The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-26
Mr.. Bryan Speaks.

IA oil RPCoho.
Mr.. Bryan said, in part:
! Jefferson used 10 say that vigilance
/ was the price of liberty, and | believe that
; the greatest danger that we have to fear
IN this country is that the people may not
! carefully study and fully understand the
( questions upon which they are voting;
1 Tor there Is a partiSanship that is too
/ apt 10 turn men away from the truth or to
/ make them refuse TO listen to any one eX-
/ cept those who bear their own party
{ brand. We are today meeting important
] questions, and it is essential to the well
/ tare of this nation that those should be
elected this fall who stand for the poll
cleS which are best for the government.
! II Republican policies are right. then
/ those who represent the opinions
/ neid by Democrats, POpulists and silver
! Republicans ought to be Overwhelmingly
/ defeated, for there is a difference between
/ Republican policies and ours in their
terms as wide as the gulf that separated
Lazarus in Abraham's bosom from dives
The policies for which our people stand
are directlv antagOnistic TO the policies
which he Republican party stand. and
/ nOth cannot be right.
Porto Ricans 80 Per Cent Free.
He referred to the Republican policy in
| the newly acquired possessions, saying
| among other things on this point:
The Republicans say We want a 50-cent
( dollar; they have given us an 50 per cent
citizen in Porto Rico
h6IeITllS 10 LEe importance OF the cleo
ton of United States senator's, Mr.. Bryan
said:
Il want asenate that will be in har-
mony with the congress and the president,
if we win this fall. Ii We had had Dem
ocrat or PODulst in the senate in place
of John NJ. Thurston there would be to-
day no war in the Philippine islands, be-
cause that one vote would have been suf-
ficient to have carried the Bacon resolu-
ton. and | do not believe that the admin
istratiOn would have carried on a war
against the majority of the senate. |
want you TO feel interested in a victory
for our principles and go to the polls and
vote for legislative ticket that will send
to the senate men who stand for these re-
form principles"
Questions For Republicans.
In conclusion he suggested a series of
questions Tor his hearers to DrODound to
their Republican friends, as follows
~ any Republican tells you that the
money question is the question of para
mount Importance in the Campaign. ask
MIN why he has been saying for four
years that the silver question was
dead If it is such live question
If the Republican says that the gold
standard is good ask him whv McKinle,r
sent a commission to EUROPE to get rid
OF mat question. and if the gold stand
ard IS bad enough to justify a Republican
president in attempting to get rid of if
ask him If ii is not too bad to keep merely
because England wants US to keen n he
cause English finanCiers are the cause NJ
our present financial system in this coun-
Try When our commission went. hroad !
France wanted to help restore binefaI- 4
ism; the laboring men and farmers of |
england wanted to help. and IL Is F,nglisb
1ipanc ers who prevented the accomplish !
ment lt the purpose of the comnfssion
and who through the Republican marty
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