Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-07
THEY TALK TO
CROWDED HOUSES
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(COntlnued from Pas FiVe.)
this country. Jefferson was an IMPERIAL
list when he bought Louisiana. jackson.
VINO mad some reputation as a democrat
III his day, was ar imperilaist when he
went down into Florida and brought the
Indians under control without their con-
sent. James K. Polk, a good imperialist.
tnouSnt nothing wrong when he annexed
the territory conquered and purchased
from Mexico, without the consent of the
residents. We had Is states at the time
OF the Revolution; when Jefferson ad-
vocated the purchase of LOUIS
lana. the good New ~Englanders
began to say. You can make
states gains their will. if you do,
lmperialistic expansions have grown all
u western states. California alone has
given a billion n a half OF gold to the
money of the world: Nevada, which was
ushed at for her sage brush and her
jack rabbits, has given fve-hundr,li
million dollars to perpetuate the fruits
OF Appamattox. Out of this vast inter
mountain country has come half the
money OF the world. From the once bar
rem plains come 600. 900, 600 bushels
of grain to feed the world.
Then came Alaska, denounced as an
iceberg by the anti-imperialists who OBJ
jected to paying 81. 200 900 for the coun-
try, without the consent of the govern
ed; and thus came Hawaii. And later
came the war with Spain, the charge at
a Juan. the taking in Of Porto Rico,
sNd we had expanded again.
And then. one day, just as night fad
ed into the day, Dewey sailed into the
Gay at Manila-and the map of the
world was again changed. No more were
the worlds conflicts to be accorded on
the Aegean sea-; no more was Turkey
the sick man of the world-China had
taken his place.
n more glorious opportunity ever
came to a country. Peoples, like indi-
viduals, must be honest. and bold: they
must take their share in what is doing
in life. Those that have not o this
share have gone down ITO the grave, as
Egypt. which had worlds libraries, the
pyramids. Il all the sciences of astrOn-
omy. irrigation, before Abraham was
born in the Wilderness, but forgot 10 do
their duty to humanity and mankind.
lapsed into idleneSs n luxury. and TOW
the desert sands blow heedlessiy across
the face Of the sphinx which overlooks
their ruin.
"Republicanism has given to our coun-
try and our hnperialistic acquisitions. a
free flag. free schools, free speech. We
a given them in Cuba and Porto
Rico. If we do not, who will? I like
the imperialism that sets Porto Rico and
Cuba free. There is nothing like it in
history. And yet our friends the enemy
say hat we are in danger Of a monar-
chy. which will %subjugate liberty. But
the nation moves on. In the anti-im-
perialist catalogue there is no need of
coincidence for the suppression of the
l4th and 18th ~amendments to the consti-
tuition. while Aguinaldo and Porto Rico
come in for all sympathy. For Gods
get the constitution over North
before you rail over the Phil
and Porto Rico"
Imperialism, the destruction of the re-
r,1hltnc HNhv- IN SIX vonpthC Wa ehol :
have only the regular army of $1,000; not
enough soldiers to s%ubjugate the people
Of Silver Bow county. In his Spokane |
speech, Mr.. Bryan told us to Beware Of
the bayonets of our oWn army l resent
that insinuation in the name Of the First
regiment. resent 1t in the
of all the American soldiers who
lave fought in our armies from Lundy's
to Appomattox. They have lever
been otherwise than true TO ,ne flag n
TO their country, and all that it has rep
And they never will.
1.-The two longest periods in American
history were the ear from 81 to IS,
we were going through the strug-
gle for constitutional liberty, and he
years '93 to '97, when the democratic par
ty was going through u.s."
Here the speaker stopped to compli-
ment the Alice band, which had accom-
panied the Silver Bow band over to Hell
ena. and which played several fine
pieces for the two meetings Of last even
ing.
"I am a republican by birth, by her
by conviction, and I believe that
the party is essential to the welfare of
the country. It may not always be right
but it is a party Of action, it accom-
plishes things. When the party first
into power the country was on
the verge of a terrible civil strife. At the
of the inauguration of Lincoln h
country was bankrupt, the stars falling
from the flag, and tine bonds of the ma
ton, promising a good per cent, We're
hawked around the markets of the world
at 10 per cent discount. We had no
credit, no cash. Now our credit is bet
ter than cash. Then we bought our
goods abroad; now We are the greatest
nation of the world. Then we
were scarcely known in the councils of
the world; now, when we speak, the
whole world stops to listen.
when the republican party went out
of power after thirty years the country
had reached the high water mark OF
prosperity. The hammers were tripping
to the music of steel, the country was
busy from end to end. I recall when
his message for free trade l heard Mr..
Bryan make his speech, in which he
asked for free coal, free lumber, free
lead, free wool, which we needed to &C
forward at a new rate. We got 1t all
and the country busted Day by day
men went out of work; day by lay those
who had money in the savings banks
began to draw on their savings; in three
years the savings banks lost $3S, 600, 900
Of their deposits. Now, in three years
of McKinley's administration the saw