The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-17
NOT ENEMIES OF WEALTH.
Continued from First Pagc.)

want the army whether they had war or
not? What was their reason? To protect
US from the Indians? No. The less In
dians We have the more soldiers the Re-
publicans want. / believe that one of the
reasons that they want a large army is
to build fort in this city and use The
army TO suppress by force the discomfort
that ought to be cured by legislation
You never voted for n large army. You
never voted for an imperial policy. and
the President asked for this army before
that question had ever been submitted to
the American people.
THE Republicans say we are just rails
ing scarccrow, that We are trying to
brighten the people. That may be. but
my friends, we are net telling you what
may be done: we-.ell you what has been
done. Our Porto RieGn law is framed
upon European ideas, not upon American
principles. No king, no despot. no tyrant
in the worlds history ever asserted doc
trine more dangerous and more damnable
than that which unierlies the Porto Rican
bill.
According to that doctrine President
is bigger than the Constitution; but be-
ware, my friends, OF a President when he
becomes greater than the Constitution. for
when President becomes greater than
the Constitution there is no place where
you can draw the line. 1t will become all
President and no Constitution.
DisposinE of the Filipinos.
What are they going to do with the
Filipinos? They are going to give them
as large a measure of self government as
their welfare and cur duties will permit
Who is to decide their welfare? We.
Who is to decide cur duty? We. What
has the Filipino to do with it? Moth
ing at all. They do not dare defend the
plank, and / am afraid, before this cam
paign is over, that they viii try to prove
that 1t was not written by the Republican
Convention at all, that it was Put in there
by some who had no authority.
MY friends, We can todar do what the
Republican party ought to have done, and
our platform declares that We shall do 1t.
have declared thai the first act of my
Administration will be to call Congress to-
gether and ask ii to do now what it ought
TO have done year and half ago.
They say but for the hope CT my cleo
tion the Filipinos would lay down their
arms in despair. They do me too much
honor. They say that / have placed in
the hearts of the Filipinos the na I'd Of
foreign domination. Oh my friends. Il
am guilty of this charge then who is re-
sponsible for the fact that our forefathers
fought the same battle hundred years
before l was born? If l am responsible,
who is responsible for the fact that the
Cubans were thirty years fighting the
same battle before they ever heard my
name?
WHO is responsible for the fact that
the Filipinos issued a declaration of in
dependence years before l was a candi-
date for the Presidency? Who is RESPONSE
BILE for these things? Why, if the Repub-
licars would read the speeches of Abra-
ham Lincoln they would know that it is
GOO himself who p. .nted in every human
| heart the love of liberty. They would
know that it was the Almighty who, when
he gave the life TO the Filipino, gave him
the love of liberty.
They should know that il was God who
locked together in every human breast
the love of life and liberty. and what God
hath Joined together let not the Repub-
lican party put asunder. They put the
dollar above the man and make money
more precious than human blood.
! Alexander HamiItOn's Distinction.
Hamilton said that the people were
! divided into two classes, the we'll born
and those not SO well born. and that the
| well born were born to rule and that the
not SO well born were born to be ruled.
ard the Republican party today is assert
/ ing the same doctrine. Beware. beware
Of the doctrine that some are well born
and some not. for when you once estab-
lish that doctrine YOU have to keep your
pedigree with you all the time to show
that your belong to the ruling class.
Can big man thrash little nan and
then own him? That is the big mems
doctrine Nc little man ever ass rts such
doctrine. Can a big nation thrash a
little nation and then own it? That is the
big nations doctrine. No little nation
ever asserts IL. And II you believe that
there is glory and honor in Imperialism
let me tell you that whenever nation
becomes an imperialistic nation it be-
comes coward. 1t never attacks a ma
ticn OF its size. but always jumps on to
some little nation and subjugat- it
The Republicans have no policy. We
have. The nearest approach that the Re-
pubiicans can come to policy is in the
spooner resolution and it reads like this:
RESOLVED. That when''the war is over
the President shall establish a government
and maintain it until Congress takes the
matter off his hands
But let me show you how uncertain 1t
is by putting some explanatory words in
parenthesis, and then the resolution reads
like this:
Resolved That when the war is over
(nobody knows when 1t will bel the Presi-
dent will do something nobody knows
WHAT and will keep at it until Congress
does something tnobcdy knows WHAT.
, That is the Republican plan.
We say treat the Filipino as you PROM
ised to treat the Cuban
lhe destiny of this nation is in the
hands of the American people. You can
make it what you Will II you want this
| nation 10 stand before the world as an
exponent Of force. vote the Republican
ticket, for that is the Republican doc
trine.
I'VE want this nation to rise in the
dignity and the grandeur of a self-goy-
erning people. We want this nation to
prove to the world that there is a :eaii-
ty in the principles we profess. We want
the nation to be SO great, SO good, so lust
that whenever nations fall out, instead OF
sending out armies to kill each other.
they will say of the United States: There
is a nation that will do something
I'VE want this nation TO lie the peace-
maker among nations. and then IL can
! claim the reward promised to the peace
| makers. Blessed are the peacemakers
for they shall be called the children of
Cod"
Mr. Bryan closed his speech at Q
o'clock. having talked unintcrruptodly for
an hour and ten minutes. When he con-
cluded he was cheered for several min
utes. He Immediately left to attend tn ;
other meetings. large portion of the
audience followed him. Adlai E. Steven