The Yale expositor., 1900-10-12

States that no foreign country should In
terfere in the western hemisphere. Mr..
Bryan would do what? Spread IL all over
the world and we would stand behind and
defend 1t. What do you call that II 1t
isn't imperialisma AS result of that
procedure we would find ourselves in
volved in all kinds of foreign wars. "a
voice-That is right That is true-and
yet Mr.. Bryan is for peace. He was for
peace when he resigned from the army
and he has been for peace ever since. L
am for peace. I'm n Quaker. l am for
peace, but not peace at any price. am |
not for peace, and l know that the ma
jority of the people OF this country are |
not for peace, with that brigand Agui-
naldo as long as he is hiding in the bushes |
and shooting down from ambush our boys
in blue, (Applause.)
Bryan Switches Issues.
But Mr.. Bryan has already been driven
from his position on Imperialism. lie
knows now what many OF us knew in the
beginning-that ii was only one rooster
that he was going to put in the pit and
he would fight il as long as he could.
Now he has got his last gamecock, Trust,
and that goes into the pit for the next
thirty days, and the Republican party
will be prepared to meet him on all such
questions, and il had the time and voice
and opportunity / would like to speak 10
every laboring man in the United States
upon that question; because in warning
| the laboring people of this country against
this huge monster, the trusts, in the same
breath he says that the Dingley bill is
the incubator of trusts.
Now, we are getting TO know where we
stand with the laboring people when we
come to the tariff, and we won't allow
him to evade the issue that he has made
on the bald proposition that the protect
i've tariff principle goes hand in hand with
| trusts. We keep the protective tarlh
principle there and we will furnish our
own definition for trusts. L say we are
at home on that proposition because we
have at the head of our national ticket
that great advocate of protection, VIII
lam Mckinley; because in him we have
the best friend OF the United States; and
there isn't laborng man in the city OF
Chicago, or in the State of Illinois, or IN
the United States, who knows anything
about public affairs, who knows anything
about the career of President Mckinley,
that does not know from actual proof the
fact that during his whole public life he
| is the only man ludl the WI "
this country always felt at liberty to call
upon to support their interests, and he
; never failed them. And he is just as
much their friend to-day as he was fifteen
, years ago.
Bryan and the Laboring Men.
! And now let me ask what has w. j.
, Bryan done for the workingmen of this
country? CA voice: Nothing" An
| L.. .l,..r ,n1 ne hol =
dollar to hear him talk.'') Not thing.
Came near saying damn. Not thing
: His career in public life is available tC
every man. His short service was mark
: ed and made conspicuous by his opposi
J ton to the tariff bill. And what has h
lone since to show any particular inter
est in the working people of this country
: He tells them what he would do. He j
. prolific in promises, rosy in painting tn
: picture as to what would be the result o
:, his administration, but l charge you
:. workingmen, turn away from that pictur
- and look upon the other; and the other
- Mckinley.
:, Do not let us take any promise fror
:, any candidate or any man whose Who'll
- record has shown that his overawing an
y bition is to be President OF the Unite
= States lie will ride any issue, he wi
limb on to any platform that is made fo
> him, he will preach any doctrine, he wi
10 oven abuse me to be President OF IN
- United States.
N Most Important Issues.
Now, bringing these issues home to eac
md every individual | want to bin
hem there because l expect and | kno'
- hat every man who goes To the polls o
40 election day having heard the argument
:. n the case, having considered how the d
- .ision of these issues will bear upon h
- personal interests and those of his famil
" will cast that ballot intelligently in h
- ,wn interest and not in Mr.. Bryan's. b.
- here is a further responsibility whiC
=, ONES to every man and to every woma
a. who can influence man.
~ | say that the Importance of the issu
-. n this campaign at this time and und
IT, these conditions is greater than ever
10 ore in the history of our country. L 81
20 because believe it, because l kno
hat any reversing OF the present poli
~, VI the administration of this governmeI
- INV change i'm that administration, won
," bring about n condition of things in {
business and industrial interests Of IL
country that would dwarf the flood al
el storm at Galveston it would mean hu
O ricane that would carry before 1t eve
zen interest, it would be flood that wou
I'll ingulf the property and the material
" tercsts OF every man, woman and chi
-. 81. that enjoys the present prosperity.
the Where Interests Are.
| a There is no question where your int
ur- est is, because every year, every mont
He and every day of the administration
hat William Mckinley has been an object j
the son. Every man who has an insurar
to on his life for the benefit of his fami
hill every man who has his deposits in s;
do ings bank or loan association where
has gathered together perhaps the 81
ov- ings of lifetime, where he believes II
oy- safe and it is, although that money Il
at he deposits in savings bank is not the
he for they don't keep the money in tn
the vaults. What do they do with 1t? III
can invest it in securities, in bonds and me
Ioil, cages, satisfying themselves that
der property behind those securities is =
nee fectly good for the loan made-and Il
,me under all normal conditions. But 8