The age-herald., 1900-08-26
He Was Frequently Inter- upted
 With Great Applause.
AN IMMENSE CROWD WAS PRESENT
In Conclusion Mr. Bryan Suggested Series of Questions to Ask Repub-
 licans Who Indorse the
 Present Administration

Omaha, Neb., August 25.-Mr. Bryan made two speeches here today, one in the afternoon and the other in the evening, under the auspices of the Jackson Club of this city.
 In the afternoon meeting MT. Bryan was preceded by Hon Webster Davis and Hon. J. R. Sovereign
 T am gratifed," he began by saying, Ito find such an immense audience present, because it auguers well for the interest the people take in the questions now pend ing, and if the people can be aroused to an understanding of what is going on, if the people will seriously consider the problems which they have to meet 1 have no fear for the result"
 He referred to the Republican policy in the newly acquired possessions. saying among other things on this point:
 "The Republicans say we want a 50-cent dollar; they have given us an S5 per cent citizen in Porto Rico''
 Referring to the election of United States Senator, MT Bryan said;
 T want Senate that will be in harmony with the Congress and the President, If we win this fall If we had DS mocrat or a Populist in the place of John NJ Thurston there would be no war today in tae Phil oppines, because that one vote would have been sufficient to have carried the Bacon resolution, and I do not believe that the administration would have carried on a war against the majority of the Senate. I want you to feel interested in d victory for our principles and go to the polls and vote for Legislative ticket that will send to the Senate who stand for those principles"
 Series of Questions
 In conclusion, he suggested a series of questions for his hearers to propound to their Republican friends, follows:
 If any Republican tells you that the money question is the quest OH of para mount choice in the campaign, ask him why he has been saying for four years that the silver question was dead ii it Is such a live question.
 If the Republican says that the gold standard is good, ask him why MT. McKin- ley sent commission to Europe to get rid of that question, and if the gold stand aru is bad enough to justify q Republican President in attempting to get rid of it, ask him if il is not too bad to E-op merely because England wants us to keep II, be- cause English iinanciers the cause of oui sySiti tHis COuH- try.
 When our commission went abroad France wanted to help restore bime tallism; the laboring men ana farmers or england wanted to help, ana IL is English inanciers who prevented the accomplishment of the purpose of the commission ana Who through the Republican party are dominating the financial policy Of the tn4teo States.
 If a Republican tells you that the trust is good thing, ask hin why the tiepubli- can platform denounces the trusts; and if he says the trust system is bad K him why the Republican party aIo~ou more trusts to be formed during the i-1t three years than had ever been organized in all the history of the country.
 If a Republican says imperialism is good, ask him why it Is; if he says that the Filipinos belong to us. ask him how we got them; demand of him abstract of title to the Filipinos; and he cannot show even a quit claim deed from anyboay who ever had any authority to give it..
 His Idea Of Civilization
 MT. Bryan talked tonight at $: ad!cate park to one of the largest crowds II ..,s ad- dressed during the campaign. Defining some of his general views and speaking ol civil ization in the abstract applied 10 poli- tics, Mir. Bryan said
 "I have my idea of what civilization should mean l want to see if it Is yours. Some people say that we Democrats are
 
 a home. hope I may some time have a better one. I would that every head of a family had a home, and the better the home the happier I would be. I want prop erty to be the reward of industry and want every citizen to be secure in the en- joyment of the proceeds of his toll do not envy the rich. I am not desirous of pulling them down. I want civilization that makes every poor man hope to be better off and relieves the rich men of the fear that his children. will be trampled on If they ever become poor. (Applause.) I want a civilization that embraces within its ben- efits every deserving member of society. I do not want civilization that will pre- vent man from riding in a carriage, but I want civilization that gives hopes to the driver of the carriage as well as to the man who rides in it. (Applause.) I want 8 civilization that gives hope to the girl who works in the kitchen well as to thS one who sits in the parlor. Great ap- plause) I want a civilization that makes life worth living to every human being. And when speak thus am not an unssl@ fish man. am selfish. do not know what may be my life in tine years to come. do not know what will be the lot of my chil- dren and If Idared to favor a system that helped the few at the expense of the many my children may be among the many who