The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-29
A SOUTHERN IMPERIALIST.
Opinions of a WideIy-KnOwn Soldier
of the Confederate Army.

Henry S. Foote, in San Francisco Chronicle.
The logical result of w. j. Bryan's po-
sition with regard to the disposition of the
Philippines is this, as 1 humbly think: That
MIR. jefferson should nave turned over the
Louisiana purchase to the Choctaw, Chick
asaw, Kansas and other Indians and pro-
tected them against white emigration; that
Mr.. Monroe should have done likewise with
Florida and the Seminole Indians; that
Mr.. Polk should have turned over New
Mexico to the half-breed Mexicans and
Indians and kept white people out; that
the same course should have been pur-
sued as to California. and also that Arizona
should nave been left to the tender mercies
of the Apaches. In China we should espouse
the cause of the Boxers.
BY such a course in the Philippines and
China, we would embroil ourselves with
all the European powers, which would not
be willing to see that half-Chinese, Aguinal-
do, loot Manila and commit nameless out
RACES on the white men and women who
live there. The one tribe that is fighting the
Americans. in order thus to organize rapine
end plumber, the Tagals, would be permit
tea to dominate all the other millions i'm
that land, and to be encouraged to con-
tinue to waylay and assassinate American
soldiers, who are there now at his instance,
and that of the Congress of the United
States.
Mr.. Bryan does not explain what L be-
heve in. the limiting the right of suffrage
III the South so as TO govern that lovely
land by intelligent free men. In fact. he
says nothing about that, yet every intelli-
gent man who thinks at all knows that
such a government is best for whites and
ElaaEc. fhnt In OivnC Snfafxr RI tho rnn nnl
a motive to the others to become intelligent
and thrifty. 1t is Imperialism TO stand by our
boys in blue, who are resisting assassina-
ton at the hands of Aguinaldo and his
rcbber gangs, and 10 establish a safe and
decent government for all the people of
those islands. but IL is the right thing to
do, he seems to think, to indorse the form
of government now universally acquiesced
in at the South.
He cites the victory of the Wing leaders
as to the Democratic course with Mexico.
/ suppose he indorses Tom Corwin's speech
in Congress, when he said If he was a
Mexican he would welcome the American
troops with bloody hands to inhospitable
graves
AS for myself. as a believer i'm the supe-
riority Of the white race and a follower of
Jackson. Polk, and now, at last, Mckinley,
1 see no democracy anywhere but in the
Republican platform. As a former Confed-
crate soldier, believing in the Constitution,
which, when / surrendered. / swore to
support and defend, / believe in standing
by the army in time of war, and giving
no aid or comfort to armed enemies en-
gagged in firing on our boys at the front,
and on the flag of our common country.
Patriotism under such circumstances should
be far above a platform merely labeled
Democratic.
Who is the most dictatorial, the man Me-
Kinley, going to a battle as a boy, dashing
to the front at Antietam, without orders,
to feed his brave comrades, and peacefully
with other millions going back to civil
life and obeying the laws passed by Con-
gress, or Bryan, stufing down the threats
of his convention is to /, against the advice
of the coolest and best of his supporters,
and announcing that he will call Congress
together and force down their throats the
independence of savages and sodden half
breed Chinese and then use our army and
our fleets to protect their outrages against
the white people of almost every country
in the world who happen to be living
there?
If to lose our relations and blood kindred
| fighting these robbers and a determination
to make them peaceable and obedient to
law and order be imperialism, then 1 an
one who believes in it.