The Topeka state journal., 1900-08-17
BRYAN AT HOME.
Democratic Candidate Speaks of
the Issues to Lincoln
Friends.


ed a very handsome welcome to Mr.
Bryan upon his return to his home af-
ter an absence of ten days. He was met
at the station by a large concourse of
people, who escorted him to his resi-
dence and who, after listening to a speech
there and shaking hands with both Mr..
and Mrs. Bryan, only dispersed to meet
in the evening with many others in re
ception given in the state capitol
grounds, which partOOk more OF the ma
ture of an official function. In his ad-
dress at his home Mr.. Bryan said:
L have some times been criticised for
going from home instead of staying here
and having people come to see me, but
I have felt, in the place, that people
could not come heer as well as they
could go to Canton. Lincoln is not in the
center of a thiclxly populated country, as
Canton is, and our people have not the
means Of travelling without cost as they
have in some parts of the country under
some circumstances, and have felt that
it was great deal cheaper for me to
go and see the people than to
compel them to come and see me-" Gap
plauSe).
Mr.. Bryan then discussed national is
sues a some length, in part as follows:
mot long ago a Republican was child
ing one of our people with the fact that
the FilipinOS were looking to a Demo-
cratic election for the securing of their
rights and the Republican said: Are you
not ashamed that the Filipinos are eX-
pecting aid from the Democrats?' and
this man replied to the Republican: DO
you know of any people in all the world
who are fighting for liberty who are
looking to the Republican party for help
at this timer
1.-THE Beers in South Africa are hoping
for the success of the Democratic party
because they believe that they have a
right to expect the sympathy of the
American people in their struggle for
liberty. The Republican party of today
q 10 Of
rights as it claimed to be 40 years ago.
L want those who are about to cast their
first vote as well as those who have
voted before to take these questions that
impress them for solution and ask them
selves: What will the result be?'
When we say that Republican sue
cess menaces the foundation of our gov
ernment some Repu blicans laugh and saw
that we are alarnists, but it is much
easier to take the second step in the
wrong direction than it is to take the
first step, and if today the American
people declare that we can hold the peo-
clude them from the guarantees of the
constitution, it will be easier to take the
next step. If we dare to exclude the peo-
pie of Porto Rico from a share in the
government in which they live we will
destroy our faith in a principle that has
been fundamental in this country for a
century and quarter.
mo one can tell what the future has
in store, but we can reason. We can ap-
ply the rules of every day life; we know
human nature, and we know that If this
nation reaches a point where it is willing
to deny the universal application of the
principles set forth in the Declaration of
Independence it will not be long before
those principles will not be applied in
our own country and I want to warn
those who toll, that whenever in this
country we begin to neglect the princi-
pies of self government, the poor will be
the first to suffer. Those who today say
that the dollar of trade is superior to
the rights of the Fflipinos will be saying
in a few years that money is more i'm
portant than man, and that those only
who have got wealth have sufficient at
stake to have voice in the government
here. (Applause). Our contention is that
our government is built upon the doc
trine that all men are created equal. De-
stroy that doctrine, and there is no foun-
dation upon which a free government
can be built If all men are created
equal, if they are endowed with inalien-
able rights, if governments are instituted
among men and derive their just pow
erS from the consent of the governed,
then this nation has no more right as a
nation to claim the ownership of s, 900 900
FilipinoS than one man has a right to
claim the ownership of another man The
Republican party, which was not willing
that black man should be sold for
thousand dollars, now claims that Fill
ipino can be bought for two dollars and
fifty cents. (Great applause). The prin-
ciple is exactly the Same.' (Great and
continued applause).