Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-10-12

and his friends who voted for the
treaty approved of it's provisions
or they did not. If they approved
of those provisions, they should
not complain of their execution.
If they did not approve of them,
they should not have urged their
adoption.
The speaker also claimed that
no Republican would acknowledge
that the United States had any
legal right in occupying the Philip
pines. Let us see what the con-
stitution of the United States says
on the subject. Turn to Article
vi, Clause 2, and you will find this:
Call treaties made, or which shall
be made under the authorityof the
United States. shall be THE SU-
PREME LAW OF THE LAND"
Of this supreme law the presi-
dent is,by the constitution the chief
executive, and the obligation is ex-
pressly laid upon him in Article
II, section 3, to "take care that the
laws be faithfully executed" By
advising the ratification of the
Treaty of Paris, therefore, Mr..
Bryan and his friends made it a
duty OF the president to execute
the provisions of the treaty. To
say that they did not know this, is
to say that they were incompetent
advisers upon the affairs of the
nation. To say that they did
know and intended to place the
president in a difficult or disadvan-
tageous position, is to say that they
had more regard for their politital
designs than for the honor of their
country and the welfare of it's
wards.
The trusts was the next topic
touched upon by Judge Willis.
He insisted that the ice trust of
New York was managed exclusively
by Republicans, the president and
all directors being of that political
faith, but in this connection it
might be we'll to quote an extract
from a letter written by W. E.
Curtis in the Chicago Record.
Mr.. Curtis made a thorough in
vestigation of the affairs of the ice
trust, and here is what he says:
By the he way, speaking Of trusts, Mr.; Bryan was
misinformed him. It is said that Mr.. Morse
president OF the Consolidated Ice company, is q
Republican, and that four of tho directors OF
that corporation belong to the same party; and
that is probably true, but none of them has ever
eee@ en- n m IN politics whereas more than
Croker; his mayor Mr.: vanWsck; his his corpora sH m
ton counsel, Nj ~ MWhalen; his deputy chief al
Judge Van Wyok, and $4,000 worth was giver
tion M Of this stock was followed by the granting
those who received it to the ice company, anc
winch hI pt IT. could not otherwise have obtained
And Bryhn shoIld knowas everybody else
its directors are Republicans.
The judge did not give the rea.
sons why the Democrats in con.
gress defeated the passage of the
, constitutional amendment giving
congress power to regulate trusts,
but Gov. Roosevelt in a speech
the other day explains it all:
Give congress the power to deal with trusts
I mean the large corporations. Such evils car
be wiped out by cool, resolute common sense
June last, congress tried to pass constitu
, tional amendment. The bill was beaten by the
Democrats who said it would take the only
issue from this campaign.
During the delivery of his labor.
ious address, Judge Willis demean-
or gave evidence of insincerity
leaving the impression on the minds
of his hearers of that of a lawyer
arguing bad case. The fact of the
matter is, the Democrats know they