Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-10-04

was to be caught on the barbs as the
prices went up.
"Mark Hanna says there are no trusts,
said Mr.. Bryan. Nov Mark would be
q bad fellow to send to hunt trusts,
wouldn't he?"
"Ihe republicans say that there are
good trusts and bad trusts aud that the
government cannot control them. There
could be no good trusts unless God, in
his supreme wisdom, should send angels
down to take charge of them. and to do
that the angels would be worked over
time to no effect. There are no good
trusts. The republicans express far
more solicltude for trusts than for the
people.
Mr.. Bryan turned his attention from
trusts to the imperialism part of the cam
paign argument. He said:
"If you think that the Filipinos are
fighting against our authority over there
merely because | am candidate for
president, l answer that the Cubans
struggled for thirty years when was
not candidate. The colonists fought
for independence hundred and twenty
years ago and my name had not even
been heard Of. No it was not democracy
nor my candidacy that placed in the
hearts of the Filipinos the hatred that
they have for foreign domination"
| While Mr.. Bryan was discussing the
Filipino question, some one IN the crowd
asked the question:
"How about the negroes in the south?"
1 This question aroused the speaker to
| fight of oratory which he had not attain
ed before. He said that the republicans
never wanted to talk the race question
unti1 oloction times Ho caid.
II am glad you spoke of the negroes.
If you will look at the Sulu treaty you
will not have chance to talk about the
negroes during the entire campaign. I
do not know of a purer piece of hypocrisy
than that Of the republican who defends
the Sulu treaty and condemns the amend
ments in the southern states. Under the
Sulu treaty the United States flag floats
over the sultan's harem. and under Sec
tion 10 it provides that the Sulu slaves
can buy their liberty at the market value
when they earn enough to do SO working
at-nothing- "a day. In it you find there is
race question in this country that will
require all the patriotism and all the in
telligence of the people, north and south,
to solve, is that q reason why you should
drag in another race question? Is it q
reason why you should bring into this
country 100000 brown people to share
in the destiny of this country. There is
not Il republican in a position to defend
the negro question. The republican
party has ridden the negro for thirty
years to the doors of the capitol and then
hltched and went in to hold office. The
negro vote has bestowed president after
president on tho republican party and
has given them janitors IN return. You
never hear Of republican talking of q
negro only at election time.''
| Again touching the matter OF imperial
ism Mr.. Bryan told story of an Ohio
father, whom he met some time ago. The
old man had just received news of the
death of his sou in the Philippines. Ma
turally he was against the policy of ex.
pansion. There are hundreds of others. |
"The republican congress backed by
1.-THE dictation Of a republican government
has ordered standing army Of hun
dred thousand people, an increase of sew
enty-five thousand. What are those peo-
| pie to do when idle? They will have
nothing to do but to drill and draw sal
aries. Then 1t is said that armories can
be built in the vicinity of thickly popu-
lated districts for the simple purpose of
suppressing by force the discomfort that,
ought to be prevented by legislation.
Il believe in expansion of trade with
every country in the world, but would
not put one Of our American soldier boys
on the auction block and trade him for
all the Oriental trade which this country
will ever secure"