Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-05

now with what it was at the close of
the Cleveland administration. The
paramount question, says Senator
Davis. is not imperialism, but it is
whether the condition and policies
which have produced prosperity shall
be continued.
Coming to the trusts, Senator Da-
Wis divides them into two classes, the
one being combinations to regulate
prices by crushing competition and to
raise prices when competition ceases.
These he pronounces unlawful and an.
evil of the greatest magnitude. But
the other class-the great corporations
which stimulate the production of the
raw material, pay immense sums in
wages to labor and ultimately cheaper
the price of the finished product, he
considers an efficient agent in the Gre
alton of national prosperity. Govern
mental suppression and extirpation of
the unlawful trusts he most heartily
fayors. He arraigns the democrats in
congress for voting almost solidly
against the proposed constitutional
amendment giving congress power to
define, regulate, prohibit or dissolve
trusts, monopolies or combinations,
whether existing in the form of a cor
,poration or otherwise"
Zone of the most interesting por-
lions of the address is the defense of
the administration for its neutrality as
to the South African war. Interna-
tional law and history are cited to
show that the administration pursued
the only course it could have taken
without becoming involved in serious
and even dangerous complications.
Our questions the speaker regarded as
sufficiently engrossing without the adj
dition Of the dispute between Great
Britain and the Beers. The course of
the United States in China he COM
mends, and there will be few dissent
ing voices on that score. Certainly
we had the right to join with the other
powers in the rescue Of the beleag-
uered ministers, our own among them,
and surely we would have been a
craven among the nations if we had
done less. The policy he would urge
as between the United States and
China would be this: The S OF
American citizens; indemnity for all
injury to persons or property; the OBJ
serVance Of all treaties and the t'open
door forever. He would favor no at
tempt to acquire Chinese territory OF
a sphere of influence, nor would he
have this government c%ountenance the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of China. He looks
hopefully for a regeneration OF China
as the result OF present troubles, and
believes it will come to pass, not BY
the partition OF the empire, but by Its
entry into commercial relations with
the other nations OF the world. And
when that contamination is reached
the United States will be the chief ben.
fciary.
AS to the declarations OF the demo
cratic platform and of Mr.. Bryan il
regard to the Philippines, Senator
Davis says: What right has tn,
United States to establish any govern
ment, stable or unstable, in the Phil
ippines, IL these declarations are true?
Yet Mr.. Bryan says he would do tina
very thing. MI. Bryan's plan of
p~rotectorates he declares, would be
perilous perYersion Of the Monroe doc
trine.
Coming to the consent of the gov
erned,' Senator Davis quotes Tillmal
as to the shooting of negroes and TIL
stufing of ballot boxes; cites the con
%stitution Of Mississippi and the recent
" adopted amendment to the constitu
ton of North Carolina. Very fe,
words are given to Imperialism. I
nation OF 75,OO0,00O of free people, vas
in extent, need have no fear, said Sen
ator Davis, that an empire will b
erected upon the ruins Of the republi
by the scattered forces of an army I
100000 men. And in conclusion b
said: .If the existence Of the repnblica
party should be closed today its histor
would be that of the union saved, Of
protective system under which Ii
United States has become the creates
manufacturing nation in the world, {
ta general industrial development whic
sustains z 100000 Of people, Of a fiji
ancial system which has created a
unfmpeachable credit, OF all the bles,
ings which civilization can confer u
on humanity"
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Secretary Gage says that Bryan,
elected, could establish "a circu
OF silver out OF the treasury into II
hands Of the people, from the Peep
into the banks, from the banks into Il