The San Francisco call., 1898-12-24

their cordial welcome and commitment ing the members of his regiment he lus1hed his resignation as follows:
 l had five months of peace in the army ana resigned in order 70 take part in a HBnt- am as much interested in the people Of the United States as I am in rha peopIe IT Cuba, and, unless am mistaken m Judglng. We are called upon to meet more important problems in the United states Just now than VIII confront o11I. army in Cuba.
 some of these problems were under dis Gusslon before hosulities began. others have been thrust upon us as s resuI+ of the war Let me improve this. my first opporCu to assure you that my zeal Tor the reforms advocated a few v7Cr+5- ago has not in the least abated Vi+aI questions cannot be killed or buried and We were dealing with vital Questions when the call to arms resOUndad through the land
 The American people have 1ot sccan+s5 the gold standard as final. It has wrought more injustice in our country during tha last Twenty-Five years than Spain has ton to 1t will grow until the gold and silver coinage Of the constitution Is fully restored The trusts which now flourish n dedance Of law are more mercfIess than Weyler was and the new tr1Ist-tIa paper money trust which is seeIef1e ro ootain control of all the paper money of the nat-on-is greater menace to the country's welfare than any foreign foe
 There are however two new o17as+fo-,. mat demand immediate attention because congress IS asked to act upon them at once he President recommends that me regular army be permanently in must be met now or not at alI
 Taking up the subject of imperialism. Bryan said that the President u1fsin terpreted the sentiment of the people.
 
 Philippine Islands k to Spain. but they have not as yet feclared in favor or embarking upon q colonial policy. 50 great change, he said. could not De undertaken without more fnvestfga- ton and deliberation than the people mad yet give nto the subject The prin- cIpal part of Bryan's speech was devoted to the Philippine question. III thlS connection he referred to Presf- dent McKfnley's inquiry, Who will haul down the fag?" and replied:
 The flag is national emblem. and Is opedlent 10 the national will IL is made Tor the people. not the people for inc nag When the American people want the,. tRe lag raised they raise 1t; when tney tt want - It hauled down they haul IL down The flag was raised upon Ca hadlan soil during the war of 1872 and it was hauled down when peace was re- stored The flag was planted upon Che
 
 It was hauled down when the war was over. The morning papers announce that General Lee ordered the flag hauled down in Cuba yesterday because 1T was ra1saJ too soon. The flag will be raised in S'1Ihe again on the lst of January. but the President declares in his message that IT WlI pc hauled down as soon as a stable government Is established. Who will de- ny to the people the right to hauI inc flag down in the Philippines if they SO desire when stable government Is es- tablished there2
 Our flag stands for an indissoIubla union Of fndestructible States. Exerv State is represented by a star. and every Territory sees in the constitution a star oL nope that Will some day take it's place III the constellation What is there in the flag to awaken the zeal or raise the aspirations Of vassaI colonies which are too good to cast away. but not good enough to be admitted to the sisterhood of States?
 Shall we keep the Philippines and amend our flag? Shall we add a new star the blood star, Mars-to indicate that we have entered upon a career of con quest? Or shall we borrow the yellow. which in 1896 was the badge of gold and greed, and paint Saturn and his rings to suggest carpetbag government, with it's schemes of spoliatiou2 Or shall we adorn our flags with milky way composed of a multitude of minor stars renrasar ti,,e- remote and insignificant dependencfes9
 No, a thousand times better to haul down the stars and stripes and substf- tute the nag or an independent republic than to surrender the doctrines that give glory to 'Old Glory" It was the flag of our fathers in the years that are gone: 1t is the flag Of a reunited country to- day. Let it be the flag of our nation in the years that are to come. Its stripes of red tell of the blodod that was shed to purchase liberty; its stripes of white proclaim the pure and heaven born pJIr- pose of a government which derives it's just powers from the consent of the gov erned- The mission Of that flag is to float not over a conglomeratiOn of com monwealths, but over "the land of the free and the home of the brave" and to that mission 1t must remain forever true-forever true.
 Colonel Bryan's speech was the only one of length at the reception.