The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-08-28
BRYAN CALLED ON
TO ANSWER QUESTIONS

Falls City, Neb., Aug. 22-This has
been busy day for Mr.. Bryan. He be-
gan his speech at Auburn shortly after
s o'clock. There he made an hours ad-
dress.
Tecumseh was the next stopping
place. He spoke there briefly and af-
ter dinner started across country to
Pawnee.
At Tecumseh the most interesting in
cident was II colloquy between Mr.. Bry-
and and gentleman in the audience,
evidently Republican, who took the
privilege of propounding several ques-
tions to the speaker Some of the
questions indicated Enthusiastically that
the questioner was out of temper, but
Mr.. Bryan responded to all of them
quickly and with good nature. This
gentleman interrupted Mr.. Bryan to-
wards the close of his speech by sug
gesting that the Fllipinos We're ON a
par with our Indians. To this Mr..
Bryan responded:
Now, as l understand you, you think
we We're right in taking the property of
the Indiansy'
mo, sir
'Then do you think it right to take
the property of the Filipinosf'
mo, sir responded the man in the
auuleltt, anu HpDouN Is SDlnp 10. HOW
does the treatment of the Filipinos diff
fer from the treatment of jailbirds in
this country? DO you believe in pun
ishing the jailbirdsf'
Mr.. Bryan-Your face is the face of
an intelligent man, and you cannot fail
to see the difference between putting
men into the penitentiary for the COM
mission of a crime, and going over to
the Philippines and taking charge of
the government of the Filipinos.'
when | see "A man like you" was the
response of the gentleman, ''who favor
ed the peace treaty, l think that man
ought to have some consistency about
him.
II am much obliged for your mention
ing that" replied Mr.. Bryan, for I
should not feel like bringing it to your
attention unless called upon to do so. l
urged the ratification of the treaty and
also urged the passage of II resolution
promising independence to the people
of the Philippines, and If your Repub-
lican administration had passed the
resolution, there would not have been
one drop of blood shed in the Philip
pines"
"Oh, that is your opinion
! "That is not only my opinion, but If
you will stop to think about 1t and
give the public the honest result OF
your thoughts, it will be your opinion
that If we had made the same promise
of independence to the F'ilipinos that
we did to the Cubans, we would have
had no conflict there. Had we treated
Cuba as we did the Philippines, there
would be war in Cuba to-day, and had
we treated the Filipinos as we did the
Cubans, there would be no war in the
Philippines to-day"
| The questoner made an indistinct ref
erence to Mr.. Bryan's capacity for the
Presidency, and asked Mr.. Bryan if he
believed the Filipinos We're capable of
government. To this Mr.. Bryan
replied:
admiral Dewey stated in n message
to the secretary of the navy that the
Filipinos We're better capable of self
government than the Cubans, and that
he based his Judgment on Il study of
both races. Whether you believe as
do or not, you are not able to draw the
line between the natural right of the
Filipino and the natural right of the
Cuban whom you and your party said
ought to be free. If it is true of the
Cubans, it is true of the Filipinos, and
l want to make it So"