New-York tribune., 1900-07-18

Mr. Bryan would cause such economic and financial
ton Of fearful and acute. distress that cannot be
aTf es even 8 9 on MRo keep fresh IN d bv rep ee
resentatves Of the Populistc Democracy, as at
as Secretaries of state and Of the Treasury would
inevitably bring the country to the brink OF ruin
could have done four years ago.
Now, as TO expansion. 1t hardly seems worth
City people call imperialism and "mlitarism."
was insincerity. The Convention which nominated
Mr. Bryan IN 1900 was in character infnitely below
their wild and dangerous folly, his advocates had
fanaticism However wrong headed. they knew
what they believed, and they stated it without
most degraded nassobs i'm omE National life bad
enough in all conscience sake In itself, was rem
dered infinitely worse because robbed of every
days to find out what they believed about free sill
yer and this was the only plank concerning which
They Teasserted the doctrines OF anarchy which
believed in them but because they hoped by an
nouneing them to attract TO themselves all men
dealing with our foreign policy they deliberately
stroVe TO foster resistance TO the National flag
where such resistance already exists, and to call 1t
into being where ii does not exist, with the hope
ter what cost of ruin to the Nation They mouth
about imperialism and "militarism,' knowing
say; knowing if they know anything, that their
san5 fre r6 WIPE & upon a troq1e hen dye
and caring nothing because they wish to purchase
flag of death and suffering to the men who night
under the flag Bitter indeed is the cup they hold hold
be for the S Nation # it does not spqrn it. ~
not detain us for a moment In Porto Rico
now have Governor Allen in charge. We have es-
tahlished a system under which the island is ad-
yancing by leaps and bounds to prosperity. In
Cuba we have put put General Leonard Wood dr IN
taken to give to the people of the island their own
BE kept General aT Peg Weods @ is
synonyme for honesty and cleanliness, and the
department the wrongdoers were hunted down in
unsparing pursuit, and the best possible proof was
that governmental cleanliness would be obtained
in the only possible way by the unsparing cutting
out of corruption wherever it was found
DEMOCRATIC DISHONESTY IN EXPANSION
sr. We now come to the Phppines and to the the
the moment are SO palpably dishonest and main
tanned in such palpable bad faith that to state
them is sufficient 1t is hardly necessary to dis
Guss what they say a bout the Constltuuon 4 a@ dolr
chamDioned the doctrine, thus set forth save in
N te GaTK DAYS "hgn II mad Decoe tne m f9
which the apostles Of slavery chose to pipe. When.
sissippi was acquired when largely through the in
strumentaltty Of Jackson Florida was added to
populations were governed precisely and exactly
governed President jefferson secured the
Louisiana purchase just as President MCKINLEY
warred against the Seminoes when we had ac-
99nired Florida from spain precisely as as GeneFaI ]
among the Tagals in Luzon.
JacRson Of he meed of hon6r Which has BEEN
held TO be peculiarly theirs we 4iI Gannot deny the
City the men engaged in preaching the gospel
.imperiaiisn abroad viii lead quickly and tnevita
bly, TO despotsm at home You men of Minnesota
appreciate the fatuousness of that statement by
liberties have been abridged by the return of
the Minnesota and Dakota troops who won 7,{ SuGh
geometrical propositions so essentially absurd
that mathematicians hold their statement TO be
proposition. II it were worth while would point
though these are. its absurdity is so much more
fragrant that nothing need be said. So 1t is
ton and oppression at home following what
cannot argue with them on this proposition for no
serious man thinks for one moment that they be-
During the st-' great Civil War there were many
preachers Of the gospel Of disl0yalty among the
men, like their representatives among our op-
country when the great armies Of Grant and sher- &
great armies Of Grant and Sherman returned TO
civil life and were swallowed up among their
ie0w @ caS n Th9ut I YEAR d two on fhe ina9
frontier and in so% Of S the IS Southern Ps stqtes bs but
5 TAaf as I IS pr BE- yon T
regiments and brgades and divisions return
from Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines to be
& &dT IA IiiY Fort and en6ampment and after
Of the people have never been able tell except by
the newspapers whether they had come back
OF all ,die chatter, the talk of danger of mill
Te 10 the the RSpTa9h Of and dhS 991nfy tn the less in
century and a quarter. in times when we had only
cur own Indians to guard against. In Washing
three years in Ohio warning against the TaSals of
that day. with army under him larger in pro-
portion to the then population of the Nation than
all our present National forces: Regulars and vol
unteers conbiueG and there is just little danger
tfe then f It IS S Utter & foy to talk S of our nib Liberties
being menaced by the existence Of a force capable
a it would have been to talk Of their being men,
aced in the seventies by the soldiers who followed
Custer and his fellows against the Comanche, the
10, our opponents mean nothing. and know that
tarism' and attempt TO say that they favor ex-
used precisely the same arguments six years ago
against taking Hawaii that they use
down our flag In Hawaii just as they now wish to
pull it down in the Philippines We had to undo
infinite cost Of bloodshed and woe We would have
f9 this IN ecdn t Yf not one Of them e noW %old
dream of saying that we not right about
strange irony the Kansas City Convention had to
depend upon the vote Of Hawaii before 1t could
country.
BOXERS" OF THE PHILIPPINES.
AS regards the Philippines, even the Kansas City
Convention felt that they had propose some
hrst give them a stable form Of government sec
ond Independence, and, third projection from out
these propositions they showed their estimate of
their Importance; Well what we are doing now is
form Of government in the Philippines and the
the bloody Aguinaldan oligarchy by their sympa-
thizers among the people who represented in
the Kansas City Convention Moreover. now we
terferes in the islands. After have secured a
government as rapidly as they are fitted for it.