The Red Cloud chief., 1900-07-27

States as a legacy Of conquest. These
islands had for two hundred years been
under the sovereignty Of Spain and for
all Of that time had felt and experienced
all the iniquities of monarchical rule.
When the hand Of President Mckinley
was raised against Spanish atrocities in
Cuba and the Philippines, it was not
for the purpose of acquiring new pos.
sessions in the Orient. Naval aud mil.
itary strategy alone directed movement
toward the Philippines, and those
waters were invaded with no other
object in view than the destruction or
capture Of the Spanish squadron. Not
until the treaty at Paris was entered
into did the United States undertake to
exercise control over the Philippines.
This treaty passed sovereignty over
these islands from Spain to the United
States, and 1t Is q forcible reminder to
Bryan and those fusionists who are
finding fault with the Mckinley ad-
ninistration for attempting 70 restore
law and order in the Philippines, that
this very obligation, this very duty, is
the result Of Senator Aliens vote and
the personal efforts Of w. j. Bryan to
have the treaty ratified. Without
Senator Aliens vote and without the
personal efforts Of w. J. Bryan the
treaty could not and would not have
been ratified, and the Philippine isl.
ands would not have passed to the
sovereignty Of the United States.
After being largely responsible for the
acquisition of the Philippines, Bryan
and the fusionists have adopted a plat.
form Of reputation and they hold up
their hands in abject horror at the
spectacle OF an honest, commendable
and patriotic effort on the part of the
president to suppress domestic lawless-
ness and rapine in the islands. Like
the copper-heads of 1861 they are cas-.
tigating the Mckinley administration
for exacting obedience to the well es-
tablished rules and ethics of popular
government and at the same time are
encouraging instruction by seditious
u~tterances secreted i'll expressions Of
sympathy for n people bearing arms
against the United States.
1t is n prerequisite to popular govern.
ment that the governing power shall it.
self be capable of self government. SO
soon as the F~ilipinos shall demonstrate
their ability TO maintain a government
analogous to a republic just so soon will
the Republican party through its au.
thorized representatives encourage that
undertaking.
OF Commercial Importance.
The Importance of the United States
retaining the Philippines, from a com.
mercial standpoint, is not to be dis
counted. 1t is IN important link in the
policy Of commercial expansion. Par.
ticularly is this true when considered
in connection with American trade in
China. 1t is only recently, and it is
due to the wise craftsmanship Of Nc.
Kinley, that American products have
found their way to China in any mater.
ial quantity. The 'open door" policy
recently promulgated opens up to the
farmers and producers of the United
States q market, the consuming capa.
city of which challenges computation.
China has an area of more than one.
twelfth of the globe and a population
variously estimated ut between 800, 0OO,.
900 and 400, ZOO. 900. Her export and
import trade reaches proper.
tions and it will require time and en-.
ergy alone for the United States to de-
velop an enormous trade in that
country and with these people. 1t is a
mild assertion to state that Chi~