The Forrest City times., 1900-10-12
PATH OF MONARCHY.
Being Followed by the Republican
 Party, Says Bryan.
Presidential Candidate Addresses National Association of Demo- cratic Clubs-Cost of Mili-
 tarlsm.

tarism.
 William J. Bryan addressed the Ma tional Association of Democratic clubs in convention at Indianapolis, Thurs day, October 4, speaking upon the trusts, militarism and other prom inent questions. He said:
 New York has a republican governor and a republican legislature, and you re- publicans who have been worrying so much about the ice trust can just ease your
 minds for as long as the governor is out
 west making speeches you may be sure no- body is being heard in New York. Why Is 1t that no republican knows anything about the Standard oil trust. or the sugar trust, or the salt trust, or the cracker trust. or the window-glass trust, or the envelope trust, or the writing-paper trust, or the
 trust in the paper that republican editors use to write a defense of the trusts upon7 l Why don't they know about these trusts? l Is 1t dishonesty or Is 1t ignorance? Why | is 1t that no republican speaks out against | any trust except the ice trust. and why Is | it that the republicans in charge do not de- | stroy that, so you can believe Hanna when l he says there are no trusts?
 'The republican party is not prepared to 1 defend itself on the trust question; there- l fore they try to get it out of the campaign. | The republican party Is not prepared to de- l fend itself on the army question. They say | there is no question of militarism and yet an army four times as great as the stand- | ing army of 1896 is demanded by the pres- | idents message of December. 1S9S How l much do we spend for education in tho l United States? Less than $200, 100000 l year. How much do the republicans want | to spend on our military establishment? I One hundred million dollars year. They l want to spend more than half as much for l military establishment as we spend for l the education of all the children in the | United States. Is that not step toward
 militarism? What reason can they give
 for it? They can only give one. That is | the one they do not give.
 l Reasons for Large Army. 1 "There are two reasons which lead men 1 in this country to want a large standing | army One is a domestic one; the other is l connected with our foreign affairs What | domestic reason Is there for large army7 l To protect us from the Indians? No; the | less Indians we have the more army the l republican party wants. That is not the l cause. Why do they want it? So that they | can build a fort near every large city and use the army to suppress by force the dis-
 content that ought to be cured by remedial I legislation.
 l .sThe laboring man asks for arbitration and gets an army; he asks relief from gov- | ernment by injunction and gets large | army; he asks protection from the black l list and his answer is large army; he asks | for shorter hours of labor in order that he | may have more time with his family and | for the development of his mind, and his | answer is large army. He asks for repre-
 sentation in the presidents cabinet in or
 der that labor may be protected, and his | answer is a large army.
 | That is the domestic reason which IS not given, and yet 1t is reason entertained | by many What is the reason they give? | They say we need it for our foreign policy, | but my friends, they asked for the army
 before the American people ever decided 1 upon a foreign policy that made large 1 army necessary.
 'In December, 1898. when the president 1 asked for his army, the treaty had not yet | been signed, but its terms were under | stood. When the republican congress voted | to raise the army to 100000 the treaty had l been signed and no arm was raised against | this nation anywhere in the world. But | up to this time the American people have l never voted for colonial policy, and yet the republican party is pledged to 8 large 1 army. What does 1t want with 1t? It in- | tends to exploit the Philippine islands, and | if you want to understand the reasons for | a large army read the prospectus issued | by the Philippine Lumber and Develop
 ment company.
 Blame Democrats.
 "You will find that at the head of the
 company as president stands republican | member of congress who is the chairman of | the army committee of the house of repre- | sentatives, and another republican con- l gressman is attorney for the company, and | the prospectus shows that already valuable | timber lands have been secured, and the | prospectus also explains that the labor l problem is easily solved, because there is a | quantity of Chinese labor there that can be | employed at from 50 to 75 cents a day in | Mexican money. What do you want an | army for? To hold the Philippines while l they are being developed by syndfcates
 headed by republican politicians.
 l 'sThe republicans say the reason we are in | the Philippines. the reason our boys are | dying. the reason a large army is neces- l sary, the reason we cannot come home, is | because I helped to ratify the treaty My l friends, l want you to go back. few mo- | ments and you will find that the republic | an party said we were in the Philippine is- | lands because of the act of God. and it is | great come down from God to me. If 1t | is the hand of God that takes us to the Phil | ippine islands why do the republicans | want to lay it to democrat? If it is well to be there, If 1t is part of the divine mis- | sion, why don't they defend the being | there? They claim to be silent partners with the Almighty, but the trouble is that | they make all the noise and thus far the | Almighty has been the silent partner. Now l they say the war would stop if it were not l for the democratic party They say that l the Filipinos would lay down their arms but for the hope they have that 1 may be | elected. My friends, whenever a republic | an tells you that. you tell him that the | colonists fought the same battle that the | Filipinos are fighting, and they did it near | ly 100 years before l was born.
 ''The republican party is following the | paths of monarchy. It does not propose | king. but it proposes principle upon which | only king can stand. It does not propose | a crown, but it proposes doctrine that can
 
 | party has done in Porto Rico just what l England did in this country, and our presi- | dent is doing to-day just what George III. did century and quarter ago. What diff ference does 1t matter whether you call
 him president, or empero.. or king if he ad-
 ministers the power of .-ing?'
 -Hanna announces in New York
 that the west is not waking up as he expected under his alarm cries of dan-