Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-08-20

Il people who love government VINO rec
ognize its necessity, and stand ready to
much we may differ with those VINO for
the time being may. under the forms of
law, make, decide or execute our laws.
sustain them in authority until we can
change them and make them to accede
to our purposes. 1t shows the capacity OF
our people for self-government. 1t is the
best evidence that we are a people that can
be trusted on large matters as well as
small to do those things which are neces-
sary.
IT have an abiding faith in the love of
country, and in the honest purpose Of the
American people to secure that which is
best. We differ very much; we wrangle.
we quarrel, we present our views with all
the ability and all the vieor that we have.
but yet when it is all done We bow to the
Will Of the majority. GApplause.1
Most Interesting Campaign.
I'VE are entering upon campaign which
will exceed in interest and intensity any
campaign through which we have passed.
/ see before me the faces of young men
young men who, like myself, have grown
up since the war. We have been fighting
those war questions, and too OFTEN the DIT
terness OF quarter of a century ago has
fingered 10 cloud our Judgment and to
darken our understanding. But we have
reached a new era. We have come upon
a period when all war questions are set
tied. and when the people come face to
face with great Industrial problems: when
people come face to face with great eco
must. if 1t remains before the public long,
be based upon economic truths and every
economic question is at last moral Ques-
ton, a question OF right or wrong, and no
question has ever been settled until it has
Teen settled upon the basis of what is
right.
Thomas Jefferson never said a truer
thing than when he said that the art of
government is the art of being honest,
and that to discern right from wrong re-
quires not the help of many counselors.
a ri o. 'fDkaCr ~ If fOh
and wrong are easily observed. and that
is why the people are competent to settle
every question that can arise in govern
ment like ours.
Not Too Deep for the People.
land when / find people who say that
this is great question, a complicated
question. as they say the money question
is. I filid that they conclude by saying
that they have made a study of comDlicat-
ed questions. [Laughter.l When L see
person who says it is 100 deep for The peo-
pie find some one who says it is just about
deep enough for him. Applause and
1aughter.1 No question is too deep for the
american people lgreat applauSel, and TO-
C00,eD0 people, acting great jury, must
finally decide, and they alone can decide
every public question. [Applause.]
Il read the other day in little pamphlet
sent by some OF the advocates of the gold
standard, who call themselves advoca ties of
sound money! and 1t contained this para
graph, that all of the financierS and ca t-
to express an opinion on the subject, are
in favor of the gold standard IGreat ap-
plause and 1aughter.] 1t first appeared
III an article in the Forum, written by
distinguished Frenchman, and was then
reproduced and scattered over the coun-
try literature by the advocates of the
gold standard, and, therefore, we must
suppose that it expresses their idea that
only capitalists and t1nanciers are COM
potent to express opinion upon this
subject. And they are not slow to ex-
and patriotism of all the rest of the peo-
pie, whom they would exclude from par
ticipation in the settlement of this Ques-
ton" [Great applause and laughter
A Voice-But they can't do it.
Each Man che Best Judge.
Mr.. Bryan-My friends, 1 believe that
each man, whether he be high or low, rich
or poor, is the best judge of the effect of
any proposition upon himself. [Great ap-
rlause.] And he alone has the right to
say how his vote shall be cast and on
which side his influence shall be thrown.
My friends, 1t is the principle of the bSoad-
est democracy that these questions must
be settled by the common people, and
that this government has never created
a particular class to legislate for others.
Tremendous applause.] When say that
no man can accuse me of attempting to
Ceny the capitalist or the financier the
right to have his views and to have his
opinion, and express that opinion, L sim
ply deny to him the exclusive right to
the right to act for anybody but himself.
tGreat applause.l
I'VE stand upon the declaration con-
tanned in that immortal document penued
by the greatest constructive statesman
the world has ever seen, the Deciar atiOn
of Independence. [Applause.] We stand
upon the proposition therein laid down,
and would apply those propositions to
every act of the legislature as proposed.
That declaration says all men are Gre
ated equal Ggreat applause]. and chal-
lenge you to search the constitution,
founded upon that acknowledgements it
il you will, and point to q single sentence
that gives to any class of society superior
rights or privileges to any other class of
society. Applause and cheers.1
Not Preaching New Doctrine.
'tNow, my friends, we are not preaching
q new doctrine; we are not preaching new
idea. We are simply asserting that the
principles that underlse this government
should apply to new conditions they
arise, and that you can find out what ought
to be done by measuring every proposed
public act ny the propositions contained III
the Declaration of independence and by the
provisions of the constitution which is
based upon that declaration. That is all
we ask. We simply mean this, that legiS-
laIive government shall know no diStinc-
ton, that there shall be known by gov
eminent no difference between men be-
cause of BIRTH because of position in so
ciety. because of the manner in which
they worship God. [Long and continued
appIause.l That is the substance of the
declaration. That is the substance of the