The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-01-09
MR.. BRYAN AT II
CHICAGO BANQUET.
He Turns the Sunlight of Demo.
cratic Criticism
ON ADMINISTRATION DOINGS.
Declares That the Filipinos Must Either
Become Freemen OF discusses
other Issues In the Light
of Events.
Special to News-Democrat.

Jackson day banquet as the occasion,
Colonel William Jennings Bryan turn
ed the shafts of the Democratic criti-
cism on the administration and dis
cussed the issues of the day at the Tre-
mont house Saturday night. During
the course of his remarks Mr.. Bryan
said:
THE years which have elapsed since
1896 show how the voters of the party
when their conscience, their judgment
and their determination are once
aroused, can resist the foes within and
the foes without and keep the party
true to it's high mission as the represen-
tative of the struggling masses in their
never ending contest with the privileged
classes The plutocratic influence which
won the last national campaign and
which have rioted in power ever since
have not been able to force the surren-
der of single plank or line or syllable
of the Chicago platform.
After a three years burial of the
money question by our opponents they
recently have accentuated it's import
ance by presenting currency bill which
would have condemned the Republican
party to overwhelmingly defeat if 1t
had been proposed by the president in
Ia s letter of acceptance. The bill is so
bad that it could not be forced through
the congress chosen in 1896, but in 1898
when the people were engaged in a war
for humanity the financiers captured
congress while the Republican leaders
with perspiring patriotism were plead
ing to the people to uphold the presi-
dent while the treaty with Spain was
being concluded. The people were in
tent upon the conclusion of the war,
waged for the political Independence of
the Cubans, and the Wall street mag
mates were building for the financial
subjugation of the producers Of wealth
in the United States.
DEGREES THE CURRENCY BILL.
THE currency bill fastens US to the
financial system Of the old world and
subjects us to all the disturbances
which affect them, while 1t places the
control of the volume of paper money
in the hands of bank trust, which
will be as merciess to the people of
this country as Weyler was to the re-
concentrates. The fight for bimetal-
lism at the ratio of 16 to has not been
lost. The increased production of gold
has shown the advantage of more
money and has answered the argument
so often made that the parity could not
be maintained because of the over pro-
duction of silver.
"The fight against bank note circula-
ton will grow stronger as the big banks
swallow up the little ones and as the
people learn that a permanent national
bank note circulation secured as at
present necessitates a permanent and
increasing national debt.
'T ha yrn dioc,ISSaH fLra e.,,o.4;a.
in this city so recently that it is only
necessary for me to say that the Demo-
cratic party Will meet the issue with q
plain and positive remedy. The Re-
publican party is unable to enact and
enforce efficient antitrust laws. When
new legislation is demanded Republi-
can leaders say that the present law
is sufficient; when a new trust is pound
ed out Republican officials say that
the law does not cover the case The
adjustable view of the law reminds me
OF the little boy at the table. His father
was helping plate and the boy ex-
claimed: What, all of that for grand
ma" No replied the father, this
plate is for you, my son. oh, what a
little bit! complained the boy.
IMPERIALISM AN ISSUE.
"The question of Imperialism will oc-
cupy prominent place in the next
campaign. 1t matters not whether the
war in the Philippines ends In the near
future or continues until election. The
people must determine the policy to be
pursued in regard to the Ffllipinos.
Ihat policy must contemplate the uT-
innate independence of the FTlipinos or
their permanent retention under Amer
lean sovereignty If the islands are
TO be retained permanently the inhab-
1tants must be given the hope of full
citizenship or they must be condemned
to the lot of subjects. Who desires to
admit them to share and share alike
with US in the destiny of this republic?
The McEnery resolution, which
passed the senate last March by Re
publican votes, announces that the
Philippine islands were never to become
an integral part Of the United States
III we retain possession permanently,
then, we must be prepared to support
by force war which will never cease
to be obnoxious to the native popula-
tion.
COLONIAL POLICY is OPPOSED.
England has been in control of India
for century and a half and yet, ac-
cording to Mr.. Morrison, an English
man, in a book recently published
there is not In India a native paper Of
influence which defends the English
government. He also complains of the
ferocity of the educated classes. No
nature can expect an alien government
to be satisfactory. We cannot adopt a
colonial policy without ignoring the
doctrine of self-government, so long
cherished in this country, and we can
not ignore that doctrine in dealing with
the Fillipinos without endangering it's
existence in the United States.
Upon what ground car forcible an
nexation be defended? 1t is on the
theory that the Filipinos are incapable
of self-government? Clay, in discuss
ing the revolutions which led to the
establishment of the South American
republics, declared that self govern
ment is the natural government and
asserted that those who deny the ca
pacity of any people of self govern
ment impeach the wisdom of the Gre
ator Clay Is right. The doctrine that
1t Is the duty OF powerful nation to
cross an ocean and force an alien gov
ernment upon another race which hap
pens to inhabit valuable lands is a doc
trinef conceived In avarice, born in ini-
guilty and defended always by hipo-
crisy.
when we enter upon a policy of en-
pire We cease to be moral factor In the
worlds progress. Heretofore we have
sympathized with the people struggling
for the right to govern themselves. but
now when the Beers are willing To die