The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-21
He Sees No Possibility for the Sue
cess of Mr.. Bryan's Policy, Even
If Ii Were Inaugurated.
HOT FROM THE FIRING LINE
A DEADLY vOLLEY ON THE RECORD
OF Il. j. TARsNEY.
Promotion from General Through
Grade of SutIer to Antf-ImperinI-
fst-Fremont-LincoIn Club.


ident Jacob G. Schurman. of Cornell Uni
versity, and president of the late Philip
pine commission. and to Frederick Lands.
The meeting was held at the Republican
headquarters, where two thousand or more
people assembled. DR.. Joseph ]. Mills.
president of Earlham College, presided over
the assembly and made an exceedingly APP
propriate Introductory address. On the
platform were a number of prominent local
Republicans, among them being Isaac Jen-
kinson, former editor Of the Palladium
Daniel Surface, it's present editor; c. G.
Swain, county chairman; A. c. Lindemuth
John NJ. Westcott and Joseph c. Kern The
Earlham College Republican Club was
present in a body and gave a number of
college yells. while a band discoursed music
from one of the balconies. President Schur-
man was introduced first and was warmly
received. while the applause through his
speech was frequent and liberal. In part
he said:
1.-The issue of the campaign is the main
tenance of the prosperity of the people and
the honor and good name OF the Nation.
Under Republican control the blight which
four years ago blasted the activities of Ia
Dor and paralyzed the movements of CAPT.
tai has given place to the bloom and fruit
age of a splendid prosperity, which lies
before you in every field of production,
transportation and exchange. The farmer,
the mechanic and the merchant, the con-
sumner and the producer, the man who re-
ceives wages and the man who pays wages.
all alike rejoice in the good times which
encompass them as with an atmosphere of
Joyous abundance.
Under Republican control, too, the finan-
cial integrity of the Nation, which Demo
Gratis menaced with programme of re-
pudiation has been kept unsulied: and, in
obedience to the polestar of national honor
and duty, the sovereignty over our new
possessions has been inviolably MAIN
tanned. The Republican party comes be-
fore you, therefore. with record of high
and honorable achievements, and Ii solicits
authorization to continue them four years
longer. 1t desires to do in the future what
ii has done in the past Its promises to-
day are guaranteed by its performances OF
yesterday. 1t has no new isms' to lay be-
fore the lovers of novelty, no fads TO be-
guile the credulous and unwary. Its simple
programme is the conservation of that
prosperity you now enjoy under the pro-
tective tariff and the gold standard, and
the maintenance of the Nations authority
wherever ii is resisted and of its honor and
prestige wherever the American name Is
known. That's all; nothing more. Yet,
also, nothing less. And, for one, cannot
believe that the American people will fling
away prosperity or renounce the economic
and financial conditions on which 1t rests.
/ find ii impossible TO imagine them en-
bracing the insane and immoral vagary of
free silver, whose true character has been
revealed not only by the demonstrations
of reason, but now also by the lessons of
experience. And 1 know for an absolute
certainty that Americans will not pull down
the flag where Ii has been raised by SOL
emu treaty, where international law ex-
poets IL and where ii is imperiously de-
manded for the protection Of the life and
property of the people over whom 1t waves
Besides establishing a stable govern
ment in the Philippines. the Kansas City
platform would promise independence UNI
der American protection to the Filipinos.
Is the promise to be made to the Taga-
logs or to the Visayans, or TO the
Ilocanos. or to the Moros. or to
some of the other tribes OF the
Philippines? And even though Mr.. Bryan
had discovered the tribe TO which he would
delegate our sovereignty and pledge our
| protection 1 should like to ask what is TO
be gained by binding ourselves with prom
| Uses and declarations in regard to future
which is obscure and must be remote. 1t is
| the business of statesmen not to make
| promises for tomorrow. but TO shape poll
| cies for to-day. And, as regards the decla-
| ration itself, can only observe that while
| 1 do not know what is the best Philippine
policy for the distant future, this of the
Kansas City platform is, without doubt,
| the worst conceivable. IT divests us of all
power in the Philippines and at the same
| time invests us with all responsibility.
This panacea for our Philippine troubles
| is worthy of its place beside free silver as
| a panacea for economic depression. 1t is
| the natural result of the hallucination that
he doing of the national duty in the Phil
| pines is the undoing of the Filipinos. But
we shall go on with our duty and not
| abandon the high work we have under
taken. No man is less of a lingo than
I "A
| the cutters. We cannot, without dishonor,
| turn our backs upon the obligations which
| have devolved upon us as result of the
| war with Spain. Let us then go on with
| our appointed task of suppressing insur-
| rection, establishing peace and order. pro-
| tecting life and property, inStituting inter-
| nal and practical arts, and extending the
| blessings of liberty and self-government
! wherever and whenever any of the num-
erous peoples or diversified communities
| are capable of exercising them. L say to the
| anti-imperialists that the only hope of a
| free and independent Philippine common
| wealth-if they want TO one-is in the
| continuance of American rule.
do 1 hear complaints that the work of
paciication is slow and tedious? Still we
will not be cutters. And, indeed. the
progress made since last November has
been not only encouraging. but great be-
yond all expectations. Then held a
| strip of country north and south of Manila
| less than fifty miles long and a few miles
wide; and nothing less whatever of the
~,
| and. of the numerous islands of the rest of
| the archipelago, we held-apart from the
| Island of Negros-nothing but four or five
| towns which covered at most a few square
miles. But now the whole of the great
Island of Luzon north of Manila. excepting
| two Tagalog provinces, Is pacifed: ROM
| blon, Masbate. Negroes, Cebu. Bohol. and
| other Visayan islands are quiet under the
American flag; and the vast Island of Min
danao and the Sulu archipelago are held
| in security by the agreements we have
/ made with their chieftains. The work OF
| pacification has gone on much more
| rapidly than L had anticipated when :
visited these islands about year ago. And
| when you have reelected President Nc
| Kinley, as you will re-elect him in Noyem-
| Der. General Macarthur, who has already
| done so brilliantly. will make more rand
! progress still. The Philippine insurgents,
] who fed on the most outrageous lies
| are kept active by assertions that Mr.
| Bryan is their friend: and they Grink Mr..
| Brvan's health with that of Aguinaldo II
| you bury Mr.. Bryan by your votes. General
| Macarthur will. | believe. soon coffin the
| remains of the Tagalog instruction
Here we rest our case. The issue is the
| honor of the American nation. They are
| menaced by free silver at home and free
| rioting In the Philippines. Under the Re-
| publican party the country has been raised
| from dire depression TO boundless prosper
! itv, and the good name OF the Republic has
| been kept unsullied, Common sense tells
| you that III you would preserve prosperity
and the public faith you must support the
party which has created and maintained
them. The record of the Republican marty
| is the pledge of the election of Mckinley
| and Roosevelt
After Mr.. Schurman concluded Frederick
| Lands made short address The meet