The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-13


bought save exactly as dweIlers in the
Louisiana territory, including what is
now Mr.. Bryans own state of
Nebraska, We're bought by Thomas JEFF
ferson- The Philippine islands were
acquired under President Mckinley by
treaty and purchased exactly as the
louisiana territory was acquired under
Jefferson. Florida under Monroe. and
all the rest of the territories which we
have acquired.
Ninth. Q--DO you think you can
buy the right to govern people2
A-Th1s has already been answered
~ my reply to No s. Evidently
Thomas jefferson thought that we
could buy the right to govern the IN
dams of the Louisiana purchase and
Andrew Jackson thought we could
similarly acquire the right to govern
the Seminoles of Florida
I Tenth. Q.-What are you going to
do with the Filipino when you get him?
Are you going to kin him?
Ave are not going to kill the
Filipino until he tries to kill our sol
dlers and he viii stop trying to kill our
! soldiers very soon after he becomes
convinced that he will receive no
further aid from the party of which
Mr. Bryan is chief. AS to what we are
going TO do with him, the answer is
simple. We are going to civilize him
and give him the peace order, indi-
vidual liberty and gradual increase of
lSelf-SOVernment of which Mr.. Bryan
NOulu uCpTlNe MIN Tor all time Dy turn
/ ing him over to a syndicate of corrupt
! Chinese half-breeds and ferocious
! Tagal bandits.
Discusses Army Increase.
Mr.. Bryan yesterday attempted to
| answer what 1 said about his attacks
| on the United States army. He says
/ that the president IN his message of
! December, 1898, asked for an army OF
/ 600 men two months before there
was any war in the philippines He
/ asks: Does Mr.. Roosevelt know this?'
! OF course know this, and let me
| also add thar Mr.. Bryan ought to know,
| what every well instructed school boy
! knows, that at the very time in De-
! cember the Philippine insurgent army
/ was threatening our OutpostS and
| collision was imminent any moment.
| Aguinaldo at that time was trying to
! organize the remnants of the Spanish
| army in conjunction with his own fol-
| lowers in a war against US. The bill
1 in which the increase of the army was
| provided itself explicitly set forth the
I conditions in the Philippines as a rea-
/ son for keeping the army up.
| Every intelligent observer knew
| there would be trouble in the Philip
| pines If the treaty was confirmed The
! bill for the temporary increase, which
/ Mr. Bryan apparently seeks to per-
| suade his hearers is a permanent ina
! crease, was introduced by Senator
! COckrell of Missouri, a Democratic
/ supporter of Mr.. Bryan, and the bulk
| of the patriotic Democrats in both
| houses voted for it--fOr at that time the
! Kansas City platform had not sought
| to make the dishOnOr of the flag a
! national issue. and the Democratic
| conventions in Colorado and California
| were in their platforms calling for the
| retention of the Philippine islands
| ANY statesman with the slightest
| pretentiOn to the name could not but
see that this trouble was threatened
| and would have been criminally derelict
| in his duty to the nation had he failed
! to provide for it. When Mr.. Bryan
did his part in working for the accept
| ance of the treaty by the senate, he
| estopped himself from any right to
criticise the carrying out CT the pledges
! to which he became in honor bound
| when he advocated that treaty.
Puts Questions to Bryan.
Now I have answered Mr.. Bryan's
question on this part, as 1 will gladly
| answer any question he can put or
meet any issue he can raise. Now let
him show equal frankness and readi-
ness in answering these question l ask;
| If elected, Mr.. Bryan, VIII You
I pay the obligations of the nation il
| gold or in silver?
2.-'WiH you refuse to accept the
! electoral votes of North Carolina be-
cause obtained without the consent of
! the governed, and viii you now at
| once denounce the action of your party
| associates who helped to nominate you
for establishing by the constitution in
| North Carolina the doctrine that one
man is good enough to govern another
| without his consent?
SWIM you denOunce your party
! associates in congress who voted on
| June /, last, that the national govern
ment should not be given the power to
| control trusts? You say that I'll trusts
are bad, will you denounce as hypo-
! critical your party associates who cup
| port you on that platform. and yet
/ themselves are beneficiarieS of the cot
1 ton bale, whisky and ice trusts? This
| question is not to be met by saying
/ that there are trusts in which Repubh-
! cans are interested The point IS
question of good faith, or hypocrisy
| If all trusts are as bad as you represent
/ them, what right have you to be sup
ported by and accepting the support of
! Senator Jones and Mr.. Croker, who to
! public denunciation of trusts add pri-
| vate membership in them?
| Tomorrow morning at 4 o'clock the
! Roosevelt special train Will gave this
| city for two days tour of Kentucky.
MEIKLEJOHN TO BRYAN.