The Irish standard., 1900-09-29
Vending for Bryan.

port the Chicago nominee. This wear
he is heartily supporting Bryan, and
on Sept. 5, in introducing Mr.. BRYAN
to an immense audience. he did so IN
these words:
My Countrymen: The forces that
are r;lly1ng to the support of the pres
ent administration are the forces that
at one time i'll New England and New
York supported the slave trade be.
cause it was profitable. They are the
same forces that in England compelled
China to buy opium from India be-
cause there was money in it. The men
who find their conscienccs in their
pocket books, their principles in dou-
bic entry ledgers. and their patriotism
in the profits of high protective
tariff, are all, openly or secretly. for
this administration. They are men
who believe not only in an imperial
army and an imperial colonial policy,
but also believe i'll the imperialism of
wealth. When Il man devotes his life
to making money for the sake OF
money he is Il curse to any commune
ity, and when Il great political party
is controlled by avaricious money
making. that party becomes great
menace to the republic. The imperial
ism that | am most afraid of is the
Imperialism of the dollar. The exact
form that the issues take in this cam
paign is very clear to my vision.
They all have one thing in common
and are all involved in this one ques-
tion: Shall manhood and character or
shall wealth dominate our politics?
That supreme question makes every
thoughtful man ask, What is the rem
edy for the evil ii diSclosrs? Let w
remember then, and deeply ponder y
great fact in American history: lr
every crisis God has given to our l,eo-
pie the right man at the right time-a
man, say. and not merely platform.
! speak for Il large element when l say
| care very little about platforms. AS
the great preachers of the world have
already been broader than any dog
matte statement OF religious faith, 40
the men who have led our people up
TO higher political life were men who
were greater than any platform Their
platforms were always stepping stones
to higher things. Our hope in this
country must therefore always he
more in men than In the plunks of n
platform. Politicians can give us plat
forms. God alone can raise up and
train and give us men. In the dark
days, of &c the colonists put their
earthly trust in one man. and he be-
came the father of his country
ut was even so IN Andrew Jack
sons time when that intlrXible Dem
mrrat took the United States bank by
the throat, and while the Mark Han
mas of that day predicted panic and
financial ruin, he flung the corpse of
the monster ut their feet lf you wish
to find an embodiment of the spirit
that gave freedom to the slave You
will not turn to the cnlclavcs of the
scleming and rlncc-hunting politicians
of the Republican party. but you viii
look up into the sad and carcworn face
Of the great ana noble Lincoln. If
seek the very incarnation of the Draw
cry and devotion of the south, her
manhood. her clivnlry. ! will not turn
tn
but will 20 and stand with uncovered
head i'll the presence of the immortal
Robert Il. Lee. II you wish to see IN
embodiment Of the grim and relentless
determination of the North to save tho
Union, look Mt the immovable figure
OF that silent soldier, the magnanim-
GUS Grant. But will any man in this
vast nssemblange or anywhere on this
wide continent say that If we wish to
find Il champion Of the people, IL friend
OF the oppressed and an earnest antag-
onist Of corporate greed and mercilcss
nvnrice, we will find him III an admin
istration that has had unlimited power
for four years, and yet has never
struck a single blow against any of
the tyrannical trusts or scheming syn
dicates In all the land? Again l say,
we always want men more than we
want platforms A. poet laureate Of
England once gave voice to the feel
Ing which controls many Americans
today, when he cried out:
"'Ah, God, for a man with heart
held hand.
Like some of the simple great ones
Forever and ever by,
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Whatever they call him, what care I,
Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat-one
Who can rule and dare not lie!"
'Such Il man will speak to you now.
l have known him from his boyh006.
He is of the people and for the people.
He fears no living man, and oil the
money In Wall street cannot buy him.
A great writer recently said Of him,
in words absolutely truthful: His life
is simple, his tastes are ideal, his char
acter is above rcproach, his industry
untiring.'
''In 1896 he was fighting the exclu-
sive claims of one kind of money and