The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-07-28

| at present imposed, WnOm MI. Brya
could appoint as secretaries OF state an
) OF the treasury. would inevitably bring tn
country to the brink Of ruin; they woul
| do far more to harm II now than the
could have done four years ago
The Kansas city Convention.
) Now. as to expansion. II hardly seem
worth while to waste any time upon wha
the Kansas City people call imperialism
| and militarism. The dominant note of til
Kansas City convention was insincerity
| The convention which nominated Mr.. Bry
| an In 1900 was In character Infinitely be
? low that which nominated him In 1881
. | In 1896, for all their wild and dangerou
. folly, his advocates had at least the meri
of sincerity I'm their bitter fanaticism
However wrong-headed. they knew wha
they believed and they stated IL withou
, | fear. In 1900 their actions were deter
mined purely by policy. and their pander
ing to the worst and most degraded pas
sions In our national life. bad enough II
all conscience sake In itself, was rendered
Infinitely worse because robbed OF ever,
vestigc OF honesty and sincerity. IL tool
them two days to find out what they be-
| lieved about free silver. and this was
the only plank concerning which they took
| the trouble to find out their beliefs at all
They reasserted the doctrines of anarchy
which they had preached I'm SO. not be-
cause they longer believed In them. but
because they hoped by announcing them to
| attract to themselves all men of un-
sound and violent mind. When II came to
| dealing with our foreign policy they de-
| llberately strive to foster resistance to
| the national flag where such resistance al
| ready exists and to call II into being where
! II does not exist with the hope of gaining
| some petty party advantage at no mat
| ter what cost of ruin to the nation. They
mouth about Imperialism and militarism
knowing that there Is not one shred %
truth In what they say knowing IL they
know anything that their words are put
ting n premium upon trouble in every
island from which the Spaniards have been
driven; and caring nothing because they
wish to purchase party success even at
the cost of dishonesty to the flag. of death
and suffering to the men who fight under
the flag Bitter indeed Is the cup they
hold out to the nation to drink. and thrice
bitter 1t will be for the nation II 1t does
not spurn II.
what they say about cuba and Porto
Rico need not dctain us for a moment. In
Porto Rico we row have Gov. Allen in
charge. We have established n system
under which the island Is advancing by
leaps ard bounds to prosperity. In cuba
we have put Gen. Leonard Wood I'm charge.
and all the preliminary steps have been
taken to give to the people of the island
their own government. Our pledge to
cuba shall of course be kept. Gen. Woods
administration Is n synonym for honesty
was discovered in the postal department
the wrong-doers were hunted down In
unsparlng pursuit; and the best possible
proof was thereby given that we meant
what we said, ard that governmental
cleanliness would be obtained In the only
possible way BY the unsparlng cutting out
of corruption wherever II was found.
The Question of Expansion.
Eve now come to the Philippines. and to
the general question Of expansion. Many
of the positions taken by the populistic
democracy at the moment are so palpably
dishonest and maintained I'm such palpablc
bad faith that to state them is sufficient,
1t Is hardly necessary to discuss what they
say about the constitution following the
flag The democratic party never cham
pionod the doctrine thus set forth save
in the dark days when 1t had become the
handmaidcn of slavery and rebellion. and
danced to any tune which the apostles of
slavery chose to pipe. When under JEFF
fcrson the great west beyond the Missis-
sippi was acquired. when. largely through
the inStrumentality of Jackson, Florida
was added to the union, the new provinces
with their Indian populations were gov
erned precisely and exactly on the theory
under which the Philippines are now gov
errod. President Jefferson secured the
Louisiana purchase just as President Nc
l<inlcy secured the Philippines. and An
drew Jackson warred against the Semi
noles when we had acquired Florida from
Spain precisely as Gen. Macarthur Is now
warning against the bandits among the
Tagals in Luzon. Unless we are willing
to deprive jefferson and Jackson of the
need of honor which has been held to be |
peculiarly theirs. we cannot deny the same |
high praise to President Mckinley. At Kan |
sas city the men engaged In preaching the |
gospel of dishonor and reputation solemn
~ asserted that imperialism abroad will |
lead quickly and inevitably to despotism |
at home You men of Minnesota and the |
Dakotas who are here this evening can |
appreciate the fatuousness of that state
ment by the simple process of thinking |
whether your liberties have been abridged |
by the return of the Minnesota and Dakota |
troops who won such honor for them |
selves In the Philippines. There are ge- |
ometrical propositions SO essentially alb |
surd that mathematicians hold their state
ment to be equivalent to their refutation. |
So II Is with this proposition. If IL were |
worth while ! would point out its dishon-
esty and insincerity: but fragrant though |
these are, its absurdity Is SO much more |
Migrant that nothing need be said. So |
1t Is with their cant about militarism, and |
Intimidation and oppression at home q : |
following what they are pleased to call |
conquest abroad We cannot argue with |
them on this proposition, because no seri- |
Gus man thinks for one moment that they |
believe what they assert. During the great |
civil war there We're many preachers of |
the gospel of dislOyalty among the so
called copperheads of the north. and these
men Ike their representatives among our
opponents to-day prophcsicd the sub
version of the country when the great
armies of Grant and Sherman should come
back from the war; but the great armies
of Grant and sherman returned to civil life
and Were swallowed up among their fellow
citizens without a ripple. A considerable
army was kept for year or two on the
Indian frontier and in some of the south
ern states: but IL never entered the head
of n human being to attempt what the
copperhead prophets Of disaster had fran
tcally foretold. In 9S or 90 you yourselves
saw regiments and brigades and divisions
return from Cuba, Porto Rico ard the
Philippines to be disbanded and swallowed
up In the mass of the people. II volunteers
and II regulars to resume their ordinary
work In fort and cantonment: and after
greeting them on the day they returned,
the bulk Of people would never have been
able to tell except by the newspapers
whether they had come back or not OF
all idle chatter the talk of danger OF
militar!sm Is the idlest The army we have
now Is relatively to the population OF the
country less In size than IL has been again
and again during the last century and a
quarter, In times when we had only our
own Indians to guard against. In Wash
ington's administration Gen. Wayne spent
| some three years In Ohio warning against
| the TaralS Of that daV with uraar btx,,