The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-26
TIE ARMY MENAcE.

OF the Republicans making the army luOoUu
men. but it was late in the session and the
Republicans could not secure a vote before
adjournment, and therefore they had to ac-
Cept a compromise, and your Senator Cor
man forced them to accept an amendment.
senator Germans amendment limits the
increase until next year. If ii had not
been for the Democrats and Populists and
Silver Republicans in the Senate, YOU would
today have standing army of 10000
mo farmer here ever petitioned the
President or the Senate or the House to
make the army 100000, and, my friends,
why is it that a tanner who neither did pc
tiuon or would petition will 20 to the polls
and vote to approve of the thing that he
does not like simply because his party does
it?
THE TREATY OF PEACE.
The treaty of peace was not signed I'M
til month after the last election, and
therefore. if YOU voted the Republican
ticket in l-9@, YOU did not vote to author
ile an imperial policy. My friends, if you
vote today or ON election day the Repubh-
can ticket, you will vote to authorize an
imperial policy, and want YOU to stopand
your approval. Thus far you are not to
blame for what has been done but the mo
ment you vote the Republican ticket you
assume the responsibility for this contem-
plated change in our ideas OF government,
and before You vote to make the change |
want you to understand what the change
means.
4 voice; This gentleman wants to know
if You did not sign the treaty
Mr.. Bryan; No, did not sign the
| treaty; | was not President; there would
have been no such treaty signed if | had
been. But the gentleman probably meant
to ask whether favored the ratification of
the treaty. answer him yes; it was a
mistake on his part in the use Of the lang
uage. My. friends, | did favor the ratiii-
cation Of the treaty and am glad to have
a chance to tell you why. If | We're to
suggest the reason and defend my action
without anybody inquiring about it you
might think | was trying to drag my hum
BILE personality into this campaign. But if
any Republican SAYS that | am responsible
for the ratification of the treaty he will not
be able to find a Senator who says he voted
for the treaty because | favored it; but
will show you Senator, Senator Yelling
ton, of this State applausel without
whose vote the treaty could not have been
ratified. Senator Wellington says that he
would not have voted for the treaty but
for the promise the President made him
that the islands would not be held perma-
nently. Applause.
But my friends, | am going to waive
the little matter of evidence; am not go
ing to ask you TO prove that | secured the
ratification of the treaty. II you Republi-
cans are ashamed of that treaty and are not
willing to take the responsibility OF its rat
ificatiOn, | will assume all the responsible
ity myself But if am responsible for the
ratification, if the President could not have
secured the ratification without my aid,
then let those Republicans give me some
credit for helping my successful rival to
ratify the treaty. Applause.
No, my friends, | did not make the
treaty. | am not responsible for a treaty
that Disseminated between the FilipinOs
and the CubanS, but when that treaty came
to the Senate the question was whether it
would be ratified or rejected, and to reject
| the treaty meant to throw the matter back
! into the hands of the President: it meant
TO allow him to make a new treaty, and we
did not know what he might do, but was
| willing to trust the American people. and.
therefore, | said ratify the treaty and bring
our soldiers home, and then let this nation
| give independence to the Filipinos without
| asking the aid or consent of any other ma
! ton on earth. Applause But, my
friends, there is one peculiar thing about
the man who complained that | favored the
ratification of the treaty. He does not tell
| you that at the same time | urged the pas
sage of the resolution which promised indie
pendence to the Filipinos, and if the Re
| publican party had taken both parts of the
| plan-ii the Republican party had passed
a resolution promising independence to the
| FilipinoS at the time when ! urged it, a
month and half before shot was fired at
| Manila-there never would have been any
trouble in the Philippine Islands and we
never would have needed our soldiers out
there. Applause
THE COLONIAL SYSTEM.
But, my friends, pardon me for di-
! crossing this much and spending so much
time in answering a question that every
man knows the answer of if he read any
paper except a Republican paper Now,
my friends, before you vote the Republican
ticket want you to understand that the
Republican party stands for a colonial sys-
TEN like that which England forced upon
the colonies 12l years ago. Read the Porto
Rica bill to tax the Porto Ricans without
representation and govern them without
the consent of the governed, and that is
what England did to US, and before you are
ready to vote to approve this policy you
had better apologize to England for the
trouble this nation gave her before we
learned the blessings of a colonial system
Applause.
In this town you have monument
reared to the memory of the man who
wrote The Star Spangled Banner, and be
fore you vote the Republican ticket and
indorse a colonial policy | want you to
know that when you do vote the ticket and
indorse the colonial policy you vote to de-
stroy that as the national hymn of this
country. Applause.
A voice: That's right
Now, my friends, you cannot have that
hymn sung in the Philippine Islands by
men who are subjects but unfit to be citi-
lens. Think OF Filipino singing The !