The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-21
col. BafAx STILL TALKING.

Col. Bryan is stlll eating and talking.
Jeffersonan banquet In New York
Wednesday evening, where he was the
chief speaker, il Is noticeable that he
had nothing to say about free silver.
which in the West rs his chief topic.
but confined himself Ia Thomas Jeffer-
son and anti-expansion. During his
speech be commented upon Coy. Roose
velt's Chicago address as follows:
"a distinguished citizen of the nation
spoke. not long age OF the strenuous life
and applied his idea 10 Il policy that
sives this nation an opportunity To NO
forth with muaket and with cannon and
carry It's ideas by force Ia other nations.
| thank God that peace in this country
gives an opportunity for ali the strenu-
ous life of the people. If we but begin
"a apply 10 eur daily conditions the prin-
eipies which we all accept. theories which
se will no. contradict. there is room
enough for wa.k for several generations
10 come"
No nigh school orator ever deal. in
cheaper piasit,des than these They
are applicable 10 any age, To any peo-
pie and 10 any country. Demosthenes
the same sentiments in an address {,
the Athenlans. Compare this twaddle
with the wolds OF the speaker whom
he erltic.ses.
we cannot sat badaIsd within our hoF-
dsrs and asow ourselves merely an as
sembiaEe % wsll-to-do hneksteTs. who
care neihins for what happens beyond
SUCH Il soitcy would defeat even its own
end FOR as the nations grow TO have
ever wider and wider Interests and are
hraARht into closer and closer contact.
Il W. are 10 held ear own In tbs struggle
for naval Rna commercial supremacy We
must bui,d M Our power without our own
borders. We must buii9l the ,sthnian ca
nal, and ~e .uust grasp the points Of
vantage which will enable Va te have oar
say in deciding the destiny OF the oceans
of tbs East and The West
The twentieth century looms before as
biz with the fate Of many nations let
Us therefore boldly face ihe llfe 81 Nfrtte.
ssaalute go 81 our duty well an3s anaag,ll-
Is, resoIu'c 20 upheld righteousness rs
deed an4 ny w9Yd. reSalnse 80 be- both
honest sad brave. 20 serve nleh ideals
Yet 10 use practical methods Above all
let us shrink ffetn uo strife moral or pAx-
steal. Within or without the Nation pro-
vided are certain that th, strife +.
Justified; fer r. r. onlv through Strife
through BARD asa dangerous snaeavar.
,has We sAall ultimately wia she ssai ~
trac national greatness"
Coy Roosevelt addresses himself :,
tie conditions which exist today and
which the nation is facing az thgs mo-
nent. Tie does Hot ;heorlxe bat al.
Nises action. The distinguishing char
aetettsilc between the two orators "a
contained ia tbe words u Coy Rcos...
Neit wheo Die uggv~ hls hearers 20 ~er> 2,
a'gh ideals. &c* "a use practical N tn.
o'iS col BFs ar IS ever altering plsts-
spt'es abou, hiKh ideals. bat never SUE
Sestiug practical ulethsslx H. sel hss
audience that they sepudia,e ls.sh LIN
cein ANA Jefferson when they ,iea..r.
fFon tbs Declaration Of inaepe 3erc~.
AMI thsy >r1t Themselves heagxr In a.
rlsodins the sentiment. >et rst ane =
ilsesn. ls questioned ceul8 ;eW WHAT be-
Is yelling about
NJ Egsu s. r~ce{>sur as arear az
ovation froga h3s asuissees l4 <sv york
az 3ta Gey Roosevelt; 1n 5hr wast ~
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