The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-03-01
A REPUBLIC OR MONARCHY?
DoCTR,N. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Difference Between imperialism
and the Government Founded by
Our Revolutionary Fathers.

The Difference Between Impcrialisn
and the Government Founded by
Our Revolutionary Fathers.
The sp 4 ch OF Hon. Wm. }. Bryan ia
Columbia Is one Of the abest efforts OF
this gifte1 and accomplished leader,
and his d s ussion Of the Philippine
question merits careful perusal in
every household. MIR. Bryan spoke as
follows:
| want to speak for little while
about the Philippine question. 1t is
not surprising that the party that
favored the income tax and favored
trusts should also stand by the princi
pies upon which this government is
founded and should oppose the c0nvcr.
sion Of homogeneous republic into Il
Heterogeneous empire. | say it is not
strange, but 1t is strange that the Re-
publican party that thought in 1896
that this country was not big enough
TO attend TO its own business is now big
enough to attend to the business OF
every other country in the world.
Some who are in favor Of the imperial
policy hide behind the doctrine, or be-
hind the term, expansion but there
is difference between expansion and
Imperialism. Expansion describes the
extension OF the limits OK q rspublic :
imperialism dc ,cribc5 an cmpi, c, which
is a different thing from rtpublic
If you want to know the difference be-
tween d republic ana an empire, let
me state tho diilerenbn in few words
We had 70, 600 soldiers in the regular
army in 1886 Tho Presidcut asket
for 100000 in December, 1898, and he
asked Tor that lncrcGse two months be.
lore there was 40 uprising in The
Philippine islands. Why did We need
an army four times as great? BE
cause the administration was COntCmD-
lating an imperial policy. What is
the difference between a republic and
an empire twenty-five thousand
soldiers were enough for Il republic Of
I0,OOO,O 600 Of people and it takes four
times as many soldiers for an empire
with 10000, 600 more. THIS is the dif.
ference. Twenty-Five thousand soldiers
for 10000. GOO who govern themselves.
but it take' $4,000 10 govern eight
millions without their consent. Here
we have q republic, thera military
despotism. The dag here stands for
the rights of those who pay the take
and have a voice in the laying OF them,
and there it stands for the odious
doctrine Of taxation without represcn-
tatiOn-a Government; without the con-
sent Of the governed. That is the if:
ference between q rep !blic and an en-
pire. Webster has S ii IAN cmpil c
embraces variety in races and a
diversity IN governme nt." Our EN-.
pire is to embrace both a variety in
races and diversity in Government ::
for when we get the Fllipinos--thirty
different races Of them-wcnl have
variety cf races enough to satisfy The
most fastidious. (Laughter) And we
will have diversity in Government
that - Snt1;rinp, n die ipuniyl
public FROM an empire. We ure asked
to have one tariif in this country and
another tariff in another part Oi tbs
empire. Ii you want 10 see a still
more marked contrast let me remind
you that according to the constitution
as amended since the war, no man in
the United States can own another
man but we new pay the Sultan Of
Snlu for the privilee OF flying our hag
over the Sultan's palace, ard the slave
who works beneath that flag is not to
tc free, but he is able to buy himself
free when he can make enough work
ing for nothing day to pay for the
market price. tLaughter.)
This is the doctrine thnt is now
brought to Am erican people by party
that has lived for 80 years upon the
the boast OF what it did in regard tothe
black man. Don't you think that is
diversity in Government And yet
my friends, We are juet commencing
on an imperial policy, and you can cx.
nect that the difficulties will multiply
rs we progress. What defense do You
hear given OF the imperial policy? l
have heard three. First: There is
money In it, Second That God Is in
it. The third : That we are in it and
can't get out. Uaughter.) venture
you never heard any other argument.
Take "a speech Of an imperialist, and
you will find that there is not an argu.
ment that does not fall under one OF
those three heads. Every imperialistic
speech contains at least two Of these
arguments. Let me give you the sub.
stance OF the most OF the speeches.
The imperialist speaker will start out
by telling you that God did it: that
God opened the door and pushed us in
and shut the door. That God pointed
out the way, and that we are under q
religious duty to prosecute a war OF
conquest because God directs it, and
after having shouldered the whole
thing onto Providence ne lowers his
voice and says, 1T will pay" Every
argument made In favor OF Imperialism
is but the elaboration Of the speech
made by Secretary Cage at Savannah,
Ca, more than q year ago, in which
he said that the philanthropy and five
per cent. would go band in hand.
81 Philanthropy and five per cent. -
They have always travelled together in
wars Of conquest. PHILANTHROPY chic.
reforms the conscience and five per
cent. fills the pockets of the conquered.
Whenever philanthropy gets weary
and rests for while by the wayside,
five per cent. goes on and never feels
lonesome. | do not mean to say that
the imperialist does not read his Bible,
but do mean to say he is mixed on
his quotations. l heard man who
got confused about the PARALLELS and
tried to tell Of the good Samaritan and
got it mixed with the parable OF the
sower, and as he remem bered it if
read like this "A man went from
Jerusalem to Jericho and as he went
he fell among the thorns and the
thOrns sprang up and choked him."
His intentios were good, but his mem.
ory. was defective, and SO the i'm.
perialists are mixed up on the beauti-
tu6es T'hav know tbpro IA q ,,rop,ie n