The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-04
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IN every war of this Nation has been fully
represented In the ranks Of volunteers
in proportion to the Hebrew population.
He referred also to the Dreyfus trial, and
devoted some time to a discussion of trusts
and militarism.
Another meeting was held on the lake
'front.' this afternoon in addition to that
held in the same place Thursday At that
time he addressed his audience as business
men, and the trust question furnished the
text for an hours talk. Imperialism was
his subject to-day. Starting with the text
of the full dinner pail, he said that emblem
of the Republican party, with which the
campaign had been begun, had utterly
failed as an argument with the people, and
he announced his speech as an exposition
of the reasons for such failure. He denied
that the laboring man is receiving his
share of the wealth he produces: ne de-
MED that the laboring man is prosperous,
am. he argued that the Republican party
has not taken the laboring man into IT'S
plans. This is the first campaign, he de-
clared, in which the American people have
been compelled to rise UP and resist step
toward the monarchieS and empires of the
march backward into the darkness of past
ages. The colonial system, he said was a
relic OF the past, and the people must now
decide between the theory of government
in which that system is involved and that
which was contemplated in the DeclGra-
ton of Independence. Mr.. Bryan contin-
ued his speech along the lires that have
become familiar TO the public and urged
the support of the Democratic PRINCIPLES
at the polls as the only solution of the
problems that now confront the Nation.
Mr.. Bryan spoke to an audience of 5000
OF more, this evening at Harvey, in the
open air from a stand erected in the pub
lie grounds. The speaking was announced
to begin at o'clock, but if
was forty minutes after that hour
when Mr.. Bryan, escorted by Mayor
Harrison, arrived from Chicago in
special train. Mr.. Bryan was imme-
diately driven TO the stand and COM
rapidly and without apparent effort for
three-quarters of an hour. showing that
his marvellous powers of endurance were
still unimpaired. He began by referring
to the fact that so near the close of the
campaign Ii was probable that his hear
ers had decided how their votes would be
cast and he devoted his speech to giving
some reasons why he believed the Demo.
cratic ticket should receive their support
He argued that principles should be
stronger than party ties. His speech
was largely an arraignment of the Repub.
lcan party and his criticisms of its course
for the past four years afforded an OBJ
portunity for discussion of trusts and i'm
periaiism.
campaign, outside Of his own State, at the
Calumet Opera House at South Chicago
this evening. His speech was an arraisn-
ment of the Republican party, in which
he discussed particularly the subject OF
Imperialism. 1.-THE Filipinos to-day are in
worse condition than they We're under
Spanish rule, and We are doing what Eng
land is doing in India" was a statement
that he made near the close of his address
His closing words were: II would not
trade the glory of this Republic for one
hundred years for the glory of all the en-
pires that have arisen and fallen since
time began. ! am not willing that we
should go back and apologize for our his
tory; l am not willing that We should fol-
low at the tail end of the European process
sion; / want this Nation 10 lead the world
in its progress toward higher ground"