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with a golden koy." Wo want it so that Wall
street will-not be able-to build a-barrier in front
of tho White House,Aover which a candidate
can climb only with tho aid of balos of bills -Wo
must fcoop tho way open betwoon our chill
dron and tho stars.
I want the'thousand delegate here to help mo
givo our party tho benefit of ouch a bulletin it
will be worth more than a ten million dollar
campaign, Xund. I have the support of tho Hon
Vanc.e.McCorjnic1C'Who was the chairman of tho
uationaL.commlttee four years ago. I have put
my idea 4nto his. own words I only lacked ono
of a major,ityin tha committee; I ask you to givo
us an overwhelming vote for tho natonal bul
lotin. (Applause) -- ,
I ask you, next to jidopt tho profiteering
plank. I rwant you to help to drive piracy from
tho mart and market place. I want you to
help us taKo tho profiteer's hand; out of the pro
vision basket and out of tho wardrobe of tfio
people. ;w,ant you to help Us to declare for a
law that, will empower the Judge to send to tho
penitontiary;. the officers of a Corporation that
profiteers and not merely fine 'the corporation.
(Applause).
I want you to help us on this" resolution
against -universal compulsory military training.
(Applause) v you cannot hayo peace without tho
spirit of peace J and you cannot have tho spirit
of peace when every man is trained to believe
. that war is a necessary thing. War is not neces
sary. It ia tho philiosphy of Nietzsche, not tho
doctrine of the Nazarene, that declares war
necessary. When the German government fell,
Nietzsche's theory fell with it. Wo are enter
ing upon a "new era; I want the Democratic party
to hasten; the day, promised in holy writ, when
swords shall be beaten Into plowshares and na
tions shall learn war nor more. (Applause),
Having run oven briefly these three planks,
I Bhall devote. the remainder of my time to the
two pl&rikgjtfiftt deal with larger subjects. First;
I ask you -t: consider the plan for bringing
about wbrldj-peltce.: you tell me as they say
in tho plitform,- that Twe must stand by this
treaty itt$S& emtiflrfS' that materially alter
it. I ma&CSnorp Speeches in thisvcbuhtry1 than1'
any other" 'public inan for ratification .without
a single roBoryatioli. I did it until I found that
wo could not feet ratification without Teservar
tions. I ifever consented to a single reservation
until I was convinced as everybody else must
have been by that time, that ratification with
out reservations was Impossible. When I had
to choose between some vthcrplan that promised
to hasten ratification" and the plan of the com
mittee I had to choose another plan. If you
make thisnnissue in this painpaign, if Repub
licans andriDemocrats spend four months de
nouncingeach other, you make it impossible to
secure ratification at the end of the campaign,
because everybody knows that neither party will
have a two-thirds majority in ihe Senate when
this campaign's over. Ijim not willing to be a
party tofiJsro, my friends, across the ocean'
thero . are. 'little republics that sprung into ex
istence' in. Response to our invitation; they are
trying to get on their feet; monarchy Is surg
ing back onno side and bolsheviqm Is Unseat
ing them on, the other and we cannot hold out
a hand tqhdlp them. Shame on the man, Demo-
crat or . Republican, whd talks of making, a
partisan" question of this great issue, withtti'
world. on fire,. (Applause). Who will give a
guarantee of the future? Who cap. give us as
surance that Europe will not drift back into war
while we are discussing reservations? How
pitiful the difference between the reservations
that have been discussed in. the Senate ror a year
"when you Compare them with the large pro
visions in that, treaty. The three great. things
in that '"treaty . have never been disputed; no
senator hatf objected; they aroused no con
troversy." . What are tttey? Nine months delib-
oration before resorting to war; six months for
investigation- and three months time to decide
what they will do when the report is filed. It
will be almost impossible for two natiops to go
to war afterthey have spent nine months in
vestigating the cause And, second, progress
toward world disarmament. That is only next,
w importance to the eace idea taken by our '
President to Paris after it had been embodied in
thirty treaties with three-fourths of the world,
if you disarm the world, no nation can prepare'
for war without notifying the world in advance
f Us OYiliutont, Third, the abolition of secret
treaties. 40ne of the most fruitful causes of war
has been tVe, facVthat nations would get together
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The Commoner
uZV'ul'.1 wo have a treaty
that cmbodios
takon together,
theso throe remedies,
treaty
which,
But
do it.'
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hx..l 7 Ti. "UI l0 oraso from tho nacn of
ried0tholne0acoa W Wilson wTcar
You annnSnllan t0 th wor,d- (Applaiwo).
c?nnorcaU me an enemy of Woodrow Wil-
coSferon8 ?yi treaty P,an that h0 took Vlho
morta? ? iV!? helpCd Ulm to bocomo '
2ri;'i C?uld socuro ratification without
honor 8:d ,g VG, ?, Woodrow Wilson tho
honor of it I would gladly go to tho scaffold to-
I cannot do it, my friends; nobody can
Wo are confronts hv ..(. ,t..,.r
provision requiring a twthirds en
ables a minority to obstruct ratification. I want
to take it out of tho way. I am not willing to
sharo responsibility for what may occur. I, llko
these gentlemen, beliovo in God. Somo day I
shall stand before His judgment bar; and when
I appear there, there shall not bo upon my hands
,the blood of people slaughtered while I talked
politics (Applause).
Just ono word' moro on this subject, my
. friends. I have not been able in tho short time
given to say all I would like. (Voices of "Go
on ). Would you know how anxious I am to
bring peace to this distracted world? Lwlil tell
you. Our allies owo us nearly ton billion dol
lars. I am willing for our government to uso
all of it, if necessary, to purchase peace, uni
versal and perpetual (Applause). I would
rather that we should givo up every dollar of
it than invito another war. If wo try to collect
it from tho allied nations, wo cannot do it in a
generation; and if we collect if from tho allies
they will bo compelled to collect it from thoir
enemies. If we make concessions tho terms of
the treaty can bo so rearrangou" that tho warring
nations can bo brought togother In friendship
and accord. Then wo can arrange for disarma
ment, for where love and friendship abide, they
do not need cannons and battleships to make
peace siire. Give us a chance to lift the burden
from the back of the toilers of the World" and
they will bow down and thank God for the stars
and stripes that set a world froe. That is my"
idea of what may be done.
But I must now turn to our domestic question,
prohibition. (Laughter). I am very glad that
I do not have to answer tho eloquent speech of
my friend from New York. No wonder wo are
friends. Wo commenced debating public ques
tions twenty-six years ago in Congress, and tho
more frequently wo meet, tho more we lovo each
other' (Laughter). Tho reason why I do not
have to answer his speech is that the resolu
tion he introduced answers tho speech he made
in support of it. Ho says that prohibition de
moralizes everything? that virtue is discouraged
and not inspired by prohibition. If this solemn
statement is true, then why does he ask us to
accept prohibition? Why does he jrot tell us to
get rid of prohibition if it so lessens tho virtue
of-our country? I could not understand why he
was so willing to accept prohibition Until ho
explained that it could not be enforced. Theh
I could understand how ho could . accept it.
(Laughter) Then he turned to tho good people
of the south, and told them how they had
helped the ex-slaves. It was a wonderful pic
ture, and none too bright for it Is true. Yes, the
south has helped the black man, and if the
south had dono so much for the black man at,
home why is he not willing to follow the stand
ard of prohibition that the south has raised tor
the aid of the people of all this country? (Ap
plause) . And what is tho application of this
eulogy of the. treatment of the colored man of
the south? He does hot seem to understand tho
tho application of his own figure. After toll
ing you how the white people gave to the black
people down south the benefit of the white
man's civilization, he asks you to allow Jhe
dram shop (Cries- of ."No! No!") Walt wait
until I finish tho sentence to lower the level
of politics in the north? If there is a man in tho
New York delegation or in the New Jersey dele
gation or in any delegation that is wet, who
wants us to believe that he is now happy that
the saloon is a thing of tho past, ask him t0
stand up now and tell you whether ho oyer
publicly condemned; the saloon before it was
abolished. (Applause4 and protect, some stand
up) My friends, I. .cannot search your records,
bit when you go back to your states, won't you
please ask the wet papers to publish what you
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aajd against" the saloons bofpr tbb west and lfif
wnun urovo mom out of your community? Now
if In a year's time- t-v
(A voico) I voted for you. " 4
(Mr: Bryan continued), Yea, my friend, you
votod lot mo. If you aro sorry you did; if you
go back on me because I stand for the bofci1
against tho saloon, I will gain two in your place;
(fcxtendod applause). Now, my eastern trlmuU:
if in tho one ycar'w time since prohibition wr
forced on you against your will, wo havo ne
ablo to convert you to tho belief that tho nalooA
was a curso and should never come back, mtiyW
wo can, In another year, bring you up to tho hi&ll
standard of complolo prohibition. (Laughter,
and applause). Let, mo givo you ti bit of his
tory: Tho District of Columbia went dry and
tho whlto flag of prohibition was raised over the
nation's capital, novor to be hauled down? it was
a Democratic Sonato and a Democrat! Houe
that phased tho bill and a Democratic President
who slgnod it. Arc you ashamed of what your
party did? (Applause). Arc you ashamed that
Democratic Sonato and House submitted prohl-'
bltion, and that ovory Democratic state ratified?'
Aro you ashamed that three-fourths of ik&
Domocratic congrossmon and two-thirds of thV
Democratic senators votod for the onfdrcomtttf
law?
V-
Bo not frightoncd; time and agaTff In hlstdry'
tho timid havo boon afraid, but tlioy have al
ways found that they underestimated the humt
of those who had not bowod tho knee to Una!. The,
Bible tolls us of a tlmo when tho groat iSVlsh?
was told by his servant that the enemy was iofl'
great for them. Tho prophet answered i "Fqr
not, they that be with us aro more tfiatt thfy
that bo against us." And, then, ho drew asldi
tho veil and on tho mountain top tho young mail
could seo horses and chariots that had beoa in
vlsiblo before. In. just a few uaya another "utiijffi
will ratify tho Suifrago amendment, W tklfr
on tho mountain top you will seo the TtQTnei&Sifrt
tho children, our allies in every rlghtoomTcaisf;'
We shall notlfail. (Great, and prolonged ''
plaUso)'. ' - ""-' '" -
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ivere submitted by Mr. Bryan in a roWrmr ri
port: ' ;?:
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Wo heartily congratulate tho DcmoftwiHn ircnHv-
on its splendid leadership in tho submission Mfo
ratification of tho Prohibition amendment to 'ike
Fedoral constitution, and we pledgo tho -partytfirjf
tho effective enforcement of tho present '?. law;
honestly and in good faith, without any inca
in tho alcoholic content of permitted beverages:
and without any weakening of any other 'of"iti
provisions. . .v, sj
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NATIONAL BULLETIN
Wfi fn.vnr n. nnffnnnl Ttnllnftn nnt a
paper,. but a Bulletin, Issued by thoPederal Cjp
uruiuuui., uuuur liio lu.it uuu oquitauio control
of. tho two leading parties, such Bulletin, to &-.
nish information as to tho political issues of the
campaign, editorial space and space for prcsehta7j
tlon of claims of candidates proportionately Jf
vided between tho parties.
PROFITEERING .
Tho Democratic party -pledges tho nation id
rh It of tho profiteer and to close the door
against his return. It will ondeavor to elimi
nate all unnecessary middlemen by the encour
agement of organizations among producers that
will bring those who sell and those who uso near
er together?" It will enact and enforce lawn
that will effectively prevent excessive charges
by such middlemen as aro necessary. To this
end it will demand legislation subjecting to the
penalties of the criminal law all coroporate of
ficers and employees who givo or carry out in
structions that result in extortion j it will make
it unlawful for anyono engaged in Interstate
Commerce to make tho sale of one article de
pendent upon the purchase of another article
and it will require such corporation to disclose
to customers tho difference between cost price
and selling price or limit the profit that can
bo legally charged as tho rate of Interest is nor
limited. It will also endeavor to create in thw
several states trade commissions with powers an
ample as those of the federal trade commission
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