The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-10-25

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mans, that it was right never to cede
any land or boundary, but always to
add to it by HONORABLE treaty, thus ex-
tending the area Of the republic"
Stephen A. Douglas was the greatest
forensic exposition of democracy that
ever lived. In one of his debates with
Lincoln, speaking of his country, he
said: 1T swarms as often as a hive of
bees, and as new swarms are turned ii
each year, there must be hives in which
they can gather and make their honey.
tell you increase and multiply and *
pand is the law of this nations exist
ence. You cannot limit that great re-
public by mere boundary lines, saying,
Thus far shalt thou go and no fur
Their just so far as our interests re-
quire additional territory, in the north,
in the south or on the islands Of the
ocean, I am for it"
Gentlemen, the whole tenor of Mr..
Bryan's recent speech at indianapolis
was an arraignment of the Democratic
party, and of its greatest leaders, in
the days of its unquestioned and proud
dominance. Mr.. Bryan has a right to de-
claim loudly against our holding INTO
the Philippines with ii the consent Of
the Filipinos; he has a right to preach
his sentimentality absurd, abstract inter-
probation of the Declaration of ~Independ-
ence-an Interpretation which Efficient
ly accepted as the rightful basis of gov
eminent would subvert all government
and enthrone anarchy-but it is not right
in the light of history TO attribute such
absurdity of Interpretation to Jefferson
or to any of the other Democratic faith
ers, for it is never right to misrepre-
sent the dead.
Colonel Bryan has trailed the Demo-
cratic colors before noisy Populism; not
content he has trailed them before the
lingering remnant of Democracy's an
Gent and meanest enemy-New Eng
land Federalism. In 1872, those colors
were trailed before another longtime
enemy, Horace Greedy. AS the result was
in 1872, so will it be in 1900.
And, MI. Chairman, to be unequivo-
cally and interminably opposed political
ly to that man who would have this re-
public under any circumstances with
draw its sovereignty from one foot Of
terra frma, that had fallen to it under
recognized usages of nations, was once
Democracy. If under the magic spell of
Mr.. Bryan, it is no longer Democracy,
but is turned to Republicanism, then I
am a Republican, for a mere matter of
nomenclature is without Importance.
Do not talk in this convention about
consent of the governed. No man, not
even Aguinaldo, has a right t o refuse
consent to just and equitable governmen.
and Mr.. Bryan would SANDER our people
should he intimate that this republic
would ever subject any people to any
other kind of government, Mr.. Bryan
knows we will give the Filipino good
government, a thing they never yet had;
he knows we will give them good and
free schools, something they never had.
Our capital will develop their
and make plenty abound among them.
When they become fitted we will give
them self-goyernment just as you and
enjoy and exercise self-government;
and, yes, under Our auspices and con-
troll they may attain to intelligent self
government; left to themselves chaotic
anarchy or grinding despotism is their
everlasting doom.
Imperialism! 1t is rhetorical babel
sheet iron thunder; noisy, but not dan
gerous.
| want to see a Congress elected that
will uphold the Presidents hands in the
good endeavors he has undertaken re-
garding the Philippine Islands. Indeed,
let there be infused into the President
a little of the old Jacksonian impetuos ty,
for old Jackson would hang Aguinaldo
higher than Hannah, by the Eternall
Gentlemen, view from Democratic pre-
cedent, the Presidents policy must be
approved; if tested by the fundamental
v~erities of right and wrong, for which
we have no time today, it will be found
to be in perfect line with the highest
order of patriotism.
Organism is a patchwork of absurdi-
ties, medley of contradiction, a crazy
quilt of fantastic fallacies. Organism is
the half-tone federalism that abused JEFF
ferson for the purchase of Louisiana; it
is the full-tone Hartford convention that
abused Madison, and in every way it
could, obstructed our little army and
navy in the war of 1872; it is the COM
munism of the Mexican war that cared
not if our invading army should be well
coined with bloody hands to h~ospitable
graves. Bryanisml it is to the country
at this time what Vallandinghamism was