The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-31
ANOTHER Big
MASS Meeting
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ooO,O0o and an area Of over ioO.ooo,oO0 square
miles. Today the evening sun has scarcely faded
In the sky in Porto Rico ere the morning sun
gilds the spires Of Manila.
Our object In expanding Is the same ns II was
three score years ago when the pioneers were
scaling the SUBMITS of the sicrras A nation
cannot shirk its responsibilities TO liberty and
humanity without dire returns in the shape oil
national retributon.
There was n time when civilization was cen.
tered about the Mediterranean sea; when stir
ring events took place in Rome, Greece, Garth.
age and Egypt and when the English language
was unheard Of end unspokcn except by few
hardy Britans.
Today the English language is spoken BY
iH,OOO.OO people. and wherever II is heard there
may be found liberty, law and the higher and
better element Of civilization Who shall say
what new pathways will he blazed ont for this
Anglo.saNon people? What prophetic ken can
pierce with one iay Of life the mysterious
future?
There will come time I say to you when
the Pacific ocean will be an American sea-
traverscd by American ships laden with the pro.
ducts OF American industry and when Columbus
dream Will be- realized and we shall sail west.
ward to find the indies.
The United States, first born Of England Is
now facing the west. Some day she will have
stitutional government for all the people. lie.
us remember that our flag, our stars and stripes
wherever henccforth it may float is the emblem,
OF liberty. humanity and Justice bcckoning the
race onward to higher glory and higher dcs.
tiny.
A CONSUL GENERAL.
Following Congressman Grow came
James y. Dubois. United States con-
sui general to Switzerland, who kept
the audience in splendid humor for
over half an hour. Seldom does one
hear a speaker with such a remarkable
fund OF apt anecdotes as Mr.. Dubois
and seldom one with such facility of
expression From among the many
things he said may be culled the fol-
lowing:
Some time ago Governor Roosevelt charged
MIR. bryan with arraying labor against capital
ana the masses against the classes In Baltimore
a a little while ago I heard Mr.. Bryan answer
the governor. lie said that human bees had
n'eh making the honey and that he proposed
10 show how to destroy the droves who wcr:
eating it. will give $50 to any man who will
say that Bryan helped him to make single
drop OF honey.
You have in this district in Mr.. Cornell n
man of splendid independence: an honest man;
man who has always voted right: man who
has always supported President Mckinley in
man who has always voted right: a man who
10 giving thousands of human bees chance
to make honey. notice the Scranton Times
tonight said that there would he Bryan land
slide on Nov. o. ] acknowledge that there will
he landslide, but Mr. Bryan will be on the
bottom of it, and the two Williams, Mckinley
and Connell will he on top.
The political organization OF which Bryan is
the imperial czar is taking great pains to hum
bug. befog and mis'cad the American pcoplc
lis face is turned toward yesterday and its back
to resurrection morn. Next Tuesday night it
viii feel like the topper with tcn.milc thirst
and not single schooner in sight.
Bryan is like Maryland flea. When You put
your thumb down he is never there. He has
married more paramount, issues in this campaign
than the friskcst widow that ever came ont
of Chicago. First it was imperialism. then
trusts, then militarisn. then the rights Of man,
then government by injunction and so ad
ininitnn. His next issue may be the man
mp the tree for all know.
DIR. Bryan has in his saddle bag the most
dangerous nostrms ever connected in the plar.
macy Of political quackcry.
IN 1890 Bryan predicted that the gold stand.
ard would increase tho number Of idle men. r.
q. Dun, one of thr most careful men in this
country. made an Investigation Mt that time
and found that there We're 2,OO0,oOO idle men
You know the condition Of affairs now. You
know that every calamity howler is hichcd up
10 well paid job before he starts ou'.
There many of them who have worked
hard since they voted for Bryan four years ago
that ~ need rest and they'll Get it If lie
is ever elected The interests of the laborrr
and the business man would be far worse of
in of his election than was thc man WHO
invested his all in swampy town when they
sold lots by the gallon.