The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-25
AMONG The HERDSAEH
Long Is Making the Campaign
That Tells
BRINGS EXPANSION HOME
Why Trusts Are Not the Par
amount ISSUE.

Especial Correspondence of The Eagle.)
Ashland. Kan, Aug. Pin his speech
here, in a county where the cattle in
dustry is uppermost and cattlemen com
posed the greater portion of his audi
ence, Mr. Long made an appreciated
comparison in showing how we came to
take the entire Philippine group.
| Speaking again of the way President
Mckinley seemed TO ignore the chances
to become emperor, as the Democrats
say, he called attention to the fact that
the president in the beginning only de-
sired to take the city of Manila, the bay
and a portion of the island OF Luzon.
lt'But," says Mr. Long. sit was discovered
here, and by the peace commissioners in
Paris, that if the United States did not
take the entire group, some other coun-
try would obtain them, for Spain was
going out of the colony business. We
afterward discovered that country to be
Germany. If we had not taken the en-
tire group Germany would have purchas-
ed the residue from Spain.
You cattlemen, you who have large
pastures, appreciate the disadvantage of
being at all cramped in your possessions.
You know that it is when you are i'm
mediately adjoining your enighbor that
you have trouble with him; when his
cattle get out of their pastures and get
in on your possessions. You never have
this trouble when you own everything in
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more land than you needed, have you
mot because you did not know whether
you ever could get it if you did not take
it then. And sometimes, afterward, you
have been sorry that you had not bought
more, when the time came that you need
ed it and could not secure it.
''Well, it was this way with the United
States We did not know at what mo-
ment if we did not take all these islands,
that we would need them, and then when
we ascertained that Germany would get
them if we did not, we took them"
Addressing himself, as he often does In
a telling way to the Democrats and Popu-
lists in the second person, Mr. Long goes
after them something like this on the
prophecies they have made concerning
How do you know the islands have no
value? How do you expect the people to
believe your prophecies when you fell so
short four years ago concerning the con-
dltion of this country If we did not have
free silver? Do you remember those
prophecies? Are there any Democrats or
Populists here who were sorry a few
weeks ago when trouble broke out in
China, and our missionaries were being
killed and legations in danger, that we
then had the Philippines-when the
United States was able to transport
troops from the Philippines to China in
a brief time and ahead of any other ma
ton but Japan-when our troops were
among the first to enter Pekin-were you
sorry then?
Besides, there have been statesmen in
this country who nearly a hundred years
ago made all sorts of prophecies con-
corning the country of which we are
now part. Senators stood in the senate
of the United States and declared that IL
the attempt were made to expand the
constitution over this vast uninhabited
area, meaning the territory of Louisiana.
the constitution would be rent assunder
and the country would no longer exist
They said this about a territory which
has been erected from 1t Is states, with
26 senators and 81 representatives in the
congress Of the United States; of the ter
ritory of which Kansas Is now a part.
Yet the republic continued to exist and
the constitution has survived the shock.
Without entering into a discussion of
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or otherwise, I believe that the islands
are Immensely productive and rich.
Everyone who has returned from them
gives this report. Bat this is not the
question, The question IS, shall we do
our duty over there? Shall we assume
or evade the responsibility? Shall we
give these people the fullest extent OF
self-g0vernment they are capable Of sus-
tanning, or shall we turn them loose;
give them over to internal dissension and
permit them to become the prey Of other
countries? We have a duty over there.
and we should perform it"
Mr.. Long makes a strong point In his
reference to the Democratic party. be-
ieving IN government with the consent
Of the governed in the Philippines. while
it deprives southern states of such gov
eminent, by reason OF DISTINGUISHING a
large portion Of its voters He shows I'D
the peculiar features Of the new consti-
tuition in North Carolina and South Caro-
Ina, the state OF Senator Tfnman. who
was chairman OF the committee OF reso-
buttons Of the Kansas City convention.
whose resolutions so strongly desire gov
eminent with the consent Of the govern
ed in the Philippines
Ashland Is the home Of Harry Bone.
assistant United States district attorney
for Kansas. Bone was formerly repre-
sentative from this county. and Is
popular man in his home county.
The Republicans q Clark county he'd
their convention here yesterday and
nominated a god ticket. The nominee FOR
representative IS W H Weldon. a halt
brother OF Lot Ravenscraft. fusion nori-
rec for state senator. Other nominations
are: County attorney, \ ! Myers: clerk
o. the district court. Addison Baker:
superintendent. Mrs. Sarah Donnell: pro
bate Judge. II s TIickSon. NJ G Stew
enson- one II the local workers. viii Prob
ably be chairman q The county central
committee Harry Bone was expected IN
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