The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-21
R0ASTS
BRYAN
Roosevelt Takes the Demo-
cratic Nominee to Task
For his Sheer at the Army
Made During a Recent
Chicago Speech
100000 IN |DLENESS"
Says Mr.. Bryan and Mr..
Roosevelt Call Attention
To the Exceedingly Danger
Gus and ArduOus Lives
Soldiers Lead
Says Mr.. Bryan and Mr..
Roosevelt Call Attention


Roosevelt made stirring speech
here today. being moved by the fol-
lowing extract from recent speech of
w. j. Bryan at Chicago:
"Can 100, 900 soldiers, in country
like this, take charge and change the
form of government? No. But the
fact that a people like ours permit
this BODIES no good to American in
stitutions. If 100000 men are per-
mitted to walk about in idleness where
one soldier would do, what are we
coming to ~
Mr.. Roosevelt said in part:
"Even more extraordinary is the
statement that 100, 600 soldiers are per-
mitted to walk about in idleness where
one soldier would do. If it were not
for Mr.. Bryan's other utterances on
the subject it would seem absolutely
impossible that this statement could
have been correctly reported.
"a hundred thousand soldiers in
idleness Think of these words being
spoken by a candidate for the highest
Office in the gift of the American peo-
pie; of the men who have passed
year of such grinding toll and des-
perate fighting in the Philippines that
we here can form no c conception of all
that they have dared and risked and
endured. They have been worn down
month in and month out, marching
from dawn until darkness, through
the mud of the tropical swamps, sleep
ing when and how they could, eating
what they could get or going without,
facing death by bullet at every step
from a foe ten times as numerous as
themselves, and, if wounded and left
behind, facing what was infinitely
worse than death--the most dreadful
torture. With patient, uncomplaiu-
ing, unfinching, never weary courage
they have done all this, and have
made not only America but all man
kind debtors; and their reward is that
the chosen representative of one of the
two great parties sneers at them as
walking about in idleness. Lawton
no longer walks about in idleness:
Liscomb no longer walks about in
idleness; Reilly no longer walks about
in idleness. Many an officer, many a
soldier rests forever in peace--peace
because his life of toll and effort for
his country has come to the kind of
end which should at least secure free.
dom from slight or SANDER, both for
the valiant dead and for the no less
valiant living.
lone soldier do the work of these
men? Are our memories so short as
already to forget the hurry with which
we drew troops both from America
and the Philippines when the blood of
our people called from China and the
awful danger of the women and chill
dren in Pekin stirred to its innermost
soul the manhood of Christendom :?
Small, indeed, is the chance for idle
ness for our troops in the Philippines,
so long as the insurgents are aided
and abetted by one of the great
parties in this country. Every Ameri-
can who holds high the honor of his
country should craven on his heart
the solemn prophecy of Lawton. Let
him beware above all else of the
words that speed the bullets of our
country's enemy.
"Idleness Was LeonardWood idle
when, for the first time in 300 years,
he cleaned a Spanish city? Was he
idle when he fed and clothed and
schooled the child of the reconcen-
trado? Was he idle when he lifted
into active labor the man sunk into
shiftless apathy by centuries of Span
ish tyranny? Was he idle when he
started this man with long strides on
the path of self-government? Were
Generals Macarthur, Wheaton and
Young idle when they drove plunderer
and murderer before them that, under
the shadow of our flag, the Scared
wilderness might again become a
fruitful land ? Was Chaffee idle
when eagerly obeying the president
command he led the march toward the
Forbidden city?
"Was the boy Titus idle, when,
springing lightly from the ranks, he
planted on the wallsof an immemorial
despotism the flag which stood for
rescue and for freedom? Idleness?
Such idleness is of the kind that plain
men call heroism, and thrice happy Ii
the country that can command it,"