The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-20

will ever be hauled down. 1t will not come
down for thousand years
EXPANSION IN OUR BLOOD.
Expansion is in our blood, I'm his
tory, I'm our religion. IL is our destiny.
To call expansion Imperialism Is either
foolish or insincere, or both. Ii is practic-
ing fallacies upon the uniformed and the
ccnfding. Imperialism is absurd. No de-
partment OF government could usurp the
supreme power Congress could not think
OF it. The people would strange their rep
resentatives before their seats were warm.
The Senate could not even undertake IL.
The people would stop their supplies and
starve senators before they could select
their titles. The President least of all
| could resist the people. He Is under law
always. Congress can stop supplies. The
Senate can reject his partisans. The SUI
preme Court can neutralize his laws. IL I'M
constitutional. He is only able to execute
the Will of the people The only possible
emperor is the absolute power above Con-
gress about the Senate. above the SUI
preme Court, above the President, 1000, 90
people.
1.-The President resist the people, Nc
Kinley resist the people, To borrow from
a Chicago orator: Rather than undertake
10 resist the people l would go TO sea in
boat of stone. with sails OF lead and oars
of iron, with the wrath of God for a gale
and hell for the nearest port. A serious
charge of Imperialism is the craziest crime
of this century.
President Mckinley is providential
man. Like the prophets of old. he is here
| errand. He is the prophet of
| time. Prophets are sent in great emergen-
cies. and they come with Gods messages.
men have the insight to see living
prophet. They do not all come i'm the same
role, nor in the same form, nor wearing
| the same apparel. IL the new prophet
copies the old he would be merely charla-
tam One comes patriarch. like Abra-
ham; another as leader and law giyer,
like Moses: another as a warrior. like
avenger, like Elijah; another as a reformer.
| like Luther; another as a Regeneration. like
Wesley; another patriot. like Wash
ington, and another comes as deliverer,
| like Lincoln.
''To find the prophet of our time IL is
| useless to take the grave clothes Of the old
| prophets and run around among the living
men trying TO find some man whom these
| clothes will fit. You might as well take
| the bow of Achilles and try to find the
modern warrior by hunting for some man
TO bend that ancient bow: Much better TO
| look for man on the bridge of a steel
warship with his pockets full of fifteen
| mile cannon.
| ITO find our prophet the prophet of this
| time, we must find not the man who might
| fit the sheepskin cloak of John the Baptist,
but the man who fits into the big job of our
| time, the man whose hand makes a bend
in the stream Of events. Whether We rec
| cgnize ii or not impartial history will find
| that hand in the White House. President
| Mckinley has lifted the United States from
being a remote province into the character
| of a foremost world power. He seems to
be debating the policy of the civilized
world. holding in his hand the boiling caul-
| dron of China, into which all the navies of
| the world are steaming, and toward which
| all the armies of the world have been
| wheeling, and still he seems to be able To
| keep the hope of peace
THE OPEN DOOR"
mo man can tell what day may bring
| forth but il he shall succeed in preventing
| the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of China, and the pres
crvation of the open door and the most
| favored nation clause I'm our treaties. hc
| will have advanced the Characterization of
| China by at least a century, and will have
| won the love and honor of all liberty
| loving people
1.-THE open door for trade. and for the
| gospel means much more than can
| comprehend. 1t means the perpetuation of
| the British empire. With Russia and
! France controlling the sea front of China,
| England would be compelled to come out
| CT India. The breaking up of the British
| empire would be the destruction of the
| greatest civiliZing force ever known among
men. Russia closes her doors against mis-
| sionaries with frmer hand than does
China. Let Russia become the power back
| Of the throne, and heathenism has new
| lease of life. China. armed and left In
/ heathenism, in twenty-five years will be
| our most dangerous neighbor. Economical,
/ Industrious. brave. able to put from 10000
| COO to 50.000,000 of soldiers into the field,
| danger will Turk in her every step.
| THE open door in trade means much to
us. 1t means the running Of all our fur
races. spindles and factories. We can pro-
duce much more than we can consume.
China is the great mart OF the next century.
1 China furnish a market for our sur
| plus. The open door means much TO us in
| every way.
| 1--WE are at the crossing of the roads. IL
| Bryan is elected he says he will call am ex-
| ira session of Congress TO legalize the
| planks of the Kansas City platform He
| will seek the repeal OF the gold standard
bill and open the minis TO mine owners for
| the free and unlimited coinage of silver
This will wreck business, take half the
value of our salaries and wages and give Ii
| TO the men who have the gold We don't
| want that
IF Bryan is elected he will seek the inn
| mediate repeal of the present tariff law and
| secure free trade. This will stop our spin
| dies. close our factories and cool our fur
naces This will transfer our work beyond
| the sea TO strangers and leave our laborers
| idle and their families hungry. If Bryan is
elected he will call back our armies, turn
| over all the tribes of the Philippine islands
| to be robbed and murdered by the Tagal
| and pull down our flag from where our
heroes have planted it, We don't want
| that.
| ION the other hand, what? IL Mckinley
] Is elected he will continue the protective
| tariff, keeping our factories and furnaces
| running and furnish work and high wages
| To our laborers. That is what we do want
| IF Mckinley is elected he will retain the
/ gold standard, preserve sound money and
| pay all our salaries and wages I'm money
worth 100 cents to the dollar. That is what
| we do want
! IF Mckinley is elected he viii! keep our
| flag floating over all our territory, preserv-
| ing our national honor. That is what we
| do want
| IF Mckinley is elected he will hold the
| United States up TO the front as world
| power, secure the open door for trade and
i the gospel and help TO perpetuate civiliza-
| ton, thus Fastening the end of heathenism
and the Characterization of the world. That
| Is what we do want. Therefore, let send
him back 10 his job