The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-18
REPLIES TO BRYAN.
Roosevelt Answers the Nebras-
kan's Chicago Speech.

~AN~A4 - 0MA0khSU ~ KOOCAAs
Helena, Mont, Sept. 1s.-The Roosevelt
special arrived at this place at O'Clock
yesterday, where the night was spent
This morning the party leaves for Butte,
making short stops at Belsin, Boulder
and Clancy. An evening meeting is ar
ranged at Butte for tonight at which the
governor will speak. He will proceed
from there to Dillon, Lima, Pocatello,
Idaho, Ogden and Salt Lake City.
Two meetings were held here, one at
the Auditorium and the second meeting
at the opera house, so as to enable as
many as possible to hear Even TINS ar
wanted to get in c. NJ Webster, chair
man of the state Republican committee,
order, Senator Carter presided and
speeches were made by John Proctor
Former Governor Richards, former SEN
ator Lee. Mantle and Judge Dewitt from
Butte, joined Governor Roosevelt at Bill
ingS to escort him to Butte. The Challce
band, uniformed as rough riders escorted
the governor throughout the day on board
| the special train
Governor Roosevelt spoke at the Audi
In ne q recent speech at Chicago Mr.
Bryan is represented to have spoken as
Can one hundred thousand soldiers
in country. like this take charge and
But the fact that a people like ours per-
mits this, BODIES no good to American m
diers are permitted to walk about in idle
ness where soldier would do, what
are we coming to?
binary variety of misconception that 1t
seems difficult to believe 1t can be cor
rect report If correct, however, II Is
interesting in the first place to see that
Mr.. Bryan has abandoned the Kansas
City platform and his own message OF &C,
ceptance, insofar as they define the kind
of danger arising from our milttarism
The absurdtty of speaking or an army OF
one hundred thousand men as a threat to
the country when one-third of them are
volunteers and the rest regulars provided
pable that the mere statement OF the case
is sufficient for the refutation. But it is
positions actually taken in the above quo
tation. What is it that bodies no good to
American Institutions? Is it the sixty odd
thousand regulars, for the most part IN
the Philippines? Mr.. Bryan ought to
know by this time that inasmuch as
Thomas Jefferson handed over to his sue
cessor an army which he had oi increased SEQ
every thousand of population, and as no
damage to our institutions followed, there
of even the most timid soul from the ex-
istence now of an army OF 3 Tor every
Mckinley, while there is war in the Phil
ippines, our regular army has shrunk to
tanned at the end of President Jefferson's
administration, during period of pro-
Even more extraordinary is the state
ment that the hundred thousand soldiers
where one soldier would do. If it were
not for Mr.. Bryan's other utterances on
possible that this statement could have
been correctly reported.
"a hundred Thousand idle soldiers!
Think of these words being spoken by
candidate for the highest office in the
gift of the American people OF the men
who have passed a year of such grinding
toll and desperate fighting in the Philip
pines that we here can form no coneep, ,
ton of all that they have dared and r1Sked
and endured. They have been worn down
month in and month out. marching from
dawn>until darkness through the mud OF
the tropical swamps, sleeping when and
how they could, eating what they could
get or going without, facing death py
bullet at every step from a foe ten times
as numerous as themselves, and II wound
ed and left behind, facing what was IN
finitely worse than death-the most dread
full torture. With patient, accomplishing,
unfiinching never wearying courage, they
have done all this, and have made not
only America but all m Hlxind their debt
ors; and their reward is that the chosen
REPRESENTATIVE of one of the two great
parties sneers at them as walking about
in idleness. Some of them no longer walk
walks about in idleness. Iiscom no longer
walks about in idleness- Reilly no longer
many soldier, rests forever IN peace
peace because his life of toll and effort for
his country has come to the kind of end
which should at least secure freedom
from slight or Islander both for the valiant
The soldier does the work of these men
who have memories so short as al
we drew troops both from America and
the Philippines when the blood OF our
people called froc China, and the awful
danger of the women and children in Pc
kin stirred to its inmost soul the man
hood of Christendom- Small, indeed, IS
the chance for idleness for our soldiers in
the Philippines so long as the insurgents
are aided and abetted by one of the great
parties in this country Every American
who holds high the honor of his country
should craven on his heart the solemn
prophecy of Iawton. Let him beware
above all else of the words that speed the
bullets of our country's enemy.
Idleness Was Leonard Wood idle when, |
for the first time in three hundred years
he cleaned a. Spanish city? Was he idle /
when he fed and clothed and schooled the |
children of the reconcentrado? Was he |
idle when he lifted into active labor the
turtles of Spanish tyranny? Was he idle |
when he started this. man with long
strides on the path of government? |
Were Generals Macarthur, Wheaton and |
Young idle when they drove plunderer
and rurderer before them that under the |
shadow of our flag the scared wilderness
might again become a fruitful land? Was /
Chaffee idle when eagerly obeying the |