The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-23
I'm ROUTE FOR Topeka
WILLIAM j. BRYAN WILL, pD
THAT CITY AT 1880 THIS
MORNING =s
SPEECHES ON THE WAY
Made Addresses Yesterday .+ G..
eral Nebraska Potnts-Mark
Hanna Frightened,
Says Bryan.

reached Auburn, his first stopping nIaoa
after leaving Lincoln. Getting a few
hours sleep there he was prepared To
commence the day early He began bis
speech at Auburn shortly after o'clock
and made an hours address.
AT Tecumseh, the next stopping nlace
ne spoke briefly, and after taking a has
ty dinner started upon twenty-two-mile
drive across country to Pawnee. At
Pawnee, as it Auburn and Tecumseh.
there was good attendance, as there
was also at the night meeting held at this
point The day meetings were all held in
the groves Of the court houses of the
counties The meetings were all held in
the First congressional district, Mr..
Bryan's old district. He was accom-
panied throughout the trip by Mr. Berge,
the Democratoc candidate for congress-
AT each place Mr.. Bryan made an ap-
peal in Mr.. Berge's behalf. The trip
from Pawnee to Falls City was made in
freight caboose behind a. special en-
CINE secured by the Pawnee county COM
mittee. At the Tecumseh meeting the
most interesting incident was a coloquy
between Mr.. Bryan and a gentleman in
the audience, evidently a Republican,
who took the privilege of propounding
After brief dialogue ending in a ref
erence to the treaty of peace with Spain
Mr.. Bryan said:
Il am obliged for your mentioning that
Tor l should not feel like bringing 1t to
Your attention unless called upon tn do
so. I urged the ratification of the treaty
and also urged the passage of the reso-
luton promising independence to the peo-
pie OF the philippines, and Ii your Re-
publican administration had passed the
resolution there would not have been one
drop of blood shed in the Philippines.
oh, that is your opinion
you Will stop to think about IT and give
the public the honest result of your
thoughts, 1t will be your opinion that
IL we had made the promise OF independ-
Cubans. we would have had no conflict
here: Had we treated Cuba as we did the
Ph1llpr1nes, there would be war in Cuba
today and had we treated the Filipinos as
we did the Cubans there would be no war
IN the Philippines today" h
Inc questioner made an indistinct ref
erence to Mr.. Bryan,s capacity for the
believed the Filipinos were Capable Of
self government. To thisuMr. Bryan re-
pIled: Admiral Dewey stated in a mes
sage Sag Fi f9 tne secretary of the navy that
government than the Cubans, and that
ne based his judgment after a study of
poth races. Whether you believe as 1 do
between the natural right of the Fill
p1no and the natural right of the Cuban.
whoIn you and your party said ought to
De Tree. II it is true of the Cubans, 1t
make 1t So"
AT Pawnee Mr.. Bryan spoke upon all
the questions at Issue, paying somewhat
more attention than usual to the finan-
c1al and trust questions. He also gave
the usual degree of attention to mill
tnd n
against the American ownership of the
F1lip1nos or their country or
He urged that If annexation In the
tropics was to be Undertaken, for trade
purposes only, there was sure to be dis
appointment Tropical. countries did
not supply great deal in that way of
commerce. Great Britain's trade with
the United States was, for instance, far
greater per capita than her trade with
India, and yet Great Britain did not own
the United Statesmen quite. He did not
agree with those who considered it "re-
1g1ous duty to hold on in the Philip
pines. AS a matter of fact the major
1ty of the Filipinos were already Chris
tians 1t was still further true that the
Christians there were antagonistic to
American domination, while the Moham-
medans and Sulus were friendly This
he thought was due to the payment of a
monthly stipend of $3.50 to the sultan,
contrary to all views American
Speaking of the financial ratio Mr.. Bry-
an said:
The Republicans now openly espouse
the gold standard. They declared for the
gold standard at Philadelphia after thew
threw overheard a platform sanctioned by
the adminiStra ton that contained
promise for International bimetallism
They say they don't believe In the ratio
of 16 to 1. When they make that asser-
ton, you ask them why Mr. McKinley's
administration Is coming silver dollars
today at the ratio of 16 to J.. In the month
of March the Republican administration
coined 100000 silver dollars at the ratio
Of 16 to 1, and yet the Republicans think
that the ratio of Is to l is not right
1t Is the ratio we have had flor thirty
four years, and the Republican party to-
day does. not advocate any change In
the ratio"
Mr.. Bryan also limited at what he con-
sidered another objection to acquiring
fgtside terTitory addressing himself to
own administration men whom your own
president selected have been guilty of
embezzlement of the funds of the Cubans,
and II that occurs right here under the
shadow Of our own country, what would
be the peculations and entertainments If
we sent men to rule over several mil
lions of Filipincs? Even now you Will
find they are, organizing development
companies in the United States for the
Philippines, and that those development
companies are relying on Americans Off
Gals over there to help them get fran
standing ready to gobbe up the fran
chises in the islands, and don't you
know what a time we have had in this
country with those men who are getting
the franchises?"
Mr.. Bryan had the largest audience of
the day at the evening meeting at Falls
City. 1t was an enthusiastic crowd and
applauded voclferously the. speech, which
was Of more than an hours duration.
Mr.. Bryan expressed himself as IA
vorable to the election of senator's by d.
rect vote of the people, and he repeated
his declaration of four years ago, that
no question is settled until it is settled
right. On this basis nothing had been
done for the past four years. The pas
sage Of the gold standard law he de-
nounced as a servile surrender to the ma
tional banks. Referring to the trusts,
he said the way for the common people
to determine which party to support as
against the trusts was to ascertain which
party the trusts themselves were sup
porting, and then take the opposite
course He paid his resepcts-to Senator
Hanna in this extract: II u
This mornings paper states that Mr..
Hanna yesterday went down. into New
Jersey to the home of the trusts to make
a speech. Did he tell those Republicans
down there that the Republican party
was going to win @and- not to
them: You want to watch ffp out t.
Don't be overconfdent; we nave got
great fight on hand. We have got to
fight hard And then Il cans imagine I
can see him put his hand behind him and
say: Come down.. Is Impossible that
Republican farmer can be deceived as to
the attitude of the Republican party on
the trust question:"
Mr.. Bryan stated that there is a general