Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-01-17
IN BANQUET: ). u D U HALLS / ! !. | !.
VIM. ]. Bryan and Governor Lind
Address the Democracy of
Minnesota.
Bryan Discusses National Issues.
Lind Confines Mostly to
State Matters.


the state filled the exposition building
in Minneapolis full to OVERLOOKING the
night of Jan. 10 to greet w. ]. Bryan,
later the banquet hall at the West ho-
tel was filled where Mr.. Bryan and
Gov. Lind were the guests of honor.
Mr.. Bryan spoke as follows:
Mr.. Toastmaster and Gentlemen:
,vith nave az listened with profit as well as
win pleasure to the speeches which have
Deen made tonight. and as heard your
governor N,er delivering that touching appeal
to the people of this state and made in
vain; 1t would be reflection upon the
intelligence, the honesty, the purpose and
to believe that John Lind could make
yet be defeated for any office for which
cries of no:) And if he needed any as
sistance in the great campaign, what fur
WScb eoa be WS%a he he than
peer peer of any Lying orator and md, has not
man whom this nation has ever pro-
as Xou have been told that he lost and
he gave up the prospects that SPREAD out
before him. but he proved by SO doing
receive" daughter and applause) And.
IKE all men who are willing to die for
the truth, the truth has made him alive
day e Vas wn co
to defeat rather than sacrifice his convic-
tions. Applause.)
chance to discuss the various questions
before the public, and therefore in the
very very brief time that l have am going to
talked to you about the money question
t about it again I have discussed the
I would discuss it now. But 1 want to
spend the ees few minutes have upon that
QUESTION Which is today appeaing IS to the the
presented in 1896, in favor Of the reforms
want to speak word on the subject of
imperialism.
The closing years of the eighteenth CEN
republic, dedicated to the doctrine that
endowed by their Creator with certain
eminent did not give, rights which gov
eminent cannot take away; that govern
ments are Instituted among men to secure
these rights. and that governments de-
rive their just powers from the consent
of the governed.
republic. And during the nineteenth cen
fury that idea grew; stones crumbled,
ot.cl:tr We're given forth and con-
people were free other people became
free. Because our people fought for
Thirty others fought for liberty. and the
the politics of the human race during the
nineteenth century than. all the armies
and all the navies Of all the nations of
the world. Cloud applause.)
And now. during the closing years of
the nineteenth century we find this ma
ton hesitating about its policy. We find
men declaring that this nation must now
suppress the truth it then advanced.
That it must deny the doctrine that it
this ptGmulgated warn you that if
SCENTS the highest ideals and aspirations
Wa you het # t. the naon
sway of the pendulum back towards
momentous question presented to us; and
is 1t not strange that when we meet to
consider this hlsg great re t., thsme men viii at
t trine Of ce CO. Why. Kings used the
people the doctTne when Of m our
archy they overthrow the doctrine that
any man had a divine right to rule any any
body else. (Applause.)
Some one has. expressed it that the
balls by, the Soldiers OF Of the revoiuti S
with the doctrine of force. And now
wnen the doctrine of force is again in,
troduced the doctrine of divine right is
divine right of man to rule because
ne vas born Of royal blood. Now, it is
a divine right to rule because it is an
imperial race. daughter.)
The man who says that God created
any people and did not give to them the
fAa1p paighy to- govern themselves ibels the
and now men go into the pulpit and YOU
will hear ministers believing about as if
they II 9ad scent .o Of blood advocating
mighty to help carry it on.
Imperialism means conquest; not now
and hereafter: And shall we speak light
~ of war. Who has right to take a
human life. Who has right to take that
human being can restore when it Is once
taken.
re- Ten I'M me that. that az an imperial policy will
plan of force and plan of conquest will
pile our shores with gold. If / Knew that
this Polcy would ,aI bring US gold until it
I would not change the battle hymn Of
the republic, in order to put into it. one
Mr.. Bryan covered much of the same
ground he did at the Exposition meeting
earlier in the evening, and continuing
You hear people assert that If we say
Word against war conquest we are
e aead the 3eu cause aus e Of tnf gn9y
which bears on this same point. It is a
what constitutes the bulwark of our
own liberty and Independence? It is not
our Wanting battlements, our bristling
seacoast o 9ur army aG and our navy It is
defenae IS in the s spr whch pTzed 1S S
erty as the heritage of all men in all
and and you have planted the seeds q. des-
yourself with the chains of bondage and
you preRare your r. own limbs to wear
of others YOU have lost the geniuS ~
fit subject Of the tyrants Of the world
fnese are no not the w9rds Of
%an the the the T Repub H
hoed e that his WIFI even eS no arise
in the imperial Republican policy of to-
day. Mark what he says-that the de-
prizes rs liberty as the heritage Of ali men
spirit. he says, and you have planted the
sesds OF Rats at your own door,
Orient: tell you because: hate despot-
ism here, and am not willing to crush
ase pr in as the her
If the Filipinos were to die tomorrow the
%orld Wo4 4ha go but when this nation
everywhere we plant the seeds Of despotS
ism upon our own shore: When. there is
reach the heart. And we dare not plant
in the American flag in the far away is
lands of the Pacific a doctrine that we
are n9 81 n w'1anng to plant upon our own
American people will be deaf to the voice
cannot believe that they are Willing to
silence all the voices that rise from the
graves Of patriotic dead. am not will
thew win be willing ia transforrn this j