The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08
ROOSEVELT IN INDIANA.
Vast Assemblage Of HOLSTERS
Greet New York Governor.

and a vast assemblage greeted Cover
nor Roosevelt when he arrived over the
Michigan Central railway. The city had
been decorated throughout with the
American colors and pictures of McKin-
ley and Roosevelt. A reception commit
tee headed by Congressman Brick had
gone to Niles, Mich, on special train
to meet Governor Roosevelt and escort
him into Indiana. Rough Rider and
marching clubs paraded through the
city to the railway station and escorted
Governor Roosevelt to the stand erected
for the occasion
Governor Roosevelt said:
Tt is certainly a curious thing that In
this campaign we should find that the
very success of our policies is used as an
argument against us. In 1896, Mr. Bryan
prophesied terrible disasters If the gold
standard was continued, and especially he
promised misery to the farmer and to the
wage-worker. Now prosperity has come
to all classes in an unheard of degree, and
safe to try the experiment of putting into
power the men whose creed IS the creed
of envy and of hate and of Industrial ruin
Business men are appealed to TO vote Tor
Mr.. Bryan on the ground that the coun-
, t[y IS SO proSperUuS ln1l ne ans
pealed to to vote for Mr.. Bryan on the
ground that though ne has prospereSa' f YET
no policy which does good to the capital
ist should be followed even though it bene-
hts the wage worker IN oLner WoruS'
that he ought not to balance his own well
fare against the chance to do injury to
somebody else. This is not an exaggera-
ton, gentlemen. 1t is a simple statement
of what the appeal made by our opponents
is in the last analysis. They appeal to the
forces that tell for civic disorder ana So
cial disruption. They are hostile to an up
right and fearless Judiciary as they are
hostile to a sound currency
Again the appeal is made to the short
sighted
Bryan and a Bryanite congress. because,
forsooth. a Republican senate will prevent
them from doing wrong. And Iatterly, a
rather more absurd varient has been made
to this appeal, it being solemnly alleged
in such case prior to the fourth Of March
next the Republicans and sound money
would shackle their Bryanite successors.
It seems well nigh incredible that any
should make such an appeal, but 1t is
nevertheless actually the fact that it has
forth by Secretary Cages clear showing
of the ruin to our national finances which
election. Let no man delude himself by
any such plea The Kansas City plat
every financial and civic heresy to which
the Chicago platform of 1896 was com
mitted, and above all, has reiterated ITS
adherence to the free coinage OF silver.
Mr.. Bryan apparently finds it polite for
campaign purposes to keep very quiet
about free silver east of the Mississippi,
though west of that river his henchmen
are allowed to talk about it as much as
they wish. But whether they are silent
or noisy the fact of their adhesion to their
policy remains and the effort to seem to
sink the issue does not alter in the least
the fact that it is an ISSUE
1t ought not to be necessary to waste
time in stating that militarism and imper-
ialism are twin bugbears only fit to
brighten political children There IS no
the Philippines until order is restored than
in sending more troops to an lnQlan reSeE-
To invoke the spectre Of miiitarism as an
excuse for shouting against an increase IN
the army which as compared with nun
just one-tenth of a soldier to every thous-
and inhabitants, scarcely seems worthy OF
AS for imperialism, we have the same
right and title to the Philippines that we
morally and legally bound to leave the
one, we are morally and legally bound to
render New Mexico and Idaho and pretty
much every other western state; 70 the
constitution follows the nag" OF course
means nothing. If Judge Taft and his as
fellow officers, in the Philippines, are rep
reSeutativeS of the imperial idea then SO
IS every OFFICER and eCery npe reserva.
ton. 1t is difficult to discuss patiently
such an assumption.
in the first place, because of our DUTY 70
ourselves and in the next place pecaaesc
If we stay there, peace and order ana
a far greater measure OF freedom ana
self-government than the t1ilplnos na aye
ever known will be theirs as soon as the
present insurrection ceases.
To talk of staying there until we esIaD-
lish a stable government and then leaving
is of course to beg the question we must
ourselves be the judges of what is a stable
erovernment and the minute we arrogate
to ourselves the right to establish such a
government the whole case against our
Interfering is abandoned. To treat the
Fflipinos on the consent OF the goVeIneo
theory, in the way IN when MI MT ,1se1,4
to put them under a military oligarchy,
and nothing would be so certain IT, 70 m
volve us in a perpetual career OF mliltar-
ism as to turn the Filipinos loose, ana YET
endeavor to guarantee them a sta itl goT-
ence from outside powers. Such a course
would not only leave a lastlng STAN ai, on
our own honor. but would be an atroclous
piece of treachery to those Filipinos who
deserved best at our hands and who nave
interests of peace, in the interests of the
islanders themselves, that we snoulo stay
The law of our national life has been the
law of expansion, and we have been greaI
exactly in accordance as we nave uarSio Is,
to do great tasks. If the men VINO met IN
the first and second continental congresses
had acted on the principles proIesseo oy
the so-ca1led anti-imperialists OF today
we would never have been a n IA e1,-
tainly, never a nation that w94lo nave m
AS rest worth having comes only as the
result of effort, so peace worth having
comes to a nation only as the result OF
effort We have peace and union IN tnis
country now only because the men OF the
great civil war, dared, endured ana SUI
fered greatly, and great was their TIL TIL
umph in consequence. So now, II we shirS
our work, if we finch from the DUTY Prov
dence has allotted to US and 1gna2bly nam u
down the flag and leave the islands TO
fall into anarchy and then become the
prey of some stronger power, We sllan
gain no real peace, and we snau incur
undying shame
It is set forth with strident emphasis
that mo man is SO good to be fit to
govern another SO long as the first N, man
is an American and the second IaSai
bandit vet at the very time this argument
is being made, those making It are amend.
ing or connivfng at the amendment OF the
constitution in certain states, so as to pro
vide that the white man shall govern the
black Men may honestly difter as to eN-