The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-14

IF we are going to make it pay we
must know how much the soldier IS
worth. said Mr.. Bryan. And | dare the
linperlahst TO put a money value upon
one American, 10 be measured in Orien-
tai trade. (Applausc) When Il boyAis
fighting for principle that he believes
to be right his mother is grateful that
she can rear son for SO noble Il sacrifice
But what mother would want 10 rear
sous for so much per head for trade in
the Orient? And yet the man who says
it VIII pay must be prepared to show how
much money we will spend and how
many human lives will have to ,be lost,
and then what he could get i'll return for
those human lives
Mr.. Bryan said in conclusion: Ny
friends ! want to warn YOU that WA
eannct afford to do Il thing that is moral
" wrong because you think there IL GO
ing 70 be money in it. Franklin wiz
right when he said that trade purchased
nj the lannon's mouth was not wortla
the expense that Il nation had TO resort
10 10 purchase it. tApplause) believe
in peaceful expansion. l believe i'll ex-
pansion Of trade by every peaceaole
mt ans. but | warn you. YOU cannot AFFORD
to buy trade by blood and that whether
you see the result now or not. the Time
will come when punishment. will follow
for the violation of the rights of any
people. iAlplause.) My friends. SOME
times | hear Republicans say: We are
going over there TO reconstruct the
FiliEinos.' Well, / want to ask yof
people down here, who remember how
the Republican party reconstructed the
white races here at home i'll the best
days of the Republican party: J want
you who remember how it was done then
you can imagine how the Republican
PARTY in its worst days will reconstruct
a brown race 1000 miles away. Gap
plause)
THE TITLE TO THE ISLANDS.
Under what title are we to hold them?
Judge Day. once Secretary Of State, and
"A member of the Peace Commission.
wrote a letter last fall. III which he said
that we held those islands by purchase,
and not by conquest. applied mathcr
MATES to that proposition. and calcu-
lated that we paid $3.50 for the Filipinos-
4 Republican got mad and rebuked me-
said he. We did not buy the Filipinos-
we lust bought the land | asked him
then how we got the Filipnos; were
they Just thrown in with the land.
Does il help any TO say that we, got
them with the land. and did not pay
anything for them: My friends. we
canrot defend il title based upon. pnr-
chase: we cannot defend Il title based
llron force. and if we purchased our
title we purchased ii with force: because
Spain went there and beat the people III
TO submission. and then sat down ON
n
them. holding the club. and we found
her sitting there and paid S20.00OOOO
FOE the club and sat down on the people
ourselves. Iaughter) have never
had any doubt about our ability to con-
quer them: / believe. and shall always
believe, that We could hold in suhJectlon
all who were not killed in the process.
This nation is great enough TO conquer
them in time but we don't know how
long it will take, how much money 1t
will cost, nor how often We will have to
reconquer them.
You ask me what ought to be done?
say that the treaty which provided for
the Independence Of the Cubans ought to
have provided for the independence OF
the Filipnos also. and then there would
have been no trouble in the Philippine
Islands. Blu: YOU say the treaty did not
do il: then what: | say this Govern
ment should fave promised independence
10 the Fil;pinos on the same terms as 10
the Cubans. You say that the President
had not the authority. remind you that
the Congress was in session three months
after the treaty was signed and a month
after il was ratified and yet he never
asked Of Congress authority to make TINS
promise. The Bacon resolution almost
in, of
ton The vote was So close that 1t re-
ouired the vote Of the Vice President
That resolution promised to the EiliTnos
independence on the same terms as To
the Cubans You say now insurrection
has broken out it has been rendered i'm
POSSIBLE until that has been put down. |
saw my friends. We need never have had
that instruction If we had told those
people we were there only to establish
Il government.
RIGHT TO SELF-GOyERNMENT.
You tell me they are not capable OF
self-government; tell you we have got
to assume that all people are capable OF
self-goyernment What Would you think
Of a God who would create the Filipinos
and then leave them there for thousands
VI Years helpless. luNuPubit W SSiA ~
ernment. until Hanna found them and
took them up in his tender arms
I4aughter) They will not be able to
create and maintain such "A government
as we can here: but. my friends. you
plant there the doctrine of self-govern-
ment. and that doctrine will grow ard
expand and will develope so that each
generation will be better than the one
before. / would rather trust the doc
trne of self-government planted there
than TO trust to their progress under the
domination Of Il carpet tagging class.
Go TO Mexico that lies to the South of
us and there YOU will find that those
reople under the stimulus Of self-gov
eminent are working out their own
salvation. and that JuareZ. foremost Of
everything. was a statesman who, III in
tcle,t and patriotism. has never been
approached by any man sent by England
10 far. eff India to control those people at
S125.0o0 a year. If we are going TO be
n great neral factor. let it be by planting
the doctrine Of self-government, and en-
couraging il by our sympathy and our
example $3.50.