The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-24

A favorite phrase with some writer's Is
1.-The average American" 1t is q loose, II
convenient, expression. which really doesn't
mean much, and peters out under analysis.
either pathological or metaphysical. You
can average numbers, but you can't average
citizens. When the idea to be expressed is
that OF the ordinary, everyday American
who energies temporarily from the happy
obscurity that surrounds the lives and ac-
tivities and opinions Of nine hundred and
ninety-nine OF every thousand OF our fellow
citizens. and figures for the moment as the
representative of a widespread, deep-seated
and healthy public sentiment, it will be
better hereafter to say MIR. RowLEY OF
Brooklyn"
We are not acquainted with the Mr..
HENRY RowLEY who replied to the verdi
girls remarks OF GAMALIEL BRADFORD OF
Boston in Brooklyn last Sunday night The
directory Of that borough contains the name
Of only one HENRY RowIEY, merchant
living In Carlton avenue. This may or
may not be the Mr.. RowLEY who arose Of
his own motion in the audience BRADFORD
had been addressing and made an unpre-
meditated speech which it is an honor to
these columns to exhibit again.
This speaker came hore to tell us something
about the Of antiimperialisnl but he's talked
OF everything but that Two weeks ago speaker here
told US that AoefNALDo was 4 scoundrel. This man
says that MCKINLEY 10 bankrupt. Docs this sort OF
talk help out the situation in the Philippines or
enlightsn the scope Of anti imperialism This
speaker says thing of Porto Rico or Cuba. Does
he approve Of what has been done there and conhne
his disRpproval to the Philippines1 His whole
"a al dan NJ hodv md
every thing He looks around everywhere for heads
| to bob up that he crack them. and that's
apparently what he means by anti.imperialism.
This speaker advanced one proposition to. day
that he has not proved. and call on him for proof
He states positively that this Is being prose
outed for political purposes This is fearful state
ment for any one to make and no ono has right to
utter such thing unless prepared to follow it up
with the proofs. How does Mr. BRADFORD know this?
call on him to produce proof Of his statements.
| We know that the Philippines were approached
by American feet as part of the with Spain
| There was Spanish feet there that menaced our
| Pacific coast. and It had to be destroyed. DEWEY
attended to that in admirable style All action
In the Pacific part of our with Spain. and
could not have been political move. Tho speaker
to-day has tried to befog you by INJECTING this
audience his political and personal hatreds It's
our plain duty to stand by the Government in the
present crisis and to to It that when the in
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| government as 1t 10 possible to give them.
| There's no use in trying to make hero OF AGuI-
| NALDo. for he's humSug and every one knows it.
| He never had an established government in the
Philippines and it's 10 say that he had. We
| are morally bound to keep the Philippines and to
| keep Spain away from them and it is tho duty Of
| every Amer can to stand by the Administration"
| Mr.. RowLEY OF Brooklyn is probably
| unaware OF the fact that no statesman, no
orator, no newspaper editor, no pam
phleteer, has yet spoken or written on the
Philippine question more effectively than
this. President MCKINLEYs speeches on
the same subject have not been more
eloquent. Secretary RooT's remarkable
defence OF the Administrations policy was
not more direct and cogent. Mr.. RowLEY
has compressed into few sentences every
essential consideration OF national duty. Ho
has answered, without wasting word, not
| only the wretched 9AMALIEL BRADFoRDs
labored address but also CARL SEIZURES
ten columns from Chicago and the whole
voluminous mass Of reasonable literature
emitted from ATKINsoN's printing press
and from ERvING WINsLow's bureau He
has done this with no apparent effort simply
because he is Mr.. RowLEY of Brooklyn, All
American, speaking directly and without
self-consciousness what is in his own pa.
triotic heart
And in millions and millions OF other
hearts American like his.