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March

of

the

Flag''

Speech

by

Hon.

Albert

J.

Beveridge^

Opening the

Campaign

of

1898,

Delivered at

Tomlinson Hall, September

J 6.

Indianapolis,

Ind

PUBLIC

LIBRARY

OCT 2 81915

WASHINGTON


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THB

March

of

the

Flag

Beginning

of

Greater

America.

Endorsement

of the

War

Administration

the

Issue.

American

Voters

to Stand

by

Their

Government—

Effect of

tliis

Election

on

Other

Nations—

New

Markets

for

American

Products

—

Settlement

of the

Money

Question

—

Onward

March

of the

Ameri=

can

Flag.

SPEECH

BY

HON.

ALBERT

J.

BEVERIDGE

Opening the

Indiana

Republican

Campaign,

at

Tomlinson

Hall,

Indianapolis,

Friday,

September 16,

1898.


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~SS7

(Stenographic

RtpoKT.)

I'l'UdW-Citizens:

It

is

a

iiolilc

l.-ind

that

Coil

has given

us;

a

laud

that

can

IVorl ami

clothi'

the

world;

a

laud whose

coast

lines

would

enstablishe(l

over

the

hearts

of

all mankind?

(Applause.) Have

we

no

mission to perform,

no

iluty

to

discharge to

oiu-

fellow-man? Has

the Almighty Father

endowed

us

with

gifts

beyond our


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^

of its

good

repute,

give tlie other nations

of the world

to understand

^

that

the

American people do

not approve and endorse the

Adminis-

tratiou that

conducted it.

(Applause.)

\;

In both peace and

war, for

we

rely on

the

new

birth

of

prosperity

as

well

as

on the new

birth

of

national glory. Think of both

Think

I

of our

countrv two

vears

ago

and

think

of

it to-day

TIIK

REPUBLIC

YESTEKDAY AND

TO-DAY.

Two

years

and

more

ago

American

labor

begged for

work;

to-

^

day

employment calls from

mine,

factory

and

field.

(Applause.)

Two

j^

years and more

ago

money tied

troni the

fingers

of

enterprise; to-day.

^

irioney

is

as

aliundant

as demand. In

IS'JC,

bonds

were

sold to syn-

dicates in sudden

emergencies

to

save the Nation's credit; in

1898,

bonds

were

sold to

the

people

in

the emergency

of war. to rescue

the

oppressed and

redeem benighted

lands.

(Great

applause.) In

l.SOG,

we

exported

gold

in

obedience

to

the

natural

laws

of finance;

in 1898,

we

export

bayonets

in obedience

to

the

natural laws of liberty.

(Cheers.)

In

18'.)4,

the American

people

fought

each

other, because of

misunderstandings

born

of the

desperation

of

the

times; in

1898.

united

and

resistless,

capitalist

and

workingmau. side

by

side

in

trench

and

charge,

the

American

peoi)le fight

the

last

great

pirate of

the

^^•orld,

in

a war

holy as

righteousness.

(Great

cheering.)

'

Two

years and

more

ago,

error-l)liuded

and

hatred-maddened

men

sought

to create

classes

among

the people,

declared

the

decadence

of x\.meri-

can

manhood,

and

proclaimed

the

beginning

of

the

end of

the Re-

public;

to-day

proves

that patriots

are the

only

class this

country

knows,

(applause);

that American

manhood

is as virile under

San-

tiago's

sun

as it was among

the

snows of Valley

Forge,

)

(applause),

and

tliat

the

real

career

of

history's

greatest republic

liffs

only

just

liegun.

Two

years

and

more

ago.

a

lonely

American

Tresident

sat in

the

White

House,

disened

by

his

jiarty

and

estranged

from

the

peo-

ple;

to-day,

in

the

chair

of Washington

and

Lincoln,

guiding

God's

chosen

people

along

the

lines of

their divine

destiny,

sits another

American

President,

William

McKinley,

(prolonged

applause

and

cheering),

with

a

united nation

around

him.

A moment

ago I said

that

the Administration

of William

McKin-

ley had

been

guided

by

a providence

divine.

That

was no

sacrilegious

sentence.

The

signature

of Events

proves it.

This

Man of

Destiny

has

amazed

the

world.

He was

nominated

as the

apostle

of protec-

tion;

in six

months

he was

the standard

bearer

of

the

Nation's

honor.

He

was elected

as

,he

representative of

the

conservative

forces

of

the

Republic;

in two

years

he

filled

the world

with

the

thunder

of

the

Re])ublic's

guns

and

the

heavens

with

the

unfurled

flag

of

liberty.

(Applause

)

This

man. whom

the

world

regarded

as only

a single-

issue

statesman,

as

a

tarifl-scheilule

expert,

gave to

his

countrymen

the

ablest

argument

in

l.nance

since

Hamilton,

caught

up

the

tangled

lines

of

a

diplomatic

situation

vexed

with

infinite

complications

and

inherited

blunders,

gave

nianknd

a

noble

example

of

patient

tact,

taught

the

nations

their

first

lesson

in

the

diplomacy

of

honest

speech,

(cheers),

refused

to be

stampeded

into

conflict

until

the

thun-

derbolts

of

war were

forged,

(applause),

launched

them

at last

when

time

had

sanctified

our

cause

before

the

bar

of

history,

and

preparation

had

made

then)

irresistible,

and

now.

in

the

hour

of victory,

clear-eyed

and

unelate.

marks

out

the lines

of

our

foreign

policy

as'the

soon-to-

be

supreme

power

of

the

wm-Id.

and gives

to

the

flag

its

rightful

do-

minion

over

tlie

islands

of

the

sea.

(Cheers.)

Who'

dai-(>s

say

God's

hand

has

not

guided

him?

Who

will

fail

to

say

amen

with

his

vote

to the

Administration

and

career

of

the

last

American

President

of

the

Nineteenth

Century.

McKinley,

the

master-statesman

of

his

time.

(Protracted

and

renewed

cheering.)

FOREKIN

NATIONS

AND

THIS

ELECTION.

Wiiat

are the

great

facts

of

this

Administration?

Not

a

failure

of

revenue,

(applause);

not

a pr


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ami

k'gislalive

departments

of

governmeut;

not a

rescue from

dis-

honor

by

Kuriipi'au syndicates,

at

tue

price ul'

lens of millions in

cash

ai (l

national

luimiliation

unspealiable.

These

liavi,'

not

niai'lced the

past

two years—

the

past

two

years,

which

have Idossomed into

four

splendid

montlis of

glory

(Cheers.) But a

war has

marked

it,

the

most

holy ever wagea

by

one

nation against

another—

a

war

for

civi-

lization,

a

war

for

a

permanent

peace,

a

war

which, under (.\pplause.) I

re])eat,

it

is

luore

than

a

party question.

It is

an

American

question.

It

is

an

issue in

which

history

sleeps. It Is

a

situation

which

will

iiilluence

the

destiny

of the

Rcitublic. (.\pplause.)

There is

an issue

in

the

war which

affects

oufselves. Shall we

endorse

the

Administration

on

the conduct

of

the

war?

(Cheers.)

What of

the

conduct

of

the

war? In

the first place the

men

who are

now

defaming

American

soldiers

before

the

world:

the

men

who

are

assailing

the

Government

at

Washington for

not

suflicienlly

prepar-

ing,

are

the

very

same

luen

who

tried

to plunge

the

Nation into war

before

we

had

prepared

at all.

(Tremendotis cheering, lasting

several

minutes).

Men

declared

tliat

McKiidey was

to


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..ile.

in

ana

out

of

his

party.

rnen.j>^^^>^^^^^^^^^;^

(applause)

'^to '^'' :

^l^.^'^^^t.J^'ÛU.r

McKinler ilentl

v

prepared,

world

looked

on

with

mquirj,

)^

' '•

™

^^\^;^^^

,eheers),

and

he

knew

(Great

cheering).

He

had

^'^f'^/

;;'';.,

^^'^'fl.e

a

gu .

dn'olonged

that

you

must

have

powder

l '.**'.''^;

5\'

°

„

,.,^°

feed

soldiers,

applause),

you

n^>>«t

have

prov

Mons

beôê

you

a.u^

^^

^^^^^^

^^^

vou

must

have

a

cause

befoie

5 ^^'\, '„',.,.,.

let

time

and

events

sue;

then,

when

ships

were

j « ''^

'''»?/'

f„'

our

Ser

President

1'^^

vet^'havT

we

peac'f

irs no't\he

cloud

of

war

linger

on

the

rrslecurinithe

mms

of

a

successful

---ÎJ^^ll^ZLnTl^^l

Germany

rebukins

Bismarck

at

the

moment

he

^'^^^f'^ff

*'°î

P^^gy

fo

France

(Applause.)

What

would

America

say

of «^*^™

'^

*V,^^^

should do

such

a

deed

of

mingled

insanity,

perhdy

and

folly?

What

Sd

the

wor d

sav

of

America,

if.

in

the

very

midst

of

peace

nego^

Wt

ons

upon

whic-h

the

nations

are

looking

with

jealousy

fear

and

ntred

he

American

people

should

rebuke

the

Administration

in

cS'othote

peace

negotiations

and

place

a

hostile

House

and

Sen-

ate

in

Washington''

(Applause.)

God

forbid •APl^'''' ̂ ''-^,^^

tôir

p

ople

show

sit^h

inconstancy,

such

childish

^^^-';i^^^^'

''''''

career

as

a

power

among

nations

is

a

memory.

(Applausf^.)

But

if

possible

war

Un-ks

in

the

future,

what

then?

Shall

we

for-

sake

our

leaders

at

the

close

of a

campaign

of

glory

--^^^^-^'H'^l^^l

new

campaigns

for

which

it

has

prepared?

Yet.

that

is

yn'Jt

| e

success

of

tSe

Opposition

to

the

Gov.n-nment

means.

What

is

that

od

saving

about

the

idiocy

of

him

who

changed

horses

'bde

oss^

?ng

a

stream?

It

would

be

like

discharging

a

workman

'êcauê

he

was

efficient

and

true.

It

would

be

like

court-marti.aling

^raiU

^ ^

discharging

his

heroes

in

dislionor

because

th.'y

took

\ieksburg.

(Great

applanse.)

THE

slandf:rers

of

our

soldiers.

Ah'

the

heroes

of

Vicksburg

and

Peach

Tree

Creek,

Atlanta,

aiis-

sion

Ridge,

the

Wilderness

and

all

those

fields

of

glory,

of

suffering

and

of

death'

(Cheers.)

Soldiers

of

18(31

A

generatmn

has

passed

and

vou

have

reared

a

race

of

heroes

worthy

of

yonr

blood-(pro-

Ton-ed

applause

and

cheers)-heroes

of

El

Cauey,

San

.Juan

and

Ca-

Ue

of

Santiago

and

Manilaâye

and

two

hundred

thousand

more

as

brave

as

thev.

who

waite.l

in

camp

with

the

.ngony

of

impatience

he

call

to

battle,

ready

to

count

the

hellish

hardship

of

the

trenches

the

very

sweets

;f

fate,

if they

could

only

fight

for

the

flag.

(Great

and

renewed

cheering.)

For

every

tented

field

was

full

of

Hobsons

ot

Roosevelts

of

Wheelers,

and

their

men;

full

of the

kind

of soldiers

that

in

regiments

of

rags,

starving,

with

barefeet

in

the

snows

of

winter

made

Valley

Forge

immortal,

(applause);

full

of

the

same

kind

of

bovs

that

endured

the

hideous

hardships

of

the

Civil

War,

(ap-

Dlause)

drank

from

filthy

roadside

pools as

they

marched

through


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from

the

liorscs'

ciinip,

slept

in Ilic

lil;iiikcts

of the

blnst

with sheets

of

sleet

for

eoveritis.

Ineiikfiisted

with

danger

and

dined

with

death,

and

eanie

liack—

tliose who

did

come

liack—

with

;i

lati^n

and

n

shout

and a

song

of

joy, true

American

soldiers,

pride

of

thiir

country

and

envy

of the

world.

(Cheers.)

For that

is

the

kind

of

hoys the

soldiers

of

1808

are.

(prolonged

and

rejieated

ch(>ering).

notwilhslandiug

the

slanders

of

politicians

and

tlie

infamy

of

a

leprous

press that try

to

make

the

world

believe

our

soldiers

are

suckling

l)al>es and

wo-

manish

weaklings,

and

our

Coverunient,

in

war. a

corrupt

macliine.

fattening

off

the

suffering

of

our

armies.

In

the

name

of the

sturdy

soldiery

of

America

I

denounce

tlie

hissing

lies of

politicians

out of

an

issue,

(applause), who

are

trying

to

disgrace

American

manhood

in

the

eyes

of

I

lie

nations.

In

the

name of

patriotism.

1

arraign

these

maliguers

of

tlie

soldierhood

of

our

Nation

liefore

the

bar

of

the

pres-

ent

and

the

past. lApidause.)

I

call

to

the

witness

stand

that

Bayard

of

our armies.

Ceneral

.loe Wheeler.

(Applause.)

1

call that

Hotspur

of

the

South.

Fitzlmgli

Lee.

(Applause.)

I

call

the

•200,n(X) men,

themselves,

who

went

to war

for the

business

of war.

((ireat ap-

plause

and

cheers.

I And

I

put

all

these

against

the

vandals

of

poli-

tics

who

are

blackening

their

fame

as

soldiers and

as

men.

(Ap-

plause.) I

call

history

to

the

witness stand.

In

the

.Mexican

w.ar

the

loss

from

every

cause

was

'2'>

Tier

cent.,

and

this

is

on

incomplete

re-

turns;

in

the

present war

the

loss

frmii

every

cause

is

only

'^

per

cent.

(Creat apiilanse.)

In the

Mexican war

the

sick lay

naked

on

the

ground

with

only

blankets

over tlicni

and

were

Imried

with

only

a

blanket

around

them.

Of

the

volunteer force

5.423

were

discharged

for

disaliility.

and

:',:22i)

died

frmii

disease.

When

Scott

mtirched

to

Mexico.

'

(Uily

ninety-six

men

were left

out

of one

regiment

of

one

thonsaui'l.

The

average

of

a

Mississippi

company

was re-

duced

from

I0 to ?,0 men.

From

Ver.a

Cruz

to

Mexico a

line

of sick

and

dying

marked

his

line

of

march,

(ieneral

Taylor

publicly de-

clarcMl

'

that, in

his

army,

live

men

died

from

sickness

for

every

man

killed

in

btittle.

Scott

demanded

surgeons.

The

(iovernment

refused to

give

them.

The three

months

men lost

nearly

ft per

cent.;

the

six

inontlis

men

lost

14

per

cent.:

the

twelve

iiKUiths

men

2'.)

per

cent.;

the men

enlisted

for

tlie

war

lost

MT per

cent.:

: l. n4

soldiers en-

listed

for

the

war,

and

11.1)14

of

tliese

wi-re lost,

of whom

7.3i 9 are

unaccounted

for.

In

the

war

for

the

T'nion—

no,

there

is

no

need

of

figures

there.

( o to

the

field

of

Cettysburg

and

ask.

Go

:isk

that

old

veteran how

fever's

fetid

breath

breati.ed

on them

and

disease

rotted their

blooss

than in any

war

in

all

the

history of

the

world

(Great

applause.) And

if

any

needless

suffering

there

has

been, if

any

deaths

from

criminal

neglect, if

any

hard

condition

not a

usual inci-

dent

of

sudden

war

by

a

peaceful iieoide

li;is

been iiermitted.

William

McKinlev

will

see

that

the

resixnisible

ones

are

punishi'd.

(Tremen-

dous

applause.)

Although

our

loss

was

less than

the

world

ever

knew

before; although

the

condition

of

our

troops

w:is

better

than

in

any

conllicl of

our

histiu-y.

McKinley

the

Just,

has

appoint(>d,

from

both

piirties,

a

commission

of the

most

eminent

men

in

the

Nation

to

lay

the

facts

before him.

(Applause.)

Let

the

investigation

go

on. and

when the ri'iKU-t

is made

the

)ieoi)le

of

America

will

know

how

black

as

midnight

is

the

sin of

those

who.

fiu-

tlie

imriioses

of

poli-

tics,

have

shamed

the

hardihood

of the

Am(>ricau

soldiers

before

the

world,

;ittempte(l

to

demoralize

our army

in the

face

of the

enemy,

and

libelled

the

Government at

W;(shiiigl(Ui

to

delighted

and

envious

nations.

(Grettt

cheering

renewed

and

prolonged.)

And

think

of

what

was

done:

(Apiilause.)

Two

hundred

and

fifty

thiuisand men

suddenly


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zens

cirillerl into tlie finest

soldiers

on

the

slobe;

n war

fought in

the

deadliest climate

in

the world,

beneath

a

sun

whose

rays

mean mad-

ness, and

in

Spanish

surround

inss—festerinj;

with fever—and yet

the

least

suffering:

and the

lowest loss

ever

known

in

all the

chronicles of

war.

(Applause.) What

would have been the

result if those who

would have

plunged us

into

war

before we

could

have prepared

at

all.

could have

had

their way? What

would

have happened If these

warriors

of

peace,

who

denounced

the

rresident

as

a

traitor when

he

would

not

send

the

flower

of

our youth

against

Havana,

with

its

steaming

swamps

of fever, its

splendid

outworks

and

its

l. )(»,CMlO

des-

perate

defenders—what

would

have

happened

if

they

could

have

had

their way?

The

miiul shrinks

and

sickens

at

the

thought.

Those

regiments,

which

we greeted the other

day

with

our

cheers of

pride,

would not

h.ive nianlud back a,gain. All over this

weeping

land

the

tender

song.

We sliall meet but

we

shall miss him;

there will

be

(me

vacant

chair,

would nave

risen

once

again from

desolated

homes.

And

the men who

would

h.-ive done

this

are

the men who are assail-

ing

the

Government

at

Washington

to-day

and l>laspheming

tne

repu-

tation of

tlie American soldier.

(Applause

and

clieers

renewed again

and

again.)

But

the wrath

of

the

people will

pursue them.

(Re-

newed cheering.)

The scorpion

whips

of the furies

will

l)e

as

a

caress

to

the

deep

damnation

of

those

who

seek

a

political

issue

in

defam-

ing

the maidiood

of

the Republic.

God

bless

the

soldiers

of

189S

(great

cheering),

children of

the

heroes

of

18G1.

descendants of the

heroes

of

177»i

In

the halls of history

they will stand

side

by

s'de

witli tliose

elder

sons

of glory,

and the Opposition

to the

Government

at Washington shall

not

deny

them.

((Jreat cheering.)

NEW

LANDS

AND

MARKETS

FOR THE

REPUBLIC.

No

they

shall not

be

robbed

of

the

honor

due them,

nor

sliall

the

Republic be

roblied of

what they

won

for their

country.

I Applause,

nnewed and

prolonged.)

For William

McKinley is continuing

the

policy

that .lefferson

besran.

lapplausei.

Monroe

continue

American

people

doubt

their

mission,

(juestion

fate,

prove

apostate

to

the

spirit

of their

race,

and

halt

the

ceaseless

inarch

of

free

institutions.

The

Opiiosition

tells

us

that we

ought

not

to

govern

a people

with-

out

their

consent.

I

.-inswer.

The

rule

of

liberty

that all just

govern-

ment di

rivi

s

its

authority

from

the consent

of

the

goveriied.

npjilies

only

to those

who

are

capable

of

self-government.

(Great

applause.)

I answer.

We govern

the Indians

without

their

consent,

(applause),

we

govern

our

territories

without

their

consent,

(.applause),

we

gov-

ern

our

children

without

their

consent.

I

answer. How

do

you

assume

that

our

government

would

be

without

their

consent?

Would

not

the

people

of

the

Philippines

prefer

the

just,

humane,

civilizing

govern-

ment

of

this

Republic

to

the

savage,

bloody

rule

of pillage

and

ex-

tortion

from

which

we

have

rescued

them?

(Appl.-inse

)

Do

not

the

blazing

fires

of

Joy

and

the

ringing

bells

of

gladness

in

Porto Rico

prove

the

welcome

of

our

flag?

(Applause.)

And.

regardless

of

this

formula

of

words

m.-ide

only

for

enlightened,

self-governing

pi'o])Ies.

do

we owe

no

duty

to the

world?;

Shall

we

turn

these

i.iMipl(>s

back

to

the

reeking

hands

from

which

we

have

taken

them?

Shall

we

abandon

them

to their

fate,

with

the

wolves


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sia.

France,

even

Japan,

hungering for

them'.'

Shall

we

save

(hem

from

those

nations,

to

give them

a

self-rule

of

tragedy? it

would

be lilce giv-

ing

a

razor

to

a

liabe

and

telling it to

shave itself. (Applause and laugh-

ter.

Renewed

laughter.)

It

would be

like

giving a typewriter

to

an

Es(iuiniaux

and telling him to

publish

one

of the

great

dailies

of

the

world. This

proposition

of

the Opposition makes the Declaration of

Independence

pi'eposterous,

like

the reading of Job's lamentations

would

be

at

a

wedding

or

an

Altgeld

speech on

the

Fourth

of

July.

(Great

applause and

laughter.

They ask us how we

will

govern

these

new possessions. I an-

swer: Out of local

conditions

and

the

necessities

of

the

case

methods

of

government will grow.

If

England

can

govern foreign lauds, so

can

America.

(I'rolouged applause.)

If (Jermany can govern

loreign

lands, so can

America.

(Applause.)

If

they

can supervise protectorates,

so

can

America.

(Very

great

applause.)

Why

is

it

more

ditlicult to nd-

ministir

Hawaii than New Mexico

or

California?

Both

had

a

savage

and

an

alirn

population;

both

were

more

remote

from the scat of

gov-

ernment when

they came

under our

dominion than Hawaii

is

to-day.

Will

you

say

by

your vote that

American

ability

to govern has

de-

cayeil; that

a

century's experience

in

self-rule

has

failed of

a

result?

/'

Will

you

affirm

by

your

vote that

you

are

an

infidel

to

American

vigor

and

power

and practical

sense? Or,

that

we are

of

the

ruling

race

of

the

world:

that

ours

is

the blood

of

government;

ours

the heart

of

dominion; ours

the

brain and genius of administration? (Great

applause.)

Will

you

remember

that we

do

but

what

our

fathers

did

—

we

but

pitch the

tents of

liberty

further

westward, further

southward—we

only

continue the

march

of the

flag.

(Prolonged ap-

plause

and

cheers.)

THE MARCH OF THE FLAG.

The

march

of

the

flag iCheers.)

In

1789 the

flag

of

the

republic

waved

over 4,000,ob() souls in thirteen

states,

and their sav-

age

territory

which

stretched to

the

Mississipni,

to

Canada,

to

the

Florid.-is.

'I'lie timid minds

of

that day

said that no new

territory was

needed, and,

for

the hour, they

were

right.

But Jefferson, through

whose intellect

the


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and

ol)eyea.

lUut

Jlouroe

heard

and

obeyed,

that

Seward

heard

and

obeyed,

that

Ulysses

S.

Grant

heard

and

obeyed,

that

Benjamin

Har-

rison

heard

and

obeyed,

(cheers),

William

McKinley

plants

the

flag

over

the

islands

ot

the

seas,

outposts

of

commerce,

citadels

of

national

securitv.

and

the

march of

the

flag

goes

on

(Long

continued

cheer-

ing),

iiryan.

Bailey,

Bland

and

Blackburn

command

it

to

stand

still,

but

the

march

of

the flag

goes

on

(Renewed

cheering.)

And

the

question

you

will

answer

at the

polls is,

whether

you

stand

with

this

quartet

of

disbelief

in

the

American

people,

or

whether you

are

marching

onward

with

the

flag.

(Tremendous

cheering.)

Distance

and

oceans

are

no

arguments.

The fact

that

all the

ter-

ritory

our

fathers

bought

and

seized

is

contiguous,

is

no

argument.

In

1819

Florida

was further

from

New

York

than

Torto

Rico is

from

Chicago

to-day.

(applause);

Texas,

further

from

'Washington

in

1845

than

Hawaii

is

from

Boston

in 1898,

(applause);

California,

more

in-

accessible in

18-17

than

the

Philippines

are

now.

(Great

applause.)

Gibraltar

is

further

from

London

than

Havana

is

from

Washington;

Melbourne

is

further from

Liverpool

than

Manila

is from

San

Fran-

cisco.

The

ocean

does

not

separate

us

from

lands

of our

duty

and

(jesii-e—

tlie

oceans

join

us. a

river

never to

lie

ilrediied. a

canal

never

to

be

repaired.

(Applause.)

Steam

joins

us;

electricity

joins us—

the

very

elements

are

in

league

with

our

destiny.

(Continued

applause

and

cheers.)

Cuba

not

contiguous

Porto

Rico

not

contiguous Ha-

waii

and the

Philippines

not

contiguous Our

navy

will make

them

contiguous.

(Great

cheering,

renewed

again

and .again.)

Dewey and

Sampson

and

Schley have

made them

contiguous,

and

American

speed,

American

guns, American

heart

and

brain

and

nerve will

keep

them

contiguous

forever. (Renewed

cheering.)

^

But the

Opposition is

right—there is a

difference.

We

did

not need

the

western

Mississippi

Valley

when we

acquired it,

nor

Florida,

nor

Texas, nor

California,

nor

the

royal

provinces

of

the

far Northwest.

We

had

no

emigrants to

people

this

imperial

wilderness,

no money

to

develop it, even no

highways

to

cover

it.

No

trade

awaited

us

in

Its

savage

fastnesses. Our

productions

were

not

greater than

our

trade.

There

was

not

one

reason

for

the landlust

of

our

statesmen

from

Jefferson to

Grant,

other

than the

prophet

and

the Saxon

within

them.

(Applause.)

But,

to-day,

we

are

raising

more

than we

can

consume.

To-day. we are

making

more than we

can

use. To-day,

our

industrial society is congested;

there

are more

workers

than there

is work;

there

is

more capital

than there

is investment. We

do

not

need

more

money

—we need more circulation,

more employment.

(Applause.)

Therefore

we must

find new markets for our

produce,

new

occupation

for

our capital,

new worlv

for

our

labor.

(Great

ap-

plause.) And

so.

while

we

did

not

need

the

territory

taken during

tne

past

century at

the

time it was

acquired,

we

do

need

what

we

have taken in

1898. and we

need it

now. (Long continued

applause.)

Think

of the

thousands

of Americans

who will pour

into

Hawaii

and

Porto

Rico

when

the

Republic's

laws

cover

those

islands

with

jus-

tice

and

safety

(Applause.)

Think

of

the

tens

of

thousands

of

Americans who will

invade

mine

and

field

and

forest in

the

Philip-

pines

when

a

liberal

government, protected

and

controlled

by this

Re-

public,

if not

the government

of

the Republic

itself,

shall establish

order

and

equity

there

(Great

applause

and

cheers.) Think

of

the

hundreds of

thousands

of Americans

who will build

a

soap-and-water.

comnion-scliool

civilization

of

energy and

industry

in

Piilia.

when

a

government

of

law

replaces

the

double

reign

of

anarchy and

tyr-

anny

(applause)—

thiniv

of

the prosperous mil'ioiis

iii.-it

Empress of

Islands will

support

when, obedient

to the law of political gravitation,

her

people

ask

for the liighest

honor

liberty

can

bestow,

the

sacred

Order

of the Stars and Stripes,

the

citizenship

of the Great Republic

(Cheers.)

HOW NEW

MARKETS

WILL HELP

US.

What does

all this

mean

for every

one

of

us?

It means oppor-

tunity

for

.tJI

the

glorious

young manhood

of the Republic (applause)

—the

most virile,

ambitious,

impatient,

militant

manhood

(cheers)


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tlic

world

luis

rvcr

sit-ii. It

lucaiis

thut

the

rcs.nircrs

:inil

the

com-

iiii

iTi-

(it these

iiiinu'Usely

ricli

dominions

will

lie iiiere;ised

;ts

niucll

as

AnuM-ican eners.v

is

greater

than

Spanish

sloth, laiiplaiise);

for

Anierieaus

henceforth

will

mouopolizf

those

resotn-ees

and

that

coiu-

nieree.

I Renewed

aiiplanse.l

In

l.'nba,

alone,

there are

iri,(H)0.(Km

acres

of

forest

unaciinainted

with

the

axe.

There

are

exhaustless

mines

ol iron.

There

are

priceless

deposits of

niani;aiiese.

millions

of

dollars

of

which

we

must

ouy, to-day.

from

the

UlacU

Sea

districts.

There are

millions of acres

yet

unexplored. The

resources of

Porto

Uieo

have

oidy

been

tritled

with.

The

riches

of

the

Philippines

have

hardly

been touched

by

the

tin.iier

tips

of

modern meth-

ods.

And they

produce

what we

cannot,

and

they

consume

what we

produce—

the

very

predestination of

reciprocity—a

reciproc-ity

not

made

with

hands,

eternal in

the

heavens.''

(Protracteil

applause.)

They

sell

hemp.

silk, sujiar.

cocoanuts.

coffee,

fruits of

the

tropics,

timber of

price

liki'

mahogany:

they

buy

Hour,

clothiuf;.

tools,

imple-

ments,

nmchinery

and

all that

we can

raise

and

nuike.

And

William

McKinley

intends that

their

trade

shall

be

ours.

lOreat

applause.)

Do you

endorse that

policy with

your

vote?

It

means

creative

in-

vestiuent

for every

dollar

of idle

capital

in the

land—

an

opportunity

for

the

rich

man to

do something;

with

his

money

besides

hoarding

it

or lendinf;

it.

i.Vpplause.)

It

means

occupation

for every

workiufc-

man

in

the

counti-y

at

wages

which

the

development

of

new

re-

source

s.

the

launching

of

new

enterprises, the

monopoly

of new mar-

kets always

brings. lApiilause.l

Cuba

is

as large

as

Pennsylvania,

and

is

the

richest

sjiot

on

all

the

globe. Hawaii

is

as

large

as

New

Jersey:

Porto

Kico

half

as

large

as Hawaii;

the

Pliiliiipines

larger

than all

.New

ICngland.

New

York,

New

.Jersey

and

Helaware.

All

these

ar(>

larger

than

the

British

Isles,

larger

than

France,

larger

than

Germany,

larger than .Tapan.

The

trade

of

these

islands, de-

velo]ied as we will

develop it

by developing

their

resources,

monopo-

lized as

we will

monopolize

it. will

set

every reaper in

this

Republic

singing, every

spindle

whirling,

every

furnace

spouting

the

flames

of

industry.

iCriat

applause.)

I

ask each

one

of

you

this

personal

ques-

tion;

i)o

you

believe that th(>se

resoiu'ces will

be better

developed

and

that

commerce

best secured;

do

you

lielieve

that

all

these

price-

less

ndv.-inlages will be

lieller

availed

of

f(U-

the

benefit

of tliis

Repub-

lic

by

liryan.

I'.ailey.

Illand and

Ulackburn .-ind

Ihe

Opposition;

or.

by William McKinley

and

a

House aii|iiHisition

in

NelirasU.a.

Texas.

Kentucky

and

Mis-

souri?

(.\pplanse).

Whicli

side

will

you

belong to—

those

who

pull

forward

in Ihe

traces of National iirosperity

and

destiny,

or

those

who

pull

b.-iel;

in

those

traces,

balk

at

every

sti^)

of

advancement,

and

bi'.-iy

al

exery

mile

posl

of

jiiMgress? ll^aughler.

cheers

and

ap-

jilaiise.)

If

any

man

tells

you

lliat

li-ade

depends

on

cheapness

and

not on

goveri'meni

influence.'

ask him

wliy

Kiigl.-md

does

not

abandon

South

Africa,

Egypt,

India.

(Applause.)

Why

does

France

seize

South

China.

Cei-many

the

vast

region

whose

|iort is

Kaouchou?

jAp-

plause.)

Consider

the

rcc

of the Siianish

isl.-inds.

In

18 l7

we

bought of

the

Philippines

.-|;4.:;S.-,,71(».

and

we

sold

them

only

;f )4.597.

Great

Britain, that

national

expert in

trade,

did

little

better,

for. iu

l.SliC.

she

bought

.S(;.-'-J: 4-Ji; and

sohl

only

ifL'.nta.-iP.S.

But

Spain-

Spain,

the paralytic

of

commerce—

Spain

bought

only

.$4.S1S.:U4

and

sold

.'«4.'.i7:{.. iS'.): Fellow-citizens,

from

this

day

on

that

proportion

of

trade, increased

and

nniltiplied.

must

belong to

the

Anu>rican

Repul>-

lic.

iGreat

apjihuise.)

I repeat,

increased

and

multiplied,

for

with

American

brains

and

energy,

with

Anu'rican

methods

and

American

goverrmiiil. dots

any

one

here,

to-night,

doubt

that

.\merican

exports

will

exceed Spain's

imports twenty

times

over?

(Applause.)

Does

any

one of

yon doubt

that

.floo.ood.ood of

food

and

clothing

and

tools


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and

implements

and

machinery

will

ultimately

lie shipped

evei-y

year

from

the

I'nited

States to

that

archipelago

of

tremendous

possibili-

ti(S?

(Applause.)

And

will

anyone

of

you

refuse

to

welcome

that

golden

trade

with your

vote?

Wliat

lesson

does

Cuba

teach

V

Cuba

can

raise

no

cereals—

no

wheat,

no

corn,

no oats,

no

liarley

and

no rye.

What

we

make

and

raise

Cuba

consumes,

and

wliat

she

nialces

and

raises

we

consume:

and

this

order

of

commerce,

is

fixed

forever

by

the unalterable

de-

crees

of

nature. And

she

is

at

our

doors,

too—

only

an ocean

river be-

tween

I's.

(Applause.)

Yet. in

1800. we

bousht

.$40,017.7(13

of

her

products,

and

we sold

her only

.$7,103,173

of

our

products;

while Spain

bought

only

.$4.2.j7,3(;0

and

sold

her

.$2(J,14.5,S0(V-and

that

proportion

existed

before

the

insurrection.

Fellow-citizens,

from

this

day

on,

that

order

must

be reversed

and

increased.

(Cheers.)

Cuba's

present

population

is

(Uily

aliout

1.00().00(»;

her proper

population is

aliout

10,000.000.

Tens of millions

of acres

of

her

soil

are yet

untouched

l)y

enterprise.

If

Spain sells

Culia

$21,(IOO.O(IO

in

IS'.ll.

and

$2il.(ltK),000

in

1890,

America will

sell

Culia

.$20(1.000.000

in

lOOd (Applause.)

In

1800

we

bought of

Porto

Itico

.$2.21i(;,C,. i: .

and

sold

lier

only $1,085,888.

and

yet

Spain

boujrht

only

$5,423,700

and

sold

her

$7,328,880.

Wil-

liam

McKinley

proposes

that

tliose

fi.cures

shall be

increased

and

re-

versed,

(applause),

and the

(juestion

is,

whether

you

will endorse

him

In

that

resolutiini of

prosperity? The

])ractical

queslion. for each one

of us.

is,

whetlier

we

had

better leave the

development of

all this

tremendous

commerce

to

the

Administration

wliicli

lilierated

these

island

confine nls and

now

lias tlie

settlement

of

their

government

under way:

or, risk

the

future in

the hands of

those who

oppose

the

Gov(

rnment

at

Washington

and

the

commercial

supremacy

of the

Rtpublic.

(Applause.)

How

will all (his help each

one

of us.

Our

trade with

Porto Rico

and

Haw;iii

will

lie

as

free

as

between

the

States of the

Union,

(ap-

plause),

because

they are

American soil,

while

every

other

nation

on

earth

must

iia.v

our

tariff

before'

tliey

can

coni]iete

witn

us.

(Ap-

plause.)

Tfntil

Culia

and the

Philippines

shall

ask

for

annexation,

our

trade

with them

will,

at

the very

least,

be

like

the

preferential

trade

of

Canada

with

England—a

trade

which

gives

the

Republic

the

pri

ference

over

the

rest

of

the

world

(applause)—

a

trade which

applies

the

principle

of

protection

to

colonial

commerce

(cheers)

the )irini-iple wliich all

the

world employs, to-day:

the

jirin-

ciple

which Kngland

uses

whenever she

fears

for a

market

and

which

.she has

put

into practice

against us in Canada. That, and

the ex-

cellence

of

our goods

and

products:

that, and

the convenience of

traffic; that,

and the

kinsliip of

interests and

destiny, will give

the

monopoly

of these markets

to

tlie American

people. (Apjilause.) And

then—

then,

tile factories and

mills

and

shops will call again to

their

hearts

of

fire

the

workingmen

of the

Repulilic (great

applause),

to

receive

once

more

the

wages and

eat once

more

the

bread

of

pros-

perous times, (cheers): tlien the farmer will find at his door, once

more,

the golden

home marlvet

of

those who

work

in

factory

and

mill,

and

wlio

want

flour

and

meat

and

butter .'ind

cgsrs

and garments

of

wool,

and

who

have

once more the money

to

pay

for

it

all.

(Oreat

applause.) It

means now

employment

and lietter

wages for

ever.v

la-

boring

man in tlie I'nion.

It

means

liigher

prices

for

every

liushel

of wlii'.'it

:\ui]

corn,

for every

iiounil of

liutter

and

meat,

for

every

item

that

the farmers

of this

Repulilic

jiroduce.

It

means

active,

vigor-

ous, constructive

investment of every dollar of

mould.v and

miserly

capital

in

the land. (Applause.)

It means all

this,

to-morrow,

and

all tliis forever,

because

it means not

onl.v

the

trade of

the

prize

provinces,

but

the

beginning

of

the

commercial (unpire

of the

Re-

public.

(Renewed

and

continued

applause.)

And.

amid

these great

events,

will

you niarcli

forwar


18/24

TIIK

COMMERCIAL

EMPIRE

OF

THE

REPUBLIC.

I

saiil

Ibe

comiiieic-ial euipirc of

the

Republic. That

is

the

greatest

l ::cl ui tlu'

future. (Apiilause.)

Aud

tliat

is wliy

these islands in-

volve

considerations

larger

than

their own

commerce.

The com-

mercial

supremacy

of the

Reiniblic

means

that this

Nation

is to

bt

the

sovereign

factor

in

the

peace

of the

world.

(Applause.) For the

conflicts

of

the

future

are

to

be

conflicts of trade—

struggles

for

mar-

kets—

coniuicrcial

wars for

existence.

And

the

uuUleu

nde of

peace

Is

impregnability

of

position

and

invincibility

of

preparation. So.

we

see

England,

the greatest

strategist

of

history,

plant her

Hag

and

her

cauncin

on

(iibraltar,

at

Quebec, the

Bermudas,

Vancouver,

every-

whrn-,

imtil,

from

every

point of vantage,

her

royal

banner

flashe.s

in I he

sun. So

Hawaii

ftirnishes

us a

naval

base

in

the

heart of the

Pacific, (applause);

the

Ladronos

auother. a voyage

further

into

the

region of sunset

and

commerce;

Manila,

another,

at

the

gates

of

Asia—

Asia,

to

the

trade

of whose

hundreds

of

millions

American

merchants.

American

mannfaeturers,

American farmers,

have

as good

a

righi

as

those

of Germany

or

France

or

Russia

or

lOnglaud.

(great

applause); Asia,

whose

commerce

with

England

alone,

amounts

to bil-

lions of dollars every

year;

Asia, to

whom

(iermany

looks

to

take

the

sur|dus

(if

her

f.actories

and

foundries

and

mills;

Asia,

whose

doors

shall

Mot

be

shut

against American trade.

(Applause aud cheers.)

With-

in two decades

the

bulk of Oriental

commerce

will be

ours,

(re-

newed applause)—

the

richest

commerce in the

world.

In the

light of

that

golden

future,

our

chain of

new-won stations rise

like

ocean

sentinels

from the

night

of

waters,

(applause)—

Porto

Rico,

a

nobler

(libraliar;

the

Istlmiian canal,

a greater Suez;

Hawaii,

the

Ladrones,

ihe Philippines,

commanding

the

Pacific

(Applause.)

Ah

as our

ciminieree

sjireads,

the

flag

of

liberty

will circle

the

globe, and

the

highways

of

the

ocean—carrying trade of all

mankind,

be guarded by

the gun.s of the

Republic.

(Applause.) And, as their

thunders

salute

the flag,

benighted

peoples

will know that

the

voice

of

Liberty

is

speaking,

at last,

for

them; that

civilization

is

dawning,

at

lasl.

for

them

—

Liberty

and

Civilization,

those

children

of Christ's

gospel,

who

follow

and never

precede.

Ihe

prejiaring

march

of

commerce (Ap-

plause.)

It is the tide of

(lod's

great purposes made

manifest

in

the

insiiiicis

of

our

race,

whose

present

phase

is

our

personal

profit,

but

whose far-off end

is

the

redemjitlon of

the

world

and

the

Christian-

ization of

mankind.

((Jroat

applause.) Aud he who

throws

himself

before

tliat

current is like him

who,

with puny

arm,

tries to turn the

gidf

stream

from

lis eoui'se. or

stay, by

idle incantations,

the blessed

processes

of

the

sun. i.\|)jilause.)

Shall this future

of the race

b

left

with

those

who,

under

Cod,

began this career of

sacred duty

anil

immorf:: ghiry;

or,

shjill

we

risk

it to

those

who would

scuttle

the

ship

of

ludgress

and

build

a

dam in

the

current

of

destiny's large

designs'.' (Cheers.)

No

wonder

that, in the

shadows

of

coming events

so great,

fre(>-

sllver

is

already

a

memory.

(Laughter

and

applause.) The

mighty

current

of history

Inis

swept

past

that

episode.

(Applause.)

Men

undersland.

to-day, that the greatest commerce of Ihe

world

must

be

conducted with

the

steadiest

standard of

value

and

most

convenient

uiediem

of

exeliaiig(>

human

ingenuity

can

devise.

(Applause.)

Time,

that unerring

reasoner,

has

settled the silver

(luestion.

(Applause.)

The

Amirican

iieojile

are

tired

of

talking

about

money—they

want

li>

make

il.

(Cheers.)

I'rofit Is

an

unanswerable

argument.

In a

year

or

two thousands

of

Demoeratic

Investors

will be

making

fortunes

developing

our

island

interests, (gi-eat aiijilause

and

laughter); tens

of

tlousanils

of Democnitic

farmers

will

be selling

their

pork and

beef

and

wheat

to

the

teeming

millions

that

will

pour

into

the

Antilles

and

the

gardens of

the Pacific, and to the

home-market our

foreign

liade

Will

create,

(applause); tens of thousands of

Democratic

work-

Inginen

will be

weaving

fabrics

jind

forging

implements

of

industry

and

carrying

trade

from

port to

port,

and

not

a man

of

them

will con-

sent

to be paid

in

any

money but

the

best.

(Cheers.)

Self-interest


19/24

.Illy

more

fban he

should

pive :i

half-measure

bushel

of grain?

(Ap-

lilanse.)

The

American

people

have

graduated

from

the tinancial

kindergarten,

and free-silver

is.

to-day.

as

innocuous

as

fiat

money.

I

Applause.)

FREE-SILVER IS FIATISM.

Why

should

not

the

proposition

for

the free

coinage

of silver

be

as dead as

the

proposition of irredeemable paper

money?

It

is the

same

proposition

in

a

different

form.

(Applause.)

If

the

Goverumeni

stamp

can

make

a

piece

of

silver,

which

you

can buy

for 45

cents,

pass for

100

cents,

the

Government stamp can

make

a piece of pew-

ter, worth one

cent, pass

for

lOO

cents,

and

a

piece of paper, worth

a

fraction

of

a

cent, pass

for

100 cents.

(Applause.)

Free-silver

is

the

principle

of

fiat money

applied to metal. If you favor

fiat

silver,

you

necessarily

favor

liat paper, just

as you

necessarily

approve alco-

hol if you

prefer

whisky for

your daily drink.

(Applause.) For

fiat

money

free-silver

is, and

to

fiat

money

it

shall

return, saith

the

laws

of

finance.

(Applause.)

And

the

American

people have learned the

fallacy

of fiat money.

(Applause.)

Thej-

have

asked fiatism

these

questions.

If

the

Govern-

ment

can

make

money

with

a stamp,

why

does the Government bor-

row

money?

(Great

applause.)

If

the

Government

can

create

value

out

of

nothing:,

why

is

not all taxation

abolished?

If revenue can

be

turned out

of a

printing press or

stamp machine, why

have

a

tariff

for

ei(her revenue

or proliction? (Great

and

long-continued

applause,

with

cheers.)

if

(he

Government

can fix

the ratio between

gold and

silver

at 16

to

1

by

law.

when

it is

Oo

to

1 in

the

market,

why

not

fix

the ratio

at

1

to

1,

nmke

the

silver

dollar

a more convenient

size

and sixteen

times

more

plentiful?

lAiJplause.) If

free coinage

makes -i'j

cents'

worth

of silver

really

worth

100 cents,

how will ithat

raise the

price

of

anything but

silver?

(Applause

and laughter.)

And how

will

that

help anybody

but

the

silver

mine

owner?

(Applause.)

And if free

coinage will

not make

45

cents

of

silver

really

worth 100

cents;

if

that piece

of silver still

remains

worth

only

45

cents,

notwithstand

ing the

lie stamped

on

its

honest

face,

and

will

buy only

45

cents'

worth

of groceries

or

clothing

or

shoes

or

hats,

is

that

the kind

of a dol-

lar

you

want

your

wages

paid in?

(Applause.)

Is

that

the

kind

of

a

dollar

you

iv.-int

to

sell

your

crops

for? If it

is.

where will

yon be

better off?

And

if it

is

not

the stamp

of

the

Government

they claim

that raises

the value,

but

the

demand

which

free

coinage

creates,

why has

the value

of

silver

gone

down

at

a time when

more silver

was

bought

and

coined

by

the

(Jovernment

than ever

before

in

thj

history

of

the

world?

(Great

applause.)

And

if the

people

want

more

silver,

why

do they

refuse

what

we

already

have?

(Applause.)

And

if

free

silver

makes

money

more

plentiful,

how

will

you get

any

of

it?

(Great

cheering.)

Will

the

silver-mine

owner

give

it

to

you?

(Laughter.)

Will

he

loan

it

to

you?

Will

the

Government

give or

lean

it to

you?

lApplause.)

Where

do you

or I come

in

on

this

free-

silver

i-roposition?

(Applause.)

Apply

the

principle

to

yourself

as

well ;is

to

the

Government.

If

you

are

to

be

paid

in

a dollar

worth

(wo-fifths

of

its

face,

why

not

slip

a

false

bottom

into

your bushel

luf

asure

and

sell

two-fifths'

of

a

bushel

for

a full

bushel

of

grain?

(Applause.)

Why not

work

three

hours

and

call

it

a

day.

if

they

give

.you

45

cents'

worth

of

silver

and

call

it

a dollar?

Why

not

lie all

round

and

cheat

all

round, if

the

lie

and

the

cheat

begins

with

the

Government?

(Applause.)

And

if

the

Government

lies

three-fifths

in

declaring

lliat

45

cents

is

100

cents,

why

not

lie

five-fifths

and

declare

that nothing

at all is

100

cents^

(Gre.ai

applause.)

Why

not

make

a

fiat

dollar?

And

if

they

pay

you

a

fiat

dollar,

why

not

give

a fiat

bushel of

wheat or

a

fiat

day

of

labor?

Why not

just

quit

altogether,

make

money,

like

Hell's

pave-

ments,

out

of

good

resolutions,

stamp

ourselves

Vich

(laughter

and

applause),

pitch silver

and

l'oM into

the

sea,

abolish

hunger

by

stat-

ute

and solve

the

money

question


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I' cllow-iil izt'US.

do

.vol

think il is

suli'

to lampur with

llie

stand-

ard

lo

which

thi^ vast

and

delicate luachiuery of

our couiiuercial

civili-

zatitn

is

adjusted?

Is it

safe

to

disturb

the measure with

reference

to

which

every

contract

is

made,

every policy of insurance

issued,

every

value

estimated? lAiiplause.)

Is

it

safe to

again

experiment

witli

our

returning

prosperity?

Have

times

not

been

hard enough?

Have we

not learned

our

lesson

well

enough

in

the

terrible

scliool

of

a iienple's woes?

((ireat applause.)

SETTLEMENT

OF

THE

.MONEY

QUESTION.

And,

yet,

I

thank

(Jod for

the

financial

baptism of tire the

Ameri-

can

people

pass:

d

through

in

ISiHi.

Why?

Because it started them

to

thiiikiuj:,

and the

American people never

start to

tliiid-iing

and

sloj)

haif-way

tlirough

Ihe

syllogism.

And

the

American people

are

going

to

think

this

money (juestion

clear through and

settle

it

forever.

If

the

Aiiieri


21/24


22/24

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upon

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fo

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e

-cean

of

world

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renewed.)

AAIKRICANS

ARE

GOD'S

CHOSEN

PEOPLE.

Pollow-Auunicaus.

we

are

God's

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,d

=

im^s.

and

leads

us

which

surpasses

the

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nmnkind—

the

flag —

-Ela?

of

the

free

heart's

liope

and

h..iiie.

Hv

an^el

hands

to

valor

Riven.

Thv

stars

have

lit

the

welkin

dome.

^

Vnd'all

their

hues

were

l>orn

in

heaven.

Forever

wave

that

siandard

sheet.

Where

breathes

the

foe

but

falls

befor..

us.

With

freedom's

soil

beneath

our

feet

And

freedom's

banner

streaming

o'er

us

(Prolonged

cheering.)


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