The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-10-12

be valid, and also that the federal
power extends only to Interstate COM
merce. A Democratic supreme justice
was presiding when the decision was
rendered.
Only Two Remedies.
There are only two ways to reach
the trusts. The first is for all of the
states to unite on legislation against
the trusts, but this is impossible ow-
ing to the different interests of differ
emit states. Only twenty-six states
have anti trust laws, and some of
these laws are weak and only few of
them are good. Minnesota has good
law, but no actions have been brought
under it during the last two years
Either the law is being neglected or
there are no trusts in the state.
The second remedy is to give our
federal government full, ample power
in reference to legislation against the
trusts. This requires constitutional
amendment, and such an amendment
the Republicans attempted to pass at
the last session of congress. The
Democrats in congress did not support
this. The vote stood 148 Republicans
for it and two against it, and 100
Democrats against it and five for it.
The Democrats voted against it be-
cause it would retire the issue from
this year s campaign, as has been adj
mitted by the Democratic leader in the
h ouse and by Senator Pettigrew, of
South Dakota. They wanted a sort
of Democratic stage thunder to fool
the people with during this cam
paign.
Senator Nelson quoted from a speech
delivered by Bryan in Chicago last
winter, wherein he favored a federal
remedy for trusts in addition to state
remedy and also quoted from Bryan's
speech at st. Louis Sept. 10Th, when
he had discovered that his talk about
imperialism was not making the havoc
among the people that was expected
In this speech Bryan declared that a
constitutional amendment was not
necessary but was intended to deprive
the states of their constitutional au-
thority. The Republicans, declared
Senator Nelson, have done all that it
is possible to do to protect the Ameri-
can people from trusts and mono
poles, under the power conferred by
the constitution.
The Philippine Question.
Mr.. Nelson then turned his attention
to that Democratic trinity-imperiaI-
ism, miltarism and standing army
of which Aguinaldo is the god, having
one foot in the Philippines, one at St.
Louis, and it's tongue in the process
sion that passed through Mankato a
short time ago. They hope to fool the
people, and make this question "para-
mount in their eyes for this purpose
This issue grows out of a great and
successful war Cleveland gave no
moral or diplomatic relief to Cuba,
but Mckinley secured for the island a
milder governor general and some re-
forms and in time would have succeed
ed in getting the Spaniards to give
the Cubans independence by the moral
influence of the American nation.
The sinking of the Maine infamed
the people and changed the conditions,
and war followed that was great in
all its moral and economic results.
Spanish power in the occident and the
orient was forever destroyed by the
army and navy of the United States.
The war left Spain helpless at our
feet, and Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines in our possession.
The war was waged for humanity,
and if it was proper to relieve the
Cubans it was just as proper to re-
ieve the poor Filipinos of Spanish
cruelty. A great moral problem con-
fronted us. The Christian, moral
samoa Of tho Amoriooro Yoor1Io obborraI
handing the Filipinos back to Spain.
Mckinley represented this moral sense
of the people when he took the steps
that he did. He couldn't turn the
Filipinos back to themselves, who had
all degrees of civilization and no ex-
perience in self government. They
were mere children, but were imbued
with the savage instincts of barbarism.
To have left these people to themselves
would have been to turn them over to
rapine and war and cruelty that would
have been worse than Spanish domin-
ion. There was nothing to do as a
God fearing, Christian government
than what was done-to endeavor to
give them something of the blessings
of a government with free institutions,
and gradually CT vilize them and WELD
the heterogeneous mass into one peo-
pie.
The peace commissioners of the United
States could not do otherwise than as
they did, and Bryan urged his friends
in congress to ratify the treaty, and in
consequence of his efforts sixteen or
seventeen of them voted for ratifca-
ton, otherwise the treaty would have
failed. In 1851 the Democrats said
that the country had no business to
keep the rebel states in the union
without their consent. What we did
then ON large scale we will do now,
and will suppress that little rebellion
in the Philippines and make the island
part of the dominion of the United
States. Great applause and cheer
ing.
Who is AguinaldO?
"Who is Aguinaldo, this Democra-
tic George Washington" asked Sena-
tor Nelson, and then he proceeded to
answer the question himself by read
ing official documents proving how
had played double game
with the Americans and Spaniards,
how he had plotted against the United
States even before he had returned to
the Philippines, of his self expatriation
for price, how he was brought back
on United States vessel, and how he
proceeded with his treachery. When
Dewey sailed into Manila bay the
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