The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-30
WORLD OF
POLITICS
Bryan Opens Nebraska
Campaign,
JONES TALKS OF JONES
Chairman Hanna Ridicules a Report
That Andrew Carnegie Will
Vote for Bryan.

AUBURN, Neb., August 22.-W. j. Bry-
an made the first speech here of a series
scheduled for today in the First Congress
sional District of Nebraska. The meeting
was held in the court house grounds, and
in spite of a light rain a good crowd was
present. The Congressional district was
represented by Mr.. Bryan in Congress
and has, since his retirement, been repre-
sented by a Republican member.
Mr.. Bryan made a plea for the election
of Hon. G.. W. Berger, the Democratic
candidate for Congress; also an appeal
for the support of the whole Democratic.
ticket. Comparing the government to a
corporation. he said all citizens were
stockholders. and as such they owed it to
themselves to look well after the conduct
! OF the directors. He charged the Repub-
rectors, with deceit in all its policies
They were asserting that the financial
tquestion was this year the paramount is
sue only because the Republican party re-
garded the dollar of more consequence
than the man. He dwelt upon liberty as
a God-siven right, saying the Filipnos
were as much entitled to it as we are In
promising them a good government, we
are only promising what kings promised
under similar circumstances. We have.
he asserted. no title to the Philippine ISL
ands according to the Declaration of In
dependence. In the first place. Spain had
no title. and in the second place We can
not buy people, nor was it any more prof
table than wise to wage foreign conquest.
Already more had been spent in the way
lof treasure in the Philippines to say moth
ing of blood, than the profits of trade
with those islands for many years would
amount to. The flag had been hauled
down in Mexico and the Mexican people
/ were better off with their own. govern
!ment than they would be with an Ameri-
can carpet-bag government in that coun-
ltry.
Mr. Bryan sharply arraigned the Re
publican party for its alleged inconsst-
lency in the position formerly taken on the
Questions of militarsm, money and trusts.
and the position now taken on those 'iIes-
tons, and, continuing, said:
1.-THE same spirit that carries you 10 the
Philippine Islands will lead you into some
other places and make you hold these
people and make them subjects against
: their will. The same spirit Of militarisu
l and Imperialism that carried you to the
Philippines will carry you wherever yol
l can find a people weak enough to bt
whipped by the United States. The doc
4 trine of Imperialism is the doctrine of tins
II bully and the coward. 1t is the doctrine
which takes people under the pretens'
. that you are taking them, for their good
and you reach your hands in their pock
= cts and rob them, while YOU are takini
them Republicans, your papers tell yo
that the Filipinos are savages. You dar
not say it, because you do not arm saw
tf,.,, To fisrhf a.
They say we cannot haul down the fla
n in the Philippines, once it is raised there
:, Even this Administration does not fin
any trouble or difficulty in hauling dow
4 the fag i'm Alaska. ! suppose they con
p tend that in cold climate you can hat
Il il down. but that you cannot in a hot eli
l. mate. The American flag represents tn
- purpose of the American people. Nobod
:. can haul our flag down against our viii
IS but the American people have the rigf