The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-06
Circulation Statement.
The Opportunity md the Man.

The Opportunity md the Man.
Mr.. William ]. Bryan is the Democrats
candidate for the Presidency. His nom
nation means:
An opportunity to the American people
who denounce and detestth rule of the
trusts, as that rule has been shown dur
ing four years of the Hanna Mckinley
regime. to turn 1t down.
An opportunity TO define and declare that
the Constitution Of the United States
shall not be ignored or defied by the
executive and legislative branches of the
Government.
An opportunity TO assert that the great
oceanic canal constructed with American
money, operated by American men, and
fortified and defended by American works.
ships, and guns, shall not be defeated. And
that the Monroe Doctrine shall not be
abandoned in the interests of secret al
lance or understanding between the White
House and the British Foreign Office.
An opportunity for the farmers of Amer
ica 10 say whether they will continue TO
interest TO the Juggling commercial tactics
of the trusts and monopolies, or free it
from their control.
An opportunity for the small manufac
tuners of the country TO say whether they
will accept bankruptcy and slavery, at the
hands of the trusts. or secure, through
the return of the common people to power,
q chance TO live.
An opportunity for the people TO say
that hundreds of millions of the national
money shall not be used by the money
trust in New York without consideration.
An opportunity for the laboring people
OF the United States to say that govern
ment by trusts. for trusts, and wholly in
the interests of trusts shall stop.
An opportunity for all honest Americans
10 say that such outrages as the corrupt
beef contracts of the Spanish war, the
transport scandals of the same period
and the favoritism and thievery of the
era, for which the Hanna Administration
is responsible, shall not be possible here
after.
An opportunity to declare that the loot
OF the new territories. gained as results
Of the Spanish war. by the trusts which
have controlled the policy and conduct of
the Administration, shall not be allowed
to go on.
An opportunity to decide whether we
shall restore the Republic of the fathers, |
or submit to the expunging OF the Consti- |
tuition. the destruction of our institutions. |
and the erection in their place of the will |
and domination of magnates like Rookie
Teller. Havemeyer Carnegie. Duke, and
Marcus A Hanna.
II is a serious question which confronts
the American people They have chance,
and We are inclined to think last chance,
TO block the wheels of a movement toward
practical imperialism. Another four years
OF unbridled power would give the trusts
and monopoies time in which to establish
their overlordship. Another quadrenniate
would enable them TO expand and pack the
Supreme Court with trust attorneys, SO
that the Constitution would not stand in
their way; and control of majority in
both houses of Congress would afford them
the power of legislation which, If they
should achieve it. would result in an era
of public robbery in comparison with which
history is lacking a parallel. We have
only TO refer TO the Hanna schemes of the
Ship Subsidy bill and the Panama Canal
to exemplify the proposition
What Will the American people do in |
view of the circumstances and conditions?
More or less, there are about fifteen mil ,
lion men from whom the answer is 10 be I
gathered. If they do not think that a ,
change is needed in the White House and
Its environs. after the incidents and ex-
Dosures of the last four years, then 1t will
have TO be admitted that, in this country, c
the dollar is greater than the man. and O
that the blood that was shed in the war I
for American independence was shed in 1
vain