The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-08-18
RRYAH,S SPFEcH REvIEMED.

the product OF a most masterful
brain. We are sure that our. read
ers will be grateful that we repro
duee SEINE liking extracts from
it. The Eagle says it is patriotic
In the estimate OF those who know just
enough or the Fathers TO parrot their
phrases and ignore the application OF
them, and whose idea Of duty is The en-,
smalIment OF their country, tbs arrest
OF lis spirit, the trailing Of its flag, the
reversal Of its course and the resuTrec-
ton and galvanization, into seeming
life, of all the buried neTesies with
which sanity, prosperity, reflection,
self-interest and benign progress pats"
ed company, without regret and, as
was hoped. forever, long, long decades
ago. %#-
Then after pointing out that Mr..
Bryan's election would mean "lim-
itless issues Of greenbacks" the ar
ticle proceeds in this strain:
Nations grow. Men advance. Peo-
pies move forward, but the Bryanitic
embodiment simply marks time 10 the
circle of its own egotism and impress
siVely treads ont once more the reject
ed husks of dead past. When the
rtality Of the things that are is placed
in contrast with the shallow trappiig s
of misappFehended quotations from de-
parted statesmen, with which the
prose-pOem is trigged on, then the pre-
tentious IlolloWness of the indianapolis
performance is exhibited 10 view,
Why, this anteachable and unconscious
actor saatains no more relation to Il
Jefferson, to the Lincoln, 70 The Clay,
to the Webster and 10 the Franklin
from whom he borroWs wrested SEN
fences than the stTutting and strident
subordinates of the stage sustain TO
the imaginary dukes, the apocryphal
kings and the mythical gods whom
they would impersonate In property
robes, aud In memorized speech. ...,..
The Eagle says the speech was
wall, a defense, an intended indict-
rnent and a would-be prescription.
A wall that men know more than
they did awhile ago, that they
know that Sin the paramount sway
of national law are the safety of the
present and the security of the flu
tire tire; that the apprehension Of mil
itarism in America is as absurd as
the search for daisies at either pole"
The article then proceeds as follows;
The defense Is Mr.. Bryan's would-be
justification Of his support of the rati'
fication of the treaty with his oppos-
ton to the fruits the ratification
brought and the duties it imposed.
The defense is not even ingenious or
ingenious. The man tries to explain
away the one exertion of his influence
for which he should not apologize and
which stands to his credit along with
his enlistment in the army. Alas, he
would put even upon his patriotism
the stamp of partisanship and would
thus do more injury to himself than his
opponents conld possibly intiictl
The Indictment Involves Mr.. Bryan's
berries OF objections to what our gov
eminent is doing or Quitting to do in
Coba, Porto Rico and the Philippines.
As ITO them the President is executing
the laws of nations, the promises Of
Congress, the obligation to maintain
oroer and the duty to put down rebel
hon. Nothing he has done could have
been omitted by him and nothing of 1t
could tomorrow be undone, by Mr..
BRYAN, were he President The Amer
lean people require their Presidents to
do exactly what Lincoln did and what
Washington did and what Mckinley is
doing, either with territories at peace
or against insurgents In them, exactly
what Bryan will have TODD, should he
ever become the chief magistrate of
this people,
The prescription is for the assem-.
blsge OF Congress to tell Filtpinos that,
If they will stop lighting, we will give
to them, FIRST, a government of our
making for them, then their control of
that government of our own making,
and, finally, our protection of them
against the world, in any success or
failur5 which they show in controlling
the Government of onr creation, which
we will present to them. We are con-
tent to give this prescription, diVes,ed
of its ineopgruous rhetoric, its INTERIM
Unable verblage and its danctng-der-
wish egotism, to the plain thinking of
plain men. The President is already
laying the foundations of Americanism
in the Philippines. The Nation is
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