Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-04-25

v cUIsiplla HAAaFNON Or
~ EoUALS RluHTD.
N Pionssr Psess: II Nj. Bryan
had any senss Of humor one might
Well suspect that he Is having lots
of fun with the boys in the I'm.
psrturbable GOODNESS with which
hesppropriates . distinctive prin.
ciples Of the Democratic party
those abstract truths Of the Dec.
laration cf Independence which
that party. has always repudiated
and Continues 70 rspudiate il all
Ire states whore it holds Sway. In
! speech e Chicago TO gathering
Of workingmen in honor Of Jefer.
son, he read from z speech of
Abraham Lincoln eulogisinr the
four great maxims 81 Republican
liberty laid down ii that declaration.
that allmenare equal, that they
are entitled to equal rights, that all
governments are created to secure
and preserve these rights, and that
governments derive their just
powers from the consent of the
governed" And he said Of Lin.
coin that he had wisely guessed
that the time might come when
some man or party or interest
might set up tho doctrine that
only rich men, or white men, or
only Anglo.S,xon white men are
entitled to these blessings" For
what reason was it that this Dem.
ocr.tic leader ignored the fact til It
when Lincoln spoke the time had
long since come when the Demo.
cratic party had set up the doctrine
that only white men were entitled
to the blessings Of liberty; that
Lincoln himself was a conspicuous
leader in the long battle against
ths attempts of the Democratic
party to fssten this pernicious
doctrine upon the politv Of the re.
public, ending in the secession and
rebellion of the Southern states,
with slavery as the corner stone of
the Confederacy; that it required
the expenditure Of thousands of
millions of treasure and oceans of
blood, under his wise leadership,
to overthrow the Democratic
oligarchy which was founded on
the DENIAL Of al the fundamental
principles of the Declaration Of
Independence and to secure the
abolition Of human slavery forever
il the United States of America!
For Whist reason was 1T that he
put Lincoln in the attitude Of
wisely guessing that y the time
might come when party might
set up the odious doctrine that
liberty was meant for white 9 men
only, when that party was already |
existent, in, full possession Of all
the powers of the government, and
defantly, in all the lnsolence Of
its strength, proclaiming that doc.
trlne not only in the South, but
everywhere in the North where.it.
had control! For what reason was
it that he ignored the fact that in
every one of the southern states
where the Democratic party (Mr.
Bryan's party) still holds sway,
that party (Mr. Bryau's party) has
been systematically engaged not
only in setting up the doctrine
that only white men are entitled
to the blessings Of political liberty,
but in setting up state govern.
ments based on that doctrinel In
every southern state where the
Democratic party holds undisputed
sway, or which cast it's electoral
vote for Bryan in 1896, the princi.
pies of the Declar alton of hide.
pendence have been erased from
their constitutions and statutes
and all their governments founded
on the doctrine that only white
men are entitled TO equal rights.
These Democratic state govern.