Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-10

JSlity III tue AMERICAN p6Opl6.s l trust
that the day will lei come when a
nation fighting for liberty will look in
vain to the American people for sym
pathy and aid. These ENJOYS have
honored us by coming t seek our SYM
patny, giving us as Americans the OPP
portunity to assist them to gain that
liberty which is SO dear to us.
Once each year, on Decoration Day,
we carry flowers to place on the graves
OF our soldier dead. Do these flowers
DO the dead any good. No. 1t is to
honor the living tina. this loving cus-
tom is maintained, that they may ex-
press their gratitude for what the
heroic dead have done for them. 1t is
to our honor that the Beers have come
to us to receive our sympathy. 1t is
hard to under stand the feelings of the
man who has sympathy for the Boer
cause, but who is c~oncealing it for
political reasons. When a young man
heard a very able sermon which has
always chung by me, on the text AS
ne tnlnketh, so ne is Why should
any American citizen who feels for the
Beers fail to express himself as such.
l don't see how one can do other than
TO choose the cause of the two repub-
lies In preference to that of a mon
archy; an American citizen who has
lived under and learned to love and
venerate
Our Forms of Government.
mere comes a time when the mil
hons OF American people have that
privilege of rising and casting their
ballots against that administration of
government which fails to carry out
their wishes. and when those ballots
are next counted | believe they will be
an expression of the American people
for these people fighting for their in
dependence.
We kno by history that as mon
archy increases SO government by con-
sent OF the people decreases, and that,
as government by consent of the peo-
pie Increases, so monarchy decreases.
We know that if a monarchy over
comes these two republics, government
by consent of the people ceases.
1t is said that the blood of the mar
tyr is the seed of the church. If it is
found that these republics shall be
overcome they will not have fought in
vain. Sometimes the men who die, die
more for liberty than they who live,
and ere the struggle is over l believe
that the Beers will arise from a hun
dred fields and liberty will be victori-
Gus.
There are men among us who say
that because England sympathized
with us during the Spanish-American
war, we ought to say nothing against
such a friendly nation. I deny that
such sympathy binds us to act for Eng
land. We did not need the sympathy
of England during the Spanish-Ameri-
can war. We need the sympathy of
no nation on earth. We have received
nothing that obligates us to remain
passive and helpless while
Liberty is Being Crushed.
We should not be unmindful of our
duties to the people of this world
struggling for their liberty-we, the
greatest nation on earth, founded on
liberty.
I'VE must keep inspired with that
love and reverence for the blessed
name of liberty till every American
citizen goes down on his knees and
asks the god of battles to bring vic
tory to the Beers"
This conclusion for the close of Mr..
Bryan's. speech was the signal for a
cheer and a grand rush for the stage
to shake his hand as we'll as that of
Mr.. Vessels.