The Forrest City times., 1900-10-12

the offices of Divinity. The czar of Rus sia is the head of the Greek church. The sultan of Turkey is the chief prophet of an oriental creed and the emperor of China Is the supreme head of a patriarch al family.
 This necessity of intervening an as- sumption of Divine power springs from the indisposition of any person to admit that he is taking the people by the throat and planting his heel upon their breast. This Is the actual definition of despotism.
 Now, MT. Mckinley is following the wake of all other despots. When he talks about despotism and Providence and Di- a claim of Divine right, just as any oth- CT despot has done it. But you perceive that Divine right when it is openly avowed is much better than when 1t is secretly cherished, because when it is openly avowed it imposes some kind of restraint and limitation. The Divine power, for instance, that creates mon archy imposes certain responsibility up- on 1t, and responsibilities are limitations.
 Two Obligations Are Reciprocal.
 The obedience and loyalty are recip- rocal obligations. The same power that commanded the subject to obey, com manded to protect. The king might vio- late his duties and his subjects could not, for the king had the means of enforcing obedience. But while the king might vio- late his coronation oath, in taking 1t he admitted the obligations which it em- braced: But this system of MT. McKin- nation oath These unfortunates won't even have the protection of any oath. The only oath that can be administered oath to support the constitution of the united States, but none of these office holders will be bound to support the con sttution. If he did 1t would destroy him. He must exclude the constitution from his Jurisdiction.
 Government to He Set Up.
 Let us see, after our congress has an- nexed all these territories, if it has the chooses in them. We may have Mir Mo Kinley constitutional monarch in Can- ada, captain general in Mexico, a pro- consul in China and sultan somewhere else. By the way, we have that already. Now, picture to yourselves is this an ex- travagant suggestion?
 Do you remember what Tracy, of Ken lucky, said 100 years ago? He said that he thought we might go beyond the seas and annex 10,000000 of blacks somewhere. argue it with him. That is the very uues- tion of this campaign.
 Let us once set up an empire in the what is to prevent congress extending the sway of its despotic authority until the sphere of republican territory will be but small part of the territory of the United States, and congress having set up these multifarious governments in va rious parts of the world, what is to pre- vent 1t moving itself to Montreal or the king or Manila?
 '.The very first suggestion that is made here Of empire in the Philippine islands requires us to overthrow the one contri- button of the American nation to the sci ence of government. l have said that the destruction of power of parts of gov ernment have existed almost as long as government has been known to man. But the method of their distribution has been original in this country.
 Cowardly, Base and Weak. ''The seizure of any territory by the United States with their traditions of freedom. their traditions of justice, with the new principles which they formulated at their birth would be discreditable, but the attempt against the Philippine islands has an element of baseness and treachery that is almost inconceivable. It has every element of depravity which can mark the crime of the nation against morals.
 "It is cowardly because 1t Is perpetrare ed against a weak people. It is base, because it violates the principles which we invoke | in the hour of our difficulty. It Is treach- erous, because it involves the butchery oi our allies. .(Applause.)
 Does anybody doubt that Aguinaldo an6 | his troops would have risked their lives | side by side with our troops if they be- lieved that their success would simply | substitute one foreign domination for an other? When he fought and we accepted his service in the eye of God and man we contracted to serve him as he served us | (Great applause) To render him the | same service.
 
 that the difference between MT. Mckinley and Aguinaldo is simply the difference that Aguinaldo claims he was deceived by specific promises, and MT. Mckinley says. No, he was only deceived by a trick. (Applause.)
 "I say that am always prepared for any evolution of MT. McKinley's mind. because it is so exquisitely balanced that with 1t vio- lent changes seem not to be wrenches that distress, but agreeable exercise to be en- toyed: l should not be at all surprised to find haf ha 1aad hn ch {t, .1o- manding the establishment of some plan of evacuation which would provide for a stable government and for the protection of the United States over these islands erected as republics in the east, to bear the star of liberty and freedom into the night of oriental despotism.
 West Is Against East.
 Why, my friends, remember the conflict Is on between the east and the west We have just seen the armies of western civ iliZatfon march upon the far-off empire of Cathay. the empire of legend and story, whose existence bridges longer period oi the existence of the human race than all history records. In the contest of these two civilizations shall it be contest oi and of light? We have the opportunity to plant at the very gates of China and oi Asia republican government. one estab- lished by American ballots.
 Shall we establish that light of free dom and of progress or shall we unfurl the standard of despotism, the reign of brute
 
 of the east and declare that we renounce all that we have gained for civilization that freedom has been mistake. that lib- erty has been a fraud, that every profes- sion of morality which we give to the world was lie and a subterfuge intended to grasp power for ourselves that we might perpetrate against weaker people worse injuries than any that ever were attempt ed against us?
 Bryan Man for Respect.
 "Something has been said that Mir Bry- ans election would endanger prosperity, and I. who opposed him four years ago, am charged with inconsistency because l support him now. Whether have opposed or supported Mir. Bryan, our personal re- lations have always been that of mutual respect. One can always say of him that If he opposed him he opposed him with re- spect. while if he supports him he sup ports him with enthusiasm.
 II know that if he be elected now that he will not be in office 30 days before this government will have forsaken the path way of militarism and will have entered upon the pathway of freedom. I have no fear Of being told after election that l voted for something different
 "The republicans tell us that the gold standard which we fought together for is in danger. I won't argue that. have ar gued it before. but l can say this that if inc gold standard is not secure now if ea n