The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-11
ge gehita Daily EaaIe. Thursdau orio petober 1000
of the previous 100 years.

which are needed IN the rest OF the world
and that it is outstripping every othel
nation in the rapidity with which Its in
dustries are growing and the profits Il
its capital. I am compelled to give ny
consent and approval to the financial pol
Icy which has produced such won 1srfu
results in so short a period of time.
But there is another great point OF
policy in the conduct of the administra.
ton. The nation was forced into wal
with Spain. Admiral Dewey destroyed tbs
ships in Manila Bay, and 1t is now par
of the policy of the party with which
was formerly associated, under fits new
management. TO disapprove of the ac-
QUESTION of the Philippine Islands. There
were three courses open for this govern
| nlent to pursue when the sovereignty OF
Spain in the Pacific was destroyed ny III:
American navy on the Isl of May. 1888:
The government might have directed AID
miral Dewey to sail away and leave the
Islands to such power and control as the
| Spanish government might have keen
able to exercise there after their feet
was destroyed by ours. The conflict
| width Spain was provoked by the relent-
! less cruelty of that power which we saw
! upheld in 1895 and 1897 in the Island of
Cuba. We had there seen one-fourth part
of the total population of that island,
| consisting for the most part Of non-con-
| batants starved TO death by the recon-
centrado system, in which hundreds Of
| thousands of old men, women and chill
dren were herded into a limited area and
starved to death. The Democratic party
may approve of such course as that. I
will not keep it company with my APP
prevail
''But the islands might have been
abandoned as derelict to be taken pos
session of by some other one of the Eu-
ropean nations which have been patroll-
ing the Pacific for years in pursuit of ter
ritory to be occupied I know of no
European nation which could treat those
islands and endow them with the free
institutions which we possess, so well as
we can ourselves. and I know Of no duty
more pressing upon nations, as well as
individuals, than that pressing duty
which compels the conquerer to take care
of those who are thrust upon their care
as a result of conquest 1t is said that
we should have permitted the hilippines
we exercised a protecting power over
them. The proposition is impractcable
and impossible. When the sovereignty of
Spain was destroyed and the sovereignty
of this country substituted in it's place.
this nation became responsible for the
individuals who owned property in the
Philippines, not only for the citizens of
those islands, but the citizens of other
nations who resided and were doing bust
ness there, and if we had abandoned |
them we would have been responsible |
for the injuries which would have result
ed in subsequent revolutions and dis
orders upon the islands by having de- |
stroyed the sovereignty of Spain, the |
only responsible government which the |
nations of the world had Heretofore rec
ognized as existing in those Islands. |
Moreover, we, were responsible to the |
citizens of the islands to establish among
them a good government. The best OBJ
servers Of our own people, including the
Taft Commission, have declared that
they were incapable of self government.
They are manifestly so. They consist of
a multitude of tribes, having had, sub
iect to the sovereignty of Spain, tribal
speaking a great variety
Of languages, heterogeneous in their civ
lization, few being civilized, many
and many other barbarous
and semi-barbarous in their social condi-
lions. They have no political system of
townships, districts or other political or
yanization. by which the consent of these
various tribes can be obtained. 1t was
nanifestly duty devolving upon the adj
to take charge of these is
ands and to administer them and guide
hem until they were able to administer
md guide their own affairs, and nobody,
n his secret heart, believes for a mo-
nent that there is any other purpose
han this in the mind of the administra-
ion or in the mind of the American peo-
lie.
There are many Democrats in Okla
'oma who agree with me upon the
money question. There are many who
believe that the administration has done
wisely in taking the Philippines and IN
Iertakng to do the best possible for
hem, I have heard at least one or two
Who says Mr.. Bryan, and the Demo-
ratio party under it's new management,
ire for the free coinage of silver. I do
lot believe in the free coinage OF silver;
believe in the gold standard therefore,
shall support the Democratic party and ,
fr. Bryan on the free coinage of silver
t 16 to l. Mr.. Bryan and the Demo- {
ratio party they say. is against ex- :
ansion, but they say, Il think the ad-
has done wisely in taking 4;
he hilippine islands, therefore I shall sup 8
'ort the Democratic party and Mr.. =
Sryan' Such logic. These are great r
uestions; they are OF transcendent i'm $
ortance Each individual ought TO judge 6
or himself. I shall Judge for myself I
nd when I find that my party has aban- c
oned its traditional policy. thrown over q
GARD its old leaders who have safely
uided it during the preceding thirty I
ears, and adopted for leaders these new 9
hen, with new theories and new propo- {
itions, and I find that they have mis-
I'd me- turn about and join myself 10 2
hat party and that administration ,
,hich is identified with this marvellous d
evelopment, now manifest throughout a
he land and with these great plans for '
ne growth OF our own race, and for a.. q
he races with which we come in con
act. and to this imperialism OF prosper
y ana benevolence. I firmly and conf
emily confide myself"
TO PROF. GOULD