The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-25
IN ANNUAL SESSION
Continued from Sixth Page.

fostering infant industries, the nanufac-
turing interests of the country have
grown, under Republican auspices, into
a band of pirate trusts which levy trib-
ute on the helpless consumers of every
articles of necessity from the cradle to
the grave. We are for oeaseIess war
on these industrial and commercial cor
porants. We demand the enforcement
Of all laws heretofore enacted, both ma
tional and state, for their overthrow.
If these are insufficient we insist upon
new laws and as the Republican party
cannot be expected to smite the hand
that feeds it, we demand Democratic Of
fcials to enforce antitrust laws.
I'VE are unalterably for the republic
and everlastingly against the empire.
and denounce the present national adj
ministration for its shameless attempt
to unsettle the foundations of our gov
ernment For its abandonment of the
Monroe doctrine; for its attempt to thrust
our country into European and Asiatic
politics, against which we have been
warned by the fathers; for its attempt
to subjugate unwilling and liberty loving
peoplel not to make them citizens, but
serfs; for its attempt to adopt for our
country the English colonial system, as
foreign to our plant of government as
titled aristocracy or a king; for Its
brazen disregard of our promise to the
people of Cuba to give them their free
dom; for its permanent increase of our
standing army from %, 900 to 100000 men,
with no possible justification, except to
keep unwilling foreign peoples In suoJu-
cation; for it's notorious secret alliance
with England to be used rs a menace
to other friendly nations, and for It's
carpetbag government and unconstitu-
tional tariff inaugurated in Porto Rico
All of these things, the natural sequence
of Republicanism, and the first SYMPTOMS
Of a military imperialism, we will for
ever oppose.
1--WE believe in national growth and
expansion. the growth which comes when
the sturdy and intelligent immigrant
makes his home among us to becomem
citizen under our laws; and expansion as
to contiguous territory to be developer
into territories and states. We are OPP
posed to the forcible retention OF the
Philippine Island by the determination OF
the inhabitants, and to the extension OF
American trade by the aid OF eating
guns, and insist that these people, OF
different type and race, and who can
never be assimilated to our ideals or in
stitutions, be given their freedom, en-
ccuraged to adopt a republican form OF
government and protected in it by this
II iS IN command
free government to all mankind.
''W e declare our sympathy with the
South African republics in their wonder
full defense of free government against
the assaults of the most voracious empire
of modern times We consider England's
indefensible persecution Of these peace
able and liberty loving people for the last
eighty years the most rephesensible ex-
hibition of land grabbing and the greed
for gold that modern civilization has wit
messed, and we declare that in its I'M
concealed encouragement to the empire in
its abortive efforts to subjugate and eff
face these republics the present admin
istration totally misconceives and mis-
represents the temper and sentiment OF
the American people
1--WE stand for a progressive Demo-
cracy. We believe in the people. We be-
Iieve the people will more wisely and
Justly regulate the money supply of the
country than will the banks. Hence, we
the for the peoples money against bank
money. We believe the people more cap
able Of supplying public wants than cor
porations. hence we are for public owner
shin of municipal utilities. We believe
the people know what they want better
than any delegated agents. hence we
are in favor of direct legislation wherever
practicable and of the election OF United
States senators by the direct vote of the
people.
1.-THE emergency that confronts us as
nation calls for a man of wisdom OF
courage and of decision at the head OF
our government. One who will not let
so-called duty and destiny obscure In
his sight the everlasting principles OF
right and Justice One who will adhere
to ''our plain duty against the allure
ments of corporate greed, and one VINO
has no patience with So per cent freedom
under the American flag. Such a man
we know in that acknowledged leader OF
the pain pSOple, nun. W AAi4N~A-A
BRYAN. and we unreservedly pledge our
allegiance to him, trusting that ne may
be triumphantIy elected president in the
coming contest, as the candidate OF al
the voters of the republic who would save
our country from impending danger.
MARKET STREET SPEECH.
The afternoon speech of Mr.. Bryan on
Market street was. viewed from the
standpoint of a presidential candidate, a
failure. As a stump speech where the
wiles and tricks of a common political
orator were in demand it was good. II
was not an argument, probably not in
tended as such. It was announcement
from beginning to end. At times piausi-
BILE and not lacking in clever anecdote,
it was a high class street harangue. The
points were not even coherent and car
red to their ultimate conclusion. 1t con-