Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-10-27
SENATOR HANSBROUGH IN
OHIO,

Senator Hansbrough is making several
campaign addresses in Ohio, and the
first of them at Toledo was an able pre-
sentation of the issues before the voters.
Senator Hansbrough said
1t has been said that the contest in
Ohio this year is of national Importance.
This statement is strictly true as far as
it goes, but it does not go far enough.
This contest is more than national in its
character-it is international. There is
not a foreign government of any conse-
quence anywhere that is not watching
the result in this state with deepest
concern. There is not a commercial
country in all Europe that would not
feel grateful to the democratic party if
the republican party could be over
thrown in Ohio, because it would en-
courage them to hope that the party of
progress in this country might he de-
feated next year. Our great advance
under the Mckinley administration to-
ward commercial independence has
aroused the fears of all Europe, and our
wonderful record in supplying the wants
of European people, in furnishing them
with the necessaries of life, with ma
chinery and all kinds of industrial ma
terials, has aroused the resentment, if
not the hostility, of their statesm men.
There is not a power beyond the Allan
tic ocean, OF the Pacific ocean, that
would not rejoice to see the protective
tariff system of this country abolished,
and their hope lies in the success of the
party in this country that is the con-
slant and traditional enemy of that
system. There is not one of them who
would not rejoice in the overthrow of
our sound financial policy, that would
not be glad to see the United States 20
to the single silver standard, because
such a calamity would be the forerunner
of further calamities that would lead to
our industrial ruin, and industrial ruin
in this country would benefit them and
turn the tide of progress in their
direction.
There is another issue in this cam
paign which our opponents cannot avoid.
1 refer to the questions growing out of
the war with Spain; to our attitude to-
ward the F%ilipinos and theirs toward
US. 1t it claimed that the Filipinos had
won their independence when Dewey
came to Manila bay and that the United
States should have set them up in the
governing business and withdrawn our
navy and army from the cen What
are the facts? Aguinaldo was not con-
tending for independence when we
found him. He never had commended
for independence, as the Cubans had
done, and were doing when we went to
wal with Spain. He had led an insur-
rection against Spanish authority, osten-
sibly to gain certain reforms, but in
.roo1Ifu fN fopoo SroSp n Ill., - I'LL
for peace. As President Mckinley said
in my state last week, "We never pay
gold for peace" But the record shows
hat Spain did pay gold for it, and that
Aguinaldo took it; hat he agreed to Law
down his arms for a price; that he
did lay down his arms, and he and his
immediate followers in doing so, cheered
for the king of Spain, took their 100000
of bride money and went to Hongkonp.
Wherein does Aguinaldo resemble Geo
rye Washington? Did our great reyo-
lutionary leader ever take.a bride from
the enemy? Did he ever quit for a
price. Did he ever quit at all until our
independence was won?
To speak of Aguinaldo in the same
breath that the name of Washington is
used is an insult that is more unbearable
than all the rest of the reasonable
utterances of the A~tkinsonians."
Continuing Senator Hansbrough
showed our duty to put down the insur-
rection in the islands, treacherously
begun by Aguinaldo and his force.
"No patriotic American will uphold
the Filipinos in their unexampled course
towards the brave men who had fought
to ,give them freedom, and now that war
lis on, the honor and pride of our nation
and Of our people demand that it shall
not end in retreat or surrender.
The.sejected politicians who profess to
believe that Aguinaldo deserves a place