Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-07


at $3.50 head. treating It as analo-
gous to buying slaves at $1,000 a head.
1t seems impossible that such state.
ment could be made unless as Jest.
Mr.. Bryan must know that the Philip
pines were paid for precisely as Flor
ida, Louisiana. California and Alaska
We're paid for. The Filipinos were not
more purchased than were the individ-
ual jewellers in New Orleans. ST. Aus
gustine, Santa Fe or Sitka. II the Fill
pinos were purchased at SO much per
head by President Mckinley. then the
Inhabitants of Louisiana We're SO pur-
chased by Jefferson, and the Christian
lied half-castes of Alaska We're SO pur-
chased by Seward. When in 1776 the
United States declared itself nation
Illinois, Indiana and Michigan formed a
part of Canada. Illinois and Indiana
We're acquired by conquest during the
revolution. Many of the inhabitants
did not want TO become part OF the
United States any more than did the
people Of Quebec, but they were con-
quered and brought in. Detroit how
ever. was held by the British for many
years after the revolutionary war end.
ed. and was only surrendered in conse-
quence of Jays treaty. for what was in
effect money equivalent. The Indian
aboriginal Inhabitants of these states
We're not consulted in the treaty, nor
We're the white Inhabitants of French
extraction. The author Of the dsclara-
ton of independence, being of sane and
healthy mind, did not push the doctrine
of the consent OF the governed to a
conclusion that would have resulted in
our great commonwealth being confined
Sto the east of the Alleghenies, while
this mighty west in which am now
speaking would have been left as a
hunting ground for saNages and a
dwelling place for fur traders
Mr.. Brayn and his associates can not
say enough about the consent Of the
governed doctrine as applying to the
Philippines. They dwell upon the fact
that no man s good enough to govern
#another.' In North Carolina, and other
southern states, we see before our eyes
the process Of the Acknowledgement Of
the negro. We see before our eyes the
black man governed without his consent
by the white man. Belt remembered,
too, that the men thus DISTINGUISHED
have always been Mr.. Bryan's fellow
citizens, most Of them born as free as
he was born. If our opponents are sin-
cere they must necessarily denounce.
what has been done in North Carolina
With even more bitterness than they
have shown in denouncing what has
been done in the Philippines. They gay
that in the Philippines one man is not
entitled to govern another, even when
the one does 40 only to protect the 9th
err from the rule of a savage oligarchy
until he grows able to protect himself.
1t is matter of astonishment such doc
trine can be either uttered or listened To
without laughter, when 1t is spoken by
and to men who go to their candidate
pledging him the votes of their states,
because In those states these very men
do govern other men without their con-
sent. Until our opponents have removed
+ the beam from their own eye, by apply
ing their consent Of the governed doc
trine at home, let them hold their peace
about the Tagal bandits to whom their
words give fresh heart to shoot down
our soldiers in the far eastern archipela-
go.
The policy Of expansion is Americas
historic policy. We have annexed the
Philippines exactly az we have annexed
Hawaii. New Mexico and Alaska. They
are now part Of American territory, and
we have no more eight to give them up
than we have the right to restore Ha-
wall to the kanaka queen or to aban-
don Alaska TO the Esquimaux There
is not a particle OF difference between
the cases. We can not go back. first for
the sake of the islands Themselves and
next for the sake of our own honor The
men who are making speeches on the
unrighteousness OF our expanding in the
Philippines might with as much justin
cation incite the Sioux and the Apache
tribes to outbreak against US on the
ground that we have no right to retain
South Dakota or Arizona. The policy OF
the Kansas City platform is policy OF
economic disaster and financial dis
honor at home and of unworthy shrink
ing from duty abroad; and We appeal to
all honest, far seeing. brave and patri-
otic men. north or south. east or west
whatever their political affiliations may
have been in the past, to stand with us
against the men who would bring such
abuse and misery upon our country, and
to support us as we uphold the cause
of honesty and Of Industrial we'll being
at home and the honor Of the American
flag in the face Of all the peoples Of the
earth"
John Proctor Clarke. OF New York,
closed the meeting with rousing short
address which brought the audience to
itsfeet. He insisted that there lie in this
country no such thing, under our lave,
as the classes and the masses. and that
to try to array the disconnected against
the contented was wrong in policy and
design.
Col Roosevelt left at midnight by spe-
cial train. He viii visit several Michi-
gan cities today, ending at Grand Rap
ids
Bryan on Trusts.
Cambridge, o., Sept. 7.-Bryan left
Wheeling for Chicago this morning. At
Cambridge there was assembled a
crowd OF several hundred people who
demanded a speech OF the candidate.
Bryan spoke for three minutes, confin-
ing himself to trusts. along the same
line he has used in former speeches.
Gen. McCiernandi is Worse.
Springfield, ILL.,, Sept. THE condi-
ton Of Gen. John A. McClernand daily
becomes more desperate. DR.. G. M.
Bowcock reports his patients pulse
much weaker, altho no fever is appar-
ent.
Gen. Mcclernand is suffering from