The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-01-23
doesn't bother us like IL used to. When
reverses in a war with a
HANDFUL OF BOERS

doesn't bother us like Il used to. When
reverses in war with a
HANDFUL OF BOERS
will shake our financial system, where
will the gold standard be If England
ever attacks a nation of her size and
gets into a real war?
when we join ourselves to the gold
standard, when we make gold alone the
legal tender for the payment of debts,
we connect ourselves with every dis
turbance in Europe, and make ourselves
dependent upon their conditions for our
prosperity.
you tell me it is a sound system?
It is false; that system is not sound.
Tell me it is an American system? 1t
is a lie; there is no such American sys-
tenn; there Is no American system that
makes us tremble every time there is
trouble among the gold standard coun-
tries of the world"
Continuing upon the currency ques-
ton, Mr.. Bryan, asserted that in 1896
all of the leading political parties de-
manded double standard. differing on
ly i'm the method of obtaining 1t. Now
the Republican party insists upon a sin
gle standard and bill is pending in con-
gress which not only seeks that end, but
also endeavors to perpetually force up
on this country the present national
banking system. If the Republicans
had advocated such a measure in 1896,
he declared Mr.. Mckinley would never
have been president.
After fully discussing the currency
question Mr.. Bryan
TOOK UP THE TRUSTS,
which he discussed at great length, in
ssting that the Republican party had
no intention whatever of interfering
with such corporations under any cir
cumstances. From the trusts he passed
to q discussion of the standing army,
and declared that the presence of 100,
900 soldiers in this country and the
Philippines was but a step toward mill
tarism. He then discussed imperialism,
arguing that there was a great differ
ence between that and expansion. The
present policy of the administration,
he asserted, tended toward Imperialism,
although it's friends and supporters en-
deavored to show that it was expansion.
II want trade" he said. "I want to
expand our trade by peaceful means,
but 1 would not put one American boy
on the auction block and sell him for
all the trade of the universe. (Ap-
plause.) And yet the man who says
it will pay must be prepared to figure
with pencil how much the boy is
WORTH
He discussed the problem of the
Philippines from the point of commerce,
civilization and religion, and cited the
results of English government in In
dia to show that none of these would
be accomplished in the Philippines.
You cannot find an argument" said
he, "for the permanent holding of the
Philippine islands that would not apply
to Cuba. When we went into the war
we said that the people of Cuba are
and of right ought to be free; and I
challenge you to draw a line between
the rights of the Cubans and the rights
of the Filipinos. Did God say that
the Cubans were entitled to their free
dom but not the Filipinos? No, my
friends, there is only one difference be-
tween Cuba and the Philippine islands.
We promised independence to Cuba; we
DID NOT PROMISE
it to the Philippine islands. But, my
friends, our promise was but the recog-
milton of right that would have ex-
lSlSu WlllOuJ the w Z Sdlu IIldI
Cuba should, and of right ought to be
free; and if that was right, then my
friends, it existed in the Philippine
islands without the necessity for the
| express promise"
II want" said Mr.. Bryan, in conclu-
sion, 'if 1 can help restore a govern
ment founded upon the Declaration of
Independence, and administered accord
ing to the doctrine of jefferson; a gov
ernment that will stand as it did in
Jackson's days, between the bank aris-
tocracy and the people. But, my friends,
cannot tell you what fate has decreed.
l cannot tell you whether it is to be our
lot to triumph, and in our triumph lay
the foundation again in the old places,
and raise again the ancient landmarks
which the fathers had set up. l can
not tell but 1 know this: that if it
is fate that this nation is to cease to be
a republic, and become an empire, if it
is destiny that this, the greatest repub-
lie Of history, is to extinguish it's light
and follow in the light of the mon
arches of the old world, if in the
providence Of God the time has come
when the pendulum should swing back
towards the dark ages of the triumph
of brute force, I pray to God that the
Democratic party may go down to
eternal death with the republic rather
than to live when it's principles are
gone"