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Show BRYAN IN UTAH. Colonel William J. Bryan was in Utah on Tuesday of this week, passing through the state to meet campaign engagements in Nevada. At several places he made short speeches from wagons or extemporised platforms. In Salt Lake he spoke to a large assemblage as-semblage at the Rio Grande depot after his special pulled in. At Ogden he was given a grand ovation at the opera house, and his remarks were heard by 3,000 people. We have space only for this portion, showing that Bryan has not lost his old time force in argument or oratory: "There has been much discussion of the subject of anarchy, and many remedies rem-edies have been proposed, but they have all been in the line of suppression. suppres-sion. But I want to go beyond that and correct the spirit of anarchy, for there is no place in the United States for the doctrine of anarchy, but are you going to destroy the spirit of anarchy an-archy by suppression alone? No. The nations that have suppressed the manifestations man-ifestations of 'anarchy by severe laws have the most anarchists today. "How are you going to destroy the spirit of 'anarchy? By education, and by education only. Teach the people that government is a necessity. For it is. Teach them that our government is the best on earth. For it is. But that is not sufficient Then it is the duty of each one to exert himself to the utmost to make the government so good that every citizen will be willing will-ing to die, if need be, to preserve that government and its blessings to his i children. The government can be a great blessing or a great curse, and as the government takes from the citizen citi-zen the right to redress his" own -wrongs, it assumes the solemn duty of protecting him from every arm uplifted up-lifted for his injury; and if the sov-ernment sov-ernment first disarms the citizen and then leaves him helpless to be despoiled de-spoiled by those who act ur.der the favoritism of government, then the citizen cit-izen who has thus been despoiled is ; in a good position to listen to the voice of the anarchist. "Yes, my friends, I believe we must overcome evil with good. I say that I am an enthusiast in education, and nothing made me more angry in the campaign of 1896 than the statement of an eminent divine that we were educating edu-cating the farm boys too much; that they were getting dissatisfied with the position that God intended for them. I do not believs God ever made a man wise enough to decide in advance the position he intended my boy or your boy to fill. I do not think that God made any man wise enough to draw that -line in society to say that the children of a man on one side should be educated and the children of others in ignorance. "It was my good fortune to be in Cuba when the formal transfer took place, and I was never more proud of my nation in my life than I was when this great republic rose superior to its great temptation, recognized the inalienable in-alienable rights of the people of Cuba and gave to them the victory for which they had sacrificed for more than a generation. Tell me we can't haul down the flag! I know it can be done, for they did haul our flag down in Cuba, and raised in its place the flag of the Cuban republic. But there was no humiliation in it, for when we hauled our flag down we raised it higher, high-er, and when we brought it away we left it enshrined in the hearts of the people On the night of the 20th of May I stood on a high bluff and watched the fireworks on Morro castle and Cabanis, and they told me that when they hauled down the stars and stripes from Morro castle that grim fortress that had been the scene of so much bloodshed and misery that the Cuban soldiers ran forward and caught it up and said that it must not be allowed al-lowed to touch the ground, and they kissed it, for they had learned to love that .flag. I want it to be loved by every human being; I want them to bow their faces before it, and thank God that there is one flag that stands for human rights." (Great applause and cheers). |
