The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-23
HEARD IN THE RAIN
IN SPITE OF IT, MANY ATTENDED A
BRYAN MEETING.
SPOKE IN HIS OLD DISTRICT.
ALL CITIZENS ARE STOCKHOLDERS
IN THE GOVERNMENT.

MIR, Bryan Told Them They owe II to
Themselves 10 Look After the Di-
rectOrs Republican Administra-
ton Charged with Deceit in All Its
PoIicies-RepubIican Inconsistent
cies Aircd-Militarism and Inn
perinIism ArrniGned.
Auburn, Neb., Aug. CIV. J. Bryan
began at an early hour with VIVA: he ex-
pected to be busy day. The first meet
ing was a $50 this morning here in the
Court House grounds. A light rain was
falling, but a good sized crowd was pres
ent, including many ladies'.
All the speeches of the day were plan
ned to be made in the First Congressional
District, which was represented by Mr..
Bryan in Congress, and which since his
retirement, has been represented by "a
Republican member. He made a plea
for the election of Hon. CT. w. Berger,
the Democratic candidate for the office
of national representative, and asked for
support FOR the whole Democratic ticket.
Comparing the government to a corpora
ton he said that all citizens were stock
holders. AS such, they owed it to them
of the directors of the corporation. He
charged the Republican administration
the government directors, with deceit in
all its policies. This deception, he SAID,
mad been practiced in regard to the finan,
cial system, the trusts and the foreign
policy of the country. He charged the
Republican party with the intention of
nal 1cl1t he
The Republican party was building it's
policy upon the plea that might makes
right" They were asserting that the A.
nancial question was this year the para
mount issue, only because the Republi-
can party regarded the dollar of more
consequence than the man. He dwet up
on liberty as a God-given right, saying
that the Filipinos were as much entitled
to it as we are In framing them a good
government, we are only promising what
kings promised under similar circum-
stances.
Republican Inconsistencies.
Mr.. Bryan said, referring to alleged
Republican inconsistencies; You Repub-
Iicans who are shouting yourselves hoarse
when Mckinley said in 1891 that Mr..
Cleveland was trying to make money the
the master and all things else the ser
want did not it take you several days to
come around and hurrah for
Mckinley when he did the
same things that Cleveland had done? You
Republicans, who said that the green
backs saved the country when gold and sill
Yer left it, did it not take you several days
TO turn around and advocate the retire
ment of the greenbacks? You Republi-
cans who were Boosting that the party
was paying off the national debt did not
it take you some time to turn around to
that position where you could say that
q permanent debt is a good thing? You
Republicans that used to denounce the
trusts in the most vigorous language. did
not it take you some time to turn around
where you could say that there are good
and bad trusts. and that the good trusts
are those which contribute most literally
10 the campaign fund?
And don't you think that some of you
publicans are in a posi- ion where you
not going to turn any more? You
Republicans who for years have been
boastirg of the Fourth of July, that we
had a country Y hich did not need a large
anding army and did rot have to have
a large mi itary establishment here as
they have in Europe don't you think
you will refuse to turn when the Repub-
Iican party wan an my VIII CHI is four
times a. large as when the Republican
administ ton was, e'ec tea 1896? You Re-
publcans who used to brag of this-are
you not all afraid that now you cannot
turn over and make your opinions con-
Form to he Republican policy when you
find that the expense of the army in a
single year is half as much as the entire
amount spent on the education of all the
children in the United States? Are you
willing to enter upon this career of mill
tarism?
Word About MiIitarism.
When we talk about increasing the
size of the army they say it is all bum
combe, and say What is 100000 men in a
country like this? I will tell you that
100000 men, compared with the situation
when the Republican party got into
power, is four times as big an army, ana
when you defend the increase of four
times the size OF the army in the last four
years, four years from now you can with
propriety say that we will have army
of 400 900 if you have an imperial policy.
The same spirit of militarism and i'm
'perialism that carried you to the Philip
pine Islands will carry YOU wherever you
can find a people weak enough to be whip
ped by the United States The doctrine
of imperialism is the doctrine of the bully
and the coward 1t is the doctrine which
takes peope under the pretense that you
are taking them for their good, and you
reach your lands in their pockets and rob
them while you are taking them. They
say that we cannot haul down the flag in
the Philippines, once it is raised there.
Even this administration does not find any