The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-20

sight of Col Bryan put a stop to all
business, and the delegates went wild
as he mounted the platform.
MR. BRYAN's SPEECH.
Mr.. Bryan's speech before the Demo-
cratic convention dealt almost entirely
with the three questions which he has
been discussing in various parts of the
country-money, trusts and imperialism.
He charged the Republican party with
practicing a deliberate fraud upon the
voters in 1896, by holding out the hope Of
international bimetallisn, when the lead
ers neither expected nor desired the res
toration Of the double standard, either by
independent action or by international
agreement. He said that the Republicans
were opposed to the free coinage OF silver
at any ratio, or under any conditions, and
pointed to the fact that the secretary of
the treasury and the leading Republican
papers were talking In favor Of the gold
standard at the very time that the COM
mission was In Europe trying to get rid
of it. He said that the ratio Of 16 to 1
was the only ratio that was discussed,
and the only ratio for which any con-
siderable number were working. lie de-
nounced the currency feature of the finan-
cial bill, and said that the Republican
party had never in a campaign advocated
the retirement OF the greenbacks, and
that it would not be able to defend that
bill before the country. He said that a
national bank currency, secured by gov
ernment bonds, could not be permanent
settlement Of the currency question, un~
less we had permanent and increasing
public debt.
TRUST QUESTION.
On the trust question he reiterated his
condemnation OF the Republican party
saying:
The trust is so bad thing that the
president felt 1t necessary to denounce
trusts in his message last December, but
he did not recommend a remedy The
trust portion of his message might be
condensed as follows:
''The trusts are bad for the life of
me l don't know what to do about them.
/ hope somebody knows more than [ do,
and VIII suggest something.
"a Republican congress listened to the
reading of the message, and then pro-
ceeded to establish paper money trust
chance of injury and to the banks larg-
er opportunity for. profit than any other
trust in existence"
He said that the Republican party was
powerless to interfere with the trusts
because the leading Republicans were
connected with the trusts and the party
had to rely upon trust contributions to
carry on the coming campaign He pre-
sented and defended the remedy which
he suggested at the antitrust meeting in
| Chicago last fall. and which he has fire.
| quently discussed since that time
PHILIPPINES ISSUE.
Taking up the Philippine question, he
referred first to the Puerto Rican bill,
and said:
THE desire to impose import duties
on goods coming from Puerto Rico COM
ReDuDllcan DartV disclose
| its imperialistic tendencies. This bill has
| aroused storm of protest from Repub-
licans in public and in private life But
why should any Republican be surprised
Imperialism means that people brought
under the flag a.e not to share in the
amazing that Republicans have contem-
plated the permanent acquisition of the
Philippine islands without stopping to
consider the future status of the Phil
ippines. Are the Filipinos to be citizens
Are they to be allowed to come to Me
| United States with their Oriental meth
DDS OF living to compete with American
LABOR? What good does it do to exclude
| few Chinese and then bring in by force
eight millions of Fflipinos? Are the Fill
iplnos to expect to participate in our
elections? Is the presidential contest to
be determined by the returns from the
Philippine islands? Are the questions
which concern our own people to be de-
/ representatives in congress from the
Philippine islands? And If the Fiiipinos
are not to be citizens, are we going to
change our constitution 50 as to hold
them in a perpetual state of yassalage?
! Can we expect anything but their ha4-ed
so long as we rule them through carpet
| Dagger governors? The Republicans have
studlouSly avoided a discussion of the
! Philippine question They have opposed
| the consideration of that question by the
cry that nothing could be done until the
lnSurrecuon was put down. The Puerto
! Rican tariff bill. however gives us some
idea of the treatment which the Fiipinos
may expect, and Prof. Schurman, 0i}e
! of the presidents commissioners, says
( that this bill will arouse suspicion in the
| mind of the Filipino as TO his future
! condition. He states his fears in the fol-
/ when we need to inspire confidence in
| the minds of the conquered Fiipinos,
shall We. commit an act which will con
! firm their distrust of us, quicken their
suspicious and breed new and perhaps
ineradical antipathies. God forbid
ONLY SETTLEMENT.
''The only settlement of the Philippine
| question consistent with American inter
! uement proposed by the Democrats in
J the senate before war broke out in the
/ Philippine islands. namely: declara-
/ ton of the ma tons purpose to give fNe
! F'ilipinos independence as soon as a sta
! BILE government is established. When
| that declaration Is made hostilities will
cease ana II VIII De easy to establish
a stable government. To independence
! should be added protection from outside
| interference. Not a protctorate, such as
European countries exercise for the
spoilation of the protected, but protec-
tion such as this nation has exercised
! over the republics of Central and South
America. 1t will be sufficient for the
United States 10 announce that any mo-
, leStation of the Philippines will be con-
! sidered an unfrendly act If our nation
will stand erect and exert It's great in
fluence in behalf of peace and justice
! and liberty. no nation will dare to touch
| the Philippine islands, just as no nation
has dared to distI~b the republics which
! lie in the south of us.
Mr. Bryan devoted some time to the
discussion Of the trade argument made
in behalf of the Philippine islands, and
quoted a letter written by Benjamin
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