The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-09-21


legation upon us, to deal with these
people or with those who are in an
analogous condition, by either leaving
them alone in their barbarlsm. or by
attempting to deal with them upon the
supposition that they are civilized and
capable of self-government until We
have evidence that they aae so. And
the United States ought never to give
up the control which it has acquired
over the Philippines, by conquest and
treaty, until it can be assured OF the
safety of its own citizens, and OF all
abiding citizens of III, Filipinos
themselves, in every square foot OF the
Philippine archipelago. His plan
ignores and denies all national re-
sponsibility and obligation.
mr. Bryan makes statements about
the government taking away the free
dom of those people. Those people
were never free. They DO not know
what freedom means. Oar freedom
consists of free institutions. They
never had them and they cannot have
them now, except by American aid and
all intelligent Americans certainly
know that this is true"
Bryan Really for McK'nley's Policy
What do you think of Mr.. Bryan's
declaration that the Filipinos ought
to have a stable government
1T is a belated promise. The Presi-
dent, in February of 1899, declared
that:
ct is our duty to emancipate anc
redeem them and set them in the path
way of the worlds civilization. .
The treaty now commits the free and
unfranchised Filipinos to the guiding
hand and liberalizing influence, the
generous sympathies, the uplifting
not of their American mas
tiers, but of their American emancipa-
tors
"And when the treaty of Paris was
ratified by the Senate on the 14th OF
February, 1899, the Senate declared
that,
"'It is the intention of the United
States to establish on said islands
government suitable to the wants and
conditions of the inhabitants of said
islands, to prepare them for local self
government
you understand what mean, then.
by saying that Mr.. Bryans promise
and the promise of the Democratic
platform are belated. They are only
promises, and they are promises made
a year and half later than better
promises made by the President and
the Senate.
Besides, the President is well on
the way toward establishing stable
government in the Philippines, and is
his promises and the
promises of the Senate by perform
ance, not only in the Philippines, but
in Cuba, where the administration Is
rapidly preparing the people to live
under a constitution of their own de-
vice, which will give to them complete
self government"
Bryan and Democracy.
do you think Mr.. Bryan really rep
the Democracy of the coun-
.ry?"
well, he undoubtedly represents
what remains of the pro-slavery Demo-
,rats and the Pophlized Democracy,
which he has created. / am very
busy man, most of the time very much
and had no time to ex-
anime carefully the financial question
N 1885, / supposed at that time, in
company with multitudes of Republi-
cans, as well as Democrats, that the
platform of 1896 represented what
would have been best for the country.
You will remember that the Republic z
IAN Oklahoma platform of that year
declared for the free coinage of silver,
md most of the Oklahoma Republi-
cans strenuously advocated that plat
orm, but when prosperity forthwith
began to come Immediately upon the
lefeat of Mr.. Bryan, and his prophecies
we're all refuted and prosperity came,
Investigated the subject more closely,
Thu L COnCluuCu thoI liiC Oio tNeAoNhn
If the Democratic party were right,
md that the proposition of 16 to l, as
by Mr. Bryan, was only
element in the business of
he country.
Il made up my mind that the in
luences which could throw all of those
men overheard and take for leaders in
heir places the small fry that now
urround Bryan, and Mr.. Bryan did
lot come out of a party to which l
WED any allegiance whatever, and
hat, having misled me in the cam
,aign of 1896, these men should not
nislead me again: nor do l believe
hat the people of this country, who
must know with almost practical
that those people misled
hem on the money question in 1896,
would think them any more likely to
,e right now than they were then, or
my better qualified for wise and pru-
lent leadership now than they were
hen. The rank and file of great
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