I did not have much chance to speak to some of you during the campaign. You thought that those who talked as I talked, were enemies of yours; we were not. You thought we wanted to injure you; we did not. You thought that we were radical; we were not; we were conservative; we were not advocating retaliation; we were simply asking that our institutions be built on justice. Beware of those who come afterward of the radicals who will not be content to stop a wrong, but will want to go back and get revenge for what has been done. I appeal to you to meet these questions, and if you love peace, do not love it in Holland only; love it in America. If you love peace, seek the foundation upon which it rests. You will find that when the Nazarene's coming was announced to the Shepherds who kept their flocks by night, it was "Peace on earth, good will towards men." How can you have peace without good will toward men? I appeal to you to cousider the true foundation of peace, here and everywhere, and you will find in the recognition of the rights of your fellows a higher happiness and a greater satisfaction than can be found in a shortsighted selfishness that trespasses upon the rights of another, whether that other person be a merchant or a laboring man.

Imperialism

Speech Delivered by Mr. Bryan in response to the Committee appointed to notify him of his nomination to the presi dency, at Indianapolis, August 8, 1900.

IMPERIALISM.

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Notification Committee: I shall, at an early day, and in a more formal manner accept the nomination which you tender, and I shall at that time discuss the various questions covered by the Democratic platform. It may not be out of place, however, to submit a few observations at this time upon the general character of the contest before us and upon the question which is declared to be of paramount importance in this campaign.

When I say that the contest of 1900 is a contest between Democracy on the one hand and plutocracy on the other I do not mean to say that all our opponents have deliberately chosen to give to organized wealth a predominating influence in the affairs of the Government, but I do assert that on the important issues of the day the Republican party is dominated by those influences which constantly tend to substitute the worship of mammon for the protection of the rights of man.

In 1859 Lincoln said that the Republican party believed in the man and the dollar, but that in case of conflict it believed in the man before the dollar. This is the proper relation which should exist between the two. Man, the handiwork of God, comes first; money, the handiwork of man, is of inferior impor

tance. Man is the master, money the servant,

but upon all important questions today Republican legislation tends to make money the master and man the servant.

The maxim of Jefferson, "equal rights to all and special privileges to none," and the doctrine of Lincoln that this should be a government "of the people, by the people and for the people," are being disregarded and the instrumentalities of government are being used to advance the interests of those who are in a position to secure favors from from the Government.

The Democratic party is not making war upon the honest acquisition of wealth; it has no desire to discourage industry, economy and thrift. On the contrary, it gives to every citizen the greatest possible stimulus to honest toil when it promises him protection in the enjoyment of the proceeds of his labor. Property rights are most secure when human rights are most respected. Democracy strives for civilization in which every member of society will share according to his merits.

No one has a right to expect from a society more than a fair compensation for the services which he renders to society. If he secures more it is at the expense of some one else. It is no injustice to him to prevent his doing injustice to another. To him who would, either through class legislation or in the absence of necessary legislation, trespass upon the rights of another the Democratic party says, "Thou shalt not."