Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-07-12
suggestion OF the sugar and tobacco
trusts, sign a bill for a tariff on the pro-

suggestion Of the sugar and tobacco
trusts, sign a bill for a tariff on the pro-
ducts of that island.
He must not denounce policy as one
demand of power behind The throne,
pursue the policy he has denounced.
He must not, while processing opposi-
against trade, send his emissaries to une
trust baron castles to beg. like Lazarus
at Dives gates, for subscriptions to his
support of his administration to mon,
archy In its efforts to destroy republic.
But he must ever sympathize with u peo-
pie struggling for the right of self-gov-
Instead of the republican policy of
monometallism, he must offer the free
metals of the constitution, the gold that
polished the winged sandals of Hermes
and the silver that glitters in the bow
Instead of a. panic-breeding credit cur
rency, controlled by the bank trust. he
must offer government paper controlled
He must be able to distinguish between
democratic expansion. and republican im-
perialism.. The first is a natural growth
territory, into every foot of which is carr
ried the constitution-the flag and the
decalogue-.and over the shoulders OF
zenship. 1t is a growth that has added
eighteen stars to the field of blue. in the
states that have been carved from terri
tory annexed to the domain of the nation
4y the wisdom and .statcsmanship of the
that is Bounded on the . north hi by the con.
stitution of the United States, on the
cast by the Monroe doctrine, on the
south by the declaration of independence
and on the west by the ten command
ments.
How different this from the bandit poll
cy of the republican Imperialism. with its
quered, provinces; its government of sui
len subjects against their will, by force
and and fraud; It's denial to them Of the pro-
commandment which says: Thou shalt
not steal'-a policy which ould send our
Uncle Sam off his American range with
iron to rustic and brand over ali the
islands of the orient, while Eypocri,ically
ch I9d,li the long-meter Doxolosy.
roster hue today than when we met in
convention four years ago. Then a finan-
cial cataclNsm had spread over the coun-
cause was easily traced to the errors and
folies of the republican party. yet we
were n power he,S when it and
wreck of shattered fortunes which fol-
lowed in Its wake. Torn asunder by dis
sessions ser. within and disasters without,
future which seemed to augur it's dissolu,
ton. The problem then was to select 4
standard sta bearer bold enough to cover the
destruction, If not from defeat.
While discord with her flaming torch
confused the counsels there, from out the
sunset sun realm az ~, champion came and babe
with knightly mien and matchlsss
speech he lowered above his peers, and
xyit al
did hail him CHER and gave our party.s
banner to his hand. Slowly despair gave
wa, way to hope: confidence took the place
Where timorous fear had been: the
broken. shattered columns formed again,
ana behind him, singing, came six mill
non nc I'VE hundred thousand valiant men
;, And the story of how we'll he fought,
how fearlessly he fell and how dearly the
enemys victory was bought has all gone
out into history now.
Back from his first battle he came, a
pan, !. but unconauered hero of the
rights of man. Conscious of the recti-
belief that mo issue is ever settled until
1t is settled right" he cheerfully ac-
quiesced in the result of that campaign
contest between the dollar and the man.
For four years he has waged an UNI
ceasng warfare against the peoples
enemy-for four years he has held up the
partNs standard and his voice has
cheered the hosts of democracy in every
state ana territory. When the trusts be-
gan 10 increase under the protection of
a republican administration he was the
first. to point out the danger and pre-
scribe Il remedy
When the alarums of war for hui
mainly reused the heroic spirit of our
land, he Offered his SWORD to his countrys
cause ON the day that war was declared.
When, later, he saw the administration
departing from the ancient landmarks of
our institutions in its enchanted dream
OF empire and mflitarism, he was the
i1rst to raise warning voice, and resign
of peace was signed. he threw himself
into the contest for the rescue of the re-
public.
Realizing that Imperialism. like the ia
Pee. pied Antaeus. was born of earth. and
OF giant strength and ii thrown down
would rise again refreshed from contact
with it's mother element, he, like the
mighty Hercules. raised it above the
sordid sphere from which its strength
was Va. drawn and on plane Of lofty patri-
otism he strangled It,
With the issues now clearly drawn, no
doubt remains as to the name of our can
didate. On that question we are re-
united democracy
rather in name than in faith. have
shouted for our gallant leader again, and
every state and territory has Instructed
It's delegates to this convention to vote
Tor him here. So it only remains for Ne
brasSa to pronounce, the name that has
Bunker Hill and echoed back from Sier-
ra's sunset slope and that revcrbera1 es
among the pine-clad, snow-capped hills
OF the north and rises up from the slum-
berlng. flower-scented savannah of the
ssonth; and that name is the name of Will
liam Jennings BRYAN har hast haloyo,3