Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1900-10-04

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lion that isn't getting a Bit" 1t is
even so with the republican leaders.
Their sympathy goes out freely to
any corporation, which in their
opinion is not getting it's share, but
they are not moved by the hardships
imposed by mOnopolies upon all who
are outside of the charmed circle.
Mr.. Bryan turned his attention
from trusts to the imperialism part OF
the campaign argument. He said:
eff you think that the Filipinos are
fighting against our authority over
there merely because I am a candidate
for president, | answer that the
CubanS struggled for thirty years
when | wasn't candidate for presi
dent. The cOlOnistS fought for inde-
pendence hundred and twenty-five
years ago and my name had not even
been heard Of. No. it was not demo
cracy nor my candidacy that placed in
the hearts of the Filipinos the hatred
that they have for foreign domina-
tiOn."
While Mr.. Bryan was discussing the
Filipino question, some one ia the
crowd asked:
"How about the negroes in the
south?"
This question aroused the speaker
to a flight OF Oratory which he had
not attained before. He said that
the republicans never wanted to talk
the race question until election
times. He said:
81 am glad you spoke of the negroes
If you will look at the Sulu treaty you
will not have chance to talk about
the negroes during the entire cam
paign. l do not know OF a purer piece
of hypocrisy than that of the republi-
can who defends the Sulu treaty and
condemns the amendments in the
southern states Under the Sulu
treaty the United States flag floats
over the sultanS harem, and under
section 10 it provides that the Sulu
slaves can buy their liberty at the
market value when they earn enough
to do SO working at-nOthing-a day.
If you find there is a race question in
! this country that will require all the
patriotism and all the intelligence Of
the people, north and south, to solve,
is that a reason why you should drag
in another race question? Is it a rea-
son why you should bring into this
country 100000 brown people to
share in the destiny of this country?
There is not a republican in a posi-
tion to defend the negro question!
The republican party has ridden the
negro for 80 years to the doors OF the
capitol and then hitched and went in
| to hold office. The negro vote has be-
slowed president after president on
the republican party and the party
has given them janitors in return.
11'he republican congress, backed
by the dictation of a republican gov
ernment, has ordered standing army
of hundred thousand people, an in
crease of seventy-tive thousand. What
are those people to do when idle?
They will have nothing to do but to
drill and draw salaries. Then it is
said that armories can be built in the
vicinity of thickly populated districts
for the simple purpose Of Suppressing
by force the discomfort that ought to
be prevented by legislation.
II believe in expansion OF trade
with every country in the world, but
| would not put one of our American
soldier boys on the auction block and
trade him for all the Oriental trade
which this country will ever secure.
eff a republican president can order
down flag in Cuba, POO miles from
our shores, a democratic president can
order it down in the Philippines, 1000
miles away, by giving the same gov
ernment that Cuba will enjoy"