Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-20

From 1t would Follow the proposi-
tion That All People Subject 10 Gov.
ernment Are Slaves.
The chief newspaper OF the entire
central South, and the leading Demo-
cratic organ, is the Atlanta Constitu-
tion; facts that add peculiar force to
an article therein, contributed b.
Judge john j. Hunt of Jonesboro, Ga,
on The Great Sham Issue" No voter
but would be more clearly infornle !
could ne read this entire article, bu,
space permits only the briefest sum
mary.
Judge Hunt takes issue with Bryan
upon his familiar expression about
buying Filipino for $3.50, ana
Bryans repeated remark, This ma
ton had no more right, as a nation,
to claim ownership of 100000 Fill
pinos than one man has the right to
claim ownership Of another man"
Judge Hunt shows that this Bryan
argument means that sovereignty
or the right to maintain law and or
der, carries with it ownership Of the
persons for whom laws are made and
enforced. Hence, it follows, all peo-
pie subject to government are slaves
This logic seems beyond escape, and
Is the more notable from its source
in the South. Judge Hunt refuses Ito
agree, in the face OF all evidence to the
contrary, that the American people,
or even any respectable political party
in America. is capable of making vas
sails and slaves of the Filipinos. or
that the American people or any re-
spectacle political party in my couH-
try are aders or abettors in any
scheme of conquest"
He says that Bryan gives the Re-
publican party too much credit. in
making the Philippine policy exclu-
sively Republican, and that what has
been done was well done and ought
to have been done" He complains
ator Morgan" and other Southern eX-
pansionists, who believe in the ef-
fort OF America to restore order in its
legally acquired possessions, by sup
pressing the most grouniless insur.
rection known in history"
Judge Hunt argues that the people,
especially in the South, were SO much
of one mind in this matter that 1.-The
whole thing went by default at Kan
sas City, and imperialism. the bogy
4. , 10 y, A,t
cred by Bryan, was put in the plat
form and is now gravely held up by
him as thing of terror to frighten
the American people as so many cred
ulous children. Any Democrat has a
right to protest against this senseess
issue being thrust on a great historic
party as paramount issue merely
because Mr.. Bryan, at the expense of
the greatest and most glaring personal
inconsistency, wishes it done"
Finally, this southern Democrat
squarely contradicts Bryan's conten-
tion that the Americans were at fault
and caused the Philippine conflict, say
ing thus:
members of the Philippine commits
sion, composed of Democrats as
we'll as Republicans, and some Of its
members were against expansion. They
were all men Of high character, acting
under oath and on honor, and of this
war they said:
"Deplorable as war is, the one in
which we are now engaged was un-
avoidable by us. We were attacked by
a bold, adventurous and enthusiastic
army. No alternative was left us ex-
cept ignominous retreat
This statement is their verdict and
goes into history as the truth, and
ought not to be ignored by Mr.. Bryan
who discourses 50 loudly about the
omnpotent weapon of TRUTH
Judge Hunt is man of the first
Importance in Georgia. He was the
leader of the Democratic silver forces
In the Empire State of the South, and
originated the state silver conventions
in 1896 which anticipated and con-
trolled the action of the Democratic
state convention of that year His
present violent opposition to Bryan
and strong support of Mckinley is
therefore very significant as to the
changed conditions in the South, larg-
ly upon the expansion issue, at that.