The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-01-15
". !. BRYAN
MAKES TWO SPEECHES IN
NEW HAVEN.
HE LECTURED TO 5000
Speeches 10y Garvin and
De Almond.

New Haven, Conn, Jan. 1l.--Wil-
liam Jennings Bryan appeared in a
dual roll i'm this city tonight making
two speeches, ore at the jackson Day
banquet OF the New Haven Democrat
club on Conscience Campaign," and
the. other lyccum lecture on The
Valued of an ldea' before an audience
Of three thousand people who crowd
ed the Hyperion theatre
In his banquet speech, Mr. Bryan
made some reference TO the coming
campaign.
The word campaign suggests war
fare" said Mr. Bryan. we use
terms with which we are familiar in
physical struggle to describe these po-
litical contests in which we appeal not
to visible forces but to those invisible
forces which are stronger than the
arm of man
"lt Is good tactics 10 strike the en-
envy where he is weakest and to use
the weapons which are most effective.
The weak point of every bad policy is
that it sacrifices human rights to sell
fish interests, and today to prove a
system evil we only have TO show that
il violates that sense of justice that is
satisfied with nothing less than equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none The only appeal that is perma-
ncnt in its effectiveness and enduring
in its usefulness is the appeal to con-
science and while 1t may seem weak
ness to the brutal and folly it rose a
response that is at least irrestable.
The conscience controls whenever
II is awakened and it is only awaken
Ell by a vice from another conscience.
IF we would touch the conscience of
others we must give evidence that our
conscience has been quickened. The
great issue at this time, is the issue
between man and mammon, between
plutocracy and Democracy. All sur
face questions OF notion and policy. of
taxation and of regulation and of
finance are but phases of that century
long, that worldwide struggle between
the common people and organized
wealth. To say that it does not pay
for q nation to violate the rights of
the people of another nation involved
so much of addition, subtraction, null
tipiication and division that many get
lost in q maze of mathematics but to
say that the wages of sin is death is
to give an epitome of history that ac-
cords with each persons experience.
ITO say that taxation confers i'm
mediate benefit upon a privileged few
who ensure the enactment of the law
does not find its way by indefinite and
devious ways back to the pockets OF
the many, some times confuscs the
mind, but to say thou shall not steal
by law or in defiance of law Is con-
elusive
And SO In dealing with the trusts, !
with finance, with labor problems and |
with all the other questions at issue !
We must view them from moral |
standpoint and arraign every evil at !
the bar of public conscience. Will it |
win? Nothing else will give perm
anent success.
AS the martyrs years ago lIneelng |
in prayer whie hungry beasts devour-
ed them evoked q power mightier than
the legion OF Rome, so today it is only /
possible but necessary to appeal to
that moral sentiment which. when
aroused, will prove more potent than
the purse"
Governor Garvin. of Rhode Island, in
discussing the mission of the New
England Democracy deplored the fact
that that section was solidly Republi-
can and declared it was due chiefly
to the fact that nearly all of the news
papers that mould public opinion
throughout the New England states
are Republican in policy. Abundant
potent influence in retaining the sec
tion in the Republican column The
hope of Democracy he claimed lies
entirely in the hope that eventually
tne present state constitutions, which
are admittedly of great benefit to the
Republicans, can be changed
Governor Garyin closed with an ap-
peal for the initiative and referen-
dunn, declaring that In 1t lies the hope
of the Democracy to gain control of
New England.
The banquetcrs then adjourned to
the theatre where Representative
DeArmond, of Missouri, was introduc-
ed. He said
Il believe in the coming campaign,
we shall effect the cooperation of all
who profess the name of Democrats.
bolieve many now allied with the Re-
publican party will also be with us.
There is a growing feeling of hope
fulness on the part of the Democrats
and anxiety on the part OF the Repub-
lieans as to the outcome of the ap-
preaching campaign, l believe there is
a feeling that the genelemen at the
head OF our affairs is one who ought