The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-06
(wIid and enthusiastic applause ana

(Wild and enthusiastic applause ana
In every part of Europe and Africa the
charge Is made by the British press ana
alliance between this country and Great
Britain to the effect that in case OF any
tbe ehEf q fa t noar g F ba THIS repubc
will stand by Great Britain with It's army
and its navy. tCries Of mo, no. |
denying that report. I defended the ad-
ministration in every address l made In
visit to that country-for me. say un-
fortunate. financially ana politically-but
because 1t has not taken the chance at its
national convention to tell the american
lican forms of government Great APP
plause.)
Liberty, We all love the splendid word
the sweetest word that ever blossomed
upon the tongue of man, and as one great
States senate, it has come to pass that
we must whisper the word hperty In
Is it a fact that liberty is to become OBJ
solete in the American lexicon? Is 1t
fact that this great republic must chain
empire in its mad race for land and gold?
I sympathize with people struggling for
them as they struggled for liberty in every
country. And when the war broke out
a war for conquest, not for glory, but for
carrying liberty to people who We're cry
And the boys marched up from the
Northland whose fathers once marched
er oTgd PSe w5h the t Of Thee
and the boys came from the Southland,
they whose fathers once marched IN rag
ged gray, to the music of way Down
South in Dixie" (applause), and they fol-
lowed the men who at once led the North
and into other lands, and into the islands
of the sea. They marched under one flag
one splendid melody, as they felt in their
hearts the music that inspired the men IN
the days gone by:
TN the beauty of the lilies, Christ was
born across the sea-
AS he died to make men holy, let US die
to make men free.
The crowd at this point broke out into
demonstration, yelling and waving flags
and hats, and it was some little time be-
tempted several times to go on, but was
forced to wait some little time He fin
ally proceeded as follows:
Up until that point the war was right,
but when we passed beyond that point
was another Indication of following in the
footsteps of Great Britain, when our Hag
rose over the flag Of the rotten Spanish
monarchy the American republic could
not resist the temptation then of follow
ing in the footsteps of Great Britain and
1T thirsted for land and gold. and that is
where the mistake was made. We should
have stopped at the end of the Spanish
people who were ground to death under
the heel Of Spanish tyranny; We do love
pie stand for the blessed idea of liberty,
Justice and equality of rights, and dare
news over the British cable to the Boer
farmers in the two South African repub-
lies, that these representatives of six or
seven million American voters send q
word of sympathy to them, many Boer
would shout for joy in the hills of the
Transvaal. Grander struggle for liberty
was never made in all the. world history
than the struggle being made by the Re
publicans and Democrats in South Africa
Let US sympathize with them. and I am
glad that you have taken this action to-
day, and at the polls in November follow
it up. Let American principles ever live.
Let them go and on for years to come
as an institution to generations yet I'M
born. Liberty, love OF country, one flag,
one country, one splendid destiny alone
/ stand upon this platform and support
William Jennings Bryan