The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-07

Antagonistic Systems of Govern.
ment-speech at Banquet.
Cincinnati, Jan. 6.-The Duckworth
club of Cincinnati, gave its annual
Jackson day banquet tonight The date
was early, so as to have Colonel W. j.
Bryan present, as he is 10 respond to &.
toast at the Jackson banquet in Chi
cago tomorrow night This club has
given many notable banquets. but the
one tonight was the most DISTINGUISHED
in its history, because Of the presence
OF Colonel Bryan. Democratic leaders
from all over the state held conferences
with him during the day, joining in the
large reception given Colonel Bryan a.
the chamber of commerce at noon.
over 400 plates were turned at the
Gibson house tonight. The decorations
were elaborate. After the addresses OF
retiring President Louis Beemelin, and
President-elect Gideon C. Wilson, and
of Mayor Tafel, Edward Kibler and
Judge William Jackson, the guest of
honor. William J. Bryan, was intro
duced amid a storm of applause.
After discussing the Chicago platform
and emphasizing the 16 to plank, Colo
mel Bryan took up the new questions
that have grown out of the war. He
called attention to the presidents rec
ommendation for a larger army and in
sisted that the army should be divided
into two branches, the army for domes-
tic use, in the United States which. he
said, did not need to be increased; the
army of occupation, which is temporar-
lily necessary for use outside of the
United States. He said the army Of oc-
ion 81, III
order to relieve the volunteers but
that the term Of service should be
short, because the nations policy is not
yet settled. He suggested that the de-
mand for an increase in the army
might be considered as the first fruit
OF that victory to which the Republic
ans pointed with so much pride last
November. Turning to the question OF
annexation, he insisted that the nation
has not yet decided what to do with the
Philippine islands. He spoke, in part.
as follows:
The sentiment of the people upon
any great question must be measured
during the days of deliberation, and not
during the hours of excitement. A good
man viii sometimes be engaged in a
fight, but it is not reasonable to expect
a judicial opinion from him until he has
had time to wash the blood off his face
have seen a herd of mild-eyed, gentle
kline transformed into infuriated beasts
by the sight and scent of blood, and I
have seen the same animals quiet and
peaceful again in a few hours We have
much of the animal in US still, in spite
OF our ciVilizing processes. 1t is not
unnatural that our people should be
more Sanguinary Immediately after a
battle than they were before, but it is
only a question of time when reflection
will restore conditions which existed
before this nation became engaged in
the war with Spain.
When men are excited. they talk
about what they can do; when they are
calm, they talk about what they ought
TO do. If the president rightly inter
preted the feelings of the people when
they were intoxicated by a military tri-
umph, we shall appeal from Philip
Drunk to Philip Sober
THE REAL QUESTION.
''The forcible annexation of the Phil
ippine islands would violate a principle
of American public law so deeply i'm
bedded in the American mind that un-
til a year ago, no public man would
have suggested it. 1t is difficult to
over estimate the influence which such
q change in our national policy would
produce on the character of our peO-
pie. Our opponents ask, is our nation
not great enough to do what England,
Germany and Holland are doing? They
inquire, can we not govern colonies as
we'll as they? Whether we can govern
colonies as well as other countries can
is not material: the real question is
we can, in one hemisphere, de-
velop the theory that governments de-
rive their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed, and at the same
time inaugurate, support and defend in
the other hemisphere a government
which derives its authority entirely
from superior force. And, if these two
ideas of government cannot live to-
gether, which one shall we choose?
ITO defend fOrcible annexation on the
ground that we are carrying out a re-
igiOus duty is worse than absurd. The
Bible teaches US that it is more blessed
to give than receive, while the colonial
policy is based upon the doctrine that
It is more blessed to take than to
leave. / am afraid that the imperial
Ists have confused their beatitudeS. We
entered the Spanish war as peace
makers Imperialists have an indiS-
tinct recollection that a blessing has
been promised to the peace-makers and
also to the meek, but their desire. for
more territory has perverted their
memories so that as they recall the for
meg, it reads, Blessed are the peace
rrIakers. for they shall inherit the
earth.
COST OF ANNEXATION.
Annexation cannot be defended upon
the ground that we shall find a pecun-
iary profit in the policy. The advantage
which may come to a few individuals
who hold the offices, or who secure val
liable franchises, cannot properly be
weighed against the money expended IN
governing the Philippines, because the
money. expended will be paid by those
who pay the taxes. We are not yet in
position to determine whether the peo-
Die of the United States, as whole.
will bring back from the Philippines
IS much as they send there. There is
an old saying that it is not proItable
earn byT experience that it is not wise
to purchase the right TO conquer
people. Spain, under cOmpulsion, gives
US quit claim TO the Philippines in
return fer 500. 900, coo, but she does not {
agree to warrant and defend our title