Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-11-01

country, uub when you take IN people VINO
do not want to come in, you weaken your
country, for it takes part of the people you
! already have to sit down on the people you
brought in. lCheers by q. of 2 students1.
i When we bought from Spain she did not
have any Filipinos to sell. She was out of
possession The Filipinos held Spanish
prisoners, but Spain did not hold any Fill
1 Pine prisoners The Filipinos had helped
us to drive Spain into the sea and then the
Republicans went in and negotiated with
Spain for the purchase of the allies who
helped us whip Spain. (Applause) Spain
had no title. She was not in possession
She conld not get into possession. She
could not put US into possession. All we
could buy Of Spain was a license to hunt in
the Philippine Islands.
HUMAN RIGHTS ABOVE MONEY.
But notice this gentlemen over there
| holding up a silver dollar, and he evidently
wants to know something about silver
! Great cheering) l will remind him that
his desire to hear something about money
and nothing about human rights illustrates
| the sordid level upon which the Republic
can party fights this battle. My friend,
nobody who will read our platform needs
to ask about the silver question. Nobody
who knows my record needs to ask about
the silver question. But / want you to
know that the Republicans, who used to
worry about fifty cent dollar, are not
worrying to-day about an eighty-fiv per
cent. citizen they have given us in Porto
Rico The Republicans who thought we
couldn't have double standard Of money
now think we can have double standard
of governmental Republic here and
despotism in the Philippine Islands The
Republicans who used TO think that you
couldn't maintain the parity between the
white metal and the yellow are now trying
to maintain the party between white
citizen here and yellow subject in the
Philippine Islands. A money question can
be settled any time; question Of govern
ment reaches deeper and higher and further
than money question; and the Republican
party has got to meet this question that
affects the rights Of the American citizen
ships and when it seeks to convert this
campaign into a money campaign rather
than into campaign for liberty, it only
shows that it puts the dollar above the man
and money before country. (Cheers).
But, my friends, / have now trespassed
upon your patience and have gone beyond |
the time allotted here. (Cries of mo, no. |
Go on All that ask of you is that
you make your votes represent exactly |
what you want. If there is any man who
labors and who wants nothing but full |
dinner pail, and can then show that the |
Republican party can fill the pail, then let /
him consult his appetite and vote the Re-
publican ticket. But, my friends, men in
the penitentiary have full dinner pals; and |
some one has remarked that even in slavery
days the slave always had full dinner /
pail, and the Bible tells us that Esau had
full dinner pail, but he sold his birthright |
to get it. (Cheers).
Ask these questions. If you believe the
Trusts are good things, vote the Republican
ticket and you viii get all of them you
want If you believe large army is
desirable vote the Republican ticket and
you will get it. If you believe that CO.
lonial policy is wise, then apologize to Great
Britain for the trouble we made her before
we learned that colonial policy was
good, and vote the Republican ticket to
show your appreciation of it. But if you |
believe in the Declaration of Independence,
If you believe that governments derive
their just powers from the consent Of the
governed, and if you want industrial inde-
pendence, vote our ticket, and we will do
our best to open the doors of opportunity |
to the young men of this country, to give |
the Filipino a chance to celebrate the Fourth |
of July and to let the world know that our
sympathies girdle the globe when people
are fighting for liberty.
Mr.. Bryan received the profuse congratu-
lations of thousands Of people who flocked |
around him as he left the platform.
1t was with great difficulty that Mr..
Bryan reached the carriage, and was hur
ried to his private car at Westyille. The
same day he made speeches at Riverside,
Burlington, Bordentown, two at Trenton,
Princeton, New Brunswick, Elizabeth and
three at night in jersey City. On Friday
he made tour Of North Jersey, and closed
with speeches at several points in Newark.