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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14

An interesting and instructive inter
view with Judge John l.. McAtee. as
sociate justice of the Supreme court OF
Oklahoma, was recently printed in the
st. Louis Globe Democrat. Judge Nc
Aztec has given close study to the legal
aspects of the issue of imperialism"
as related to national history and the
past and present attitude of political
parties. He has searched the records
OF Democratic presidents, and shows
that their position is distinctly OPP
posed to that taken by Bryan in his
speech OF acceptance. Bryan's theory
is traced to Calhoun, and the South
Carolinian invented it to carry slavery
into the territories. Benton denounced
it as a new dogma. Judge McAtee's
exposition Of the subject is clear. log
ical and convincing. Judge McAtee
says that there We're great many
declarations in the Bryan speech OF
the principles of liberty with which
all Americans sympathized, but that
they were not applicable to the con-
ditions which had been presented TO
the government in the Philippine and
Porto Rican questions, but they were
worked in rhetorically and not with
direct and logical application to the
subject. When Mr.. Bryan undertakes
to deal with the facts the judge said,
"he does not include a consideration of
all the things which should be consid-
cred, and he omits to include come
things which should be included, and
he includes some things which are not
correct"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14

The Hawaiian islands in the Pacific,
recently a native kingdom, now a ter
ritory Of the United States, will appar-
emily nave the honor of being the first
country to establish the Marconi sys-
tenn of wireless teegraphy on organ
lied official lines. 1t is to be tested
on a large scale, and if successful, it
will provide a much-needed means Of
quick communication between the is
lands for planters and merchants.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14

Tasmania's Giant Beeches.-In Tas-
mania are large forests of the Austria
liam beech, a tree which sometimes
measures 80 feet or more in circum-
ference at the base of the trunk. The
wood is employed for purposes SINH
lar to those served by the beech woods
Of northern forests, but it is harder
and heavier, pollshes easily, and is
very lasting if not exposed to the
weather.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14
stndent Princes.

The German crown prince is to com,
plete his education at Bonn and his
brothers will also study at the uni
versity there In due course. The en-
peror has purchased Prof. Finkler's
villa, fine large house, with pleas
ant garden, as a residence for any
Prussian princes who may be study
ing at Bonn. and IL will be occupied
next winter and spring by the crown
prince.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14

The United States produces more
honey than any other nation. AS
long as 80 years ago the product was
100000 pounds annually. Twenty
years ago it had risen to $4,000, 600
and ten years ago it was 100000
pounds. At the present time Iowa pro-
duces 100000 pounds of honey annu-
ally, and many states including Cali
fornia, produce from 100000 to 81
000, 900 pounds a year.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14
;hn A. Daniels.

the claimant, have John A. Daniels.
been lying in the English court OF
chancery until they reached their pres
ent enormous proportions. The riches
left by the noted English sailor were
the results of trip to the West In
dies during the war with Spain. At
the head of small squadron he cap
tured and sacked the town of Nombre
de Dios.
Mr.. Daniels has been busily engaged
for many months in gathering the evil
dence he will carry to England. His
mother was a Drake. who lived in
Orange county, New York. The exact
line of descent by which the lawyer
expects to prove his claim is secret
which Mr.. Daniels is guarding lest
publicity defeat his plans.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14

tiVes and fellow-AmeTicans In Pekin
clamoring and thirst ne fJr Their bl Oh.
1t Is not charity, and there is no OBJ
legation upon us, TO deal with theso
people or with those who are in an
analogous condition, BY either LEAVING
them alone in their barbarism. or ty
attempting TO deal with them upon the
supposition that they are civilized aud
capable Of self-gcvernment until we
have evidence that they are 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
law-abiding citizens of the Filipinos
themselves, in every square foot o. the
Philippine archipelago. His plan
ignores and denies all national re-
spons!bility and obligation.
"Mr. Bryan makes statements about
the government taking away the free
dom OF those people. Those poop o
were never free. They do not know
what freedom means. Our freedom
consists of free institutions. Trey
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 McKinlcy's Policy.
what do you think of Mr.. Bryan'a
declaration that Tie FilipinOs ough.
to have a stable government"
1T is a belated promise. The Presl-
dent, in February OF 1899, docla. ed
that:
1T is our duty TO emancipate and
redeem them and set them in the path
way Of the worlds civilization.
The treaty now commits the free and
unfranchissd Filipinos to the guiding
hand and liberalizing influence, tho
generous sympathies, the uplifting
education, not Of their American mas
ters, but of their American emancipa-
tors
And when tho treaty of Paris was
ratified by the Senate on the 14th o,
February, 1899, the Senate declared
that,
at is the intention OF the United
States to establish on said islands a
government suitable to the wants and
conditions of the inhabitants Of said
islands, to prepare them for local self
government
you understand what l mean, then,
by saying that Mr.. Bryan's promise
and the promise of the Democratic
platform are belated. They are only
promises, and they are promises mada
year and half later than be.tar
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
supplementing his promises and tie
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 comp,ete
self-government."
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14
EndotoinS an IosOa COLLEGE.

The news that 100000 of the pro-.
posed $500, 900 endowment for Cornell
college at Mount Vernon, Ia. has
been subscribed will give great sat-
isfaetion to Iowa Methodists, many or
whom received their higher education
at the institution. The 100000 has
been subscribed within the last three
years in small sums. the largest con-.
tri1ution being $40. 900. and the trus-
tees now announce that the remaining
5000 COO is assured.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14

The shah, who is at Ostend,. is al
ways accompanied by an attendant
with a silver teapot containing, how
ever, not tea. but the Persian sover-
eign's favorite iced mineral water.
Very frequently is the pot called into
requisition, and the shah takes his re-
freshment in a delightfully."- unortho-
dox way by drinking out Of the spout.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14
CHAPLAIN and Ccofeeo.

The Rev. Charles c. Pierce. d. D..
Chaplain United States Army and
First Rector of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church in the Philippines, has
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14
Bryan's False Position.

The reporter asked, ITO what, par
ticularly. do you refer?"
We'll, take his proposition that the
Porto Rico tariff law asserts that it is
the doctrine of the Democratic party
that the operation of the constitution
is confined to the forty-five states.
The Democratic party Mr.. Bryan says,
disputes this doctrine and denounces it
as repugnant TO both the letter and
spirit of our organic law
''If Mr.. Bryan-s view IS correct, the
consequences would be very serious
and embarrassing to the government,
because it would result that the inhab-
itants of those territories, whether
cannibal or otherwise, would have to
be admitted TO citizenship and the
right of suffrage 1t would necessarily
follow, also, that a large portion of
our federal revenue would disappear
without remedy, by the free admission
very cheap labor, to which the ports
of the United States would, by such
an Interpretation, open, and would
come into immediate competition with
the products of American labor.
"The United States, if this view were
in fact correct, would probably have TO
drop the islands, no matter what mo-
lives of duty or obligation to other ma
tons or to the Filipinos who have been
friendly to us would dictate.
Nevertheless, all the great leaders
Of the Democracy are on record on the
other side OF this question. Several
Gets Of congress were passed, in 1903,
1904 and 1906, providing territorial
government for Louisiana. 1t was pro-
vided that the military civil and jul
dicial power shall be vested in such
person and persons and be exercised
In such manner as the president should
direct for maintaining and protect
ing the inhabitants Of Louisiana in
the free enjoyment of their liberty,
property and religion The acts of
congress passed for the territorial or
ganization Of Michigan and Illinois, in
1905 and 1909. were in like terms.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14

i-N.S-. -4-.y, ua"eA.Ur OF the Hon.
John Hay, will soon publish a collec-
ton of humorous child verse entitled
The Little Boy Book"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14

The school board at Trenton, No.,
held ten meetings and took 700 ballots
before a superintendent could be Sc
lected. The county papers repeatedly
and in all seriousness suggested that!
the contest be settled by a game OF
seven-up. but the board regarded such
a procedure as lacking in dignity.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14

The inscription on a wreath of Ar
dennes heather on the coffin of King
Humbert revealed the fact that he had
a French foster brother. one Leon
Corinfot. This person is mayor OK
Maubert Fontaine in the Ardennes.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14
is A FALSE ISSU Is.
DEMOCRAT S HAVING TROUBLE
ABOUT IMPERIALISM.

An Interview with Judge McAtee, o.
the Oklahoma Supreme Court-Lesni
Aspect OF the Question Treaty OBJ
legations - DIshonorable Inconsistency
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14

Chicago is congratulating itself
and with good reason-on the steady
Improvement in the health of its inhab-
itants. Records kept by the board of
health show constant decrease in the
death rate during the last twenty years,
particularly among children. Out of
every thousand deaths during the first
quarter of this twenty-year period, five
hundred and twenty-five were those
of children under five years of age.
During the last quarter the number
has been only three hundred and thir-
ty-eight. The gain is attributed to the
diligence of the board of health in
spreading a knowledge among the
poorer people of the best way of feed
ing infants during hot weather, and to
the establishment of day nurseries. ster-
ilized milk depots, floating hospitals,
and other admirable charities.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14

The Guelph face was certainly not
in the late English poet laureate's
mind when he created the phrase tip
tilted like the petal of a flower" to
express a certain type of feature.
Queen victoria's face, ii might be i'm
agiBed. was sufficiently familiar to her
subjecte-eyen TO those whose souls
cannot rise out of the fog Of art. 1t
Is. therefore, amusing to find that the
artist who designed one of the stamps
Of the Mauritius gave her majesty
retrousse nose. Was this ignorance
carelessness or preoccupation with the
face of another lady?
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14
Election of Lincoln.

Upon that proposition Mr.. Lincoln
was elected president The slave states
seeded because OF this proposition,
now again announced by Mr.. Bryan.
following John c. Calhoun and Judge
fancy.
THAT the constitutional guarantees
do not go into the territories until con-
gress so provides by express legisfa-
ton, has been announced by Chance
Tor Kent and by Mr. Justice Story in
their commentaries and by the Su-
preue court Of the United States, both
before the Civil war and since, except
as to the bred Scott case, and perhaps
some ceses which followed it, while
Judge fancy remained as chief justice
of the Supreme court.
ct would seem that the re-
suit of the war would have settled for
ever that Interpretation now sought to
be revived by Mr.. Bryan. It's only eff
feet would be to interpret the const-
tuition in such a way as to diminish
the power Of the federal government
to deal with its enemies in time of war.
'Mr. Bryan has misstated the doc
trine 1t was the doctrine of the Cal
-Drcd Scott-Judge fancy pro-
slavery Democrats, and for the pro-
motion of slavery alone. You can see
the discussion in the second volume
Of Bentons Thirty Years in the Sen
ate'"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14

created q sensation in religious cir
cles by coming out in favor OF the
army canteen.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14
Dewey at Manila.

when Admiral Dewey destroyed
the Spanish navy the Spanish sover-
eighty was obliterated. The obliga-
ton to protect persons and property
on the islands, and preserve order and
force obedience to law upon them,
passed over, under the law of nations,
and devolved upon the United States.
This country became, by conquest
and by the treaty which Mr. Bryan ad-
vised, responsible to all law-abiding
citizens upon the islands. 1t is a sim
pie principle OF international law that
the sovereign is bound to protect ev-
cry person who obeys the laws and re-
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14
jefferson Against Bryan.

These acts, all approved by Thorn
as Jefferson, as president, excluded the
Idea that the people of the territories
were entitled to any constitutional
guarantees. The same course was pur-
sued under the administrations Of
James Madison and James Monroe, for
In 1912. 1917, 1919 and 1922 acts were
passed for the establishment of terri
torial governments for the territories
OF Oregon and Florida. The first act
OF congress organizing the territory Of
Florida provided that all military,
civil and judicial powers shall be vest
ed in such person as the president
should appoint In 1886 congress
passed an act providing a government
for the territory of Wisconsin. 1t was
thought that the laws of the United
States, so far as they were applicable
might be extended to that territory,
and this was accordingly done. Presi-
dent Jackson approved the act of or
ganization.
Acts were afterward passed provid-
ing in like terms governments for the
territories OF Iowa and Minnesota, dur
ing the terms of President Van Buren,
and President Polk, who approved and
signed them in 1S4S and 1S49.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14

- dCnounces as repLghant 10 tie
letter and spirit OF our organic law,
and It is up to- men who have fol-
lowed the Democratic leadership, as l
have, to say whether they will take
the acts Of these great men who formed
the Democratic party as the proper in
terprotations of what the policy and
doctrine OF that party have neea, o.
whether they will take MIR. Bryan's
best guess as to what those great Dem
ocratic leaders propounded.
The theory which Mr.. Bryan now
declares to be Democratic doctrine was
never invented until Mr.. Calhoun I'M
dertook to announce 1t in the senate
in 1S47, for the purpose of carrying
slavery into the territories. Senator
Benton. who was certainly one of the
most eminent leaders the Democratic
party has had, describes it in his
Thirty Years in the Senate" as a
new dogma" He says that Mr.. Web
ster completely exposed the fallacy of
the proposition, and that the doctrine
had never been heard of in the coun-
try before.
The Bred Scott Gaze.
an the bred Scott case, decided by
the Supreme court in 1856, Judge fancy
followed Mr.. Calhoun, and announced
the same doctrine, and the proslavery
party persisted in It until 1860, when
It nominated Breckenridge for the pres
idency and declared in its national
platform that during the existence Of
a territorial government all citizens
of the United States have an equal
right to settle, with their property, in
the territory, without their rights,
either of person or property, being de-
stroyed or impaired by congressional
or territorial legislation
THE Republican party accepted the
gage of battle, thus thrown down by
the pro-slavery Democrats, and an
nounced in its national platform for
the campaign of that year, that:
81. The new dogma. that the con-
stitution of its own force carries slay-
cry into any or all of the territories
of the United States, is at
variance with the explicit provisions
Of that instrument itself; is
revolutionary in its tendencies and
subversive of the peace and harmony
of the country
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14

Heir to Str Francis Drokc.
John II. Daniels. a lawyer OF La
Crosse, Wis, is about to start for Eng
land to press his claim to an estate OF
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14
Constitution and Territories.

These acts and approvals OF or
ganization are IN fat contradiction of
Mr.. Bryan's proposition that the con-
stitutional guarantees were operative
in the territories, and that that is DEM
ocratie doctrine. In several instances,
in these territorial organizations the
whole power of government, with the
power to give to the people and with
hold all political and civil rights, were
deposited In the president himself. The
great men who founded the Democrat
ic party and conducted its policy from
1900 up to 1850. including Thomas JEFF
ferson, James Madison. James Monroe,
Andrew Jackson. Martin Van Buren,
and James X. Polk, approved OF that
Interpretation of the constitution
which confines the constitution to the
states and which Mr.. Bryan says the
-------s nomnoratin marty 'disnufns
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14
Bryan Ignores Truth.

"Mr. Bryan may ignore the condition
Of things which prevails in the Philip
pines and declare what the great party
which he has come to speak for, in so
singularly controlling a manner, shall
believe on this subject. but to leave
the mass of these people in the hands
Of these half-civiized, semi-barbaric
and barbaric rulers seems to palmer
minds simple cruelty, or, as Mr.. Bryan
would probably say, brutality
1.-The Ameracon commissioners have
certified to the American people that
the people Of those islands are incapa-
bic Of self-government. The American
commissioners who speak concerning
facts coming under their immediate
observation, is superior in moral and
logical force to the differences of poll
ticians speaking forth political docu-
ments for campaign purposes.
I'VE have been dealing for fifty years
with the Orientals, and to-day a
myriad of the Chinese race surround
our honored and beloved representa-
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-14

What do you think Of the other
propositions advanced by~Mr. Bryant"
His principal propositions are all
equally fallacious. He asserts that the
administration has wilfully violated
the principles of liberty and has de-
prived the Filipinos of their freedom
and that history furnishes no exam
pie Of turpitude baser than ours If we
now substitute our yoke for the Span
ish yoke. All of Mr.. Bryan's large
professions of generosity of sentiment
and principle are based upon the as
sumption that, having gone to the
Philippines, we can just as easily come
away again, or as Chairman Jones is
said to have expressed it a short
time since. we went there in ships,
and ! suppose we can come away in
ships'-or perhaps he said boats
Those who are not responsible need
not be definite in their plans or propo-
sitions. The country has had great
difficulties to deal with, and somebody
has had 20 deal with them, not upon
glittering and rhetorical propositions,
but upon the facts and the law.
ut would be great qualification TO
many curious observers to see Mr.
Bryan shuttle together all the noble
and irrelevant sentiments which he has
quoted from others and the large and
generous and irrelevant sentiments
which he expresses on his own ac-
count and be compelled to mix these
up with the actual facts OF any given
case and see what would come of IL.
When Mr.. Bryan begins to soar, il he
would only start from the facts and
conditions which nave to be dealt with,
or when he comes down and lights if
he would sometimes light on the facts
and conditions which have to be dealt
with, we might guess how he would
act In a given case If the management
The Republican., 1900-09-13

Ex-Governor LOwnGes Predicts That Nj,
Kinley viii Carry Maryland.

Ex-Governor Lowndes Predicts That Me-
Kinley win Carry Maryland.
While in New York Wednesday to
see his son, Major Lowndes, off for
Europe, Ex-Governor Lloyd Lowndes,
of Maryland, called at Republican
National Headquarters and talked
matters over with Senator Scott, of
West Virginia. The ex Governor was
in most pleasing mood when seen
Wednesday night at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, where he was staying, and
talked freely to the Baltimore Amer
dcGae'S correspondent of the situation
in Maryland. Mr.. Lowndes said in
part:
Maryland will give Mckinley eight
thousand or ten thousand plurality
over Bryan in November. The color
ed vote in the State is in line. The
business men are, of course, with Nc
Kinley. The change of the Baltimore
San will take some votes, but, after
all these things are taken into consid-
Grafton, | am safe in saying that Nc
Kinley will carry the State.
''If the Democrats should carry the
legislature, German will be returned
without doubt. If the Republicans
control the legislature there will be a
hot contest"
''Will you be a candidate for the
Senate in that event?'
"Oh, no. have had no aspiration
in that direction, not even thought of
it,
The Republican., 1900-09-13

voters may more safely follow Jeffer-
son, Monroe, Polk and Mckinley,
which we have followed for more than
a century in this country. No one
should be troubled about the consent
of the governed. The governed can
not have Utopia. Government is CT
all things practicable. No people can
maintain better government than
they are fitted for. We are bound, as
fast and as far as they are fitted for
it, to extend self-government to these
islands, but no faster than they can
practice the government ordained
1t puzzles me to see many who are
eager to deprive seven millions of cit
izeDs with dark skins in our own
country of all consent of the governed
now so very anxious lest we should
deprive seven millions of dark
skinned people in these islands with
out their consent. Those are most
eager to give franchise to the Malays
who have been most active in robbing
the black man of his suffrage.
"If we continue to practice in ex-
pansion of territory the doctrines of
the Declaration of Independence af-
ter the fashion of Thomas Jefferson,
we may be satisfied we are in con-
formity and the way of Mckinley is
the way of jefferson. Time fails me
to give all cogent reasons why McKin-
ley and not Bryan should be elected
in NoVember.n