Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-08-17
BIG AUDIENCE HEARS BRYAN.
silver, Trusts and Expansion Dis
tussed i'm His Address.

silver, Trusts and Expansion Dis
cusscd in His Address.
Dcs Moines, la. Aug. 17.-William
. Jennings Bryan spoke for two hours
AZ the auditorium last night to an
audience of 400 people, The house
Mas crowded and the audience. which
Included practically all the delegates
10 tho democratic state convention,
look every opportunity TO applaud.
dr. Bryan first reviewed the record of
he republican party. accusing it of
putting. the dollar above the man. He
hen took up the silver question, say
in@ prosperity did not set in until six
months after the election, when the
lNlondiSe gold mines began to be heard
from The republicans who claim that
times are better because the balance
nf trade is in favor Of the United
States, give away their own position
md submit the democratic view of the
luanttative character of money is cor
rect. The finarcicrs OF Eng and con
troll the English government. through
England the rest of Europe, and
through Europe the United States.
The $500, 900 democratic votes of the
democratic party i'm 1896 were for sill
yer. The 100000 republican votes
were for Il platform which called for
international bimetallism. Only The
Palmer and luc>npr votes Were for
the gold standard less than l per cent
yet now the Iowa republican plat
form goes step farther and IS plainly
eor gold alone Moreover. the republic
"ans threaten to retire the green
nDf
before the people on that issue.
the speaker next went after the
trusts. but said if the democratic
party neglected the silver question
to attack trusts ii would right
ly forfeit 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 he logic of events
in 500 and helped to fight the money
trust then. The men who make trust
speeches and applaud them are bank
ers. n 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 factory
strike, the trust will close that one es,
Enlistment and make its goods at the
Others. When the workmen at that
place are starved to the point of works
ing for any wages offered that factory
will he opened and lockout to reduce
wages will be inaugurated at another
factory.
Mr.. Bryan closed his speech by q
lengthy discussion of imperialism. The
difference, he said, between a republic
and am empire is this: A republic
needs an army of $4,000 for T0,000,0oG
people; an empire needs four times
that large an army when 100000
population is added This suits young
men who get fat jobs i'm the army. but
not the people who pay the Sl.500 a
year needed to maintain such soldiers
in the Philippines. Mr.. Bryan gave
figures 10 show that England and 9TH
rr nations do not COLOMBO rapidly and
said that with twenty people to the
square mile and sixty to the mile in
the Philippines, there is no opportu-
nifty. Even if we succeeded 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 pco-
pie, but to Investment syndicatcs. Even
if any man is willing to trade for pot
tage and does not have taste for
birthrights, he had better investigate
the pottage. As the Tagals arc largely
Christians and our native allies arc
largely Mohammedans, we ought 10
ask the sultan to help us subdue the
Christian insurgents.
This government ought to make a
declaration of good intentions toward
the Philippines, as it did toward Cuba
The president ought to have done 50,
or if he did not have the power, should
have asked congress for it. Now he
might call a special session to ask COR
the power. Cleveland called Il SPECIAL
session to repeal the .Shernan act and
Mckinley called one. \ special ses-
sion NOW would cost much money. but
not nearly so much as the continu-
ancc of the war