The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-25

most enthusiastically received His
| speech covered the general range of pub
| lie questions, but devoted most attention
| to imperialism, covering the points made
familiar by his recent addresses. He said
in part:
I'm this campaign we are brought
face. to face with two theories Of govern
ment- One is the American theory, the
other is the European theory. The
American theory is set forth in the De-
claration of Independence. 1t reads that
governments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed 1t is
either true Of it is false. If it is false
we have been false to the world for a
century and quarter, but believe it is
true and believe it with every drop of
blood in my body. That is the American
| idea, and until three years ago, no man
ever stood before an audience and dis
puted that theory. Today men dispute
eminent is 10 inches in diameter round in
shape and fired out of a cannon.
You have got to choose between those
two. The Republican leaders. instead
of daring to defend that European defini-
ton of government, tell you that the
question of Imperialism does not amount
to much, and that the only question is
whether we Will have gold standard or
not For four years they said that the
silver question was dead, but now they
ind it alive They have been burying it,
and when you ask them to discuss i'm
perialism they tell you that they haven't
time, but that the old corpse has come
up again and they have got to settle it
again. Why is it that they don't want
to discuss Imperialism?
Because they can not shake the be-
lief of our people in self evident truths.
me republican platform says that the
Republicans, if elected will give the
FflipinoS a good government, and as
large measure of self government as
is consistent with their welfare and our
duty. denounce that plank in the Re
publican platform as a reproduction of
the doctrine of King George Ill That
is what he said, that ne would give a
good government to the co1onists- I
want you Republicans to take that
plank of the platform and compare it
with the emanations from the English
throne in the revolutionary days. What
king ever promised a bad government
to his subjects.
go back through history and you can
never find where a tyrant or despot ever
promised anything but a good govern
ment-
1.-THE Republicans say we can not haul
down the flag where it has once been
hoisted. If that is true how are you
going to get the flag away from Pekin.
our soldiers are there and carried the
stars and stripes with them and If your
doctrine that whenever the flag floats
over a land the land can not be given
diers away from Pekin and if you follow
the doctrine that you followed in Manila
you have got to take the whole Chinese
empire, because we took all of the is
trine is true we have got to- take 400,-
100000 subjects over there. 1t is thou
sand times better to haul down the flag
in the Philippine islands and raise the
flag of the Philippine republic than to
change our flag from the flag of a re-
public to the flag of an empire lGreat
applause and cheeringo
He derided the doctrine, which he said
was Republican, that we're in it and
can't get out of it, That was the cow
ardly plea of policy, and such a. doctrine
was calculated to make a chicken thief
out of every man who might wake up
and find himself in the neighborhood of
hennery- Was there, he asked, moth
ing dearer than money in this world?
As for himself he was not willing to
measure human life by the value of
oriental trade. Already the bodies of
1000 dead soldiers had f1oated back from
the Philippines.
What are they WORTH" he asked,
and then shouted, Fix the price of one
of them if you dare
Mr. Bryan left Marysville at $40 D. m
for Beatrice, Neb.