Iron County register., 1899-09-07

maintaining an American police anywhess
| that it is necessary or desira Bile to main
| tain one. We adhere to the Monroe doc
trine. we are loyal to the counsels ot
| Washington's farewell address. We are
| not prepared to accept the ancient antag-
onismS of England as our own, nor to
participate with her in her new found
| hates or envies; and at this juncture, when
England sees its power slipping away and
pereeives with alarm the great advance
of German manufacture in the world 8
| trade, we have not discovered any rea-
son why we should side with England
and oppose the advance of Germany. We
oppose the Anglo-American alliance; We
would equally oppose any other alliance,
and our motto will continue to be, in the
future Is in the past, one flag, one country
and one allegiance
I'm condemning the doctrine of imperi-
alism, we in no manner abandon our SOL
diers in the field. But at the same time.
whenever a purse-proud, truSt-controlled
administration dares array our flag or
forces against a people fighting for the
God-given right to rule themselves. when
ever the sum total of a peoples offend
ing is that they desire to be free, it viii
be the duty of the democratic party TO
be brave enough to expose the pretense,
to tear the mask from the covered face
of fraud and greed and avarice, and pro-
claim that the recognition of such a war
for such purposes is un-American and
must be brought to a close.
I'VE proclaim that there shall be be-
meath our flag no slaves, no subjects, no
coloniStS, who cannot be citizens, and, lest
we be late, we proclaim it now. CONNER
cial empire must not be placed before
principle; the doctrine, the recognition OF
which made us a great free people, must
not be ignored, departed from or limited,
and we profess our lasting adherence to the
doctrine that all men are created free and
equal.
I'VE affirm that the war in the Philip.
pines as at present conducted, IS one OF
criminal aggression, and we find no differ
ence in the situation the administration
occupies than the one occupied by Spain
in the Philippines before the surrender.
Whatever rights we have were acquired
by purchase from Spain; our right is no
higher.
I'VE declare that while no proclamation
has been made, the fact is that this ad.
| ministration intends to hold the islands
as dependency; that the prosecution of
the war is part of a political scheme
and the government of those islands is to
be used as a manner of payment for po-
litical services. The civil service is not in
tended to apply.
''The Importance of the campaign this
year must not be underestimate. This Is
the year beginning the triumph of 1901
for democracyS cause and democracy's
candidate: the issues are made up of the
peoples interests, and the present admin
lStratlOn' s lnernclencleS and plumbers. the
questions involved are the hope of the
people for the future, the possibility OF
their prosperity, the maintenance of THEN
liberties, the existence of the fundamental
principles upon which this government is
founded. The name of the candidate for
the presidency next year appears in the
resolutions of every convention held by the
democracy this year in the state of Ohio.
True to the people, devoted to their inter-
ests gifted with wisdom to discern the
right, and possessed of eloquence and
courage to declare and defend 1t, the ex-
ponent of every principle declared to be
democratic, the uncompromising foe to all
at variance with the peoples best interest,
the unquestioned leader of a reunited de-
| mocracy, his name trembles upon your lips,
and trust and confidence in his honesty
and capacity abide in your hearts; an ideal
candidate, stronger in defeat than his op-
ponent in victory he is demanded by the
democracy of Ohio and the democracy of
the country as our standard bearer in 1900
William Jennings Bryan. Under the ban
ner of the democracy we enlist with him
as our leader, and this days work will
make an appropriate and fitting beginning
for next year, when at that great tribunal
of the peoples will-the ballot -box-the
error of 1896 will be corrected and the ILL
considered and unjust judgment then rem
dered will be reversed"