The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-14
BRYANHONORSLANTON
Delivers Address at Dedication
of Monument at Ft. Wayne.
He TALKS AS A CITIZEN
SHOWS TACT AFTER PARTISAN
ATTACK BY GOV. MOUNT.

Fort wayne, 1nO-, sept ID he
people of this city today dedicated To
the memory of General Henry w Law
ton monument crowned by a cannon
captured by him, and christened the
principal city park in honor of Lawton-
The exercises were under the auspices
of the Union Veteran Legion William
]. Bryan was the principal orator Of
the occasion.
Governor Mount spoke just before
Mr.. Bryan The governor took up the
question of the Philippine war. de-
nouncing AguinaldO by name and
showing a tendency to strong condem-
nation of the insurgents and all VINO
may sympathize with him He spoke
of the face that the gun had been
taken from men who had turned 1t
upon our flag and our soldiers The
governor added:
IF this cannon was not captured in
just and humane war and from those
resisting the lawfully constituted au-
thority over these islands, fighting the
soldiers of the government that had
! liberated them from Spanish thraldom,
then where is the honor of the capture
and the glory of this gift2 Honor the
/ insurgents as patriots s-ld then you
/ interpret wrOngfully the words, the
| will and the act of our dead hero, this
shaft becomes a hollow mOckery and
! this trophy of patriotic ValOr becomes
] a monument to the dishonor of our
soldiers and the shame of our country
I Further, Governor Mount said:
Il trust / may never see the day
when I shall so far forget my devotion
/ and my loyalty TO my country as TO
/ characterize our soldiers as the agents
of oppression. turning the banner of
/ liberty into an ensign of Imperialism,
nor do 1 apprehend such a conSumma-
1 ton"
Bryan Shows His Tact.
Mr. Bryan made no direct reference
| in his address TO the utterances of
1 Governor Mount about the Philippine
war.
Il was invited to participate in this
reunion" Mr.. Bryan began. mot as a
candidate for office, but as a citizen
/ of this republic, and L am here to
! speak to you not as a candidate for
Office but as a citizen" This remark
called out enthusiastic applause
Mr.. Bryan then referred to his own
record as a soldier, saying:
Il can hardly say that I am here as
a soldier, for 1 feel that my military
I service was so insignificant compared
with the service of many who are here
] today that I am hardly entitled to be
/ classed among the soldiers. SO far as
my title is concerned / feel that it is
hardly fair that one should be called
| a colonel who saw ne active duty and
who did not have his courage tested
upon battle field"
Mr.. Bryan In6n palQ a nlSn tribute
to the volunteer soldiers character and
/ their wives saying:
I have supreme faith in the man
/ who fights when his country needs
! fighters. and then works when his
/ country needs workers.
Further on he said:
You have met today to do honor to
/ the memory of a soldier. of one in the
regular army. We need soldiers in the
regular army. We need some who are
/ the work OF the soldier. The differences
: between US are differences as to the
number of regulars that we need. II
is not the place today to discuss the
! size of our standing army; this is not
{ the time to exchange opinions as to
1 how many soldiers We need; but no
matter what our opinions may be as
to the size of the standing army, we
are all glad that when an emergency
comes we find the soldier measures up
to the standard of a soldier like Law
ton did
Mr.. Bryan said that there were vic
tories of peace as well as of war and
that he longed for the time to come
when no hostile arm viii be raised
against a fellow man."
Tonight Mr.. Bryan attended two
camp fires. the first at Library hall
and the second at Princess rink. He
made non-partisan speeches at both
places.
Mr.. Bryan left at midnight for To-
! ledo, en- route to Columbus, O., where
he win speak tomorrow.
Friday night he will proceed to St
Louis. where he will deliver a speech
before the travelling men. This speech
viii be devoted largely to showing that
the tendency of the trusts is TO limit
the chances of young men. He will
use as his theme the SOlicitOuS inquiry
of King David. rs the Young Man
AbSolom Safe?''
Mr.. Bryan will speak in East St.
Louis Saturday afternoon. Sunday
night he will cross the state OF Mis-
souri, for brief tour through south
eastern Kansas. He will go to his
home in Lincoln next Wednesday and
for a. brief time after that viii visit
several points in Nebraska.
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