The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-09
SNAPSHOTS BY BRYAN,s KODAK.

The lawbreakers of 1896 were numer-
Bryan in a speech on 3rd spoke Of the
policy Of the wire trust, and made it
a good text for a good talk on coercion
In a supposed free and enlightened
country. He asked the startling ques-
tion-"Why were all the lawbreakers
against us in 1896 and why are they
against US now?" and he answered the
latter question by saying 1t was be-
cause they were afraid they would all
be sent to prison in case OF democratic
success" Referring TO the steel trust
he said il threw out recently $500 out
of job until after the election.
On 4th he spoke at Indianapolis. It
was a very telling speech. bristling
with impressive points and common
sense wisdom. Here are some pearls
strung from the speech:
THE republican party does not coll
lect money for its national campaign
from one republican out of a hundred
and When the election is over SO out
Of 100 republicans have nothing to say
about the running Of the government.
But my friends they found that
when a man says a question OF money
is more important than a question Of
government he at INC suspi-
cion and people begin to wonder wheth-
er he thinks a dollar is more important
than a man." 4. :.
They Said: Let us open the mills
instead of the mints' and the first thing
they did when they got into power
was, not to reform the currency, but.
to reform the tariff and give the men
who contributed a chance to run their
hands deeper into the pockets of the
people,"
They were afraid in 1896 that we
were going to have a fifty cent dollar.
Now they have given US an 50 per cen
citizen in Porto Rico and they don't
daIe tell us What Per cent. of citizen
snip the Filipino is to have. In 1896
they said We could not have a double
standard of money. Now they think
We can have a double standard of gov
eminent, a republic here and a despot-
ism in the Philippine islands,"
THE only trust that any republican
in this country seems to know about is
the ice trust and the republicans don't
know much about that for if they did
they would know that every Stockhol-
der is a republican"
These are just and excellent points
1OICcluIy CISdily SldlCu, dId oic
worth remembering. Pin them in your
hat.
At La Crosse, Wis, he showed to the
b~utter-makers who heard him, that
but 1904 in butter had been exported
to the Philippines, while the country's
was vastly out of proportion to it's
share of the profits in butter.
At Shakopee he showed why the re-
publicans were allowing the trusts to
grow-robbing the masses for the BEN
eft Of a few-that it vas because that
party lis more interested in those who
possess the organized wealth of the
country than in those who are contrib
uting to the large dividends collected
by the trusts Why do the republicans
want a large army? They want it at
home to suppress by force the discon-
tent which hould be cured by legisla-
ton. and they want it abroad in order
to exploit the Philippine islands,"
There are people-calling themselves
democrats but who are McKinleyites
at heart-in the south who wish a
great standing army-to foster militia
rism-for the reason the northern i'm
~perialists give, to stifie the voice of a
suffering people. Mr.. Bryan showed
his thorough Americanism, his true
manhood, his exalted patriotism when
he said at Winona that he cared not
whether a monopoly is good or bad.
Il care not whether a king is good
or bad he said, Il hate a monarchy.
So 7 care not whether a trust is good
- l~l Il l@+~ 49, . >@o~D,o1p
Referring to the question of the in
crease of the standing army he said
that the multiplication of the army
by four Illustrated the difference be-
tween a republic and an empire"