The age-herald., 1900-08-17
MR. BRYAN AGAIN
 REACHES LINCOLN Great Procession Marches to the
 Leaders Home. SPEAKS OF THE CAMPAIGN Says People Cannot Go to Lincoln to See Him as They Gan to Can
 ton-Discussed Nation
 al Issues
SPEAKS OF THE CAMPAIGN

 hearty welcome to MT Bryan upon his re- turn home today at 3:30 D. He was met at the depot by a committee of escort, while the Bryan Home Guards in white suits and the Continentals in new George Washington uniforms together with many citizens not in uniform, marched on foot. The parade marched to the Bryan home, where MT. Bryan expressed his and Mrs. Bryans appreciation of the good will of their townspeople.
 q have sometimes been criticised" said he, flor going away from home instead of staying here and having people come to see me, but I have felt in the first place that people could not come here as well as they could go to Canton. Lincoln Is not in the center of thickly populated country, as Canton Is, and our people have not the means of travelling without cost as they have in some parts of the country under some circumstances, and l have felt that 1t is a great deal cheaper for me to go and see the people than for me to compel them to come to see me. It is great deal bet ter for this city to be the home of Pres ident for four years than to be the home of a Presidential candidate for a little while.'
 MT. Bryan discussed the national issues at some length, in part follows: "A Republican was chiding me about the fact that the Filipinos were looking for ward to the securing of their rights, and the Republican said: Are you not ashamed that the Filipinos are expecting aid from the Democrats? and the reply to the Re- publican was: Do you know of any people in all the world who are fighting for liber- ty who are looking to the Republican party for help at this time?
 Isoers Look to Democrats "The Boers in South Africa are hoping for the success of the Democratic party, because they believe that they have a right to expect the sympathy of the Amer
 ican people in their struggle for liberty The Republican party of today is not the party of human rights, as 1t claimed 10 De forty years ago. I want those who are about to cast their first vote, as well as those who have voted before, to take these l questions that press upon them for solu- | tion ard ask themselves: What will the result be? When say that Republican success menaces the foundation of our government some Republicans laugh and say we alarmists, but it is much easi- CT to take the second step in the wrong direction than it is to take the first step, | and if today the American people declare ! that we can hold the people of Porto Rico as subjects and exclude them from the guarantees of the constitution, it will be | easier to take the next step. If we dare | to exclude these people of Porto Rico from | a share in the government in which they | live we will deny our faith in a principle | that has been fundamental in this country | for a century and a quarter. He then explained the reasons of his | party for an apparent change of issues l saying:
 If we had had our way about it we would have in this campaign at this time l the same questions as had in 1896. But events have thrust into the arena of poli- | tics new questions. The trust question: | for instance, has become more important | because the Republican party has stood sponsor by the cradle of more trusts than came into existence in all the years previ- l ous to 1896. (Applause) It is the fault of | the Republican party that the trust ques- | tion is of more importance now than 1t was four years ago.
 Question of More Importance But the Republican party has brought l into this campaign a question more im- 1 portant than any question that merely in- wolves the system of taxation, the indus 1 trial system the financial sysem The Republican party attacks the fundamental 1 principles upon which the government rests, and when the Republican party strikes at l the very foundation of free government, 1t | injects into the campaign an issue of over | shadowing importance. (Great applause) No one can tell what the future has in store, but we can reason; we can apply l the rules of everyday life; we know human | nature, and we know that if this nation l reaches point where 1t is willing to deny l the universal application of the principles l set forth in the Declaration of Indepent- l ence 1t will not be long till those principles l will not be applied in our own country; and | I want to warn those who toll that when
 ever in this country we begin to neglect l the principles of self-government the poor will be the first to suffer. Those who today l say that the dollar of trade Is superior l to the rights of the Filipinos will be saying l in few years that money is more impor- | tant than man, and that those only who 1 have great wealth have sufficient at stake l to have a voice in the government here. l (Applause.)
 All Men Created Equal
 | "Our contention is that our Government is built upon the doctrine that all men are | created equal. Destroy that doctrine and | there is no foundation upon which free l government can be built. If all men are l created equal; if they are endowed with | inalienable rights; if governments are ir- stituted among men and derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, | then this nation has no more right as | nation to claim the ownership of S,OOO,0OO l Tilininos than one man has right to claim | the ownership of another man. The Re-
 publican party, which was not willing that
 a black man should be sold for thousand
 dollars, now claims that Filipino can be
 bought for two dollars and fifty cents.
 (Great applause). The principle Is exactly
 the same" (Great applause).
 In concluding, MT Bryan advised his
 hearers to vote in November as their con-
 science should dictate T cannot" he
 said, "feel unkindly toward those Repub-
 licans who think so much of noe that they | would keep me in Lincoln all the time. | Gaughter) But feel even more kindly
 of you who will give me leave of absence
 | for four years and let me carry out your
 will at the national capitol" Great ap-