The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-24
BRYAN'S ARGUMENTS
TORN INFO TATTERS
THE FALLAcY OF THEM COM
PLETELY EXPOSED.
President Mckinley Not to Make
Any Campaign Speeches-Contest
for Control of Congress Close-The-
atrical Men for McKinley-Hanna
Challenged to a Joint Debate.


From the New York sun.
New York, Sept. 23.-At Camp Me-
Kinley last night Charles A. Gardiner,
of the New York bar, answered one by
one Mr.. Bryans arguments against
the right of the United States to ac-
quirc and hold foreign territory as we
are holding the Philippines. He showed
that our title, which Bryan calls de-
fective, is good by succession of dis
covery, by conquest, by purchase and
by treaty; four recognized interna-
tional services of acquisition, each
sanctioned by our courts. No one con-
tends that we purchase the people, :"
ss Bryan puts it, or that they are
fixtures that pass with the soil" The
sovereignty was lawfully transferred
to us and by the treaty, international
law, and the rulings of our Supreme
court, the Filipinos now owe us allegi-
ance. The right to govern follows the
right to hold, as our Supreme court
has decided, and congress holds this
power. The form of the government,
the court says. is i'm the discretion of
congress, although Mr.. Bryan says we
can establish no form at all without
the consent of the governed. Alaska
and the Indian Territory are and long
have been ruled direct from Washing
ton. although Bryan announces that to
rule the Philippines thus is a violent
abuse of the Constitution.
Bryan's contention that the United
states have no power to maintain a
colony to be ruled at their pleasure, or
to enlarge the territorial limits of the
nation, except by the admission of new
states, rests for it's authority solely on
a declaration made as one step of the
argument in Judge Taney's Dred Scott
decision, which pronounced the Mis-
souri, Compromise unconstitutional and
Dred Scott slave. The decision has
never been judicially reiterated. 1t is
either law or not law. If it is law the
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments Of the Constitution are
not law, negro slavery can be main
tained i'm all our territories and the
negro has no rights which the white
man Is bound to respect. But the de-
Cision is not law and the declaration
touching colonies is not law, and is
historically inaccurate and futile.
Another Fallacy.
That "the Constitution follows the
ag' is a fallacy exposed in the Su-
preme court decisions touching the
power of congress to create "all" the
political powers of territories. The
'inalienablc rights" not guaranteed to
the Filipinos by our Constitution are
secured to them by the unWrtten laws
of our civilization; by public opinion.
Colonies Bryans argument that any
government of the Filipinos without
their consent is tyranny, would have
applied To the Southern states that Sc
ceded in 1861.
us the Filipino to be a,citizen or a
subject?' Bryan asks The Constitu-
tion answers that he is not Il citizen
and cannot be until congress specific
ally provides for it. "a republic can
have no subjects" cXclaims Mr. Bryan.
But he doesn't know. Every citizen of
the United States is a subject. He owes
it supreme allegiance as Us sovereign.
So says the Supreme court. If citizens
are subjects certainly the FilipinoS
may be; and they are
Bryan says the labOring man will
be the first to suffer if Oriental sub
jccts seek work in the United States"
But the FilipinOS cannot immigra Re
tunlcSS congress makes them citiZens)
without our permission. Whites and
blacks can be admitted on the same
terms and no other, as are whites and
blacks from any foreign land: Mon
golians and Malays, the yellow and
brown races, can be debarred abso-
lutely
Mr.. Gardiner finally riddled the
Democratic platform of independence
for the Filipinos and an American pro-
tectorate, which would make us re-
sponsible for the misdoings of ten mill
ion mi-barbarous TaEals and Malays
without power to interfere and would
pledge us to defend them white they
offended other nations at will. Mr.
Gardiner went on:
Wrong at Every Point.
The Democratic party is all wrong Il i,
wrong on acquisition, wrong on government
wrong on the operation OF the constitution
Eroug on the Declaration Of independence
sIong on the consent of the governed on cit
icnship, on subjects, ON immigration, on tariff
fundamentally and incontestaby wrong on every
expansion issue it contends for In the back
ground OF the century rise up the portentoui
figures Of jefferson and Jackson and Polk anC
Picrcc-Democrats all, and unaompromis,ng cN
pansonists- ant they hurl down malrdictiUns ur
the leaders Of today tor abandoning the party
policy that added moro lusrc than any Other
TO the Democratic name; and they warn tho
Democracy that as in the past, political dealt
has oyortakrn every party that got ir front o
American expansion, so now the Democratic par
ty which its legal QubhleS and ovcrrulcd dpCiS
ions, will so lown to destruction ii it pcrs 81
In opposing the irresistible, mrxorablc racia
growth and expansion Of 100000 onlightcnc,