Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-11
USES FOOLS ARGUMENT.
QUESTIONS THAT INSULT AMER
ICAN CITIZENSHIP.
Bryan's Policy Of Asking: Questions
and Trying to Sow Anarchy
and Discomfort.

Bryan made the first speech of the day
at Hastings, beginning at 7:15, and not
~withstanding the early hour he had
good audience. He talked largely of im~
periaaism, saying that the Filipinos
s.iould have their own flag, which we
should help to protect. They should be
allowed to work out their own destiny,
as we desired to be allowed to work out
ours.
The second speech was ait Nashville,
where for five minutes Bryan suggested
a series of questions to republicans.
They were as follows:
"If the trust is good thing, why
did the republican platform denounce
trusts?
"!f the trust is a bad thing, why did
the present republican administration
permit more trusts to be organized than
during all previous history of the coun-
try?
IF some trusts are good and some bad,
can you tell the difference between a
good one and a bad one?
.'Do you know of any good monopoly
in private hands?
do you know any man good enough
to stand at the head of a monopoly and
determine the price of that which others
are to use?
do you know of any good reason why
the army should be made 1OO,OOO?"
would you be willing to make the
army 100000 if the republican leaders
said so, or a haM milljon if they wanted
1t?
What is your title to the Flipinos?
Did you buy him or did you get him by
force?
DO you think you can buy the right
to govern people?
What are you going to do with the
Filipino when you get him?
Are you going to kill him?
well, you cannot do that because
then you would lose your trade argu-
ment You have got to 1et him live if
you trade With him. Dead men don't
buy things If he lives to be
citizen or subject? Are you going
70 have congressman from the Philip
pines and senators and electors? If not
are YOU going to have subjects? When
did you decide tat it was wise for US
to have haH an empire and half re-
public? When did you decide that a
colonial policy was good?
shall we force uoon the Porto
Ricans because we have the power that
which we would not bear ourselves?
What are you going to do with the
Philippine question:"
At Charlotte Mr.. Bryan ran hurriedly
over the issues of the campaign during
the two minutes stop. He defended his
declaration that the president of the
United States is only a hired man and
said that if any man in America reached
the conclusion that he had a right to rule
he was very sure to be found to be wrong
himself. He charged the republican par
ty with defense of the trusts because the
trusts We're the chief source Of supply
| in their campaign fund.
Discussing the increase in the size Of
the army, Mr.. Bryan asked il there was
q man in the army who had ever written
to public official asking for an army Of
| 100, 900 men. One hand went up, A voice
| In the crowd shouted: He can't write"
The man then said that he had never re-
signed a commission in the army. To
| this Mr.. Bryan replied that he had re-
| signed his commission and that ne had
done so because he thought this country
| in more danger at that time than was
| Cuba. He said he had volunteered on the
day that war was declared and had re-
signed on the day that the treaty of
/ peace was signed. He said that when be
found the republican party was tr; irg
to establish here the doctrine which un-
derlies the empires of the old world he