The Republican., 1900-09-13

the country general bankruptcy
law; it had to be done. To discharge
a prosperous nation, suddenly forced,
through commercial panic, from the
consequences of national bankruptcy
is a slow process. Why should busi-
ment?
Without waiting for Congress. the
government would be getting its rev
enue in silver and making all its pay
ments in silver, and we would be on a
silver basis with Mexico and China.
The greenback would be presented
for redemption, the treasury would
be drained OF gold. and the worst
panic of this generation would com
plete the disaster sure to follow Mr..
Bryan's election. All this could be
done by an executive order, for if Mr.
Bryan wins he will have Democratic
House, and he will have Democratic
Senate by perhaps two majority.
Another thing, Mr.. Bryan, the So
cialistic Democrat, is hostile to the
Supreme Court. He is opposed to in
functions, and like methods subserv-
ing order and law. President Harri-
son appointed four members of the
Supreme Court. 1t is likely our next
President will reconstruct that august
tribunal. Justices Gray, Harlan,
Shiras and Chief Justice Fuller may
retire during the next administration.
If Mr.. Bryan means what his letter
to the Populists suggests, why may
he not appoint John L. Algeld or
Chief Justice Dorster, the Populistic
judicial eccentricity Of Kansas2 With
a Supreme Court such as Mr.. Bryan
would construct, what a fall, what a
fate! Abroad we stand higher than
ever before. The successes of our
war and the wisdom of our diplomacy,
the recent leading part in the Chinese
problem which we have taken has
brought us the acclaim of the world
Everybody praises Mckinley and
Hay except the Bryan people at home.
Could anything be better than Nc
Kinley's management of the Chinese
problem? Why should this matter
be given over to Mr.. Bryan and Mr..
George Fred Williams, for instance?
Gas far back as President Polk
who in expanding rejoiced in his
message to Congress of his annexa-
tion of California, saying that our
ports now lie between Europe and
Oh ma, and we are on the nearer side,
American statesmen have struggled,
with Democratic presidents in the
lead, for the open door in China.
Mckinley disclaims any greed of ter
ritory, seeks indemnity. stable gov
ernment and equal chance of trade in
the Yang Use Valley, in the West
River, the Yellow River, and trade
with our $4,000, 900 surplus industries
among the 100000 in China. Since
the world approves his decision, his
sagacity, his courage, his foresight,
why should we experiment with
Bryan?
"In Cuba we will establish repub-
lie. We are pledged to do it. No re-
public in the tropics has been stable.
/ fear for the stability of the republic
we establish. We have committed
ourselves to q protectorate. The
world looks to us to establish this
government. Soon we will have re-
sponsibility without power, obliga-
tions without influence, expenditures
without revenues in the matters of
Cuba. Where do the Democrats find
in the Constitution sanction for pro-
tectorate over an alien republic?
There is much more warrant for an
nexing territory by treaty, and when
we own the soil, control an indepen-
dent nation on our soil. This is the
Republican policy for the islands.
For a century we have so controlled
the Indian tribes. Mr.. Bryan's rem
edy for Cuba does not fret him with
the Constitution. Where does the
Constitution warrant his Philippine
protectorate? But first he says Il
would establish a stable government.
Mckinley and Bryan are each respon-
sible for the acquisition of the Philip
pines. Dewey and the Army and
Navy, with Mckinley, are respon-
sible for the victory and the glorious
results of the Spanish War. There
fore, l say Mckinley and Bryan are
alike responsible for the treaty and
the acquisition of these islands. We
took them in the same way we took
Florida from the same old Spain; in
the same way the Louisiana purchase;
in the same way the Mexican acquisi-
tion, and in the same way we took
Hawaii.
"Our great republic is tina greatest
nation on earth. 1t lacks no power
of sovereignty which any other ma
tion can exercise. Iquestion whether
the practice of spending from our