Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-27
BRANCHING OUT

has no sure thing in that state. The
chances are against him. He ought to
send to New York for Dick Croker and
to the Philippines to find Aguinaldo,
who is out there in the high grass, and
take the two of his bosses along with
him TO show them the farmers. He
should stand between them on the plat
form, with his arms around their
necks. and they should clasp his waist,
and he should divide his extensive
smile between them.
An awful thing is just eliminating.
We were loaning money to England a
little while ago, and now We are loan
ing it to Germany. Bryan ought to
get another paramount issue out Of
this. With his talent he could make
regular catastrophe of it.
By the way. Mr.. Bryan should be
anxious about that loan of money to
Germany. He knows enough to know
that Germany is the great power of
Europe that has a greater interest in
colonization than any other Russia
has her Siberia. England has more
colonies than she can hold down now
though some of them have rendered
her substantial aid. Spain, Italy and
Austria are not colonizationists. Spain
and Italy have had recent experiences
that are discouraging. Austria has
too many races to manage. France
has no surplus population. Sweden
and Norway don't care to colonize.
We get the best of their population
right along in the United States. They
make good citizens. We get a great
many immigrants that are invaluable
from Germany, but they have to give
up the German empire, excepting their
affections when they come here. There
is rapid growth of population in Ger
many-far greater than the immigra
tion-and the German policy has for
several years run strongly to colonial
tion. The emperor is especially an
enthusiast. He sent his brother to
command the feet on the Asiatic sta
ton. He is sending Count Won Wald-
ersee and he is sending a considerable
army. He doesn't know anything
about Mr. Bryan's Monroe doctrine out
there, and wouldn't care anything
about it if he did He is looking for
colonies in that direction. He has a
powerful fleet in the Asiatic waters
They understand that there are Am
ercan uncertainties with regard to
that country, and, if we abandon that
country-that is if we throw away our
authority there and pull down our
flag there-the Germans will take pos
session of the islands, the whole or
part of them according to diplomacy.
No doubt what Mr.. Bryan has said
about this matter is familiar to the
German emperor. He has intelligent
agents in this country, who know
what the public opinion of it is and
how things are going. They know
what Mr.. Bryan's proclamations are as
to what he will do he is the next
president of the United States There
is novelty in a candidate for the
presidency doing this, but Bryan has
done it. Now Germany is making a
loan in this country. This country is
getting rich too, but she has a real i'm
perialism that eats up revenue. Ac-
cording to what Mr.. Bryan said at In
indianapolis, if Germany presents her
self at the gate of the Philip
pines, which is the Rock of Corri-
godor, with a passage into the harbor
of Manila on either side of tiff Mr..
Bryan keeps his word he will warn
them to leave the stable" native gov
eminent alone, and this he is doing
under the Monroe doctrine. He has
been studying his presidential policy
closely. He has already formulated il
as to the Philippines. Now he is going
to fight when ne confronts Germany.
If so, he will find the Germans in
good situation as to cash in hand, be-
cause the German empire has good
credit in this country, and we have
good money, and if they pay for it,
there is no reason why they shouldn't
get itfor Bryan hasn't declared war as
yet, and there is an "if' pursuing him
all the time but it must strike his lu-
mincus intellect, which has cast
shadow around the world with the
Monroe doctrine, that this German
loan is a war loan that the Germans
might use against him if he would un-
dertake to assert his protectorate poll
cy as against German colonization.
Why is it that Mr. Bryan does not
tell anybody any more about his prom
ised extra session of congress and his
powerful paramount protectorate issue
that he formulated in his indianapolis
utterance, flnging a battle flag 10 the
breeze as it were? The people of the
United Stats couldn't have imagined