Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-19
BRYAN rs SANGUINE.
Saws Democrats Are United for the
Coming Fight.
rhe Prospective Candidate for Pres
ident Warmly Received at Jack
SON Day Banquet in
Chicago.

The jackson day banquet at chicago.
Saturday, January 6, was, according to
William J. Bryan, "a credit to the city's
democracy" The Nebraska leader was
principal speaker, and in his address
said:
1.-The years which have elapsed since 1896
show how the voters of the party, when
their conscience, their judgment and their
determination are once aroused, can resist
the foes within and the foes without ana
keep the party true to its high mission as
the representative Of the struggling masses
in their never-ending contest with the
privileged classes. The plutocrat1c 1nrlu-
ence which won the last ma tfonal campaign
and which have rioted in power ever since
have not been able to force the SURRENDER
of single plank or line or syllable OF the
Chicago platform.
after three years burial of the money
question by our opponents they recently
have accumulated its Importance py pre-
senting a currency bill which would have
condemned the republican party to over
whelming defeat if it had been proposed by
the president in his letter of acceptance.
The bill is so bad that it could not be forced
through the congress chosen in 1896, but in
1898, when the people were engaged in a war
for humanity, the financiers captured con-
gress while the republican leaders with
perspiring patriotism were pleading to the
people to uphold the president while the
treaty with Spain was being concluded
The people were intent upon the conclusion
OF the war, WdSSQ IOr tie pOllllCGl
pendence of the Cubans, and the Wall
street magnates were building for the
financial subjugation of the producers of
wealth in the United States.
Decries the Currency Bill.
1.-THE currency bill fastens to the finan-
cial systems of the old world and subjects
us to all the disturbances which affect them.
while it places the control of the volume of
paper money in the hands OF bank trust,
which will be as merciless to the people OF
To he
centrados. The fight for bimetallism at
the ratio of sixteen to one has not been
lost. The increased production of gold has
shown the advantage of more money and
has answered the argument so often made
that the parity could not be maintained
because of the overproduction of silver.
1.-The fight against bank note circulation
will grow stronger the big banks swal-
low up the little ones and the people
learn that permanent national bank note
circulation secured as at present necess1-
tates a permanent and increasing national
debt.
IT have discussed the trust question in
this city so recently that it is only neces-
sary for me to say that the democratic
party will meet the issue with plain and
positive remedy. The republican party is
unable to enact and enforce efficient anti
trust laws. When new legislation is de-
manded republican leaders say that the
present law is sufficient; when a new trust
is pounded out republican ofhclalS say that
the law does not cover the case. This ad-
Unstable view Of the law reminds me of the
little boy at the table. His father was help
ing plate and the boy exclaimed; What,
all that for grandma?' NO. replied the
father this plate is for you, my son. oh,
what little bitr complained the boy
imperialism Strong Issue
1.-The question of Imperialism will occupy
a prominent place in the next campaign. 1t
matters not whether the war in the Philip
pines ends in the near future or continues
until election. The people must determine
the policy to be pursued in regard TO the
Filipinos. That policy must contemplate
the ultimate independence of the Fil1p1noS
or their permanent retention under Amer
lean sovereignty. If the islands are to be
retained permanently the inha bitants must
be given the hope of full citizenship or they
must be condemned to the lot of subjects.
Who desires to admit them to share and
share alike with us in the destiny of this re-
public?
1.-The McEnery resolution, which passed
the senate last March by republican votes,
announces that the Philippine islands were
never to become an integral part of the
United States. If we retain possession per-
manently then, we must be prepared to
support by force a war which will never
cease to be Conoxious to the native popula-
ton.
England has been in control of India for
a century and half, and yet, according TO
Mr. Morrison, an Englishman, in a book re-
Gently published, there is not in India
native paper of influence which defends the
English government. He also complains of
the ferocity of the educated classes. No
one who understands history or human
nature can expect an alien government to
be satisfactory. We cannot adopt a colonial
policy without ignoring the doctrine of self
government, so long cherished in this coun-
try and we cannot ignore that doctrine in
dealing with the FiiipinoS without endan-
gering its existence in the United States.
Upon what ground can forcible annexa-
ha 0afRndR62 Is if the theory that
the FilipinoS are incapable of Self-govern-
ment? Clay, in discussing the revolutions
which led to the establishment of the South
American republics, declared that Self-goV-
eminent is the natural government and as
serted that those who deny the capacity of
any people for Self-government impeach
the wisdom of the Creator. Clay was right.
The doctrine that it is the duty of a power
full nation to cross ocean and force
alien government upon another race which
happens to inhabit valuable lands is doc
trine conceived in aVarice, born in iniQuity
and defended always by hypocrisy.
when we enter upon policy of empire
we cease to be a mural factor in the worlds
progress. Heretofore we have sympa thized
with all people struggling for the right to
govern themselves, but now when the Beers
are willing to die in defense of their repub-
lie the advocates of an imperial policy are
unable to express sympathy because we
are ourselves engaged in a war of conquest.
The opponents of imperialism sympathize
with the Beers not because England Is the
2ggreSSOr, but beca use OF the American be-
lief in the Declaration of Independence.
The Gold Standard.
DO you know what the gold standard
means?" he asked. why, when the Eng
lish armies lost three battles in South At
rica and there was disturbance in London
If manifested itself in New York and it was
necessary for the great financiers to rush
in with SO. 900, 600 of gold to bring interest
down from 1S6 per cent and necessary for
the treasury to step in and help Wall street
faT in 2 va witt
handful of Beers shakes New York with
the gold standard, where will your gold
standard be if England ever reaches ma
ton of her size?