Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-10-18
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Being Followed by the Republican
Party, Says Bryan.
Presidential Candidate Addressea
National Association of Demo-
cratic CIubs-COst of Mill
tarism.


| tional Association of Democratic clubs
in convention at Indianapolis, Thurs
day, October 4, speaking upon the
trusts, militarism and otner prom
inent questions. He said:
New York has a republican governor
and a republican legislature, and you re-
publicaEs who have been worrying so
much about the ice trust can just ease your
minds, for as long as the governor is out
west making speeches you may be sure no
body is being heard in New York. Why is
it that no republican knows anything about
the Standard Oil trust, or the sugar trust,
or the salt trust, CT the cracker trust, or
the window-glass trust. or the envelope
trust, or the writing-P Iper trust, or the
trust in the paper that republican editors
use to write a defense of the trusts upon?
Why don't they know about these trusts!
Is it dishonesty, or is 1t ignorance! why
is it that no republican speaks out against
any trust except the ice trust, and why Is
it that the republicans in charge do not de-
stroy that. so you can believe Hanna when
he says there are no trusts?
The republican party is not prepared TO
defend itself on the trust question:; tnere-
fore they try to get it out of the campalsn.
The republican party is not prepared TO de-
fend itself on the army question. 1heS say
| there is no question of militarism, ana yet
an army four times as great as the Stdho-
ing army of 1896 is demanded by the pres
ident's message of December, 1873. HOW
much do we spend for education IN the
| United States? Less than 500, 0oc,uW a
wear. How much do the republicans want
to spend on our military establishment!
i One hundred million dollars a year. Ihey
want to spend more than half as mucn Tor
a military establishment as we speno LOT
the education OF all the children In tne
United States. Is that not a step toward
militarism? What reason can they give
for it? They can only give one, That Is
the one they do not give.
Reasons for Large Army.
There are two reasons which lead men
in this country to want a large stahalHs
army. One is a domestic one; the other Is
connected with our foreign AFFAIRS. What
| domestic reason is there for a large army!
To protect US from the Indians! mo- tne
less Indians we have the more army the
repubiican party wants. That is not lhe
| cause. Why do they want it? So that they
can build a fort near every large city ana
use the army to suppress by force the us,
content that ought to be cured by refneoiai
legislation.
s.The laboring man asks for arbitration
and gets an army; he asks relief from gov
eminent by injunction and gets a large
army; he asks protection from the pIack-
list and his answer is a large army; ne asks
for shorter hours of labor in order tnat ne
NAV have more time with his family ana
for the development of his MIND, ana ms
answer is a large army. He asks Tor repre-
sentation in the presidents cabinet IN or
| OGI lIdt III 1AAoy M
answer is a large army.
Tha is the domestic reason which IS not
given. and yet it is a reason entertained
by many. What is the reason they give!
They say We need it for our foreign polcy'
but my friends, they asked Tor the army
before the American people ever deciaeo
upon a foreign policy that made a large
army necessary.
I'm December, 1898, when the president
asked for his army, the treaty had not yet
been signed, but its terms were UNDER
stood. When the republican congress voted
to raise the army to 100,00 0 the treaty mad
been signed and no arm was raised against
this nation anywhere in the world. But
I'D to this time the American people nave
never voted for d colonial policy, ana yet
the republican party is pledged 10 a large
army What does 1t want with II! IL IA,
tends to exploit the Philippine islands, and
Il you want co understand the reasons Tor
a large army read the prospectus issued
by the Philippine Lumber and Develop
ment company.
Blame Democrats.
"You will find that at the head of the
corcany as president stands a republican
member of congress who is the chairman Of
the army committee of the house OF repre-
sertatives, and another republican con-
gresham is attorney for the company, and
the prospectus shows that already valuable
timber lands have been secured, and the
prospectus also explains that the Iaaor
problem is easily solved, because there Is a
quantity OF Chinese LdDOI lAS1S tildl NoAA 1O
employed at from 30 to IS cents a day in
Mexican money. What do you want an
army for? To hold the Philippines while
they are being developed by syndicates
headed by republican politicians.
THE republicans say the reason we are IN
the Philippines, the reason our boys are
dying, the reason a large army is neces-
sary, the reason we cannot come home. is
because 1 helped to ratify the treaty. My
friends, l want you to go back a lew mo-
ments and you will find that the republic
an party said we were in the Philippine is
lands because of the act of God, and tits
q great come-doWn from God to me. III 1t
is the hand of God that takes US TO the Phil
ippine islands, why do the republicans
want to lay it to a Democrat? II 1t is we'll
to be there, if it is a part of the divine mis-
sion, why don't they defend the being
there? They claim to be silent partners
with the Almighty, but the trouble is that
thew make all the noise and thus far tde
Almighty has been the silent partner. Now
they say the war would stop II 1t were not
for the democratic party. They say that
the Filipinos would lay down their arms
but for the hope they have that 1 may be
elected. My friends, whenever a republic
an tells you that, you tell him that the
colunists fought the same battle that the
Filipinos are fighting, and they did it near
ly 100 years before l was born.
'"Th republican party is following the
paths of monarchy. 1t does not propose a
king, but it proposes a principle upon which
only a king can stand. 1t does not propose
a crown, but it roposes a doctrine that can
fit nothing but a crown. The republican
party has done in Porto Rico just what
England did in tbis country, and our presi-
dent is doing to-day just what George III.
did a century and a quarter ago. What diff
ference does it matter whether you call
him president, or emperor, or king if he sd
ministers the power OF a king?