The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-03
BRYAN DEMANDS
JUSTICE TOR ALL
The ToiIer Should Have More
ofWeaIth Produced.
nlnnnrE OT THE ADAhN
PURPOSE OF THE ARMY
To Strangle the Cry of the Wronged
Workingman.
Mr.. BRYAN MAKES TWELVE SPEECHES
The Attending Crowds Grow Greater. A Re-
publican's Interruptions at One Of The
Meetings But Serve 10 Show
Bryan's Patience.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press)
Chicago, Ills, Nov. 2.-W. j. Bryan's
program in Chicago today comprehended
twelve speeches. The crowds that greeted
him were greater than those at the
meetings of yesterday and last night.
The candidate began his itinerary at Han
del Hall, in the downtown business dis
trict, going from there to the public
library, where he spoke to an outdoor
gathering of working-me After lunch
con he made two addresses in "Old
Vienna" pavilion, at Sixtieth street and
two at Cottage Grove avenue one to the
crowd in the building and two others to the
throng that was unable to gain admit
tance. Here was the only semblance of
disturbance manifested during the day
Two men in the audience asked almost
simultaneously, How about North Caro-
lina," and Mr.. Bryan was replying, when
one of the questioners insisted on asking
q question concerning trusts, whereupon
the crowd demanded that he be thrown
out, and threatened to lynch him. Mr..
Bryan insisted upon answering, however,
but could not do SO for some time on
to the uprOar made by the crowd in
expressing its resentment toward the in
quisitor. The latter was saved from vio-
lence only by police interference. Mr..
Brytln's night meetings We're held on the
northwest, southwest and south sides of
the city. The closing speech being made
at midnight at State and 31st streets.
DEMANDS JUSTICE FOR ALL.
In speaking at Handel Hall under the
auspices of the Single Tax Society, Mr..
Bryan said
Il complain that the producer of wealth
does not enjoy a fair share of the wealth
that he produces, while the man who
does not produce wealth enjoys a larger
part of that wealth than he has pro-
duced. When we seek to correct these
conditions, l believe we are seeking to
show a higher patriotism than those who
are seeking to maintain present conditions
and insisting that they must be main
tanned regardless of the injustice which
they sanction. l am conservative man.
When / complain OF injustice done l do
not say that we shall go back and undo
what has been done. I simply ask that
those who have sinned shall sin no more
and those who have suffered shall suffer
no longer. That is the conservative
plan"
At the conclusion of his remarks Mr..
Bryan was escorted to the lake front,
near the public library. a square from
Handel Hall. In the course of his speech
Mr.. Bryan said:
1--WE have pointed out that the Repub-
lican party today stands for a large
army. No Republican speaker has ap-
peared on any platform with authority to
x.,st
of an army of 100 000. But stranger still,
no Republican speaker, so far as / have
seen, has appeared on any platform, read
the recommendation of the President,
declared it was the policy of the party
and attempted to defend the policy.
Therefore, l repeat, the Republican party.
has brought this question filtas the- CAM
paign and then has droppedtt like a.
foundling left on doerstep.@Srhe Repub-.
lican party dares not defenagthe FF6sf--
dents recommendation.
WHAT is THIS ARMY FOR?
What are we going to do with the 75,-
Geo extra soldiers demanded by the Re-
publican party? Do we need them for
service outside of the United States? If
SO, / ask you what you think of policy
what you think of colonial system that
requires three times as many soldiers to
force upon 5000, 900 people a government
without their consent and taxation with
out representation, as it does to take
care of T5,0000 900 people in this country.
who govern themselves and levy their
own taxes. If we do not want these
soldiers for service outside we must want
them for service in the United States.
If those soldiers are to stay here we
must either keep them idle or keep them
busy, and nobody can defend an idle army
of a hundred thousand in country like
this. And yet ] would a hundred times
rather that we should maintain an army
of hundred thousand in idleness than
maintain an army of that size in this
country, and keep it busy. Why do we
want an increase in the army for domes-
tic purposes? What has happened in this
country to make any increase in the
army necessary for domestic purposes?
Nothing has happened here but Repub-
lican administration, and does a Re-
publican administration make soldiers
necessary at home? If we have prosper
ity on every hand do we need large
army to point out the prosperity to us
with bayonets?
TO STIFLE THE CRY FOR JUSTICE.
There are people in this country who
have for years wanted a larger standing
army in the United States. Those at the