The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-11

aginary conspiracy among the justices
Of the peace, the sheriffs and constables
to overthrow our liberties would not be
one particle more absurd than to pre-
tend to consider our little army as a
menace to our liberties. There is no
true patriot in the country who ought
not to be indignant at it, and yet there
is no man of good sense who ought not
to laugh at the effort to persuade 49,
600, 600 people, or any fraction thereof
that Co 1000 regular troops. almost all
of them employed in far away islands
on Indian reservations in the post forts
could under any conceivable circum-
stance be a menace to this country
1T is very hard to believe in the sin
certify Of such an argument about the
army. 1t is equally difficult to believe In
the sincerity Of the Organized Demo-
cratic cry about trusts. Mr. Bryan's
manager, Chairman Jones, of the Demo-
cratic national committee, is reported
to be one of the stockholders in the cot
ton bale trust. 1 know nothing as to
whether that trust is good or bad.
What L amsconcerned with is the hypoc-
risy of denouncing trusts and at the
same time buying membership in them.
Either position may be unWiSe- 1t may
be improper, but when both positions
are taken together, then both must be
improper. This is exactly the case with
the ice trust in New York. Personally,
believe that the ice trust is a bad one,
but L have no question that many men
went into it simply as they would have
whether it is legal or not we cannot say
until the courts have decided. The inn
pOrtant fact is the striking light it
casts upon the inSincerity of the Demo
cratic party leaders in New York. great
and small, who have got into it and
made money out of it, employed the
best legal talent to avoid it's dissolu
ton, and yet with an effrOntery absO-
lutely astounding and which deprives
honest men of a shadow of justification
for supporting them, actually de-
nounced not only trusts in general but
the very trust out of which they are thus
making profits and the dissolution of
which they are thus fighting. There are
great evils connected with that group
of corporations that we commonly call
trusts. But these evils can never be
cut out by a party which approaches
them In a spirit which must be de-
nounced as one of absolute insincerity
and dishonesty, and which is reckless in
promise and utterly Indifferent to per-
Torrance, as is the Organized Democ-
racy.
Mr. Bryan in this same speech is re-
ported to have said that the 'Repub-
lican party is concerned only with
money and ignores questions concern
ing human rights As matter Of fact,
it is his own party and only his own
party, which is thus ignoring human
rights and he himself has no right to
speak Of those rights al all until he is
willing to denounce the wrongs done TO
the black man in North Carolina, and
ought to use the fervor that he uses
in denOuncing the wholly imaginary
wrongs done to the brown man in the
Philippines. To ignore the wrong COM
mitted at home while denouncing the
ina ginary wrong committed upon foe
in arms is unworthy Of any man whose
loyalty to the cause Of human rights is
OF the heart and not Of the lips.
When read utterances Of Mr.. Bryan,
such as those which have quoted
above. I feel indeed that we have a
right to appeal not merely to Republi-
cans, but to all good citizens, to all
Americans who love the honor Of their
flag and who prize that liberty which
is jeOpardized by every appeal to the
evil passions Of the human breast"
HOodlums attacked Governor Roose-
velt's party in Calhoun street shortly be
fore the head Of the procession reached
speak. A party of rOughs on the side
walk threw a shower of stones at Col
RooSeVeItS carriage One struck Gov
ernor Roosevelt on the shoulder and an
other, aimed at the governor, missed him
and struck Curtis Guild, Jr-, of Boston,
in the face. The governor was not hurt,
and laughed the matter off, The horses
were whipped UP and got away from the
TOughs.
At Lafayette, Ind, a procession escort
ed Governor Roosevelt to the Lincoln
club in the yard Of which the speakers
stand had been erected Governor
Roosevelt said in part:
Our opponents are stronger on ora
tory than they are on action. We have
read in the good book that 'Epnralm
feedeth the Winds There is no possible
objection to that so long as Ephratm
enjoys it but there is no call for our
sharing the fare; 50 / appeal to you 70
exercise that plain, hard-headed com