Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-27

spelled hard money, expansion and the
honor Of the flag. And who have the 4
right to represent Andrew jackson
nov? The men who stand Tor the dis
honor Of the flag, for the sdAbasement OF
the currency, for contra ctiunsof our ma
tional limits? No. The party that
stands for an honest dollar, the party
that stands for keeping the flag hoisted
in the Philippines az it shall be kept
He then plunged into the issues Of the
campaign, starting out with free silver
and following the lines of his many adj
dresses on this subject He touched on
the present prosperity of the country,
and after asserting Mr.. Bryan'e prophe-
icies regarding the gold standard had
turned out to be wrong. he condemned
the Nebraskan for raising feeling of
envy in the minds of the working class
against the capitalists. On this point
he said:
No greater evil, my fellow country
men, can be done in this nation of ours
than to teach any group Of Americans
that their attitude should be one of sui
len hatred and distrust to their fellows.
That teaching means to- nullify the
work of a century and a quarter of
statesmen Who have built up our goN-
ernnent here Before our time there
had been so-called republics i'll which
the rich oppressed the poor: there had
been so-calea republics in which the
poor plundered the rich. 1t has been
cur boast that in this great republic
leach man stands on his rights as a man.
demanding no more than his rights and
being refused no chance to receive his
rights.
Our opponents talk of the dangers of
imperialism. There 10 but one danger
to free institutions in this country, and
that would be by the general prevalence
l3of the doctrines the seeds of which Mr..
Bryan has benz sowing. Only in that
way Will there ever be chance of losing
the liberty that we have inherited from
lthose who Went before US,
And nov Mr.. Bryan asks us to give
lup prosperity, he asks us to dishonor
1.-THE flag. he asks US to give up our or
lderly liberty under the law. For what!
| For the sake of the most shadowg ghost
| that ever raised to frighten political
ichildren-the ghost OF niiitarisms Mil
1 itarisn. Here in this building a Week
lago Mr. Bryan repeated what he either
i knows or ought TO know to be an ABB
soute SANDER. when he said that our
/ little army had been created with tbs
purpose of putting ii into forts To OVER
lave workingnlsn of our great cities
/ Gentlemen. there are $4,000 regular
soldiers in the United States. Greater
New York would be entitled, according
4 TO population, to about Zoo regular sol
liGisrs, less than third of3the police in
1.-THE city. Five years ago when WAS
lpaliee commissions understand that
lseveral of my fellow-eitizens remember
4 the fact-when I was police commits
\ sioner asked for and obtained an in
]! crease of 1000 members of the force TO,
4 the present borough of Manhattan
alone. | asked for.and obtained With
1 out word of protest or a thought from
any one that his liberties were5to be en-
4 dangered, a much larger body Of lnel
4 than would be obtained now by giving
4 the borough of Manhattan its proper.
4 tionate share of the regular army. ans
|no human being has any right 10 fee
4 afraid Of those soldiers unless he is aisi
afraid of the police.