The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-15


tie trusts, it was probable, he said, that
they would cut off the principal source
of their campaign fund. He thought 1t
strange that Republicans who were not
members of trusts should insist upon
supporting them because they, with 9TH
ers. must suffer from their operations.
Mr.. Bryan contended that the tendency
of the Republican party was toward the
rapid and pc manent increase of the stand
ing army 'I noticed the other day." he
said, "a Republican speaker tried to give
an object lesson on the subject and had
four men stand up among four thousand
and suggested that that was the propor-
ton of the standing army to the popuia-
ton. Why, my friends 1t is not ques-
four thousand. It is a question whether
you will have four soldiers, supported as
soldiers, when one soldier will be enough
to answer the purpose. Suppose they
this country Would you be satisfied if
the Republicans showed you that you had
some money left after they collected
four times as much from YOU as you now
pay? Why, no. The question is not how
much you can stand, but how much yol
ought to stand. And so when we come to
the expense of large army and its men
ace; it is not whether four soldiers In
four thousand would be a menace to
this country. 1t is this, If people have
reached the point where they will per-
nit four soldiers, when they only need
one, then how do you know but the next
them a menace to the country? ZAP
plause) If the people will not stop this
increase before it becomes a menace, &! G
you sure they are going to afterwards
AGAINST IMPERIALISM.
Continuing, he argued that the Ameri-
can people had not declared for imperial
ism, and that there was no warrant for
the increase of the army. He went at
length into the Philippine question, con-
tending that the United States had no
title to either the archipelago or its peo-
pie, and declaring that the Filipinos
should be treated just as the Cubans are
''The president says that nobody wants
imperialism" said Mr.. Bryan, again re-
ferring to Mr.. McKinley's letter, and he
said in reply:
I'VE are not talking of the future, but
Of the past. We point you to the Porto
Rican bill, thing that is, and we charge
that the Porto Rican bill cannot exist
except upon an imperialistic theory of
government. We are not looking to the
future but to the present. What does the
bill assert? 1t asserts that q president,
elected by the people of this country,
not bound by the constitution. 1t is built
upon the theory that a congress, created
by the constitution, is not restrained by
that constitution when bill deals with
the people of Porto Rico. My friends, If
that is true of the people of Porto Rico
it may be true of any number Of people
anywhere / challenge you to find in all
the history of the world power exercised
by tyrant or despot more arbitrary than
the power asserted by the Porto Rican
bill Great applause.)
Mr.. Bryan again made reference to an
utterance Of the president in the follows
ing language:
(, "The president said the other day in his
letter that the only opposition that we
2Nad in the Philippines came from a part
NJ one tribe. Well my friends that is
hicr6 liTl161 To TaX fn fhof No
part of that one tribe. To say that a
small fraction of people over there could
keep In subsection all the rest of the
people and then keep an army of 5000
American soldiers at bay, too, is saying
too much. It reminds me very much of
the arguments that were made in Eng
land just before the Boer war commenced
Do you know why they went to war with
the BoerS? Why, they said that there
were three times as many people down
there who were not Beers as there were
of the Beers.
THE BoBR WAR.
'England's ostensible reason for under
taking war with the Boer republic Was
to help three men to get their rights
from one man. Well, [ wondered at the
time why the three would not take care
or themselves against the one. But when
the war commenced we never heard of
the three at all, but we heard of the one
all the time. 0aughter) Where were
the three men who were being trampled
upon by the one man? l guess they en-
listed in the Boer army. Where were
those men for whose rights the English
began the fight? They di. appeared Now.
isn't it strange that If majority of the
people in the Philippine islands wanted
our rule, isn't it strange that they have
not helped us?''
Concluding, Mr.. Bryan decla. ed that the
Republican party was building upon a
soroid plan, putting the dollar above the
man
why is It," he asked of the Republi-
cans, that you think SO much more of
money than of human rights?"
Replying to his own question. he said.
1t is because you have been putting
the dollar above the man. 1t is because
you nave beer worshipping man and for
geftlng humanity. Re ublicans, I wan to
ask you why any farmer should vote the
Republican ticket, when the Republican
party has no policy for the farmer, but
is back of those who bleed the farmer
IN every possible way? Why should the
laboring man vote the Republican ticker
when the Republican party turns a dee T
ear to every plea the Iaboring man
makes? Why should the business man
Ho[e tne Repuohcan ticket when the Re-
publican party upholds the trusts and
drives the small business man out of his
business? Why should the old man who
stands on the brink of the grave vote the
Re3piupEcan o3i ucket and leave the present
policy to curse the next generation ?
Why should the young man vote the Re-
publican ticket and condemn himself tn
serVitude and clerkship to a MONOPOLY?
J he Republican. party today does not
stand fcT the principles of human rights
The platform Of Sc adopted by the Re
publican party denounced the gosnel of
force. 1t said that 1t is the bighwav
mans plea that might makes right, and
that was unworthy of the diplomacy of
any nation. Today it would build an en-
pire upon the highwayman's plea n
might makes right" Great applause
A monster meeting was held at the
auditorium, which was addressed by
Hon. J. ]. Lenz, Mr. Welty. Mr..
Charles w. Baker Hon. Tom L. johnson
and DIR. J. c. Norton. Mr.. Bryan did
not begin to speak until after 10 o'clock
and he did not then speak at great
length. He gave especial attention to
the charge that he was responsible for
the ratification of the peace treaty. and
said he was willing to assume that re-
sponsibility, but asked:
rs it possible that with a Repubrcan n
president, a Republican senate and q Re.
publican house 1t required a defeated
candidate to have it ratified?"
lie declared that everywhere in the
world oppressed people are looking ia
the Democratic party as a breastworly
against arbitrary power. This was true
OF the struggling people of Ireland n;
Inc poor Of all Europe, and of old Dom
Paul, as he was being driven stem hv
step from his home, In the republic lie
had done SO much to establish Th.s
sentiment aroused very great enthusiasm
and the meeting adjourned with shorf
and cheer at II o'clock.
Mr.. Bryan left after the meeting for st.