Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-20
w. j. BRYAN ON THE ISSUES
LARGE AUDIENCE HEARS DEMO-
CRATIC LEADER.
Nc Holds to 10 to rs Primary Article
of the Democratic Faith-Insists Fill
ipinos he Given Independence
Opposes Trusts.

DES MONIES, august l1.-At the
auditorium last night Mr.. Bryan spoke
rs follows:
IT am grateful to Father Nugent for
the kindly words with which he has
presented me to this audience. am
glad OF the religious character of the
+ audience. which is manifested by the
fact that some of our Methodist breth-
rem say amen to his sentiments.
CHEERS and laughter) When you get
down deep enough for bed rock princt-
Piles, you can bring all the churches
and all the denominations together in
accord with a sentiment that makes all
men kin. And in this great conflict. we
are reaching bed rock. esteem 1t
great privilege to speak to this great
audience; to see the people thus mani
fest their interest in principles that
were declared dead in 1895. i want to
bring announcement to you. There Is
no more doubt of our ultimate triumph
than OF tomorrow's sunrise. l believe
this because 1 believe in the intelli-
gence and the patriotism of the Amer
& ican people, and in the omnipotence OF
truth. (Applause.S II We are right. We
will win When it went against us in
1896. believed we were right and would
yet triumph; and II we were wrong. 1t
was best that we should have failed.
O6IleSG lUdI lHG SOou SlSiLch 0SSASS SiS
triumph OF that which Is true. rather
than of that which he believes to be
true No republican can more earnestly
rejoice in my defeat than l will do, IL
ne will prove to me that my defeat was
for the good Of the country. / say 1t
selfishly. for am going to live here for
some time yet (laughter) For the
benefit OF some republican newspapers
that have been given to announcing
- In
unless get away from my present
plans, / will be here some years to.
come. The good of the country should
be the good of the whole country. and
of the whole plain people. not of the
men who hold the postoffices and the
positions.
+ ''If we are right, we will succeed. And
events are vindicating the position of
our party in 1896. More than that: /
believe that every plank in the Chicago
platform was right (applause): I be-
lieve that every plank in that platform
is now right; and 1 believe every plank
will be right in 1900. (Great applause.)
That platform did not deal with tenn
porary questions. 1t applied the prin-
ciples laid down by Thomas Jefferson
to the problems before the country.
The republican party, since its VIC
tory. has not solved one of them. Cap
plause.) No, not one. Its conduct has
only brought into holder light the iniq-
uity that characterizes every dealing
of that party.
"The Dollar Above the Man,
81 will take as my text the statement
that the republican party is putting
the dollar above the man. This is the
very antithesls of the republication of
Abraham Lincoln. Why, in 1855, when
1t was first organized. the founders of
the republican party appealed to the
people to take the government back to
the principles OF washington ana Jer-
ferson! Today, you would think from
its policies that Alexander Hamilton
was the patron saint of the republican
party. But when it was organized, 1t
appealed to Jefferson and to Washing
ton, In 1859 the republicans of Boston
were celebrating the birthday of JEFF
ferson. Think of republicans celebrat-
ing 1.-The birthday of Jefferson! Abra-
( ham Lincoln was invited to be present,
and in expressing his regrets he l..id to
Jefferson as high an encomium as
can pass upon him; and to be Jefferson
Is to be the greatest statesman the
world has produced. Mr.. Lincoln sad
that the republican party believed in
the man and the dollar; in case of con-
i flict, ii believed in the dollar before
the man. As president. he called at.
tention to what he feared as the APP
preach of returning monarchy, In the
attempt to place capital on an equal
footing with or above labor. II I were
TO say that today. what would they
call me? Demagogue, would be the
mildest term. Yet Lincoln said 1t. and
II he was alarmed then, what would be
his alarm today IL he could see capital
enthroned and labor debased by every
policy of the republican party? A bad
principle will manifest itself till the
majority will see It. This one has NAH
M eon thst q s Ss So All d Rpt i
IT.. And we have learned good deal
since 1896.
The Income Tax.
"Our platform declared for an In
come tax. I believe in it now: l be-
lieved in 1t then. When one Judge, by
i changing his mind. rendered unconsti-
tutional a law similar TO one that
Few years before had been sustained
BY the full court, believed II right.
And believe 1t right now. until such
time as the constitution can be so
amended that not one Judge, or nine
judges. can build bulwark about The
fortunes of the rich. tApplause.)
used to quote Justice Brown of Mich
gan-I am so cautious. that when l am
going to say anything particularly
strong. 1 like to quote somebody else
as saying IT.; and when am quoting /
like to quote republicans-and he said:
i fear that in some hour of national
peril this decision will rise to paralyze
the strong arm of The government.
Yet there were those who did moi see
It. The honr of national peril came;
the time when war was upon the ma
ton. We could not use the income tax.
like Great Britain, for our Angloman-
iacslthave borrowed everything that
was bad from England. but left all
that was good. We could not employ
the Income tax, as England does. to
Tense out Of their Abundance. The re-
publican party demands great stand
Ing army, a great navy. an imperial
policy, but 1t cannot tax the rich to
provide them. 1t becomes necessary to
look about us to see what we can put a
stamp on! ! find the things every day
on which we can put them. If l want
TO send telegram. l pay the same
price for the message that l always
did, and then pay tax of one cent
( toward the benevolent assimilation of
the Filipino. daughter and applause.)
The law was SO drawn that it might be
construed to allow the telegraph COM
pany to shift the burden of that tax to
the back of the man who sent the tele-
gram Why? Because the telegraph
company had more influence with the
republican party than all the men who
vote Its ticket. We all see 1t now.
II remember in 1896 after We mad
adopted our platform and opened our