The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-24
BRYANS HOME SPEECH.

Mr.. Bryan was at Lexington, Ne
braska, his home, on 10th, and vas
warmly welcomed. He made a speech
n told his hearers why he had drop
ped for the present 16 TO /. He said
the democracy vas simply compelled
to meet the new questions raised by
the republican administration. He
said that at present imperialism and
the trusts were more important TIA
ever the enormous, outrageous high
tariff tax and finances. He also told
them why he would enter the canvass
rather than remain at home. AS 10
the change of issues he said:
parties do not MAKE ISSUES; parties
meet issues. 1t is now ten years since
l first became a candidate in this COM
munity, and you will remember that
in the campaign of 1890 the dominant
question was the tariff. Before 1892
the silver question began to rise into
prominence, and in the campaign of
1892 we discussed both the tariff ques-
ton and the silver question, but the
silver question more than the tariff
question. BY 1894 the silver question
had so risen in Importance that it be-
came the main question Of discussion
IN lQlS STATE. lou Will TciIlel1lDeF liz
hat campaign of 1894 we lost. The
republicans carried this state and had
two-thirds of the legislature, but the
silver question went on increasing in
Importance until, in 1896, we had the
fight in the nation upon the same lines
that we had it in the state two years
before, and, after two years of consld-
Grafton, the people of Nebraska a so
changed their minds that we carried
this state by $4,000 majority. CAP
plause.)
That was the change that took place
after a study of the subjects then be-
fore the country. If we had had u
way o it We would have in this
campaign, at this time the same Ques-
tons we had in 1896; but events have
thrust into the arena of politics new
questions. The trust question which
was considered some, has become
more important because the republican
party has stood sponsor by the cradle
of more trusts than came into eXiS-
tence in all the years previous 10 1896.
(Applause.) It is the fault of the re-
publican party that the trust question
is of more Importance now than it was
four years ago.
He also discussed at some length the
dangers threatening u country, our
very form of government so seriously.
ne SlOOu ldSl " III SLC"l oOSN hN VI
human equality, and that our govern
ment was built upon it. He said:
Destroy that doctrine and there is
no foundation upon which a free gov
eminent can be built. If all men are
created equal, they are endowed with
inalienable rights, if government are
instituted among men and derive their
just powerS from the consent of the
governed then this nation has no more
right as a nation to claim the owner
ship of 5000, 900 Filipinos tina one man
has a right to claim the ownership
of another man."
HI said one other thing that is too
true, too precious, too wise to be over
looked, for it is fundamental and of
perpetual interest to all Americans.
He said again:
1--WE know human nature, and We
know that if this nation reaches a
point where it is willing to deny the
universal application of the principles
set forth in the Declaration of indie
pendence, it will not he long till those
principles will lot he applied in our
own country, and 1 want to warn those
who toll, that whenever in this country
we begin to neglect the principles of
self-government, the poor will be
the first to suffer. Those who today
say that the dollar of trade is superior
to the rights of the Filipinos will be
saying in a few years that money Is
more important than man, and that
only those who nave great wealth have
sufficient at stake to have a voice in
the government here. (Great ap-
plause.')