The Portland daily press., 1900-08-25

lie Tslls People How the Republican
Party Has Changed.

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Manhattan, Kas, August 24.-W. J.
Bryan began the day with speech here.
The community Is regarded as strongly
Repu bIlcan but there was a large audi
ence. Mr.. Bryan said he preferred speak
ing to Republicans on the principle that
it is always right to save "brands from
the burning he believed most Repub-
Iicans would leave their party when con-
vinced that they could serve their country
better by leaving it than they could by
remaining in It. In the first place, he
said, the Republican party had been a
silver party, now 1t had become a gold
standard party. IU had supported the
green backs. now it proposes to substitute
a bank currency for the green backs. 1t
had heretofore, denounced trusts. now its
leaders were found generally defending
the trusts. Speaking OF trusts, he asked
what the individual Republicans, espec-
tally the Republican farmers, We're get
ting out Of the trusts.
81 do not object to the honest accumu
lation of wealth, - he said. - want a
government that gives every poor man
the hope of being rich some DAY, a gov
ernment that gives the rich man assur-
ance that his children will be protected
if they ever become poor. What object
to is a government that protects few
men in their robbery OF the masses and
then denOunCes every body as an anarchist
that does not like to be robbed. want
you Republicans to see the change that
has taken place in the Republican party.
/ want you Republicans to recognize that
there has been a transformation In your
party's purpose. You republicans have
been looking at the outside Of the egg.
You say it's the same size; the same color
that It used to be but you don't now
what change has gone on in the contents
of the egg aud If you Republicans cannot
see the change that has taken place In
your party S position on the economic
questions, / am going TO ask II you can
see the change that has taken place IN
your party position on these new cues
tions that have come up since the span
ish WARP (Applause
He declared that policy of imperial
ism is impossible without large army
"When the government comes from the
people, he said, the people win 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.
stIf we are to resort to imperialism IN
the Philippines in order TO get trade OF
those islands it is not reasonable to sup
pose that the same policy viii be brought
into requ isition TO get the trade OF oUher
countriesY'
The speaker did not believe that Amer
~
exchanged as soldiers for trade at SO
much per head.
On this point he said: When an
American boy dies Tor liberty his mother
thanks God that he gave her strength 60
bear and rear son for such noble sacrl.
flee, but what American mothers want
to raise boys at so much per head L%na1 %
is what imperialism means, pelleVe
in the expansion of trade. want this
country to extend her trade, but l would
not put one American citizen on the
block and sell him for all the trade OF the
Orient il / had to buy it by his blood. +
(Great applause ,-,..
are evading the question OF expansion
and said that after having asserted over
and over again that the silver questlon
is dead they resurrected it far beyon1 5he
predictions OF Democrats. lmpof6ang az
was that issue it could not be used %
prevent adequate discussion of issues OF
more pressing questions. In closing NAr'
Bryan said.
''The splendors of an empire have luren
governments on to destruction IN Vhe
past. We do not want the splendors ol
an empire. We want government OF One