Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-04-06
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
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was the devils work he could under
stand why coal would be important
any time of the year. II the Lord did
the work, why was he inquiring about
the natural resources of the country?
Ii the Lord gave us those islands, why
pay Spain for them? The Republi-
cans have three theories: First, God
gave us the islands; second, we bought
them from Spain; third, we conquered
them from tine PHILIPPINES. Don't you
think that we have titles enough, if
any OF them were good? How are
you going to prove that God gave you
the Islands? If II man tells me that
God commanded us to 60 and conquer
the Filipinos, | would reply. that if
God had told us to go, he would have
told them that we were coming so
that they would not make any trouble
when We got there. 1t seems to me
that you are guilty of mocking God
when you say that he directs us to 60
and wage war of conquest and then
directs them to die rather than to let
us land upon their shores. You mock
God when you try to put him on both
sides of the question. Why, the man
who stands and "sicks" two dogs into
a fight, assumes no more humiliating
a position than if the Lord were to
send us there to kill them, and to tell
them to kill us because We have no
business there. Some one asked Lin
coin whether he was anxious to have
the Lord OH his side. He said, "No,
hut l am anxious to be on the Lords
side" There is great difference be-
tween trying to be on the Lords side
and trying to show that lie is on your
side. You belittle the Creator, when
you think that he will come down
from his throne TO bolster up your
side. Why didn't you consult him
when you went in? You are acting
like the colored man who was fond of
chicken but not always of the COM
mandments. When he prayed to the
Lord, he said, to send him a chicken,
the Lord seldom did it; but when he
prayed to the Lord to send him after
chicken, he nearly always gotit.
They Seek Temptation and Yield to It With
out a Struggle.
You call it an opportunity. 1t is
temptation; and instead of improv-
ing good opportunity, you are yield
ing to great temptation. You have
seen men high in public esteem yield
to temptation and then fall like Luci-
fer, never to rise again. Temptations
come to nations and the Republican
party has yielded to this temptation.
Eighteen hundred years ago we were
told that Satan took the Saviour to O
high mountain and showed him all
the kingdoms of the world. and offered
them as a gift if He would fall down
and worship him, but Christ said,
SECT thee behind me, Satan" That
was the way to resist temptation. but
when the Republican party was taken
up on high mountain and shown the
Philippine Islands, instead of saying,
"get thee behind me, Satan," they
hunted up the Spanish monarchy, and
offered $3.50 apiece for those Filipinos;
and now you are tring 10 defend it on
the ground OF buying the Spaniard's
rights. You would buy flesh and
blood! What right have you to eight
millions of men in . foreign country?
You have declared for thirty years
that you were responsible for an
amendment to the constitution that
made it impossible for one man to
own another under the American flag.
You organized party and said
that the negro slave should not be
sold for thousand dollars, but you
have fallen so low that you are willing
to buy Filipinos for $3.50. What a
change has passed over you? You
were willing to sacrifice thousands of
lives to strike the shackles from the
slaves, and yet your President has
made treaty with the Sultan of
Sulu and agreed to pay go much a
month for the privilege of flying our
flag over his territory, and has agreed
that he shall sell no land without con-
sultipg the Sultan, and shall protec.
him from outside interference. Ger
tainly no man can own another man
under the American flag, but the only
consolation that you give to the Sulu
slave is that he shall have right to
purchase his own freedom whenever
he can make enough, working for
nothing a day, to buy himself at the
market price. And when you read
that treaty you say, "That is the
toughest thing yet-but like it."
Does Imperialism Payl Are the Lives Of Our
Boys Rscsmpenss for Party Gain?
You tell me that imperialism will
pay. Whenever you hear Repub.
lican say that imperialism will pay,
ask him whether he is ready to put a
price upon the boys who have gone
there and sacrificed their lives. We
have lost thousand soldiers already
others have come homo insane from
the effects OF the climate. How dare
you speculate in human blood? But
you say, Eve are in and can't get
out" / deny it. There is an Amer
lean way out; there is a manly way
out. Let us apply in the Philippine
Islands, the same doctrine that the
Republican party promised to Cuba.
We said to Cuba, ave are fighting
not for land, but for liberty" Let us
declare the same doctrine to the
Filipinos, and say to them that we
fight not for land but for liberty.
You told the Cubans that you were
going to drive the Spaniards out. We
told the people OF Cuba, that after &C.
curing for them their independence
we would stand by them and allow
them to work out their own destiny.
In like manner let us tell the Filipinos,
that we have come, not to hold them
in subsection, but to establish free
government in the place of the one
overthrow, and then, as the greatest
republic of history, we will announce
to the world this American doctrine,
that, whenever this nation helps re.
public to stand upon its feet, the
ground wherein it stands IL holy
ground and no king shall ever set foot
there. That is what. we should do.
What Democrats Would Do.