Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-04

Rockies and the sieuas, and said 20
the stubborn ores We have come 10
cyanide YOU. give forth! They jour- I
neyed under the light of mdnsh, suns
and flaming auroras and 5motr the
frozen sands OF the Arctic and shouted,
Give FORTH
"And now from the four quarters OF
the earth the yellow stream is iluWln-,lf-
rigating the arid wastes of insolvency,
and increasing the wages OF labor. ana
making IL possible to rescue the nome
from The blight OF the mortgages ana
placing bread In the mouths of the
hungry aud school books IN the hands
of the children, and hope iu the h.lrts
of manhood. and former things have
passed away and the need which once
existed for free coinage ui silver exc
lists no longer,
"But we are not therefore left With-
out am issue. Mr. Bryan BIAS created
one which he designateas as imperial
ISM I say that he created no. because
after the Bacon resolution hal o..u re-
iected. seventeen Democratic United
states senators voted for Che treaty OF
Paris. and &c was ratified by "a MAORI.
ty OF one vote. and 10 IS safe 90 aasume
that but for the personal efforts and
influence OF Mr. Bryan % would not
have been ratified by the United states
senate and II &c had not been ratified.
We might have failed 90 acquire the
Philippines end 81 we had DIlei t1 ace
quirp them Germany would probably
have bought them from spain OBJ they
might have been parcellcd aW1uE me
nations of Europe, and we would have
retired with humiliation from the poe
gti0n of "a world power and the issue
0f Imperialism would not have been
created / accord honor and credit 20
the Bryan OF 1893 for periodically proc
noting the glory and power or his
country and inspiring his followers to
their duty. turn with SORROW from
the sight OF the Bryan of 1900 Jed by his
zeal 90 obtain an available political
ISSUE into decrying and den1uuCI1s Che
results Of the most honorable act of his
he.
Hereafter and elsewhere during This
canvass. 1 shall attempt 90 discuss az
length this question of imperialism but
on this occasion / SHALL pass Go by with
/ the remark that 1t Is of infinitely less
| consequence 90 the people of Utah than
any'of the other issues of the came
| paign
How strange # Is that in
notifies men viii sometimes over
| look their own Immediate interests
| and sacrifice them 10 some remote and
| proftess abstraction. They resemble
| Mrs Jollaby. VINO allowed her little
| children Ia go ragged and hungry while
| she gave her time TO making ir.'ed red
! flannel night gowns for the negro ba-
! lies In BadbOola Ga.
(Which Is of greater consequence 20
| the wOOl-groWers and Cattle-JNuers
| and bept-root sugar-makers oi Utah,
! 90 sustain the Dingley tariff which the
! Democrats are pledged TO repeal. or 20
| sustain Mir. Bryans idea of The con-
! stituti0nal opinions Of Thomas Je1er-
son? Which is better for us-to protect
! our own interests our own homes, our
friends, or To- worry ourselves into a
fever about the constitutional rights OF
| the unbreechel Tasals2 ls 10 J1 the
interest of the sheep men Go vote down
| the market value of wool iu order TO
vote up the market value OF Apuiualdo2
is Il 10 the interest OF The miners 90
vote down their own wages On order to
vote up the doctrine that The toustl-
| tuition comes limping along after the
! 9ag?-a doctrine that Mr. Bryan has
! dug up out of the mire 0f defeat into
| which our armies tramped DC thirty
| five years ago. WIN the workers Of
Utah vote themselves out of a Job I'm or
der 20 vote Mt. Bryan into oneY Verify
Dc that proWdeth not for his Own
huusehod Is worse tbau thu lntdelf {
III Mr. Bryan had q balance wheel
he might be q great man. He certainly
possesses some of She qualifications
Of an orator He has plausibiity, pass
sion. eaTnestness, adroiuass, ana q
trick of clothing ulattudes so as 20
,,,t,. th.r, uocs f1. rhIIDs9uhipg But