Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-15
Imperialism Was the Subject Of His
Remarks There.
REFERS TO MOTTO ON CANNON
Mayor Jones and Mr.. Monnett
travelling With Him.
TAKES THEM AS TEXTS

CANTON Ohio October 15,.-There were
important accessions to the Bryan train
here before 1t left Akron this morning.
These consisted of Mayor Jones of Toledo
and former Attorney General Monnett
Both Joined the party upon the invitation
of Mr. Bryan, and it is understood that
Mayor Jones will continue with the presi
Dental candidate on his New York tour.
Mr.. Bryan spent the night on the RAM
bier his sleeping car, and he did not emerge
from his stateroom for almost an hour af-
ter the train had pulled out of the Akron
station a o'clock.
The first stopping point was Canton, the
home of the Nebraskan's rival for the pres
idency. This place was on the itinerary
only conditionally, and when Mr.. Bryan
was told that he could have stop there Of
five minutes If he SO desired, he replied
simply that whether he should speak or not
should depend upon whether there was any
crowd at the station.
Mr.. Bryan had just sat down to breakfast
when the point was reached. AS the train
drew into Canton there were cheers and
good-sized crowd was there to meet Mr..
Bryan He was received with cheers and
made four or five-minutes' speech, refer
ring pleasantly to the President. and saying
that If he should not be reelected he could
always be an ex-Presdent, the ''ex'' was
a title that once earned could always be
held.
MIR. Bryans Speech in Canton.
Following is the full text of Mr.. Bryan's
Canton speech:
Il believe that this stop Is not on the pro-
gram, and / am only here for moment.
You are so accustomed here to seeing pres
idential candidates that another candidate
Is no curiosity. l suppose some Of you in
1896 voted for your home candidate as
matter of local pride, but now you can say
that Canton is the home of a President,
and If the election goes way it will
always be the home of an ex-President, be-
cause that title 'ex' is one of those perma-
nent titles that a man never loses. If any
one insists that the President deserves a
second term you can reply that one term is
enough where a President does well and
too much where he does not do well. You
have here in your city a cannon, j believe,
that was presented to you as a trophy of
the war. 1t was the custom in earlier days
for cannon to bear notices, and your cam
non has inscribed upon it Mars Ultima
Ratio Regium,' which means that war is
the last reason of kings. Charles Sumner,
in his Grafton on the true character of ma
tions, delivered at Boston July A, 1874, re-
ferred to this motto and said Let it be
no reason of this republic
II hope that you will not merely from
the possession Of that cannon be led to be-
lieVe that war is a thing to be desired. 1t
ought to be further away from a republic
even than from a monarchy, because in a
monarchy the government rests upon force
and has frequent occasion to resort to
force.
Little Restraint on Kings.
"A king Is not always restrained by those
considerations which would restrain the
people of republic. In country like this
where the government rests upon the con-
sent Of the governed, and where justice is
the rule between this government and other
h,f,r
there ought to be less necessity for war.
In fact, / believe that If this nation will
stand upon its rights and be as careful 10
respect the rights of other people as II Is
to defend its own there will be little use
of war. If this nation will obey the com
mandment Thou shalt not steal ii will
have little difficulty in enforcing that COM
mandment in those places where this ma
ton is a protector. The American idea of
a protectorate is different from the Euro
pean idea Under a European protectorate
the protector plumbers the protected. Ac-
cording to our theory the protector has to
give the strength of the protector to its
ward without making the ward the victim
of the protector and so we believe in the
faraway Philippines that this nation can be
protector as it has been in the South
American republics. and without governing
the people ourselves. We can say to the
world, Hands off, and let that republic
live and work out its destiny
THAT is our theory, and we feel that it
Is q significant fact that the republican
party has planted itself upon the European
doctrine that you must own country in
order to be of service to it, at the same
time that it plants itself upon the Euro
pean colonial idea.
Suggestion to Republicans.
"You will probably find in your town
few people who will support the republican
idea of the colonial policy, but 1 suggest
that when you find republican VINO is
willing to support the colonial idea you ask
him to show his sincerity by sending petit
ton to the President asking him TO apollo
gize to Great Britain for the trouble we
made her before we learned of the blessings
of this colonial system, for il the republi
can party is right today in administering
colonies, taxing them without representa-
tion, and governing them without their
consent, then the colonists were wrong 125
years ago when they asserted that these
principles were wrong. We are in Ohio for
a few days, and 1 am glad to be given a
chance to present our side of this question
to the people of Ohio, and l trust that
when the election is held the results will
show that even in Ohio, despite the local
influence here, despite the residence of the
President and the residence of the chairman
of the republican national committee, the
returns will show that a great contest be-
tween the European idea of force and the
American doctrine of government by con-
sent Ohio will be on the side of the United
States instead OF on the side of Europe
At Mineral Point there was also brief
stop which was not on the schedule. At
that place Mr.. Bryan asked Mayor Jones
and Mr.. Monnett to come to the car plat-
form, and then pointed to them as speci.
ments of men who were being driven from
the republican party by Its policies.
He asked his hearers to look at them and
to then ask themselves whether these poli-
cies are such that they could remain with
the party.
Gold Coming From South Africa.
NEW YORK, October 15.-It Is announced
that the National City Bank has engaged
s. 500 900 gold for import.