Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-08-25
BRYAN TO REPUBLICANS.
HE WOULD SAVE PYRAMIDS FROM
THE BURNING"


there was Il large audience. Mr.. Bryan
said he preferred speaking to Rcpub-
| leans on the principle that it is al
ways right to save brands from the
| burning. He believed most Republic
cans would leave their party when CON
| WINGED that they could so serve their
| country better than by remaining in it.
In the first place lie said, the Republic
can party had been a silver party; now
! 1T had become Il gold standard party. 1t
! had supported the greenbackS: now il
proposes TO substitute Il bank currency
| for the greenbackS. II had. heretofore.
| denounced trusts; now its leaders We're
| found generally defending the trusts.
| Speaking Of trusts. he asked what the
! individual Republicans especially the
Republican farmers. were getting out
of the trusts.
| THE GONERNNIINT HE WANTS.
I'VE do not object to the honest ac-
emulation of wealth." he said. II
want n Government that gives every
poor man the hope of being rich some
day; Government that gives the rich
man assurance that his children Will
be protected ii they ever become poor.
What object to Is Il Government that
protects II few men in their robbery
of the masses and then denounceS
everybody as an anarchist that does
not like to he robbed. | want YOU Re-
pubicans to see what change has been
made in the Republican party. You
Republicans recognize that there has
been n transformation in the purposes.
| If YOU cannot see the change that has
taken place in your party'S position
on the economic questions, | am goinS
| to ask ii you can see the change That
has taken place in your partys posi-
ton on these new questions that nave
come up since the Spanish war CAP
| plause) He declared that q policy OF
Imperialism is impossible without
| large army. when the Government
comes from the people, he said. the
! people will come from their homes TO
support it, but when you build on
| brute force you have got to have an
army to prevent the people making
| faces at you.
IMPERIALISM.
"If we are to resort to Imperialism
in the Philippines in order to get the
trade OF those islands is it not reason
able to suppose that the same policy
| will be brought into requisition TO get
the trade Of other countries
Then the speaker said
"Whcn an American boy dies for
| liberty his mother thanks God that he
gave her strength TO bear and reason
! for such noble sacrifice; but do the
! American mothers want to raise boys
at so much per head? That Is what
| Imperialism means. l believe in the
expansion of trade; | want this coun-
try to extend her trade. but l would
not put one American citizen on the
auction block and sell him for all the
| trade of the Orient If | had to buy 1T
by his blood" Great applause)
EVADING THE QUESTION.
Mr.. Bryan asserted that the Repub-
leans are evading the question of eX
pansion. and said that after having
asserted over and over again that the
silver question was dead they reSur-
rectcd ii far beyond the predictions of
Democrats. Important as was that
issue it could not he used to prevent
adequate discussion OF issues of more
pressing questions, In closing Mr..
Bryan said:
SPLENDOR OF EMPIRE.
The splendors of an empire have
lurcd governments on TO destruction in
the past. We do not want the splcn
doris OF an empire. We want gov
eminent OF the people, by the people
and for the people. That is glory
enough for us; (applausc) and when
| Republicans tell you what we are going
to do. and how we are going To reach
out and 80 into other lands for their eX-
| ploitation, YOU remember that passage
| from the scripture and you can para
| phrase it by an answer they cannot
meet: What shall it profit lis if we
| gain the world and lose the spirit
: vrTfCfT PRICES tt6CrTy ITS ar f1crit7rE,c r1-
| all men in all lands everywhere
| Marysvillc, Kan. Aug. 24.-Mr Bryan
arrived here on Il special train from
| Manhattan this evening and after
wards delivered Il speech to the pco-
! pie of this vicinity. He was greeted
/ by considerable gatherings at points
en- route. At Randolph he made a
| FIVE minutes speech. in which he com
/ pared the Republican party to an as
! ISOLATION of athletes trained to turn
! somersa ults in concert whenever the
/ leaders say flop With the party. Al
! Blue Rapids he quoted the scriptural
/ passage, The Lord loves them whom
/ he chasteneth" as Gods authority for
/ thrashing the Republican party at the
! November election.
| His Marysville speech covered the
general range of public questions.
BACK TO NEBRASKA.
/ Beatrice. Neb. Aug. 24.-Mr Bryan
| returned to his own State to-day.
| reaching the State line late in the af-
/ ternoon and arriving at Beatrice "A
! few minutes past O'Clock. There
! was q large crowd ut the depot when
/ Mr.. Bryan arrived
/ His address was n review of the
general issues of the campaign. More
| than usual attention was given to the
legislation concerning Porto Rico He
used this as an illustration of what the
| Republican party would do in other
| countries if the opportunity should
| offer. This legislation he regarded as
specimen OF Imperialism and good
| illustration of what could be accom-
plished of a Republican Congress.
Speaking of the Philippines. Mr..
| Bryan said:
'Republicans. are YOU not ashamed
to say that God would make Filipinos
and leave them thousands of years
| until Hanna found them?'
| Mr. Bryan will leave Beatrice to-
! morrow morning for Lincoln, ana in
the afternoon gees to Omaha, where
he speaks at night.
POCKETS.
y somewhat exciting incident marked
! MIR. Rryan's first stop in his own State
on his return from the Topeka notin-