariff raised the price of printing paper five to ten dollars per ton they pretty soon discovered who paid tle tax and one hundred and fifty seven newspapers in all sections of the country demanded tree paper and tree wood pulp because the tariff on these articles was as they had said a six million dollar tax on intelligence hence the newspapers joined the cry bust the trusts the tariff has driven out the foreign competition the trust has destroyed home competition and so we are at the mercy of the combines they lowered the price of raw material lessened the cost of production and raised the price of the finished product they have become the only purchasers and the only sellers they catch the american people coming and going competition which is said to be the life ot trade has been strangled to death monopoly reigns the robber hand of the trust Is at your throat and it Is demanding your money or your life there are three hundred and fifty three known trusts and more are daily organized the american people believe in paying fair prices for raw material and a just wage to the mechanic and working man and reasonable profits to the manufacturer and the merchant as a return on invested capital the time continued on fourth page TAMMANY AND TRUSTS continued from page one consumed the labor employed and the risk incurred but the trusts are not satisfied with this they demand more three billions of dollars worth of property in their hands Is by a single stroke of the pen doubled and becomes six billions and the american people are compelled to sustain out ot their pockets this artificial estimate Is it a wonder that they are rising in indignant wrath over the imposition and demanding a remedy expedients have been tried but in vain the so called federal antitrust anti trust law ot 1890 did not compass the death of the monster the legislatures ot thirty states find their antitrust anti trust laws useless something must be done we are told however that the suppression of trusts cannot be made the issue between the parties because both the great political organizations are the enemies of trusts sometimes to escape capture and punishment a person joins in the hue and cry and loudly calls stop thief when he himself is the actual perpetrator of the crime or accessory to abe act so it Is with the republican party in the matter of trusts think of ohio the homo of hanna the state of mc kanley denouncing trusts we are tod that the national convention of the republican party will be even more vehement than the temo cratic convention in abe denunciation of the wicked scheme of robbery of abe people by these combinations and combines but we can and will make the issue there is no hope of breaking down these things by abe aid of the republicans for they are the offspring off spring of the republican party bone of its bone and flesh of its flesh the american people bound hand and toot by the power of these trusts choso whoso existence Is made possible by the destruction of competition through unwise tariff legislation are struggling once more for freedom they are ready now to proclaim a new declaration they demand liberty liberty to buy and liberty to sell in open competitive markets they will not quit the smuggle gle under tho democratic banner they are determined ter mined to win the combined powers of wealth cannot stay teem the strength of monopoly cannot overpower them on the folds of their banner is inscribed words equal rights to all exclusive privileges to none the plain liberty loving people of this country following the example of their revolutionary ary sires are ready to pled geto the cause their lives their fortunes and their sacred honors they will meet without fear nie trust enriched republican hosts and the god of justice will give them the victory mr caruth spoke words of eulogy of william J dryan uhe great apostle of the plain people and referring to tammany said that her past loyalty is an earnest of her future course it matters not who is chosen leader she will be found in 1900 as she has always been found fighting the peoples fight she will not hang back when the cry of battle rings through the air lusty will be her war cry and deadly her onslaught the enemies of the people will find her tomahawk at their heads and around her wigwam will be hung the scalps of her slain the speaker forgot to say that trusts were only possible in prosperous times among the other speakers were james D richardson of tennessee norman E alack of buffalo thomas P grady of this city james ridgeway of brooklyn win E gourian of new jersey A gaston of pennsylvania and alvey holman of maine there was the usual musical pro gramme by the sixty ninth regiment band and tammany hall glee club the new york scottish celtic society the employed emp loyes of the metropolitan street railway the new york letter carriers association and many other organizations held picnics near the city about seventy sailors and marines of the united states cruiser brooklyn took a train for plainfield N J in the morning to participate in the fourth of july celebration at that place the casualties had begun as early as 8 in the morning when john heman 12 years old shot himself with a pistol and was taken to a hospital in a serious condition |
