The record-union., 1899-09-08


products tonight at the Pavilion. The,
conclusion is irresistible that California
is great in its natural resources and IN
surprising beauties, but it is also great
in the Improvements added by the hand
of man.
''As 1 have viewed these wonders
and seen these evidences of thrift.
have asked myself how the State could
best become great. Your horses ana
cattle and hogs are great, but tits not
these that make a great State. 1t IS
far. from all these A States great
ness depends upon the greatness of its
people. I have wondered as I have
looked, whether all the people think
as much of their health as they do of
the health of hogs and COWS. 1t
seems to me safe to say that people
everywhere are Indifferent to the well
fare of their neighbors. I admit that
| there is limit to the Improvements
that are possible, for no one can cause
a spendthrift to hold property or give
to those of bad habits the happiness
that comes of right living, but there is
region where law can make changes,
| and it is in that region that human
foresight has play. Therefore, I in
vite your attention to some general
principles.
Il recently visited the great lakes of
| Wisconsin and that fair northern coun-
try, and l saw the summer homes of
the rich. / saw the owners of invisible
property and their children basking in
the sunlight of happiness, and l re-
| flected what a small portion of the
people of this fair country are able to
have summer vacations or summer
homes-and then the question came to
me, Is it just government where the
producers get so small a share of the
wealth they produce? And I ask you
whether you are doing all you can to
make the laws just and to place the
burdens of the Government where they
| belong?"
Mr.. Bryan next spoke for ten minutes
or more on the silver question, holding
that honest money was a great need of
| the country. His familiar arguments
were given full vent for some time,
with less directness and political bear
! ing than if he had been in hall
After arguing for stable dollars of n
! character "as honest as possible" he
approached the question of trusts, and
argued for Federal licenses and con-
| troll of all monopolies and trusts He
said that all private monopolies were
| bad, and that the people should con-
| troll all such aggressions on their rights
| as those levied by trusts. To prove
his contentious he read from the
speeches of Abraham Lincoln.
In conclusion, the speaker spoke bit
terly against the policy of this country
in the Philippines, saying that the
tyrannical rule there, the government
without consent of the governed, as he
/ called it, would result sooner or later
in tyranny here. He said he was not
arguing for the Filipinos, but for the
millions in this country. He said no
man who was for the present policy of
! conquest would ever dare make a
| Fourth of July grafton in this country.
! mo man and no government can lead
a double life if both lives are known"
! he said, land we cannot proclaim the
! Declaration of independence and the
doctrines Of liberty if we commit this
/ country to the cause of Imperialism"
/ In conclusion, he said:
'I deny the doctrine of so-called
/ manifest destiny, the argument of
| Kings and tyrants, the resort of narrow
men who refuse to reason. I denounce
/ the doctrine of manifest destiny tha.
/ makes a chicken thief OF every man
! who is placed near enough a hen roost
to reach the chickens
/ Il want to tell you that you cannot
| have an empire such as the nations of
! Europe have, unless you have a large
army to keep your subjects in constant
awe. want to tell you all that it
/ Will be easier to increase the army
/ from 100000 to 200 1000 than it was to
increase it from $4,000 to 100000. In
! 1896, $4,000 soldiers We're enough in
the regular army. And yet in De-
/ cember, 1893, a Republican President
asked for a standing army of 100000
men. What is the difference between
a republic and an empire? The differ
ence is that 25000 soldiers are enough
| for a republic with 10000, and it takes
/ 100000 soldiers for an empire with TO-
/ 100000 more. Who will pay the added
expense? 1t is estimated that this in
/ crease of 70, 900 soldiers, if they served
outside of the United States, will in
/ crease the expense of the Government
/ by more than hundred millions q
year. Who is to pay for it? The Fill
! pinos? Why, if we make them pay it.
we will have to tax them several times
as much every year as Spain ever did
in the heat of her tyranny And, if
! we do that, how will the Filipinos
know what a blessing it was to have
| lost Spain and got us? If we do not
make the Filipinos pay it, who will
pay it? You say, the American people,
/ Yes, the American people-the taxpay
| ers among the American people You
| want an English standing army. but
! you are not willing to have an English
! income tax with which to pay your
standing army. You want an English
colonial policy, but you are not willing
to have an English income tax to
/ support it. You want English ideas,
/ you want an English financial system,
you want an English army system and
an English colonial system, but you
want to make the poor people Of this
country pay 1t, while the syndicates
reap all the benefit.
/ hear it said that we must be a
| world Power, and they call us diminu-
! tive Americans because we do not ac-
/ cept their idea Of world Power. Why,
| if they only knew it, this nation has
/ been a world Power for a hundred
! years. For more than ten decades
| this nation has exerted an influence