Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-09-05
IMPERIALISM AND MlLITARlSM.
The Democratic Candidate Talks OF Repub.
can Inconsistencies.

w. j. Bryan addressed the voters
of his Congressional District, at
Auburn, Nebraska, last Wednesday.
He devoted himself principally to
Republican Inconsistencies. In part
he said
"Tou Republicans who were shout
ing yourselves hoarsc when McKin-
ley said in 1891 that Mr.. Cleveland
was trying to make money the
master and all things else the SER
want, did it not take you several
days to come around and hurrah for
Mckinley when he did the same
thing that Cleveland had done =?
You Republicans, who said that the
grennbacks saved the country when
gold and silver left it, did it not
take you several days to turn around
and advocate the retirement Of
greenbacks You Republicans
who were boasting that the party
was paying off the national bcbt, did
it not take you some time to turn
around to that position where you
could say that a permanent debt is a
good thing? You Republicans that
used to denouncc the trusts in the
most vigorous language, did it not
take you some time to turn around
where you could say that there are
good and bad trusts, and the good
trusts are those which contribute
most literally to the campaign fund :?
And don't you think that some of
you Republicans are in a position
where you are not going to return
any more? You Republicans, who
for years have been boasting of the
Fourth OF July, that we had com-
try that did not need a large stand
ing army, and did not have large
military establishment as they have
in Europe, don't you think you will
refuse to turn when the Republican
party wants an army which is four
times as large as when the Rcpuhli-
can Administration was elected in
1898? You Republicans who used
to brag this-are you not afraid that
now you cannot turn over and make
your opinions conform to the Rcpub-
lican policy when you find that the
expenses OF the army in single
year is half az much as the entire
amount spent on the education Of
all the children Of the United States I?
Are you willing to enter upon this
career Of miitarism
"Whcn we talk about increasing
the size Of the army they say it is
all buncombc, and say 'what is lO0,-
900 men in a country like this?
will tell you that 100000 men, com
pared with the situation when the
Republican party got into power, is
four times as big an army and when
you dcfc..d the increase Of four
times the size of the army in the
four years, four years from now you
can with propricty say that we will
have an army of t00,0O0if you have
an imperial policy. The same spirit
Of militarism and imperialism that
carried you to the Philippine islands
will carry you wherever you can
find a people weak enough to be
whipped by the United States. The
doctrine Of imperialism is tie doc
trinc OF the bully and the
coward. 1t is the doctrine which
takes people under the prctcncc that
you are taking them for their good
and you reach your hand in their
pockets and rob them while you are
taking them, They say that we
cannot haul down the flag in the
Philippines once it is raised there.
Even this n 'inistration does not
find any trouble or difficulty i'm haul.
ing down the flag in Alaska"