Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1900-10-11

combine beth the vigor OF youth With
the wisdom OF age.
But I appreciate the work done and
being done and to be done by this as
ISOLATION of democratic clubs, and l APP
p~reciate the energy, the enthusiasm ana
the ability displayed by Mr.. Hearst, the
president of this association. l believe
in these clubs. We need them. We
need clubs far more than the repuD-
licans need clubs. In fact. my friends.
the work of democracy, being a WORK
for the people. must be done by the
people. Machinery is not sufhcieut
when We have but machinery alone 10
! win a democratic fight.
I'VE need these clubs to aid In tne
work and to supplement the efforts OF
| our national, state and local organiza-
tons. We need the clubs TO help US
collect money TO carry on our cam
paign. The republican party can get
it's money from the corporations winch
plumber the people between campaigns
in return for the money contributed
during campaigns.
NO HELP FROM TRUSTS.
I'VE cannot go to a trust and ask g
to help US, because we do not expeSS
TO be helped. We know that every
speech made by a democrat against
these trusts makes it easier for their
party TO raise a campaign fund; you
understand that"
Mr.. Bryan then made a strong arGu-
ment against trusts AS to the Amer
lean workingman he said:
MILITARISM AND LABOhtERS
1.-The Iaboring man asks for arbitra-
ton and gets a large m ne asks
relief from government by in1u.". II
and gets a large army; he asks prolec-
ton from the blacklist, n his answer
is a large army. He asks Tor SHJNCeF
hours Of labor in order that he may
have more time with his family, ann
for the development of his nina, am
mis- answer is a large army; he asks
for representation in the president
cabinet in order that labor may u
protected, and his answer Is q large
! army. That is the domestic reason
which is not given, n yet 1t Is a red-
son entertained by many. Is the
reason they give? They say we need
it for our foreign policy, but, my
friends. they asked for the army be-
fore the American people had ever de-
cided upon a foreign policy that mace
a large army necessary.
I'm December, 1898, when the presi-
dent asked for his army the treaty had
not yet been signed, but It's TERMS
were understood. When the republican
congress voted to raise the army 10
100 600 the treaty had been signed ana
no arm was IdlSCu dbdAAAoN LIS
anywhere in the world. But the
American people had never voted for
a colonial policy; up to this time the
American people have never voted TOT
a colonial policy, and yet the repu0-
lican party is pledged to a large army
TO EXPLOIT PHILIPPINES.
What does it want with it? 1t in
tends to exploit the Philippine islands,
o,I if xyont m understand the
reasons for a large army read the pros
pectus issued by the Philippine Lumber
and Development company. You Will
find at the head of the company as
president a republican member Of con
gress who is the chairman OF the
army committee of the house OF rep
resentatives and another republican
congressman is attorney for the com
pany, and the prospectus shows that al
! ready valuable timber lands have been
| secured; and the prospectus also ex-
plains that the labor problem is easily
solved, because there is a quantity or
Chinese labor there that can be EN-
ployed for from 30 to Is cents a day in
Mexican money. What do you want
an army for? To hold the Philippines
until they are developed by ~syndicates
headed by republican politicians. The
American people have not yet decided
in favor of Imperialism.
you find that now the republicans
! are trying TO hide behind first one sub
terfuge and then another. They say
now that the reason we are in the
Philippines, the reason u boys are
| dying, the reason a large army is nee
essary, the reason we cannot come
! home. is because 1 helped to ratify the
treaty.
IF it is the hand of God that takes
us to the Philippine islands. why do
the republicans want to lay II on 10 a
| democrat? If it is we'll to be there. IL
it is a part of the divine mission, Why
don't they defend the being there? They
claim to be silent partners with the
| Almighty, but the trouble is that n e.
make all the noise, and thus far the
Almighty has been the silent partner
Now they say the war would stop II IL
were not for the democratic party. 1hey
say that the Filipinos woul lay down
their arms, but for the hope they have
that l may be elected.
ANSWER TO REPUBLICANS
M friends, whenever a republican
tells you that, you tell him that the
coIonists fought the same battle that
the Filipinos are fighting and hat they
did il nearly a hundred years before L
was born.
TELL them that the republic of South
| Africa fought the same HSnt DeioEe
this question ever arose in American
politics.
Tell them that the Cubans waged
a war for thirty years to secure the
same rights before there was ever an
| anti-imperialist party in this country,
or ever need for such a party.
! Tel them that the Filipinos issued
!, l Declaration of Independence, pat
/ .erned after ours, before the question
f imperialism ever entered into Amer
can politics.
MY friends, they do me too much
honor wnen they say that 1 am re-
sponsibIe for the FilipinOs hatred OF
foreign domination. If they have not
forgotten the teachings of Abraham
Lincoln they would know that he said
it was not a party, or a man, but cd
himself who planted in the human heart
the 1--we CT liberty. which no republican,