The Portland daily press., 1900-10-17
Bryan Appealing to
Glass Prejudice.
What He Says About ImpC-
rialism.

Washington, October 16.-Hon. John d.
Long, secretary of the navy, has written
q letter for publication in the Harvard
Republican the organizatio OF the Re-
publican students at Harvard college in
which he discusses at length some of the
political questions now pending before
the American people. The Secretary says
President MoKinley's administration
has besn one, as everybody admits OF
rare prosperity. 1t has been a period Of
good times labor employed, capital ac-
tive, the farmer Smiling, the laborer get
ting better wages and losing no time,
our revenues full, our manufactured pro-
ducts going abroad, the balance of trade
in our favor more and more. The change
form bad times under Democratic ad-
ministratlon to good times under a Re
publican administration is the most
striking object lesson of that sort ever
known. The country has been rescued
from the danger of a depreciated curren-
cy and put upon sound financial rock
A war has been fought with the most
briIlia Mt success resulting in the emanci-
patton Of oppressed peoples and accom-
panied with the least loss of life and with
less expense and less of those demoralIz-
ing d1scredits which usually attach in
time of war than ever before in the his
tory of our country"
The Secretary says that 1.-THE manage
ment of our foreign relations has merlted
universal praise and ''our conduct OF
the recent Chinese situation has met
with unrestricted approval and drawn
even from leading Democrats hearty COM
mendation."
Adverting to conditions in the Philip
pines the Secretary writes:
'In the Philippines, the administra
tion, as It's instructions SO clearly show,
has had nothing in mind but the estab-
Iishment peace and order and a stable
government, the security OF property the
establishments of courts Of justice, the
education OF the people and their ad-
vancsment to a condition of self govern
ment as soon as they can qualify them
selves for it,
The President, he says. has no power to
give the islands independence and no
other duty than, as he has done, to keep
order in them and to lay the foundations
for American civilization until Congress
shall otherwise direct.
Discussing the work OF the Kansas City
convention, Secretary Long says it's inge-
nuity could devise only three Things
about which to talk:
First, the unlimited coinage of silver
an issue which the moro it was talked
about only the more disclosed It's own
fallacy and on which Mr.. Bryan, who at
nrst was very outspoken, is now endeav-
oring to veil his conv ictions-eYen evad-
Ing the inquiry whether, If elected ne
would not pay all the obligations of the
government in silver. Second, the trusts.
Lately these seem to be the main burden
OF Mr.. Bryan;s song, but he is evidently
making them only cover for an appeal
to the bitterness Of class prejudice; the
arraying of capital and labor against one
another. Every body knows that trusts are
the development OF the principle of part
nership. They ara an evolution from the
corporation as the corporation is an evo.
luton from partnership. They can
never honestly be made party question
because all parties agree that they are
proper subjects for legislative restriction
and that wherever, instead of serving the
public convenience by meeting the in
preasing demands of the times, employ
Ing mere labor developing new enter
prises and reducing cost, they act against
public interest and arbitrarily increase
the cost of neoessaries to the consumer,
they should be brought up with round
turn.'
The third issue determined upon by the
convention, the Secretary writes, was
Imperialism. OF this Issue, after ex-
pressing the belief that many Democrats
''are threatened by ghosts OF their own
Dreation," he says in part:
'Growth is the essential principle of
life and OF communities-osrtain OF
great nations. With this growth there
comes indeed the interested material eIe-
ment, which is SO much, talked out by
the present critics of the administration.
of the expansion Of trade and Of CONNER
Clal aud manufacturing development
But along with this comes also all the in.
stitutions of education, humanity and
general civilization. Opportunity and re-
sponsibllity go hand in hand; your
country grows in wealth indeed and what
is better, in wealth lor all, but also grows
in beneHeence. This is the real imperial
ism, If anybody cares to use a, misnomer,
upon which we have entered.