Evening star., 1900-09-18
PRESIDENTS STATt
Representative Kerr Predicts a
Majority Of 10000.
PHILIPPINES LEGITIMATELY OURS
The Country Must Provide an Out
let for Its Exports.
OHIO FOR SOUND MONEY

| to his election to the Fifty-fourth Congress,
Representative Winfield S. Kerr, chairman
| of the committee on patents. served four
| years in the Ohio state senate. He is In
| active practice as an attorney, and knows
| the buckeye state thoroughly from end to
| end.
! In discussing the political battle at pres
| ent raging in the Presidents own state
with a correspondent of The Star today,
Mr. Kerr expressed the greatest confidence
| as to the ultimate result.
Big Majority to Rebui>e Bryan.
"The republican majority in Ohio will be
not less than 10000, and we will certainly
retain our present membership In the
| House. he said. mo one who is familiar
| with the situation doubts the election Of
Mckinley, but that we must make Wig
| orous fight for the House is certain. With
| everything in our favor, yet such is the sit
| uation
"The Presidents course upon the great
| and important question of his adminlstra-
| ton has been eminenty satisfactory to a
great majority of the people of the coun-
| try. The business, commercial and indus
| trial conditions of the country during the
last three years have satisfied everybody
| except a few political buccaneers who are
| searching in vain for wrecks along the
| shores of quiet sea.
''rhe republican party today stands for
1
| ever had. The democratic party stands for
| four of the most miserable years the coun-
| try ever had. AS between these l have
| faith that the people who have stake in
| the country'ss material interest will stand
for the republican party and continual
| ton of prosperity. If they do Mckinley
will be elected by the largest popular ma
jority ever given presidential candidate.
The only issue should be the condition
| of the country during the last two admins
| trations. The only question is whether we
| shall continue prosperous under the repub-
| lican party or endanger and likely lose
prosperity by putting the democrats in
power.
| But the democratic brethren, having
much the worst of this position. were
| driven to a new question or to new ques-
| tions. 1t is a small public or popular SEN
| timent, that will not result in shifting of
! the sails on the democratic ship.
| The Democracy Bankrupt for Issues.
-Four years ago the world in it's fullness
or leanness depended upon free silver. ac-
| cording to the democratic creed. This year
l there is no democratic orator so small and
| insignificant that he afford to argue
the 16 to 1 which was to fill the land with
shining glory.
THE tariff the great absorbing clamor OF
| the years, has died out and is no deader,
| only little older. than the free silver of
four years ago. The robber tariff barons
and the silver barons rest in peace together
| and even the gold bugs buzz laZily along
disturbed only by an occasional democrat
| whose populistic tendency has made him
belligerent.
"The trusts even receive only an occa-
| sonal notice from the democratic colum-
| biads. and this in order that in their pill
grimage they may strike an occasional OBJ
| ject with which they are familiar.
THE democratic party is making its cam
paign upon what 1t denominates imperial
ism. If the Spanish war had not come on
|
| tory, the democrats would have been abso-
| lutely bankrupt this year for an issue. They
| had 'paramounted' everything one campaign
after another, until the stock was exhaust
| ed For that reason, l suppose, they took
| the republican party by the scruff of the
| neck and dragged it into the war hoping
! that out Of the war some misfortune might
come upon the country upon which they could
| base a clamor. Instead of misfortune there
! began with the Spanish war the inaugura-
! ton OF the most glorious era of the coun-
| try's history, If we only take advantage Of
! the opportunity, as we will, II we are per-
mitted to remain in power.
Republicans Propose No Curtailrnent
of Rights.
''Why all this talk recently about the
Declaration Of Independence, the inherent
rights of liberty, the consent Of the gov
erned, ETC.? Does the republican party pro-
pose to infract any principle upon which
| the government and the institutions are
founded? Not one.
"Before the Spanish war the people of the
Philippines came to us as the legitimate
fruits of war, living under the most cruel
! and inhuman despotism that could be found
within the circuit of the sun. The Spanish
rule in these islands was and had been al
ways bloodthirsty and oppressive. From
this condition we propose to lift these peo-
pie up and up to enjoy under our or their
| government the blessings of liberty. Is
this wrong and in violation of their rights
or the principles of our government?
Under safeguards which We will provide
or have provided we will insure them peace
instead Of perpetual revolution. The bur-
| dens Of taxation will be light as air COM
pared with the Spanish exactions.
"And yet they say we going to do
them wrong, these people who have strug-
ged under grinding tyranny for thou
sand years and are now going out into the
liberty and freedom Of American institu-
tions.
We Must Have Foreign Markets.
But they say the people must consent
| to all this. They will, I assume ~ they
are fit to distinguish between the two kinds
of living. But If they do not, is that an in
superable barrier to our doing anything?
when in all this world was the consent
| of the people or inhabitants of conquered
| territory held a condition precedent to the
establishment of government over them?
| Never. When was the consent of the gov
eTIeu ever asked OIL the lnna DltdntS or ter
| ritory acquired by purchase or taken by
| right Of discovery? Never.
I'VE ourselves are an illustrious example
| of the right to take territory and establish
government without consulting the
wishes tastes Of the inhabitants Harsh
| ly we began our dealings with the Indian
| but who will insist that his right could or
| should have stood barrier across the path
of destiny?
I'VE need the Philippines. or portion of
them, in our business, and having the
double title of conquest and purchase we
| should utilize them. From this on we must
devote ourselves more and more to COM
merce with foreign countries. We have
reached point where we must find an out
| let for our products or shrink internally
| In a sense 1t is question of self-preserya-
| ton. We are building, not for the next
| century alone, but for many centuries, and
being our duty. we should plan and
| execute accordingly.
Advantages of Philippine POss .ssion.
| without these islands every commercial
nation of Europe has an advantage of us.
With them we have the advantage Of every
nation Of Earepe. and. nursing our oppor-