The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-26
From Bryan's speech at Chicago, July

rroHi bryanS speech at chicago, July
81.
when we come to the Philippine
question again they say, What can the
administration do?' There We're two
months between the signing of the
treaty and the breaking out OF HOSTILE
ties, two months lacking six days, and
when We asked them what they were
going to do they said they hadn't had
time no decide what to do-not time TO
decide what to do
Why, there are but two sources of
or government, force and consent. Mon
arches are founded upon force republics
upon consent Our declaration of in
dependence declares that governments
derive their Just powers from the con-
sent of the governed Is that doctrine
true, or is it false? If it is false how
long ought 1t ITO take us to decide what
to 90 in the Philippines?
we recognized the truth of that
declaration when we went to war
with Spain. We said the people of
cuba are and of right ought to be free.
why! Because they lived near us?
NO. because they are part Spanish?
NO. They were and of right ought to
De free because they wanted them to
pc free and governments come up from
the people. (Applause)
III they were and of right ought TO
De free, who can draw a line between
them and the people of the Philippines?
Where is the philosophy that entities
one to liberty and another ito vassal-
age? You say you don't know what TO
do? (Applause.)
If you find a pocketbook and on 1t
xnf fba 10 h. Wa -,
count the money in the pocketbook be
fore you know what ITO do with the
pocketbook? If the doctrine set forth
in the declaration of independence is
SOUND, then we cannot rightfully ac-
quire title by conquest. If the doctrine
set forth in the declaration of indie
pendence is sound we cannot rightfully
purchase 5000. 900 of people at 50 apiece
from an alien monarch, whose rebel
nous subjects we ourselves armed to
hight against their monarch.
There is a principle involved, and
when the principle is once understood
its application is not difficult. and if
the people of the Philippine islands are
ana or right ought to be free, then this
nation should. without one moments
delay, announce to those people that
we are there as friends and not as
enemies to establish a government
which shall be their government and
not our government when it is eStab
lished.
Not only ought we to do that now;
we ought to have done it in the begin
ning and if the promise made to Cuba
had been made to the Filipinos not one
drop of blood would have been shed IN
the Philippine islands. (Applause.)
And we would be sending school teach
ers to Manila to teach them instead of
soldiers to tell them that the declara-
ton was a lie. (Applause)
The F'ilipinos came into our hands
by accident of war. and coming into
our hands they must be dealt with ac-
cording to American principles and not
according to European principles. Gap
plause) They say that if we were to
give these people their independence
other nations of Europe would laugh at
us. doc
Are we afraid ITO be laughed at?
Why, more than loo years ago, when
there We're but 100000 people in this
country, our forefathers dared to give
to the world declaration at which the
people of the old world laughed but
for which our people fought CAP
plause) When the trainers of the dec
laration of Independence wrote among
the self-evident truths that all men are
created equal, endowed with inalienable
rights that governments are instituted
among men to secure these rights, de-
rnVlnS their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed, the people of
the old world laughed.
But they didn't laugh long. CAP
plause) Because our forefathers main
Itained their declaration, and for more
than a. century this republic has been
the most potent factor in all the world
in influencing the destiny of the hui
man race. (Applause)
Shall we be ashamed Ito admit now
that we believe in the declaration Of
independence? I repeat that We must
deal with these people according TO
American principles. They desire their
independence. Let us say to them, as
we said to Cuba. Stand up, be free!'
and then to all the world say, Hands
off, and let every republic liver Gap
plause)
Tell me that we don't know what to
do? All we have to do Is to read our
nations history to watch the nation as
it travelled its pathway that leads from
the little name of might to the lofty
name of right and then you can tell
what this nation must do if it is true to
it's past. You have in your city poet
who has written the best poem on the
Philippine question. DR. Taylor has
crowded into a single verse more phil
osophy as we'll as poetry, more phil
osophy than you will find in whole
speech on the side of imperialism, and
if he never does anything else he has