Show TALKS OFPEGE TREAT I Nebraskan Discusses Question Ques-tion of its Ratification Hatication I j I REPLIES TO CHARGES MADE i J I Concludes His Tour of West Virginia With Three Long Speeches and Several l Sev-eral Informal Talks His Address at Parkersburg Principal One Delivered De-livered Yesterday Days Bun Covered Cov-ered About Three Hundred Miles Wheeling Greets the Democratic I Presidential Candidate L I I Wheeling W Va Sept GThe lour of West Virginia which was begun last Wednesday by W J Bryan was concluded con-cluded today by a speech at this place He traveled from Deer park by way of Clarksburg and Parkersburg today I making three speeches of length and two or three Informal talks at such places a 51 Marys and Sistorsvllle Mr Bryan was greeted at Wheeling by red bonfires and the firing of rockets t in the suburbs and the vicinity of the l railroad station was packed by a mass of humanity struggling madly to get a I first glimpse ot the candidate Tho days run covered about 300 miles I through mountain railroads At the Parkersburg meeting exSena I 1 tor J N Camden presided He supported sup-ported Palmer and Buckner four years ago The speech at Parkercburg was devoted almost exclusively to the t question of Imperialism TITLE TO THE PHILIPPINES Discussing the title to the Philip pine islands Mr Bryan asked ray I r-ay the Lord gave them to us To I this question a voice In the crowd responded re-sponded Mark Banna This response elicited a shout and Mr Bryan replied While I am not prepared to deny that God does speak through the human voice I do think that when he gets ready to speak to the American people he will choose U some other mouthpiece than Mr i Hanna 1 He contended that under the Rcpubll J can scheme for the control of the Phil I IppInes the people of those Islands I must necessarily become subjects as I they could not be citizens under those plans rind there was no piece under a Republican form of government for a subject He charged the Republican I party with lack of sympathy with the h Boers which was a new experience for that party for never before In its history L his-tory had the party failed to take a position In favor of a republic struggling strug-gling for liberty The secret of the present attitude was Mr Bryan said the fear that 1 this country should take a position favorable to the Boers tho British Parliament might declare for tho Filipinos I REPLIES TO CHARGES f In this speech Mr Bryan discussed more fully than at any time before the 1 charge that he had secured the ratification ratifi-cation of the peace treaty with Spain t On this question he said I want to call your attention to an argument that the Republican party seems more r fond of making than It does of making any other in defense of imperialism The main argument that I have been hearing lately in defense of imperialism I imperial-ism is that I helped to ratify the treaty l Republicans give me too much credit when they say I secured the ratification i ratifica-tion of the treaty I seems to me that I If I had to help the President secure the ratification of the treaty that closed the war the Republicans ought Ito I-to feel more kindly I towards me than they do I your President and out 3 party In authority In both houses could not get the treaty ratified without with-out my help I am not such a bad man as you thought WILL ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY I have not yet found a single Senator rs Sena-tor who has publicly declared that he m1 1 voted for tho treaty because I wanted 1 1 him to but Senator Wellington has said he voted for tho treaty because I tho President asked him to and promised prom-ised that the Filipinos should not beheld 1 be-held permanently if tho treaty was ratified BO that if you attempt to prove that I am responsible for the treaty you cannot do it but you can t prove by Senator Wellington that timer time-r treaty would not have been ratified but for the promise your President But I will say that If the Republican party r will not assume the responsibility for the ratification of the treaty I will 10 J It myself WHY HE FAVORED TREATY 1 favored the ratification of the peace treaty 1 am not a Senator and did not have a vote I do ndt know that my voice changed one single vote but I am willing to waive all that and I i I am willing to assume the responsibility J ty for the ratification of the treaty v but Republicans you must assume the responsibility for the making of the J treaty and for everything that has l happened since that treaty was rat fled It was a Republican President fed I Repub1can Presldent 6 that appointed the commission that 1 f made that treaty and that treaty was u made according to the advice of the i President and that treaty might have 1 L given independence to the Filipinos when it gave Independence to the Cubans i t bans bansI 1 I believe It should have given Independence 1 Inde-pendence to them when It gave Independence Inde-pendence to the Cubans and If when J it was made through the action Zi of the President the treaty had given Independence to the Filipinos as it gave Independence to the Cubans I not one drop of American blood would ijAghavo been shed in the Philippine Mtolandn from that time to this p6jKYou ask who Is responsible for the t shedding of American blood In the i Philippines and I say that that party L Is responsible for the shedding of blood i4 K that was responsible for a treaty that d m made free men of Cubans and tried to K < make vassals of the Filipinos 3 ft IT HAD TO BE MET L When that treaty came to the Senate 41 V Sen-ate It had to be met and there were t f three things that might be done First the treaty could be ratified second It E could be amended If there were votes i enough In favor of the amendment f third it could be rejected I could not I I b amended because there were not fc vat s enough and If any Republican I tells you that that treaty could have I been amended In the Senate I want you ipj E to remember that when the Bacon rcso 1 lutlon came before the Senate It met j K with a tics vote and the vote of the fr i Republican n VIcoPrcsIdent defeated It m I did all I could to get the Bacon rcso K lutlon pasted and what Republican will I luton i nay that I could have got the treaty m amended when I could not get them cfc the-m resolution passed that promised hale R pcndrnce to the Filipinos K WORDS WORDS WORDS It was much easier to promise inde m pcndonce to the Filipinos after the war had been closed than it would havo p K been to secure an amendment to them i the-m treaty which would have to be ratified c K by Spain I challenge any Republican C K to say that I could have secured an K amendment to the treaty when I wasp was-p m not able to secure the passage of the K Bacon resolution Therefore we were K compelled to cither accept the treaty or P cmpcled What did a rejection of thom tho-m treaty mean I meant one oC two m things either the President would have to cal the new Senate together which overwhelmingly Republican as was oVerwheln11nb Republcan WI soon as the new Senate was sworn In and then l secure a ratification from the new Senate or else he would have had I to appoint a new commission to make a new treat If i It hud been rejected BUT SUPPOSE If on the 4th day of February tho President had called the new Senate together on the 4th day of March and had the treaty ratified by 1 the new Senate Sen-ate then the delay would have dono no good But suppose he appointed a commission com-mission to make a new treaty who I could tell what complication might arise while the new treaty was being made If those who opposed Imperialism Imperial-ism had looted the treaty they would have become responsible for all that might have happened before the new treat could have been ratified Wo have seen the Republican party win In the campaign of 1806 by holding out to the people the plea that the Nation might be discredited while It dealt with a foreign nation and If a now commission had been sent abroad It would have prolonged the contest and It might have carried It Into a Presidential l Presiden-tial campaign then there would have been no question before the people upon which their judgment could have been takenMIGHT CORRECT MISTAKES When you accepted tho treaty It I ended the war and I believed then and still believe that this Nation acting alone could do by Itself everything that it could have forced from Spain I favored the ratification of the treaty not because it was good but because it was easier to correct its mistakes by legislation than by diplomacy Lincoln In appealing to the country coun-try said Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws Was It easier to make the treaty with Spain giving independence to tho Filipinos than It was to give them Independence by act of our own people I preferred to let the American Ameri-can people give Independence to the Filipinos rather than ask a unfriendly people to do so Whenever you hear a Republican say that I was responsible for the ratification of tho treaty I want you to listen and see if he adds that I also favored a resolution promising independence In-dependence to the Filipinos and you will listen In vain The Republican I who charges me with helping to ratify that treat Is not honest enough to tell you at the same time that I favored a resolution that would have prevented bloodshed in the Philippines and make the Filipinos our friends instead of our enemies enemiesBACON BACON RESOLUTION I resigned my commission in the army on the 10th day of December tho day the treaty was signed I was accepted ac-cepted on tho 12th of December On the 13th day of December I gave out an Interview I was published In the papers on the morning of the 14th so that the Interview appeared two days after my resignation was accepted and in that Interview I pointed out that it was better to ratify the treaty and declare de-clare this Nations purpose by resolution resolu-tion which would promise Independence to the Filipinos and end the war than to reject the treaty What Republican is honest enough to meet that last proposition and then say I was wrong In the light of the Bacon resolution t If the Bacon resolution had passed we would not have war today In the Philippines I WHO IS RESPONSIBLE Republicans you arc responsible for the defeat of the Bacon resolution I was your VicePresident who cast the deciding vote and from that day to the present you have not promised independence inde-pendence to the Filipinos and you who prevented the promise of Independence are responsible for the conditions that now exist Dont say that you have not had time When Congress met you had time to give to the national banks a monopoly of your paper money i but you did not have time to promise independence inde-pendence to the Filipinos You had time to turn the Government over to those who used it for private gain but you have not had time to stop the war in the Philippines and return to the Declaration of Independence You Republicans Re-publicans arc very much afraid of a publcans lre mucl fiftycent dollar but you are not afraid of the 85 per cent citizen that you have made in Porto Rico You are very much afraid that we cannot maintain the parity between gold and silver but you do not worry about the difficulty of maintaining the parity between the citizens here and the citizens In Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands SPEECH AT WHEELING Mr Bryan spoke here for an hour and threequarters this evening making this the longest speech he has delivered during the campaign At the beginning of the speech a slight rain was falling but it did not have the effect of driving driv-ing the crowd away He took up the I financial question first and made his familiar law criticism of the new financial lawPassing to the trust question Mr Bryan said Tho R9publican party has been In power for nearly four years and yet more trusts have been organized In the last three and a hal years than were organized In all the previous history of the United States I a Republican says that a trust Is a good thing you tell that Republican that the Republican platform denounces de-nounces the trust r a Republican says that the trusts are a bad thing you ask him what his party has done to destroy the trusts GROWN IN IMPORTANCE 0 The trust question has grown In Importance Im-portance since tho last election and today to-day men realize what the trust question ques-tion means who did not realize what it meant four years ago Charles B Flint a prominent defender ot the trusts made a speech at Boston a year ago last May and the papers said he had an exceeding sympathetic audience audi-ence composed almost exclusively of Boston bankers He defended the trusty and one of the great advantages that he saw In a trust was that whenever when-ever there was a strike in any one factory fac-tory the trust could close down that factory and do the work somewhere 0 else Lsnt it strange that any man who works for wages can be so blind as not to see that when a trust controls a great branch qf Industry every man who works In that line o business Is at the mercy of the man who stands at the head of the trust And yet when you talk to people about trusts the only answer the Republicans make Is that there Is great prosperity but It Is always somewhere else In some other country SUBJECT OF FAILURES J you will take Duns report you will find that every month in 1900 shows more failures than the same month tho year before and I read today In a Republican paper published in PiUs burg an extract from the Iron Age sa > lnS that the decrease In the output In the Iron furnaces is now 50000 tons per month You will find that they are closing down furnaces and this morn ing s paper told of the cutting down of wages In n town not 200 miles from here You read a few days ago that at I Fall River In Massachusetts they wore I circulating a petition among tho owners own-ers of the mills to cut down the wages < 10 per cent You ca read the papers and see that all the talk that you hear In Republican speeches about the famous fa-mous prosperity of the country Is not true Suppose It was all true and suppose you could trace It all to a Republican 1 administration There am questions that arc greater than l full dinner pail and when a Republican tolls you that because your dinner pal is full you ought to vote the Republican ticket tell him he Is making an argument that ought to be addressed to an animal that knows nothing but to cat and has no higher ambition When the hog trough is filled the hog is satisfied when It Is empty he squeals That Is the Republican Idea of the laboring man I believe that Is a slander upon the workingman I believe that the laboring la-boring man 1 Interested In our Ideas of government and the laboring man can leo far enough ahead to realize what militarism would mean for him HIS REMEDY FOR TRUSTS In reply to a question from the crowd w t the trusts Mr Bryan said he would suggest a remedy J have been I arguing the trust question for years and I have given remedies Eight years I ago I Introduced bill In the national I House of Representatives providing that whenever it was determined in our courts that a trust controlled tho price of any article upon which 0 tariff was laid that article should g6 on the free list I not only wantto destroy de-stroy the advantage which a bust can secure under legislation that is given for the purpose of protection l want I to go further than that I want to destroy de-stroy every private monopoly in the United States I believe that ft Is possible I pos-sible for Congress to so legislate I that every corporation doing business outside out-side of the eM its origin can be prevented from becoming a monopoly and the plan I suggest Is this I WOULD LICENSE THEM Let Congress provide that whenever any corporation organized In any State wants to do business outside of the State It must go to the Federal Government Gov-ernment and get a license which will enable It to do such business But it must do business In every State according accord-Ing to the laws of the State In which It does business I do not want to takeaway take-away from the State any powers It now has but I want Congress to add a remedy Before this license Is given I want several conditions complied with First I want the water squeezed out of the stock of the corporations The laboring man cannot water his capital which is the farm and I do not believe that a corporation should be permitted to water Its stock and to collect the dividend upon its fictitious investment I want to squeeze the water out of the stocks There will be a flood for awhile a-while but there will be honest corporations I cor-porations afterward I you had such n law and such a license given on such conditions I do not believe there would be a monopoly in this country Now I have suggested two remedies I anybody has a better remedy I will be glad to substitute or add that remedy rem-edy to the one I propose Mr Bryan then presented arguments against C large standing army and discussed militarism and imperialism along the same general lines he used in other recent speeches He closed about 1030 oclock Ho will leave Wheeling tomorrow for morning Chicago at 725 oclock |