The age-herald., 1900-09-20
A FEW HOT SHOTS
 FROM NM. ]. BRYAN Turned His Guns Loose on Re-
 pubIicanS at St. JO. DISCUSSED LEADING ISSUES Wants Nation to Stand on Doctrine That All Men Were Created Equal
 Large Crowd Greeted the
 Democratic Leader.
DISCUSSED LEADING ISSUES

St. Joseph, Mo-, September 19.-There were three times as many people at the baseball park this afternoon as could hear MT. Bryan. He was still hoarse, but he spoke for an hour and half He was in- troduced by Congressman Cochran.
 MT. Bryan referred briefly to the possibili- ties of the approaching election, and said, in part:
 'I have been over a large portion of the country, and l have asked the people: Do you find many who were with us in 1896 who are against us now? There was one exception; they told me that there was a young attorney who had been with us in 1886 who is against us, and l asked them what had caused it. We'll they said, since 1896 he has become the attorney of several corporations and he is not his own master now
 The speaker asserted that the Republi- can party had kept none of its old-time promises.
 Has it secured international bimetall- ism? Has it brought you the double stand ard?" he asked. No, instead of bringing you bimetallism, the Republican party sent commission to Europe, and while that commission was in Europe the Secretary of the Treasury was doing all he could to keep the commission from doing any thing in Europe, and when the commission re- turned Senator Walcott made a speech in the Senate in which he complained that Mir. Gage had interfered with the work of the commission"
 In speaking of the trusts, MT Bryan said: Even the newspaper editors were compelled to write their editorials defend- ing the trust on paper, the price of which has been raised by the trust"
 MT. Bryan declared that the Republicans were disposed to make great deal over rise in farm products and to give very little attention to the increase of prices in what the farmer has to buy. If wheat goes up, all attention Is, he said, directed to wheat, while if wheat goes down and cattle go up, all attention is directed to cattle and diverted from wheat So with potatoes. When potatoes rise, every Re- publican orator in the country has his pockets full of potatoes. These orators convenietly forget the fact that all prices are fixed by the trust and that there is an advance in he price of everything the farmer has to buy.
 "To God ResponsibIe,"
 MT. Bryan said that If God was respon- sible for our position with the Filipinos and commended us to govern them, the com- mand should be evidenced either by the Bible or by special dispensation. He assert ed that the Bible did not justify our taking the Filipinos, and said if there was special dispensAtion, he would like to know to whom He revealed His plans.
 A voice answered.: Ask Hanna"
 My friend" replied MT. Bryan, that Is undue familiarity with a great name" and went on with his speech. Mir. Bryan drew a strong contrast between the doctrine of force and the doctrine of love as a con- trolling principle in governmental politics, saying:
 "The doctrine of force Is as old as hu- man history. Cain was the first man to put 1t into operation, and he wore the brand of the murderer forever afterward You say you will control the Filipinos. You will not consult them, and If they object there is nothing to do except to shoot them. That Is the doctrine of force. It is to take prop erty by force, and if the men who own the property do not like it. then kill them. Are you not astonished that In this year of 1900 your party plants itself upon the ground upon which monarchies and empires rest?
 World suwer
 1T believe this contest will determine whether this nation shall stand before the world exponent of the people of the force or whether it will illustrate the up- lifting power of the gospel of love, that 1t will determine whether we going to de- etroy people and kill them and conquer them and subjugate them, or hold them be- fore the light of a holy example, and by ourselves draw men up to high plane. I believe that this nation can be so upright, just that other nations will look to us not only for example, but for aid In time of troubles. Plutarch said that men enter tained three sentiments concerning the Gods-that they feared them for their strength, admired them for their wisdom and loved them for their justice. Republic ans, do you want this nation to be feared for its strength? I want 1t to be loved for its justice want this nation to be the su- preme moral factor in the worlds progress; I want this nation to act as arbiter of the worlds disputes; I want this nation to the human race; want this nation to stand fairly upon the doctrine that all men are created equal; that they are endowed with nalienA ble rights and that governments are made by the people, for themselves. And want this nation to solve the problems of civilization and to so impress its virtues upon the world that when two nations dis agree, instead of calling out their armies and killing each other, they will say: Leave 1t to the United States; there Is . nation which will do justice.' Republicans, you want this nation to be a world power? It has been world power for a hundred years and 1t can be a greater one if 1t will be more true than 1t has in the past to these doctrines"
 Concluding, MT. Bryan made an appeal for a large popular majority, saying that ma- tority in the Electoral College alone would not make the administration so strong with the people.
 Harper Whiskey received Gold Medal at