Show > BUSY DAY FOR BRyAN S BEGAN SPEAKING AT MANHATTAN MANHAT-TAN KAS Democrats Do Not Object to Honest Accumulation of Wealth Ho Also Speaks at Marysville Manhattan Kan Aug 21 iMr Bryan began the day with n speech hero at 1030 oclock before a large audience au-dience The speaker received careful attention and liberal applause Mr Bryan said he believed most Republicans Repub-licans would leave their party when convinced that they could serve their country better by leaving it than they could In It In the first place he said the Republican party had been a silver party nqw it had become a gold standard stand-ard parly l had supported the greenbacks green-backs now It proposed to substitute bank currency for the greenbacks It had heretofore denounced trusts novJ Us leaders were found generally defending de-fending the trusts He asked what then the-n ldual Republicans especially tho Republican farmers were gelling out of the trusts We do not object to the honest accumulation ac-cumulation of wealth he said What I object to is a Government that protects pro-tects a few men in their robbery of the masses and then denounces eveiiybody as an anarchist that does not like lobe lo-be robbed I want you Republicans to see the change that has taken place In the Republican party I you Cannot seethe I see-the change that has taken place in your partys position on the economic questions ques-tions I am going to ask you if i you can see the chance that has taken I place In your parlys position on these new questions that have come up since I the Spanish war Applause I Mr Bryan declared that a policy of Imperialism was Impossible without a large army I we arc to resort to I imperialism In the Philippines In order or-der to get the trade of those Islnn she s-he said is It not reasonable to suppose sup-pose that the same policy should be brought into requisition to get the trade I of other countries uI i believe In the expansion of trade I want this country to expand her trade but I would not present one American citizen on the auction block and sell him for all the trade of the Orient If I had to buy It by his blood Great applause Mr Bryan asserted that the Republicans Repub-licans were evading the question of expansion ex-pansion and said that aCer having asserted as-serted over and over again that the silver question was dead they had resurrected res-urrected It far beyond the predictions I of Democrats Important as was that Issue It could not be used to prevent adequate discussion of more pressing questions In closing Mr Bryan said I The splendors oC an empire have lured Governments on to destruction In the past We do not want thc splendors I splend-ors of an empire We want a Government Govern-ment of the people by the people and for the people That fs glory enough I for us Applause And when Republicans Repub-licans tell you what we are going to do and how are we going to reach out and get lands for their exploration you remember that passage of the scripture scrip-ture and you can paraphrase It by an answer they cannot meet What shall It profit us IC we gain the whole world and lose the spirit which prizes liberty erty as an heritage to all men In all I lands everywhere At Marysville Marysville lau Aug 24Mr Bryan arrived here on a special traIn from Manhattan at 215 this afternoon and l afterward delivered a speech to the people l of this vicinity He was greeted by considerable gatherings at points en route At Randolph he compared thoR tho-R party to an association of athletes trained to turn somersaults in concord whenever the leaders say Flop with the party and he pre dicted that many of them would this year turn from the part rather than turn with It At Blue Rapids he quoted the scrip tural passage Whom the Lord loveth he chastlscth as Gods authority for thrashing the Republican parly at the November election At Mot vle Mr Bryan spoke to an exceptionally large audience and hp was moat enthusiastically received His speech covered the general range of public questions but devoted much at tention to Imperialism covering the general range of public questions but devoted much attention to imperialism covering the points made famljlar by his recent addresses He said In part I He derided the doctrine which he 1 said was Republican that we are in I It nnd cant cot out of IU That was i the cowardly rjlea of policy andsuch I a doctrine was calculated to make a i I chicken thief out of every man who I might wake up and find himself In the neighborhood of a henn ry Was there he asked nothing dearer than money1 this world I AsTor himself henvaswbt j willing to measure human life by the I value of Oriental trade Already the bodies of 2000 dead soldiers had floated I back from the Philippines What arc I they worth he asked and then shout ed fix the price of one of them If you dare Mr Bryan left Marysville at 510 pin p-in for Beatrice Neb |