Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-09-21


OF the hallucination that the doing o
the national duty In the Philippine
< Is the undoing OF the F'ilipinos Blu
we shall go on with our duty and no
abandon the high work we have un
dertaken. No man is less Of a jingC
: than | am; yet ! stand by the slayer,
g as against the cutters. We can not
without dishonor, turn our back,
upon the obligations which have de
: Volved upon US as a result of the wal
with Spain. Let Us then go on with
our appointed task OF suppressing
insurrection, establishing peace and
: order, protecting life and property,
instituting internal and practical
arts, and extending the blessings ot
liberty and self-government wher-
ever and whenever any of the numer-
Gus peoples or diversified communi-
ties are capable of exercising them.
| say to the eanti-imperialists that the
only hope OF a free and independent
Philippine common Wealth. they
want to see one-is in the continu-
ance Of American rule.
DO | hear complaints that the
work Of pacification is slow and tedi-
Gus? Still we viii not be cutters.
And, indeed, the progress made since
last November has been not only en-
couraging, but great, beyond all ex-
pectations. Then we held a strip of
country north and south of Manila
less than fifty miles long and a few
miles wide; and nothing else what
ever of the 40, 900 square miles of
the Island of Luzon.; and, Of the nu-
| merous islands of the rest of the
archipelago, we held apart from the
Island Of Negros nothing but four
towns which covered at most but a
few square miles. But now the whole
OF the great Island of Luzon north
OF Manila, excepting two Tagalog
provinces, is pacitied; ROM blon, Mas
bate, NegrOs, Cebu, Bohol, and other
Eisayan islands are quiet under the
American flag; and the vast Island
of Mindanaoand the Sulu archipelago
are held in security by the agree
ments we have made With their chief |
talns. The work of pacification has |
gone on much more readily than |
had anticipated when | visited |
these islands about year ago. And |
when you have reelected President |
Mckinley, as you will re-elect him in |
November, Gen. Macarthur, who |
has already done so brilliantly, will |
make more rapid progress still. The
Philippine insurgents who are fed on
the most outrageous lies are kept |
active by assertions that Mr.. BRYAN
IS their friend; and they drink Mr..
Bryan s health with that of Agui-
naldo. If you bury Mr.. Bryan by
yonr votes, General Macarthur will.
| believe, soon coffin the remains Of
the Tagalog insurrection.
Here we rest our case. The issue
IS the prosperity of the American
nation. They are menaced by free
silver at home aud free rioting in the
Under the Republican
party the country has been raised
from dire depression to boundless
and the good name of the
Republic has been kept unsullied. |
Common sense tells you that if YOU
would preserve prosperity and the !
public faith you must support the !.
party which has created and main a..
aimed them. The record of the Re
party is the pledge of the !.
lection OF Mckinney !, and ,5,l13, Rooseyeltt tse
,and, President Mills introduced
|
,orrent of eloquent sarcasm in con
lection with the Democratic platform
md its travelling candidate. The ad-
iress of President Schurman had
oeen full of statement of logical ,
md indisputable facts the ammuni-
lion, as it were, ard Mr.. Lands :
acted in the capacity Of ramrod to
send the load home in the minds OF
the audience-it was the dessert after
the substantial dinner. Mr.. Lands
lid not make his regular campaign
speech. The ground had been COW
cred so thoroughly that his mission
was clearly to give the audience
to assist in the digestion
and assimilation of the facts that had
been presented so ably by the previ
Gus speaker And he did it, The
talk was a whirlwind of eloquence,
with humorous sur
prises that made the audience sim
ply howl with laughter and delight
The deeper he got beneath the
epidermis of the perambulating peri
patetic, palavering prophet OF
the Platte, the more his audience
was delighted with the vivisection.
Yet the speech was not all ridicule
apd invective. There were excellent
p 5ints in it that accompanied the
people home-especially the point
about the impossibility OF an empire
or Imperialism under the constitution
that Bryan wants to see enforced
in every country but our own and at
every time but now.
The comments on the meeting in
clude such expressions as "Magnii-
cent? Glorious, The best argu
ment that could possibly have been
absolutely convincing.
logical statements of what every
body believes to be the facts, and
coming from an authoritative source.
Wash I Richmond in luck to get
Schurman for his only speech IN In
diana, though Exactly what the
people have needed.
Personally, President Schurman
won the admiration Of all who met
him. He has the simplicity that
characterizes true greatness always.
He was as free from mannerIsmS and
false dignity as any man could be He
was observant, appreciative,s ,sociabfe,
approachable. in the extreme. He /
stated that The Westcott would do |
credit to city of loo. 600 lnhabl-
tants. He was very much pleased |
with his treatment. and was eSpeci- |
ally happy over the size and charac-
ter of the audience that confronted |
him last night, as well as with the |
perfect attention that was accorded |
him. His speech was listened TO with |
almost breathleSs attention from hrst !
TO last. and was pronounced mas
terpiece of the logic of facts.