Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-04
AN INDEPENDENT VIEW.

AN INDEPENDENT VIEW. |
Judge Burnett has written an
article for the Portland Tele-
gram, discussing the issues of
the present campaign from enI
independent standpoint, but his
own argument leaves no choice
but to vote for William McKin-
ley. "The paramount ISSUE"
he says, with the outs is how
to get in, and their name is le-I
gion; with those who are in,
how to keep in" On the two
substantial issues of the canl-
paign, free silver and expansion,
Judge Burnett is a republican,
and in a few short sentences reads
Mr.. Bryan out of court. He|
says: "The effort to make an
issue on the silver question in
the coming election, although
made by both parties, has al
ready failed. What the people
want is a bi-metallic currency
as a basis of circulation, and
that they have now, through the
efforts of both parties, and it is
the best system in the world.
"With a republican admins
tration coming silver dollars of
full legal tender quality at the
ratio Of I6 to to the extent of
81, 500, 600 a month, it is hardly
worth while to waste time over
the question of 'ratio,' or hag-
gle about .'free coinage.
'The claim that we have no
rights in the Philippines and
should get out of there is with
out foundation. When the pow
er of Spain was broken down in
the Philippines there was moth
ing left deserving the name of
government, and if America had
done less than she has done she
would be unworthy of her proud
name and history, and I am uu.
willing to condemn in President
Mckinley what I would approve
in President Bryan.
cit appears to me that the
only way to establish a stable
government in the Philippines is
to treat them like any other terri.
tory belonging to the United
States, and give them the same
kind of government that was
given to Oregon, which is all the
self-government they need, and
more than they can understand
at present. This would be ex-
pausien pure and unadulterated,
and while our republican broth
ers would have to give up the
idea Of levying tariff on i'm
ports from there (Which would
inure mainly to tho good of the
protected trusts), aud the demo-
cratic brothers would have to
give up the idea of setting up a
Filipino republic out of Ameri-
can territory, which we have no
legal right to do in view of the
decision of the nation in 1865,
yet we would be walking in the
footsteps of the fathers and we
could not err. Such a course
might end eventually in adding
ing to the great republic, the
states of Hawaii, Cuba, Porto
Rico and Philippine, but that
does not alarm me in the least,
for think a government that is
the best in the world for 70, 900,
900 of people is best tor 1000.
900, or for I, 900, 900, 900, when
they are intelligent enough to
understand and appreciate gov.
ment like ours.
cit is for US, and those who
shall come after US, to determine
whether this grand experimental
problem shall be worked out by
adding states without limit;
then, indeed, may the nations OF
the earth look on in wonder at
our career, and when they hear
the noise of the wheels of our
progress, in achievement, in de-
velopment, in expansion, in
glory and renown, it may we'll
appear to them like the noise of
great waters, the very voice of
the Almighty-'Vox populi, Vox
Dei."