The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-23
might MAKES RIGHT"
The Plea on Which the Republican
Party Builds Its Policies.
DEEM THE DOLLAR HIGHER THAN MAN
This is Why They Seek 70 Push the Money
Question to the Front When Imperial
ism is in Effect The Para
mount Issue.
mount Issue.
(By the Associated Press.)


Auburn, Neb., August 22.-Wlllam j.
Bryan began at an early hour with what
he expected to be busy day. The first
meeting was at $50 this morning here in
the court house grounds. A light rain
was falling, but a good sized crowd was
present, including many ladies. All the
speeches of the day were planned to be
made in the First Congressional dis
trict, which was represented by Mr.. Bry-
an in Congress, and since his retirement,
has been represented by a Republican
member. He made a plea for the cleo
tion of Hon. G. w. Berger, the Demo-
cratic candidate for the office of National
Representative and asked for the sup
port of the whole Democratic ticket.
Comparing the Government to a corpora
ton he said that all citizens were stock
holders. AS such they owed it to them
selves to look well after the conduct
of the directors OF the corporation. He
charged the Republican Administration,
the Government directors with deceit in
all it's policies. This deception, he said,
had been practiced in regard to the finan
cial system, the trusts and the for
eign policy of the country He charged
the Republican party with the intention
of fastening a national debt upon the
people.
The Republican party was building its
policy upon the plea that might makes
right" They were asserting that the
financial question was this year the par
amount issue only because the Republican
party regarded the dollar of more conse
quence than the man. He dwelt upon lib
erty as a God given right, saying that
the Filipinos were as much entitled to it
as we are. In framing them a good
government we are only promising what
kings promised under similar circum-
stances.
Mr.. Bryan said, referring to Republi-
can inconsistencies:
"You Republicans who were shouting
yourselves hoarse when Mckinley said in
1891 that Mr. Cleveland was trying to
make money the master and all things
else the servant, did not it take you
several DAYS to come around and hur-
Tah for Mckinley when he did the same
things that Cleveland had done? You Re-
publicans who said that the greenbacks
saved TIE country when both gold and
silver left it, did it not take you several
days to turn around and advocate the re-
tirement of the greenbacks?
You Republicans who were boasting
that the party was paying off the ma
tional debt, did not it take you some
time to turn around to that position
where you could say that a permanent
debt is a good thing.
"You Republicans that used to de-
nounce the trusts in the most vigor
Gus language did not it take you some
time to turn around where you could
say that there are good and bad trusts
and that the good trusts are those which
contribute most literally to the cam
paign fund? And don't you think that
some of you Republicans are in po-
sition where you are not going to- turn
any more? You Republicans, who, for
years have been boasting of the fourth
of July. that we had a country which
did not need large standing army and
did not have to have a large military
establishment here as they have in Eu-
rope, don't you think you will refuse to
turn when the Republican party wants an
army which is four times as large as
when the Republican Administration was
eIeCteQ IN 1876. YOU R6puDllCdnS WHO
used to brag of this-are you not little
afraid that now you cannot turn over
and make your opinions conform to the
Republican policy when you find that the
expense of the army in a single year is
half as much as the entire amount spent
on the education of all the children in
the United States? Are you willing to
enter upon this career of militarism?
when we talk about increasing the
size of the army they say it is all bun
combe, and say what is 100000 men in
a country like this ?" l will tell you that
100000 men compared with the situation
when the Republican party got into power
is four times as big an army, and when
you defend the increase of four times
the size of the army in the last four years
from now you can with propriety say that
we will have an army of 100000 if you
have an imperial policy. The same spirit
of militarism and Imperialism that car
ried you to the Philippine Islands, will
carry you wherever you can find peo-
pie weak enough to be whipped by the
United States The doctrine of Imperial
ism is the doctrine of the bully and the
people under the pretenSe that you are
taking them for their good andMxou
reach your hands in their pocket n
rob them while you are taking "a NJ.
They say that we cannot haul dow - uhs
them
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