The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-10-16

ernments. as well as between the people
! there ought to be less necessity for war
In fact. / believe that If this nation vii
stand upon fits rights and be as careful
| TO respect the rights OF other people es i
! Is to defend its own, there Will be 1ttl'
use Of war. II this nation viii obey IN
commandment. Thou shalt not steal ]
Will have little difficulty in enforcing tina
commandment IN those places where thu
naticn Is protector.
The American idea Of a protectOrate /,
different from the European idea Urdel
9 European rrotectorate the protector
plumbers the protected. According 10 ou
| theory the protector has to give IN
strength of the protector 10 It's ware
without making the ward the victim o
| the protector and so we believe in IN,
| far-awgy Philippines that this nation car
he protector as IL has been In the Soutl
American republics. and without govern
ing the people ourselves. We can say {,
the world. Hands off, and let that re
public live and work out its destiny
THAT is our theory and we feel that 4
Is a significant iact that the Republican
party has planted itself upon the Euro
pean doctrine that you must own coun
try in order to be Of service 10 it at tn:
same time that it plants itself upon At
European colonial idea.
You will prob tbly find in your tOwT
| a few people who will support the Re
publican idea of the colonial policy, bu
! suggest that when you find Repub
lican who is willing 70 support the col
onial idea you ask him TO show his sin
certify by sending a petition to the Presi
dent asking him to apologize to Grea
Britain for the trouble we made her be
fore We learned of the blessings of this
colonial system. for If the Republican
party is right to-day in administering col
cnies, taxing them without representa-
ton. and governing them without their
consent, then the colOnists were wrong
l25 years ago when they asserted thai
these principles were wrong"
Jones and Monnett Living Examples.
At Mineral Point Mr. Bryan asked
Mayor Jones and Mr. Monnett to come
to the car platform, and then pointed tC
them as specimens of men who were be-
ing driven from the Republican party by
its policies.
Mr. Bryan made his first important stor
Of the day at New Philadelphia, Ohio he
had an audience at this point which filed
the entire public square with men stand
ing and packed closely together. There
were many yellow badges In the audience,
but it was attentive and there were COM
psratively few interruptions.
Speaking of the ice trust and the dccu-
satiOn that some of the directors Of that
trust are Democrats, Mr. Bryan asked
why the Republican governor Of the state
did not suppress that trust and thus Dra
vent Democrats and others from gett ns
the stock. In this same connection ne re-
ferrsd to Attorney General Monnett' 5
case, saying il was evident that any Re
publican official must sacrifice duty when
1t Is necessary In order to serve the mo-
nOpOlleS. Otherwise he must sacrifice
himself. He did not believe there could be
a good monopoly nor that God had ever
mace man good enough 10 stand at the
head of such a concern and say how much
other people should pay for the necessities
OF life. He wanted he said, a government
that would protect all It's citizens and
guarantee TO all men fair share of their
own earnings.
Mr. Bryan declared that the Republican
party was trying TO hide behind the nat
ent law. and said that he was asked II the
the patent law. Continuing, he said:
Trusts and Patents Unlike.
mo honest man would make such a
defense. because no man would helieve
that when We Genounce private monopo les
Ike the sugar trust and the oil trust We
mean TO destroy the patent law. What is
the dlHerence between a patent monopoly
and the monopolies that we are after?
A man who gets a patent gets IL be-
cause ne gives 10 the world a new idea
and the government protects him in rhe
enjoyment OF the profits of that idea for
a fixed time.
But the trust magnate gives TO the
Wof!d no new idea; he simply employs an
oiu hl5d, ana you Will ind IL in the Bible.
that the love of money was the root ~ a II
evil. he applies that to the trust nJes-
uon. That is no new idea The man VINO
gives you new idea and gets a natent
upon II gives something that is blessing
for the race"
RafaprfueT 70
sell, MI. Bryan said he was not as rich
as he had been represented 10 be. and ne
explained how he had accumulated the
property ne has, since 1896, BY saving. ~
ihade part OF 1t out OF book, which no.
body bought unless he wanted III bonL i.
part OF II made by writing articles which
nobody read unless they wanted 10 and a
part or II by speaking at ChautauQuas
ana other places, where nobody came nm
less he wanted to. What / have made has
been made by people who came because
they thought that they got what thsU
were paying for, but if ] had been he AT.
torney OF the Standard oil trust. like the
Republican Senator from NehrasLa M
republican paper would have condemned
me for making money"
When Mr.. Bryan closed. he introduced
Mayor Jones, who said he was not here
as a partisan. bat 10 utter protest
against the policy Of the present adminis-
tration.
Train Delayed by Wreck.
AT Alliance there was a DELAY NJ a,
hour or more due to an accident on a
connecting road. Here ex-Attornev Can
eral Nonnett was introduced before Mr.
Bryan, and spoke for a few minutes upon
the inequalities Of taxation. There had
been no certainty as 10 whether there
would be meeting at this point, and the
crowd was not large.
Mr.. Bryan also gave his attention 90
taxation, saying, In part:
Mr.. MOnnett has called your attention
70 the inequality OF taxation. We tried
10 secure an income tax. We PASSED a
law that was IN accordance with thf Su
pTeme Court decision, but when IN canre
before the court on the first hearing il
was tie vote. On the second hear.c
ne absent Judge WIS present. He was
on our side, and il looked as II we v,ers
going 70 get the decision. but In the mean
time one OF the men who had decided far
the income tax on the first hearing. de-
cIded against the income tax on the gee
ond nearing, and that made II five 10 fo,ir
against the income tax, and VIXEN that
decision was rendered the corporations
obtained exemption from, that per cent
levied against their net income.
We believe that the income tax Is a
just tax, because IL makes each Uerson
pay In proportion 20 the benefits which
he receives, but the Republican party. IN
stead Of putting tax upon people 4,
proportion 20 their incomes, puts a ta~
largely upon consumption. and men are
TO pay, not IN proportion IA
what they have but IN proportion 10
what they want
but the Republican party does NOT
stop With inequality IN taxation. local ar
national IL - permitting the trusts ard
private mOnopOiies Of this country n
take from you more than you paw In sun
port % our government"
Speaking % the promise 20 take down
the flag In Cuba, some one in me crowd
asked "Wiii they DO ltT' Mr.. Brys. re
plied: Il don't know. but they have
given the promise. and ] an willing "a
say they wall keep Il just FOR the agree
ment"
CseHF d'Aiene Prisoner. Released.
San Quentin. Cal. Oct I2-The ten men
from Idaho. conyicred Of seizing a train
near Wardner az the time OF The Coei.r
d Alene mining troubles. have Just been
.rf..~oa fruFva The rtavffarsfar,-