Arizona republican., 1906-08-31
the cheering died away in reverberat- ing echoes along the girded roof Mr. Bryan began:
 MIR. BRYAN's SPEECH. In Which He Discussed all Manner of
 Public Questions.
MIR. eRYAN's sPEE

The following is an abstract of MT. Bryan's speech. He said:
 Like all travellers who have visited other lands, I return with delight to the land of my birth, more proud of its people, with more confidence in it's government and grateful to the kind providence that cast my lot in the United States. l also return more deeply impressed than ever before with the responsibility which rests upon our nation as an eXemplar among nations and more solicitous that we, avoiding the causes which have led other na- tlons to decay, may present a higher ideal than has ever before been em- bodied in a national life and carry human progress to a higher plane than it has before reached.
 The first message that I bring from the old world is a message of peace. The cause of arbitration is making real progress. There is perceptible growth In sentiment in favor of the settlement of international disputes by peaceful means. I believe that if our nation would propose to make with every na- ton a treaty providing that all oues- tons in dispute between the parties should be submitted to The Hague tribunal or some other impartial fn- ternational tribunal, for investigation and report before any declaration of war or commencement of hostilities. it would find many nations willing to enter into such a compact. To take the lead in such a movement would establish our position as a world power in the best sense of the term
 And what argument can be advanced against such action on the part of the United States? Shall we yield to any other nation in the estimate to be placed upon the value of human life? l confess that my aversion to killing increases with the years. Surely the Creator did not so plan the universe as to make the progress of the race dependent upon wholesale blood letting. prefer to believe that war. instead of being an agency for good, is rather an evidence of mans surrender to his pas sions, and that one of the tests of civil ization is mans willingness to submit his controversies to the arbitrament of reason rather than of force.
 COLONIALISM.
 Another subject connected with our foreign relations: Many profitable fields of investment are now closed be- cause the people of the smaller nations are afraid that an investment of for
 
 for a foreign invasion. Several times on this trip this fact has been brought to my attention and I am convinced that for every dollar we could secure to American investors by an attempt 10 put the government back of their private claims, we would lose many dollars by closing the door to invest ment. Let me add that our nation has lost prestige. rather than gained it. by our experiment in coIonialism We have given the monarchist a chance to Tidicu1e our declaration of independ- ence, and the scOffer has twitted us with the inconsistency. 4 tour through the Philippine islands has deepened the conviction that We should lose no time in announcing our purpose to deal with the Filipinos as We dealt with the Cubans. Every. consideration com mercial and political. leads to this con- clusion.
 I return more convinced than before of the importance of change in the method of electing United States sena- tors. In all the countries which I have visited there is a demand that the gov be brought nearer to the people. I am within the limits of the truth when I say that the senate has been for some years the bulwark of predatory wealth and that it even now so many members who owe their election to favor seeking corpor- atiOns and are so subservfent to their masters as to prevent needed legisia- ton.
 The income tax, which some in our nountry have denounced as a social stic attack upon wealth, I am pleased to report, has the endorsement of the most conservative countries in the old world. It is little short of disgrace to | our country that while it is able to the lives of it's citizens in time of war. it cannot, even in the most extreme emergency. compel wealth to bear it's share of the eX- penses of the government which pro- -ects it.
 ARBITRATION.
 l have referred to the investigation of controversies under a sys- em which does not bind the parties to accept the findings of the court of in- 1 1uiry. This plan can be used in dis l outes between labor and capital and in | advocating arbitration of differences i between large corporate employers and | heir employees. I believe we are de- | lending the highest interests of the | -hree parties to the disputes. viz, the | the employees and the public | if there is compulSOrv submission to l