Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-02
POINTED CO1nENT.

The Kansas aspirants for the United
States Senate are all in favor of Gen.
Funston's return to the Philippines.
Possibly the Hon. Carl Schurz would
be content if we were to move out of
the Philippines and permit Germany
to move in.
The prophecy that the end of the
world might be expected next month
has not stopped Mr.. Bryan's frantic
endeavor to avert his reputation by
the voters of his own state.
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The Democratic party is encouraging
and abetting assaults on our soldiers,
in the desperate hope that by contrib
uting to bring defeat to our flag, it may
gain some advantage at next months
elections.
Mr.. Bryan says that Ohio, Kentucky,
Nebraska and Iowa will go Democratic
this fall. Mr.. Bryan may have had
trouble with his throat, but it has not
interfered with his practice of using
his hat for a megaphone.
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Nobody who is familiar with the Phil
ippines doubts that we would turn the
islands over to anarchy and oppression,
should we follow Mr. Bryan's policy
and haul down the flag, which now
stands for equal rights for all.
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As the War Department objects to
sending leper on an army transport,
and the steamsphip companies will not
take her as a passenger, Mrs. L. M.
Todd will remain in the pest house at
San Francisco and will not go back to
Hawaii.
If the Spanish treaty was such an
awful violation of the doctrines of the
Declaration of independence, why did
Mr.. Bryan make a special trip to
Washington last winter to urge Demo-
cratic Senators to vote for its confrma-
ton?
There is no desire to establish a
military despotism in Luzon, nor to
deprive the people of the islands of
their right to govern themselves as
soon as they can be fitted for such a
condition. AT present they are no
more entitled to complete self-govern-
ment than is Alaska.
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Now that the administration has sue
ceeded in concluding an agreement
concerning the Alaska boundry by
which American rights are maintained
it will be in order for the flag furlers
to raise howl that the Kluckwan
Islands were not asked their consent
to be the governed.
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While no formal statement is likely
to be made, it is now certain that even
should a nomination for President be
rendered Admiral Dewey by both
parties, he would decline on the ground
that his physical condition and mental
temperament unfit him for the arduous
duties ofthe office.
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There is authority for the statement
that at no time since the negotiations
have been in progress has the United
States given serious consideration to
the session to Canada of a single inch
of ground on the shores of Lynn Canal.
If Canada ultimately obtains a port as
an outlet for her gold fields, she will
have to pay for it,
From one third to one-half of our
national domain was acquired by DEM
ocratic Presidents through purchase or
treaty with foreign powers; and with
out consulting the inhabitants. And
the expansion of the territory under
the American flag was as bitterly de-
nounced then as it is now, and with as
little reason.
Mr.. Bryan and other Democrats do
great deal of shouting and spouting
about the Philippines, but they do not
suggest any practical method of deal
ing with the islands. If Mr.. Bryan
were now President he could do moth
ing less than repress armed insurrec-
ton, and repel attacks upon the prop
erty of the United States. He might
desire to avoid it as much as Lincoln
desired to avoid conflict, but he
could not do less without being false to
his oath Of office.