Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-09-20

''Mr Bryan did not always confine MS
prophesies to economical and hnanclal
matters. Once or twice he took excursions
into patriotism He said on one occasion;
Show me these people who now call us
anarchists and | will show you class OF
people who, If we had war would never
go to the 'front.'; and at Indianapolis: 'Ihe
men who insist upon doing our legislation
in times of peace never tight any battles
in time of war. They are the people VINO
call you anarchists when you insist on nav
ing a hand in legislation; but in time OF
trouble they would come to you and say:
ooh, anarchists, save our property, be-
cause you know we cannot AFFORD TO flsht.
Well a good many men in this audience
must have had friends, or neighbors, or per-
haps kinsfolk who were only too anxious 10
go to the front in the Spanish war, and
will leave it to those men to say whether
all good Americans, rich or poor, whatever
their means or their social standing, ala
not eagerly leap forward when the call
to the flag was made, anxious to stand
shoulder to shoulder with one another, for
getting all trivial differences in their love
for their splendid common country. Such
utterances as those | have quoted cannot
possibly reflect credit on both head and
heart one or the other must be graVely
at fault The untruth of such utteranceS
was shown within "a hours after the dec
laration of war with Spain. ] doubt II any
man, in view of what has been done during
the last few years, would now venture to
repeat such a jeer that to the men VINO
volunteer in our armies. Now, our OPP
ponents assume a different tone. 1t Is a
terrible and almost lamentable truth that
our soldiers who are now facing death III
the Philippines are forced to recognize IN
the Brvanistic democracy their most dam
gerous foe. | need not repeat the oft-quot-
ed words of Gen. Lawton. The bullets that
slay our men in LuZon are inspired by the
denOuncers of America here. No Tagai
general, not Aguinaldo himself, can do so
much to prolong the fighting, can do as
much to increase the bloodshed of Amer
lean and Filipino alike as has been done by
the Kansas City convention.
Since 1900 the proportion of the regular
army has varied somewhat even in times
of peace. 1t has sometimes been higher,
a. in 1910, when we had one and four-tenths
soldiers for every 1000 people, and in 1870,
when we had one for every 1000 people.
During the Indian wars on the plains we
often had a relatively larger military force
than has been employed in the Philippines;
and there was just much chance of mil
itarism' then as there is now, and no more.
LET any one of you think of his own eX-
perience. You know that it makes not one
particle of difference to you, as regards
your private life, whether we have ten or
twenty regiments of heavy artillery in our
coast force: or whether we have ten or
engaged in keeping order, whether among
the Indians on the plains or among the
Tagals in the Philippines. There Is no
more possibility of draft or of any Serl-
Gus burden of military service in this coun-
try than there is a possibility of George
HIS coming to life again; and the man
who proposes to feel frightened about the
one might as well express nervousness as
to the possibility of the other
80 it is with Imperialism There is not
the least little danger of Imperialism, and
there is not a dividing line of any kind
be drawn between our methods of eXpan-
sion in 1898 and 1899 and the methods of eX-
pansion under which We acquired Mich
igan, Illinois, Florida, Louisiana, Mime
sofa, Missouri. Oregon, California, Hawaii
and Alaska. Mr.. Bryan has recently spok-
en- of us as having purchased the Philip
pines at 50 so a head, treating it as analO-
gous to buying slaves at $1,000 head. 1t
seems impossible that such a statement
could be made unless as a jest Mr.. Bryan
must know that the Philippines We're paid
for precisely as Florida, Louisiana, Cali
fornia, and Alaska were paid for. The Fill
pinos were no more purchased than were
the individual dwelerS in New Orleans. st.
Augustine, Santa Fe and Sitlla. If the Fill
pinOs were purchased at so much head
by President Mckinley, then the inhah-
itants of Louisiana were so purchased by
jefferson, and the Christanized half
Seward. When in 1I76 the United States de-
Clared Itself a nation, Illinois, Indiana,
and Michigan formed part of Canada.
Illinois and Indiana were acquired by con-
quest 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, however,
was held by the British for many years
after the revolutionary war ended, and was
only surrendered in consequence of Jays
treaty for what was in effect a money
equivalent The Indian aboriginal inhab-
itants of these states were not consulted in
the treaty nor were the white inha abitants
of French extraction The author of the
Declaration of Independence being of sane
and healthy mind did not push the doc
trina of the 'consert of the governed to a
conclusion that would have resulted in our
great commonwealth being confined to the
east of the Alleghenies while this mighty
west in which | am now speaking. would
have been left as a hunting ground for saw
ages and a dwelling place for fur traders
MIR Rrvan and his aseociates cannot saw
cnough about the consent nf the eov-
erered' doctrine as annIvinp To the phiIip-