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man mar, who !, had, had been interrupting Mr.

man who had been interrupting Mr..
Bryan shouted:
How many did you file, Mr.. Bryan?"
but further Interruptions were howled
down by the impatient audience and
the pointed demands or two police off,
GERS made his remaining in the audi
ence contingent upon his silence MIR.
Bryan then continues:
My friends, am not talking for the
benefit of the gentleman He has
shown that he is not here for Informal
ton. He has come here to intericct n
question here and no matter how l an
swer him 1T would make no difference
In his vote. But L want to tell you this
that If am elected will appoint an
Attorney General who will not remain
inle unit! some Republican comes and
files a bill"
Mr.. Bryan then resumed his discus
sion of Imperialism.
UNREASONABLE COMPLAINT.
Chicago, Nov. 2.--In speaking at Han
del Hall under the auspices of che Sim
gic TAX Society. Mr.. Bryan said:
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 the wealth
enjoys n larger part of that wealth
than he has produced. When you seek
10 correct these conditions / believe we
are seeking to show a higher patriotism
present conditions and insisting that
they must be maintained regardless of
the injustice which they sanction.
am conservative man. When 1 COM
plain of injustice done / do not ask
that we shall go back and undo what
has been done. l 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"
Ar tho copcIur;op Of I,ic rama ,lse Mr.
Bryan was escorted to the Lake front.
near the public library, a square from
Handel Hail.
MILITARISM.
In the course of his speech Mr.. Bryan
said:
I'VE have pointed out that the Re
publican party to-day stands for a
large army. No Republican speaker
has appeared on any platform to with
draw the Presidents recommendation
of an army of 100000. But stranger
still, no Republican speaker so far as ]
have seen, has appeared on any plat
form, read the recommendation of the
President. declared II was the policy of
the party and attempted to defend the
policy. Therefore, 1 repeat, the ltepub
lican party has brought this question
into the campaign and then has drop
ped 1t like founding left on a door
step The Republican party does not
ton.
What are we going to do with the
10000 extra soldiers demanded by the
Republican party? DO we need them
for service outside OF the United
States? II l ask you what you think.
of a policy -- what you think of a
colonial system that requires three
times rs many soldiers to force upon
100000 people n government without
their consent and taxation without
representation, as it does to take care
of 100000 peopAe in this country, who
govern themselves and levy their own
taxes. If we do not want these SOL
diers for service outside we mas. want
them for service in the United States.
II these soldiers are to stay here wa
must either keep them idle or keep
them busy, and nobody can defend an
idle army of hundred thousand in
country like this. And yet would n
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 1t
busy. Why do we want an increase
in the army for domestic purposes?
What has happened in this country to
make an increase in the army aeces-
sary for domestic purposes? Nothing
has happened here but Republican
administration, and does n Republican
at home? If we have prosperity on
every hand do we need a large army
to point out the prosperity to us with
bayonets?
WHAT TRUST MAGNATES WANT.
There are people in this country who
have for years wanted a larger stand
ing army in the tJIrtted States. Those
at the head of great syndicates have at
times felt that we needed a stronger
government and more soldiers to sup
port 1t. There is only one explanation
for large army kept in this country
and kept busy, and that is to suppress
by force the discomfort among the peo-
pie that ought to be cured by legsia-
ton,
THE LABoRING MAN AND
FARMER.
1.-THE Republican party does not give
the laboring man the relief which he
deserves. The laboring man wants
shorter hours relief from the black list,
relief from government by injunction
The Republican party offers him no
such relief.
1T Is right that the farmer should
be represented in the Presidents Cabi-
net. But it is also right that the wage
Garner should be represented in the
Cabinet. and there is no plank in our
platform that appeals more directly
anu ioiciDlS 10 lhe idDoTllS man than
that plank declaring for member of
the Cabinet chosen from among the
wage arners. for that will be the
means by which the laboring man will
secure other remedies for their griev-
ances."
THE TREATY WITH SPAIN.
Regarding the vote in Congress to
ratify the treaty with Spain, Mr., Bryan
said at Brands Hall:
No Senator said he voted for the
treaty with Spain because | asked him