Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03

His reasoning IS puerle, IL Is silly anu
pointless, it is unworthy of any man hay
ing a common school education, unless
dis sole object BE to deceive the ignorant.
in which case it is contemplate.
On the subject of expansion which
Bryan, with intent to deceive, calls i'm
perialism,' and which can have no exist
ence in this country. the Nebraska states
man says:
On imperialism there is no definite pol
icy outlined. While every intelligent
reader of the nations press knows that
the administration intends to foster a
colonial policy, patterned after the polcy
of European monarchies, the PLATFORM
party's purpose.
1t is a great pity that Bryan himself
was not allowed to write the republican
plank about the insular policy of the ad-
ministration in view of his W intelli-
gent grasp of the situation. his clear con-
ception of American duty and
bility and his definite declarations con-
cerning the proper course to pursue! Yet
no sane man has so accomplished OF any
trouble in understanding the purposes OF
the republican party as to the Islands
which lately belonged to Spain. but now
belong to the United States as the legiti-
mate results of a war which Mr.. Bryan
himself volunteered to help prosecute
after his party in congress had done ev-
erything in its power to bring 1t about.
Those islands the republican party pro-
poses to keep. 1t proposes to establish
American sovereignty there, to restore
law and order and to give the people a
stable government under such conditions
and regulations as will promote the well
fare of their population without inter-
fering with that of our W people. mat
is what h republican party proposes
and what the republican convention IN
it's platform declared. 1t is an one
! and candid avowal of the party's pur-
| pose'' if language means anything. M.
| Bryan will have a chance in a few days
to announce the democratic party's
1 SDOtlCS III puIpOSC, hliA ~ WA
! be a choice mosaic. But let us follow the
great democratic tribune of the people
a little further in his remarkable criti-
cism of the republican platform:
While the military spirit was a notice
able feature of the convention. the party
did not indorse the presidents demand
for a standing army of 100, 900 men.
u a-,A -o1l - With Aha Y%ofo1 phil.
ippines encouraged by democrats in their
guerilla warfare to subdue; with good
government to establish in Cuba; with
need of a considerable force in Porto
Rico; with a possible war with China
coming on requiring the protection OF
American interests and the punishment
of outrages against American Christian
missionaries, and with democratic law
lessness and violence in this country to
%repress, why shouldn't the military
spirit" have been noticeable" and why
should it have been necessary to indorse
the demand for an army of 100, 900 men
in a nation of 80, 600, 900 of people! What
would be the size of the army under dem
ocratic rule? Would MI. Bryan as presi-
dent withdraw the troops from Cuba and
Porto Rico before the conditions warrant
so doing? Would he abandon the Phil
ippines to the plundering and numbering
Tagals? Would he refuse to succor Amer
lean residents and protect American in
terests in China? Would he destroy the
military posts of this country, disband
the army, tear down the West Point and
Annapolis academies and say to the law
less men of the big cities: "Pillage and
burn and kill; ignore the courts and the
law, there is no force behind them; e
up street car lines, beat men and pull
the clothes off women who ride on street
cars when a strike is ordered; defy in
functions to preserve the peace; interfere
with United States mails; invite anarchy
and chaos and vote the democratic ticket
would that be the military policy" of
Mr.. Bryan, who obtained his conception
Of an American soldiers duty by a few
months service near Jacksonville, Fla. ?
His next point is a very weak one. He
says:
One Of the noticeable features of the
platform was that no mention was made
of the principles set forth in the Declare
ton of Independence, although the meet
ing was held in the city where the first
republican convention was held-a con-
~vention that specifically Endorsed the De-
| claration of Independence.
There is simply nothing in that. III
platform was in line with the Declaration