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territory, has been fought; the republic
has attained to the position OF the
worlds foremost power. To-day the
world leans more upon our country,
and covets more Its good opinion than
any other. 1t comes to US for bread;
II comes for meat; 1t comes for textiles;
1t comes for locomotives and bridges,
for coal for silver and for gold. The
mines of the rand and Kimberley are
timbered with Oregon frs; the canned
fruit and fish which the miner buys
In South Africa are American; the
mules which haul the food and ammu-
milton for the British South African
armies are Missouri mules, and just
now Russia Is borrowing large sums
of American gold The momentum
can only be checked by unnatural
causes. A plague might do 1t, so might
earthquakes; SO, possibly, might the
combination In war against our coun-
try Of several foreign powers. But
were this last to be tried, how would
those countries live without American
food? The question of the summer
will be whether the administration
Should be changed; whether unparal-
leled facts can or cannot be knocked
aside by transparent bugbears.
A New Battle Cry.
Jones, OF Arkansas, the Chairman Of
the Democratic National Committee,
has sounded battlecry for his party
in the coming campaign. II he can
have his way the shlbboleth will be,
''The Constitution follows the flag"
But what will William Jennings Bryan
say to that?
OF course, Jones had Porto Rico in
mind when he gave out the war cry.
The Republicans in Congress have in
sisted that the Constitution does not
yet apply to the island dependencies Of
this government; and that Congress
has full power to legislate for the gov
eminent Of those islands, regardless Of
the Constitution. That proposition has
been disputed by the Democrats, who
are anxious to have Porto Rico taken
into full fellowship at once, believing
that such action would embarrass the
administration by rendering more diff
cult the work Of establishing salts
factory government in the island
But suppose Jones' proposition Is ac-
cepted as being correct, what will Bry-
an and the other rabid anti-imperial-
lists in the Democratic party have to
say about it? Bryan has insisted that
the Constitution does not cover the
Philippines. He has declared that we
must not accept the Filipinos as citi-
zens of the United States; that this
government, having assumed sover-
eighty over the islands, should first
put down the rebellion, and then per-
NIT the natives to establish govern
ment of their own, independent of the
United States. If the Constitution fol-
lows the flag, how will Jones, Of Arkan-
sas, discriminate between Porto Rico
and the Philippines, both Of which
came to this government under the
terms Of the peace treaty negotiated
with Spain?
Maybe, however, Jones has heard
from Bryan, and the peerless leader"
is getting ready to shift his position
with respect to Imperialism, as he shift
ed with respect to free trade, and as
he is inclined to shift with respect to
free silver. 1t would not be surprising
to see the Democratic convention come
out in favor of expansion Of the most
radical sort, now that Jones has sug-
gested way to make a point against
the Republicans. Nobody can ever tell
what the Democratic party will do, be-
cause it has been on all sides of all
Questions.-Cleveland Leader.