The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-02
If the Gold Standard Is Good Why Did
President Mckinley
SEND A COMMITTEE TO EUROPE TO TRY TO
GET RID OF 1T.
The Claim of Republican that Trust Is Good
Thing May Be Offset by the Republican
Declaration Against Trusts.

South Bend. Ind, September mfr.
Bryan today made his second brief visit
OF the campaign to Indiana. He arrived
at this point few minutes after O'Clock
this afternoon. speaking briefly at La
Porte, en- route, and here more at length,
At South Bend Mr.. Bryan was taken in
charge by committee and escorted to the
residence Of Hon. B. f. shiveley.
At La Porte, he said in part: II re-
publican tells you that the gold standard
is good ask him why his president sent a
committee TO Europe since the last cleo
tion 70 get lid of gold standard; If any
republican tells you that the greenback Is
bad and ought to be retired, ask him why
his party did not dare to make that asser-
ton In the last campaign. If a republican
tells YOU that permanent debt is a good
thing, you tell him that in all the cam
pdigns of the past the republican party has
been Dragging about how it paid Off the
National debt and yet today the repub-
lean party stands for currency system
that can only be permanent on the theory
that the National debt shall be permanent,
for you can not have bank notes secured by
government bonds unless ther9 are gov
/ eminent bonds to secure them.
This suggestion called out applause and
Mr.. Bryan continued; II republican tells
you that trust is a good thing, you ask
him why the republican platform &C.
nounces the trust; and IL the republican
says that the trust is a bad thing, ask
him why the republican administration al
lowed more trusts to be organized during
the last three years than had been or
ganized in all the history OF the coun ~
before that time. 1t does not matter which
side he takes you can confront with the
question he can not answer, Tor If he de-
sres 10 defend the trusts you can point
to the republican platform adopted ut
Philadelphia, which denounces the trusts;
and If he dares TO denouuce the trusts, you
can point to the record of his admins
tration that has failed to destroy the
trusts
He also pointed out weapons to be
used to meet other republican arguments:
If a republican tells you that 1t is a go d
thing to have large standing army, tell
him that until this campaign the repub-
leans have always contended for the adj
vantage OF not having large standing
army; remind him that when a republic
can president was sent into onlce we had
an army OF $4,000 soldiers and that that
came president asked for standing army
of 100000 in December, 1S9S--four times
the size OF the army we had when he was
inaugurated, and remind him of the fact
that If we are to have Imperialism we will
never have a smaller army than we have
now.
The same spirit that leads us to take
possession Of the Philippine Islands and
govern them without consent and tax them
without representation will lead us to seize
any other hands smaller than we are. IL
a republican tells you that Imperialism is
the same as the expansion that Jefferson
sought for, you tell him that Jefferson
wanted 70 expand the limits OF the Repub-
lie ana to build up the territory into
States and that he wanted the Inhabitants
to be citizens and to share in the guaran-
tees of the constitution, while the repub
ncan party has already enacted law In
regard to Porto Rico that rests up3n the
theory that outside OF the forty-five States
the president and congress have power as
unlimited as any despot ever exercised In
the history of the world. (Applause)
i II any republican attempts to justify