Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-31
BRYAN'S SPEECH
ON HOMECOMING
Delivered at Madison Square
Garden, New York, Last Night.
BEFORE IMMENSE AUDIENCE
An Elaborate Exploitation of the Evils
of Our Day.
THE TRUSTS OvERsHADOW ALL
Republican Party Scored for Failure
of Laws Against Corporations
Income Tax Favored.
THE TRUSTS OVERSHADOW ALL

William Jennings Bryan, in his speech at
Madison Square Garden, New York, last
night. said:
Like all travellers who have visited other
lands 1 return with delight to the land of
my birth. more proud of its people, with
more confidence in its government and
grateful TO the kind Providence that cast
my lot in the United States.
MY national pride has been increa sed by
abundant evidence have seen of the altru-
istic interest taken by Americans in the
people of other countries. No other nation
can show such record of benevolence and
disinterested friendship. My love for our
form of government has been quickened as
have visited castles and towers and peered
into dark dungeons and am glad that our
nation, proftng by the experience of the
past. and yet unhampered by traditions and
unfettered by caste has been permitted to
form new center of civilization new
soil and erect here "a government of the
people, by the people and for the people
II also return more deeply impressed than
ever before with the responsibility which
rests upon our nation as an exemplar among
the nations and more solicitous than ever
before that we, overcoming the causes
which have led other nations to decay, may
present higher ideal than has ever before
been embodied in national life and carry
human progress to higher plane than it
has before reached.
II desire. moreover, to acknowledge in
debtedness to the American officials who
have everywhere shown us all possible cour-
tesy and kindness.
Some Observations of His Tour
II do not know that / can better show
my appreciation of the welcome accorded
me by my countrymen than to submit some
suggestions drawn from observations dur
ing the ednca
addressing me through an interpreter, said:
L wish you would find the worst thing in
Japan and tell us about 1t. so that we may
correct it commended the generous
spirit which he manifested, but assured him
that 1 had not visited Japan In search OF
faults and blemishes. but rather that l
might find the best things in Japan and
take them home for the benefit of my own
people. Each nation can give lessons to
every other, and while our nation is in a
position to make the largest contribution,
believe. to the education OF the world,
II ought to remain in the attitude of a pu-
pill. and be ever ready to profit by the ex-
perence of others.
1.-The first message that bring from the
old world is a message of peace. The cause
OF arbitration is making real progress in
spite of the fact that the nations most
prominent in the establishment of The
Hague tribunal have themselves been en-
gagged in wars since that court was or
ganzed. There is perceptible growth of
the sentiment III FAVOR OF the SeltleWent VI
international disputes by peaceful means.
1T was my good fortune to be present at
the last session of the Interparliamentary
Union, which convened in London on the
Odd Of July. Twenty-siX nations were rep
resented, and these included all the leading
nations of the world. This peace congress.
as it is generally known. not only adopted
resolutions in favor of the limitations of
ornaments and the arbitration of all ques-
tons relating to debts, but unanimously in
dorsed the proposition that all questions
OF every nature should be submitted to
an impartial tribunal for investigation or
TO the mediation of friendly nations before
hostilities are commenced.
Nations Favor Arbitration.
1T is not necessary to point the import
ance of the position taken. The embodi-
ment of the suggestion in treaties would
go long way toward removing the prob
ability of war. While the idea Is of Ameri-
can origin, It was heartily accepted by the
representatives of England. France Ger
many and other European countries.
Il believe that If our nation would pro-