Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-08-17
SECOND BATTLE.
BRYAN FIRES THE FIRST
GUN IN HIS SECOND
BATTLE,
His Great Speech at Indianap-
oils - Republican Imperial
Expansion and Asinine
Contraction.

Reform Press Bureau.

Reform Press Bureau,
St. Paul. Aug. Is, 1900.
The most important political event o.
the past week was the greaS speech de-
aivered in indianapolis by w. J. Bryan
on the occasion when he was formally
notified of his nomination for the presi
dency. It was a strong card for the re-
form parties Like all Of Bryan!
speeches it was replete with the lofty
sentiments Of the highest patriotism
1t illustrates as we'll as any Of the many
other great speeches by him the clear
head and the big heart of the man
He never blunders. During these four
years since he became the recognized
header he never has said anything fo1
which he or his friends have had tc
apologize, or which they might have
wished to have left unsaid Some OF
the imperialist organs are finding fault
with his indianapolis speech, of course,
but it is for what he did not say rather
than for what he did say. They pre-
tend to belittle it, but it is causing
them much worry just the same. The
leading Republican organ of Minnesota
has been thrown into tit by it, and de-
votes several columns to an effort to
show that the speech is Of no impor-
tance anyhow. The Sioux Falls Daily
Press hit the nail squarely on the head
when it predicted some days in advance
exactly how the speech would be re-
ceived by the G. O. P. press. This is
what the paper says:
1.-THE speech Of acceptance Of Mr..
Bryan is due in day or two. Then
will the distressed Republican editors
have something to write about. Alas;
1t will not be fresh and new, for it is
morally certain they will go over the
same old story again, finding the same
faults and making the same specious
criticisms.
IF Mr.. Bryan says anything at all
about financeo these Republican editors
will denounce him for ''trying to de-
base the currency of the banks, etc.
They will rave and storm and fume
about Impending national disaster"
and the like stuff.
IF Mr.. Bryan hits the trusts some
pretty hard blows these trust defend
ers will wriggle and squirm and say
Bryan is insincere and that he didn't
have sense enough to know two years
before the trust era began that the
trusts would now be in control of the
government. They will say the trusts
are good thing, and that anyway the
Republican party is the original trust
smashing party.
IF Mr.. Bryan bears down heavily on
the principles Of free government and
reminds the people that ours is nation
in which the people are sovereigns, and
that it is contrary to the spirit Of our
institutions for our government to be
doing the very things that brought on
the revolt which ended in American in
dependence-if Mr.. Bryan hits impe.
rialism few body blows, the imperial
list editors will shout in chorus that he
has abandoned" free silver and is
fighting phantom.
"'We have no sort Of expectation that
Bryan will please any Of the Hanna
editors in his speech of acceptance.
Neither will Mr. Stevenson.
On the one hand we have expansion
by means Of war Of criminal aggres-
sion and conquest, and on the other
hand we have humiliating contraction
for the benefit of Great Britain. The
modus vivendi to which Mr.. Mckinley
has consented in the Alaskan boundary
dispute makes magnificent land gift
to England. The remarkable explana-
tion offered for the administration by
Senator Scott of West Virginia is this:
'Instead Of having ceded to Great
Britain territory as large as the state of
Rhode Island, not one inch has been
surrendered to that country. On the
other hand, England surrendered to us
nineteen-twentieths of the land whose
possession had been in dispute"
In plain language this means that the
administration has done we'll by giving
England only part of the territory
which she demanded, but to which she
had no sort Of valid pretension. Instead
of complaining we should be grateful
to the president for not allowing Eng
land to take more than she did.
Governor John Lind is nothing if not
prompt to act when occasion demands.
There was no unnecessary delay in deal
ing with the Indian scare some time
ago, and neither was there any now in
eaking measures to protect the people
In the northern part Of the state who
were being terrorized by gang of law
less circus men. The governor is
awake all the time. The people have
come to understand thoroughly that he
Us to be trusted to do his duty without
fear or favor, and in the fall they will
be glad of the chance to record their
wish that he shall serve for two year s
enore.
1t was stated in this bulletin last
week that Van SAINT was a falsifier
when in his Minneapolis speech he
quoted Mr.. Bryan as saying that this
country would manufacture no goods
for export in the event of McKinley's
election. Every person of sense knows
Without being told that Bryan never