Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-21


Republican party than all the poor Re-
publicans which use the wires. In ar
hour Of peril this government can take
the son from his mother the husband
from his wife. the father from his child
and stand them ND in front of an
enemy's guns, but in an hour of danger
this government cannot lay its hands
upon accumulated wealth and make
that wealth bear its share of the ex-
penses.
MORD PRECIOUS THAN BLOOD.
why is it? 1t is because the Re
publican party has made money more
precious than blood. My friends, you
heard men denounce our income tax
Ill 1886. want to say that 1t is strong
er to-day than it was then. And If
those who have been Sinking their
taxes think that they have settled this
question forever 1 want to tell them
that the income tax will be in the next
campaign and 1t will be in the cam
paign until the Constitution of the
United States is SO amended as to spe-
officially authorize an income tax. 50
that neither one judge or nine judges
can build q bulwark around the for
tunes OF the great and throw the bur
dens of government on the poor.
THE MONEY QUESTION.
''But this is only one question. l am
going to speak OF another question
which shows how the Republican party
is looking after the interests of wealth
and ncglccting the welfare of phe peo-
pie. L know they say that the money
question Is u dead issue. But my
friends silver has been buried so often
that Il little thing like u funeral does
not bother us like it used TO. When
reverscs in Il war with handful of
ROnrc will hal toll
where will the gold standard be if
England ever attacks n nation OF her
size and gets into real war
when we join ourselves to The gold
standard; when we make gold alone
the legal tender for the payment of
debts, we connect ourselves with every
disturbance in Europe, and make our
| selves dependent upon their conditions
for our prosperity"
TT IS 4 LIE"
You tell me it is n sound system?
II is false, that system is not sound.
Tell me 1t is an American system? 1t
is n lie; there IS no such American sys-
tenn that makes us trcmbls every time
there is trouble among the gold stand
ard countries of the old world
CHANGE OF FRONT.
Continuing upon the currency uues-
ton. Mr.. Bryan asserted that in 1896
all OF the Leading political parties de-
manded n double standard, differing
only in the method of obtaining IT.
Now. the Republican party insists upon
n single standard and bill is pend
ing in Congress. which not only seeks
That end. but also endeavors TO per-
Petually force upon this country the
present national banking system. If
the Republicans had advocated such IL
measure in 1896, he declared. Mr.. Me-
l\inley would never have been Prcsi-
dent
TRUSTS AND Nr1LITARlSM.
After fully discussing the currency
Question, Mr.. Bryan took up the trusts.
which he discussed at great length in
slsting that the Republican party had
no intention whatever of interfering
with such CORPORATIONS under any cir
cumStances. From the trusts he passed
to discussion OF the standing army.
and declared that the presence of 10O.-
600 soldiers in This country and the
Philippines was but q step toward
militafsm. He then discussed impe-
rialism, arguing that there was a great
difference between that and expan-
sion. The present policy of the admin
1Slra tim, l..a-fis5f=ef1tctf, ttf1ed toward
imperialism, although its friends and
upholders endeavored to show that it
was expansion.
PROBLEM OF THE PHILIPPINES.
lie discussed the problem OF the Phil
1ppines from the point of commerce.
civilization and religion, and cited the
results of English government in In
Ola TO show that none of these would
be accomplished in the Philippines.
You cannot find an argument" said
he, for the permanent. holding OF the
Philippine islands that would apply to
Cuba"
Il want" said Mr.. Bryan. in conclu-
sion. "if can, to help restore a gov
ernment founded upon the Declaration
or independence and administered ac-
cordng to the doctrine of jefferson; n
government that will stand as 1t did
In Jackson's day-between a bank arts
tocracy and the people.
A PRAYER.
But. my friends, cannot tell YOU
what fate has decreed. 1 cannot tell
you whether it is to be our lot to
triumph, and in our triumph Law the
foundation again in the old places, and
raise again the ancient landmarks
which the fathers had set up. I cannot
tell; but I know this: That if il is
fate that this nation is to cease to be n
republic and become an empire: if it
is destiny that this, the greatest re-
public of history, is to extinguish it's
light and follow in the light of the
monarches of the old world it, in the
providence of God the time has come
when the pendulum should swing back
toward the dark ages Of the triumph OF
brute force, I pray TO God that the
Democratic party may go down to
eternal death with the republic, rather