Daily inter mountain., 1899-09-19
HOW THE WEST IS PROFITING UN
DER EXPANSION.
San Francisco, September "A, 1899.

San Francisco, september II, 1893
Special Correspondence Inter Mountain.
William Jennings Bryan had the gopd
sense to cut snort his visit to California.
His remarks on the financial issue did rot
rlease the gold democrats, who are OPP
posed to bimetallism in any fofm nor
did they please the silver democrats, who
are disguised because he did not once
use the term "free coinage" nor once
/ refer to the ratio of Is to /. Fence strad-
ding Is not sanctioned by the people of
California, and Mr.. Bryan ceased to be
o popular idol the moment he concluded
his speech here without definite dec
laration either for or against the inoe-
tpendent free coinage of silver and gold
at a ratio of IS to /. The San Francisco
papers, had nothing to say concerning
Bryan's utterances about the national
finances The Examiner editorially did
not give him a line. Representing the
democracy of California, it is not in
: the subject. Every day. in large type, it
: proclams the American internal policy it
advocates as follows:
L. Public ownership of public fran
l chses.
>. Destruction of criminal trusts
5. graduated income law
4. Election Of senators by the people.
! s. National. state and municipal inn
provement of the public school system.
g. Currency reform.
= No protection for oppressive trusts
4 Any good citizen, regardless of politics
a will inuorse the above principles Will
|possbly one exception. Opposition tt
trusts is confined to no party. 1t Will bt
$ noticed that the Examiners platform
y, oli,fJA fpr NSv1D
it oppose expansion Yet it represent
d democratic sentiment in California to
: great extent, and it was because of th
pro-expansion sentiment here that Bryan
was in such hurry to return east. Hi
criticism of Mckinley was generally re
G garded as an exhibition of cheap an
- pusillanimous demagogy. Only the mos
l. ignorant and bitter partisan can be mad
10 to believe that the president is anything
but an executive officer performing hi
II plain duty by guarding American prop
~ erty till authorized to make legal dis
: position OF it.. The simple facts OF tn
le situation, which no anti-expansionis
ID organ or orator can controvert, Wer
- tersely stated few days ago by Senate
r, Chandler as follows in effect:
.. /. President Mckinley is bound
maintain American sovereignty in ou
islands until otherwise directed by law {
congress.
II g Congress, only, could make til
Philippines colony of the United State
e the president could not even if he $
ID desired, which he probably does not.
3. No power but congress has the rigf
&c to surrender our sovereignty in tt
e Philippnes-the president could not eve
ri if he so desired, which he probably dot
not.
c. 4. The president has no right to for
,r stall the action OF congress in eiths
making colony of the Philippines pr
~ surrendering them SO that congress sma
not execute it's will respecting the di
position of them or a scheme of govern
ment for them.
to The above propositions being concede
W what is more utterly ridiculous and di
honest than the attempt of Bryan and
or newspaper echoes to fix upon Mckinlt
d. the responsibility for all that happens
~ the ceded islands. He is simply tt
- agent of the people. ordered to hold the
re new possessions till congress shall me
a and formulate policy as to their futur
- He is the executive, not the legislau'
nc branch of the government; and ignOra
indeed must be the man who IS unah
to distinguish the difference and wi
seeks to build UP an issue upon such
n foundation to take the place of the aba
I'M doned issue of free coinage. In this CT
Of San Francisco the situation Is W.
lie understood, and should the paramou
o. issue in 1900 be anti-expansion CallIorn
=. will give the republican electors ioO'o
majority. i,
IL Prosperity is doing terrible execute