Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-22

Manila and saw "Old Glory proudly
floating from the masts of the American
vessels and over the city he experienced
a sensation that he will never forget. He
paid a tribute to the early civilization Of
Spain an dsaid that on the gates of Ma
spain and said that on the gates of Ma
carved $50 years ago. For every cruel
CorteZ that had gone out from Spain in
the early days had gone a missionary
Las Casas to plant the seeds of Chris
tianity. We could afford to be generous
ana pay Spain for the islands we u
taken as an accident of wa. If it had
not been for Columbus he deemed it un-
likely that there would b. any America
today.
My friends" he asserted with pas
sionate gesture, II have been in thos,
islands and studied the conditions there,
and l tell you that it would be the crime
of the century for us to leave the white
residents there to the mercy Of a horde
or 'barbarianS. Stop and think what it
means. Only a few hundred years ago
the ancestors of the black men in this
very country were IN the wilds of Africa
killing game with bows and arrows and
Worship fetishes. Look at their
descendants. They are well clothed and
educated as a rule, while their children
are going to school. They are making
good citizens, and yet this state of at
fairs could not have prevailed if we had
looked upon things then as the democrats
pretend to now.
Il cannot give credit to William ].
Bryan of being sincere and 1 will tell
you why. I stood in the city of Manila
one day and among the papers that came
down there was the New York Journal.
At the head of the editorial columns was
the expression, Nail the Flag up in the
Philippines l was overjoyed and went
and showed the paper to my friends.
There I said, is the way the demo-
cratic party views the situation down
here. l am proud of my party, proud Of
Bryan and proud of Editor Hearst for
the patriotic stand he is taking in this
war;
THAT sign stayed at the head of that
big democratic paper, the New York
Journal, until the democratic convention
at Kansas City put a plank in the plat
form of that party declaring against i'm
perialism and expansion. Tha was too
much insincerity for me.
Remember, my friends that there
came a time in the Philippine situation
when there was a nameless horror in the
air. when the women and the children
looked to the American soldier for pro-
lCCllol from d horror worse Inan death
itself. Thank God. they did not look in
ain. The Montana rifles were there with
Colonel Kessler; the miners and the
smeltermen of Montana We're there with
their rifles to defend the honor of women.
The martyred Lawton came there to give
his life for the flag, protecting c~iviliza-
ton and humanity in the Philippine
Islands. Riley, Liscom and all the rest
OF that heroic band We're sacrificed just
as truly in the cause as were the lives
of Nathan Hale and Abraham Lincoln
AS the speaker reached this climax the
audience burst into applause that lasted
for several minutes. AS he e~ndeavored
to proceed he was Interrupted by cheers
and yells of "Give it to emf THAT'S
right" and "We'l fix Bryan all right in
November!" When quiet was finally re-
stored the speaker proceeded to throw
verbal lyddite shells at the democracy
concerning the subject of trusts.
Il see that Mr.. Bryan spoke the other
night in New York." he said, with Mr..
Croker of ice trust fame at his right
hand-Mr. Croker. whose emblem used
to be the Tammany tiger, but whose en-
blem now is a polar bear feeding chopped
ice, to a Malay savage"
Don't laugh" he said. as the audience
was disturb by a ripple of laughter.
"Tha ice trust business is a serious
thing when you reflect that in New York
the thermometer sometimes reaches an
altitude you never see here: and men,
women and children are Frustrated II
die of sunstrOke in the streets. When
those men who control the ice sales there
put prices up high it means the death of
many people who would otherwise be in
the land of the living today.
There. that will do!' sud ,-nly ey
claimed the speaker, stopping short and
pointing his finger at a man Who had
been yelling with all the strength of his
lungs. Il will do all the growing neces.
, sary here tonight. I used to be a demo-
crat myself. and know what the word
rooster means."
The heller subsidized, n everybody
t else laughed. This was the last inter
, ruption of the kind Coakley was an
noyed with during his address.
The speaker then made an w
, explanation of trusts. He declared tha'
) combinations of capital are necessary OF
|, account of the large scale on which un'
> dertakings of the present day are car.
. ried on. There are bad trusts, of course
as we'll as good trusts; Just the same
as there are good men and bad N =
The bad trusts should be disciplined by
r law, and would be when necessary if the
republican party is continued in power
The democrats could not be depended
on, because their leaders are the greaj
= trust men of the country. As in.
stances, he mentioned Croker and
Van Wyck, and Chairman Jones Of the
: national democratic committee. who Il
at the head of the cotton bale trust. HI
, had just finished that subject when 9
number of fusionists in the hall arose
4 and started for the door. Stopping in hi.
talk, the speaker directed the attention
. of the audience to them, n said:
"My friends. I don't know those gen
tlemen: but you do. Look at them All,
, you will know who are the democrats
! have sent out OF the hall converted"
Not another person left the hall unit