The Forrest City times., 1899-08-25
THE ISSUES OF 1896.
w. ]. Bryan Says the Chicago Plat
form Will Stand.
The silver Champion Addresses the
Democrats of Iowa mt Des
Moines Republicans
Arraigned.

William j. Bryan was in great ue
mand at the state democratic conven-
ton, Des Moines, on the 10th. He spoke
to an audience of 5000 persons in the
Auditorium, and then delivered Sec
ond address to 1000 more in the taber-
nacle. His remarks were thoroughly
in line with his earlier declarations and
with the position taken by the state
central committee and the party man
ayers. who are anxious to reunite the
party if possible by throwing overheard
sixteen to one.
Mr.. Bryan first reviewed the record
of the republican party, accusing IL OF
putting the dollar above the man. lie
then took up the silver question. saying
prosperity did not set in until six
months after the election, when the
Klondike gold mines began to be heard
from.
1.-The republicans who claim that times
are better because the balance OF trade is I'D
favor of the United States" he said, give
away their own position and admit the
democratic view of the qua initiative char-
acter of money is correct The financiers OF
England control the English government,
through England the rest of Europe. ana
through Europe the United States
1.-The 6,5000G0 democratic voters OF the
party in 1896 were for silver. The 1900
600 republican voters were for pat
form which called for international bl-
metallism. Only the Palmer and Buekner
voters were for the gold standard-less
than one per cent.-yet now the Iowa repup-
lican platform goes a step farther ana is
mainly for gold alone. Moreover, the re-
publicans threaten to retire the greenbacks,
though they have never been before the
people on that issue"
The speaker next went after the
trusts. The money trust, he said, is the
biggest trust of all. He was glad the
travelling men were fighting the indus
trial trusts now, but sorry they had not
seen the logic of events in 1896 and
helped to fight the money trust then.
1.-The men who make trust speeches and
applaud Item" he asserted. 'are bankers
A new danger of the trusts has just been de-
veloped When trust gets control of all
the factories in a given line and the hanus
in one factory strike the trust will close
that one establishment and make its goods
at the others. When the workmen at that
place are starved to the point of working
for any wages offered that factory will be
reopened and lockout to reduce wages Will
be inaugurated at another factory
Mr.. Bryan closed by lengthy dis
cussion of imperialism.
"The difference" he said. between re-
public and an empire is this: republic
needs an army of %, coo for 100000 people.
An empire needs four times that large an
army when 10000. 900 population is added.
This suits the young men who get rat JOBS
in the army, but not the people who pay the
81 800 year needed to maintain each SOL
der in the Philippines
Mr.. Bryan gave figures to show that
England and other nations do not col.
onize rapidly, and added:
with 20 people to the square mile in
America and 60 to the mile in the Philip
pines, there is no opportunity there. Even
If we succeed in killing off all the natives
you cannot get young Americans 10 go
there. They prefer to live in Iowa and Ne
braska The profit will not equal the cost
and the profit will not go to the right peo-
pie. but to investment syndicates. Even
Il any man is willing to trade for pottage
and does not have taste for birthright he
had better investigate the pottage.
"As the Tagals are largely Christians and
our native allies are largely Mohammedans
we ought to ask the sultan to help US to sub
due the Christian Insurgents.
This government ought to make a dec
| laration of good intentions toward the
| Philippines. as it did toward Cuba. The
| president ought to have done so. or If he
| did not have the power should have asked
congress for It, Now he might call spe-
cial session to ask for the power. Cleveland
| called a special session to repeal the Sner-
man act and Mckinley called one. A spe-
| cial session now would cost much money,
| but not nearly so much as the continuance
| OF the war.