The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-19
A HUNGRY HOG SQUEALS
Fill Him and He Goes to Sleep, Argue
Republicans.
Mr.. BRYAN POINTS OUT THESE FACTS
What of North Carolina, " Said a Hearer "Read
the SuIu Treaty and Blush TO Think
You Asked the Question"
Replied Bryan.
(By the Associated Press.)


Fort Scott Kan, Sept. 1S.-William ].
Bryan arrived here at $50 a. m. He
was entertained at breakfast by Mayor
Goodlander at the Goodlander Hotel. The
first meeting of the day was to have be-
gun at 10 o'clock, and the hall, which
holds 1900 persons was filled before
o'clock 1t had been expected that the
only speech would be made in the hall,
but it was found necessary to hold the
meeting in the public square in order to
accommodate the crowd. Mr. Bryan con-
tented himself with suggesting points for
argument to his followers.
Later, in the park, he spoke from the
ball stand. His audience there included
a number of people from Indian Terri
tory and Missouri as we'll as many from
the neighboring towns of this State.
Owing to the dense crowd Mr.. Bryan
found it impossible to mount the speak
ers stand. He therefore had his car
riage stopped in the midst of the crowd,
and spoke from the carriage box.
Full dinner pail' argument of the Re-
publicans received his first attention and
he contended that the working man is
not well contented with a well supplied
table alone.
when the hog is hungry he squeals,'
said Mr.. Bryan. when he is full he
goes to sleep. That seems to be the
Republican idea of the working man"
No party, he argued, had any claim
upon citizen except as a means of pro-
noting his welfare, and no man was
bound to support any party which was not
true to the interests of the people, The
Republican party has, he asserted, mani
tested no concern for the welfare of the
masses, hence it had forfeited all claim
upon their support In substantiation of
this statement he instanced what he desig-
mated as the Republican partiality for the
trusts, which were, he said as private
monopolies, entirely in the interests of
the few and opposed to the interests of
the many. The increase in the army Mr..
Bryan declared was one of the facts going
to show that the Republican party was
not the party of the people. Accounting
for the increase of the size of the army,
he said that perhaps it was intended to
meet such emergencies as that which had
arisen in the anthracite coal regions. The
only domestic reason for increasing the
army was to suppress, by force, that
discomfort among the people which should
be cured by legislation.
NORTH CAROLINA AGAIN.
While he was discussing the colonial
policy of the Government, some one ask
ed Mr. Bryan about North Carolina and
the race question in that State. 81 am
glad you mentioned North Carolina" said
Mr.. Bryan. Nov l want you to read the
Sulu Treaty, and having done that, think
oJo
have time to think of North Carolina"
This sally brought a prolonged cheer
from the crowd, and when it had subsidized
Mr.. Bryan outlined this treaty showing
how it tolerated and recognized slavery.
He then said that the Republican party
had many years ago disfranchised the ne
gro in the District of Columbia, and by
legislation during the last session of Con-
gress the negroes of Porto Rico had even
been denied the right of trial by jury.
No State Legislature of the United States
had gone so far. "Yes," said he, this
race question is a serious question wher-
ever 1t is encountered. And is not the
presence of race prejudice in this country
today reason why we should not take
the chances of increasing it by adding to
our population eight millions of people OF
totally different race? No intelligent
citizen can deny the existence of the race
question here. and it is such serious
question that it will take all the in
telligence of both the white and the black
people to settle it. even under existing
conditions. For Gods sake then. don't
let us take step which will further COM
plicate the situation
Mr.. Bryan left at 1:5O p. m. for Kan
sas City.