The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-08-16
BRYAN At DES MONIES.
Addresses a Large Audience Pre-
vious to the State Convention,
DON'T WANT SILVER NEGLECTED

Goes For tho Trusts. but Says the
Money Trust l. the biggest OF All.
Imperialism Also Comes In For
Few Hard knocks.
Des Moines. Aug. 16.-William Jen-
nings Bryan spoke for two hours at
the Auditorium last night to an audi
ence Of $500 people Mr.. Bryan first
reviewed the record Of the Republican
party. accusing II Of putting the dol
lar 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.
The 6.500.000 Democratic voters Of
the Democratic party in 1895 were for
silver The 100000 Republican voters
were for a platform which called for
international bimetallism. Only the
Palmer and Buckner voters were OF
the gold standard--less than one per
cent. Yet now the Republicans go
step further and are mainly for gold
alone Moreover, the Republicans
threaten to retire the greenbacks
though they have never been before
the people on that Issue.
The speaker next went after the
trusts, but said If the Democratic
party neglected the silver question to
attend to trusts 1t would rightly for
felt the confidence of the people The
money trust is the biggest trust of all
He was glad the travelling men were
fighting the industrial trusts now, but
sorry they had not seen the logic Of
events in 1896 and helped TO fight the
money trust then. The men " . make
trust speeches and applaud them are
bankers. A new danger of the trusts
has Just been developed. When trust
gets control OF all the factories in a
given line and the hands In one fac
tory 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 a lockout
| to reduce wages will be lnaugurated at
another factory.
Mr. Bryan closed his speech by a
| lengthy discussion of imperialism. The
| difference, he said, between a republic
| and an empire Is this: "a republic
needs an army of 25,OO0 for 10000, 900
| people. An empire needs four times
| that large an army when 10000, 900
people is added. This suits the young
men who get fat jobs in the army, but
not the people who pay the $1,000 a
! year needed TO maintain the soldier in
! the Philippines" Mr.. Bryan gave
figures to show that England and other
nations do not colonize rapidly and
said that with 20 people to the square
mile in America, and so to the mile In
the Philippines, there is no opportunity
there Even If we succeed in killing off
all the natives. you cannot get young
Americans to go there-they prefer to
live in Iowa and Nebraska The profit
will not equal the cost. and the profit
will not go to the right people, but Ia
investment syndicates. Even If any
man is willing to trade for pottage
and does not have a taste for birth.
right, he had better investigate the
pottage. AS the Tagals are largely
Christians and our native allies are
largely Mohammedan, we ought tC
ask the sultan of Sulu to help us sub
due the Christian insurgents.