Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-01-19

Denver. ian. 1S.-wm. ]. Bryan de-
livered two addresses here yesterday,
one to the Legislature In Joint session
and another at the Coliseum TO the
general public. An immense crowd was
present on the latter occasion. Mr..
Bryan was Introduced by Governor
Thomas and took for his subject. ma
both's Vineyard He spoke In part
rs follows: a- f.is-.ssls s,t5.,'
Before addressing myself to the
subject which have chosen for this
evening, l want TO bring you some
words Of encouragement. Sometimes
1t was thought that 1t was necessary
for the people IN the mountains to
bring down encouragement to those who
lived upon the plains. and l want to
bring you n word of encouragement
and tell you that the discussion of I'M
perialism az present. immediate ques-
ton, does not mean that the people
have lost Interest In other questions.
II am one OF those who believe that
II takes the American people to settle
thing that neither u President nor a
Congress can settle. tApplause.) And
when people say that the last election
settled the money question. l point to
the fact that In the last election the
bcuocfutiCf puTty, tue IopuiSt purity
and the Free Silver Republican party
all three OF these parties-declared that
the gold standard was wrong. and that
the Republican party. instead OF de-
claring the gold standard to be right.
pledged itself to get rid of the gold
standard by constituting international
bimetallism. SO that when the vote
was counted 13,5OO.O0O people voted
for the double standard as against the
gold standard: and deny the right of
any man to say that the people OF this
country are In favor of gold stand
ard until there is an election when the
people themselves declare In favor of
the gold Standard as against the double
standard. Applause.) 1857 -is. .
Not only is free silver right-bimetal-
!ism good, but 10 to remains the only
issue at which bimetnllisn is possible.
Hut, my friends. that Is only one part
Of our platform. We pointed out that
conspiracy was on foot to retire the
greenbacks. the Republicans said,
that Is impossible: they pointed to the
Presidents letter of acceptance. In
which he declared that the Republican
party would keep In circulation. as
good as gold. all the silver and paper
money then In the circulation of the
country, and they said there was no In
tention on the part of the Republican
party to retire the greenbacks. But
Just as soon as the election was over,
they went to work to try to retire the
greenbacks. and the only reason they
didn't go further is: that they only
had a narrow margin in Congress and
not enough of margin to insure them
success. Give them II majority suf-
licient and then they will turn over the
issue of paper money to the national
banks. -
take for my subject tonight: Ma
bOth's Vineyard" l have often thought
of that story, and l thought it. might
not be out of place to call your atten-
ton to it.
my friends. wars of conquest are
conceived in covetousness,s and the his
tory of the world has been written in
characters of blood because rulers have
looked with longing eyes upon the
lands of others. Since the time history
began, people have been made to bleed
and die because a king wanted to leave
10 his children more land that he got
from his fathers, and covetousness has
always resorted to falsehood, to false
witness, and what covetousness was
not able to secure by persuasion 1t has
taken by the sword.
Senator Teller's amendment to the
intervention resolution Is the only
thing that prevents the covetousness of
those who want the island of Cuba
from dragging this nation down to dis
honor. (Applause) That is all that
prevents it to-day. (Applause.) When
That resolution was adopted there was
no objection. And what did those in
tervention resolutions declare? That
the people of Cuba We're and of right
ought to be free. And what else did
those resolutions declare? That this
was not war Of conquest; that this
nation had no desire to increase its pos
sessions in that way. 1t was n notice
10 the people of Cuba and to the people
of all the world that this nation was
not going to enter upon career of CON
quest. And vet. my friends. you will
near men to-day telling you that the
onpans are not capable of self-govern-
lhent and that we ought to go down aud
take possession and govern them and
mar amendment proposed by your dis
tlnguished senator, God bless him IAN.
this. s'TFI. I. -.-ss 80 : : e7''ii't' 7''ii't'
Now. my friends, wanttto bring you
,ace to face with this idea of conquest.
isn't it strange that any one in this
country should have to plead with the
american people against Il policy OF
conquest? Isn't it stranger? Why, if a
'han mad made speech year ago and
spent any time arguing tint n war Of
conquest @a,,I, was not right. the audience
would not hive stayed in the hall he
might as well have talked yaboutastr
ony to an audience, because they
would feel as Indifferent. to this ques-
ton as they would to question OF
abstract astronomy. Why? Because
nobody thought of such thing. l
might tell you that Jefferson, way back