The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-15

senators and representatives.
20. Don't you know the difference be-
! tween imperialism and expansion? What
do you ask me that for? Imperialism Is
government without the limits of the
| constitution, ard regardless Of it. Ex-
pansion, legitimate expansion, is such
as the Hawaiian Islands enjoy; peaceful,
and with the consent of the governed.
1 am in favor OF legitimate expansion,
just as the Democratics party says
where the constitution and flag go. hand
in hand. and with them. citizenship.
favor making the citizens OF Hawaii.
Porto Rico and Cuba citizens OF the
United States, and giving them full pro-
| lection under the constitution just as
much as you do and 1 enjoy. What are
you going to do wit hthe Philippines and
Cuba? Are you going to subjugate
them?
So Imperialism IS an important ques-
| ton, but not above trusts and the money
question. I do not think that any party
! or any convention on earth can make
ane one issue the paramount one. The
Republican party is trying 10 make wor-
SHIP OF Mckinley the paramount issue.
| The Democratic party says that impe-
rialism is the paramount issue. I am not
sure about that
''7 / favor the admission OF Porto
Rico as a state. but not the Philippine
| Islands
So President Mckinley should have
announced as his purpose the idea MT
to subjugate the people of the Philip
pines, hut to give them government Of
| their own and to aid them in all legiti-
mate effort TO establish a government Of
| their own and when established, should
| have withdrawn the army. If Mr.. Nc
| Kinley had left the islands after the
/ Spanish feet was sunk then Mr. Nc
I
| Mckinley should have accepted and had
! passed the Bacon resolution for the pur-
/ pose of telling the Filipinos what the
/ purpose Of our government was. If that
! had passed. with the understanding that
| they would not be enslaved and a war
/ Of determination waged against them,
! there would have been no instruction In
| the Philippine Islands. Mckinley was not
right in the course pursued. What his
purpose was or his design, I do not
| know.
SO. I have just answered what disposi-
I.tion I would have made Of the islands.
/ We favor aiding them in establishing
and maintaining a government of their
own and when they have that, vi h
drawing the army and the carpetbagsers
and protecting them from foreign inva-
sion.
10. Most emphatically yes: I am IN
of the governed in North Carolina"
What are you going to do with the
Philippine Islands and the Filipnos?"
Mr.. Long at this point concluded. He
said:
1.-THE Republican party is in power,
and has been for four years. It has
made a record in that time. 1t is re-
sponsibie for what has happened since it
has been in power. Whether its pres-
!
! that record Is the paramount issue IN
| this campaign. The question for each
voter this year is whether he is salts
fed with the Mckinley administration
and the performances of the past four
years.
Touching on the sincerity Of the Popu-
lists in railroad legislation, he cited The
fact that Hugh Farrelly, the fusion NOM
inee for attorney-general, while a mem
Der of the state senate, stated that the
court of visitation law was unconstitu-
tional, just as the supreme court a year
later pronounced it to be.
ST am glad to hear you define your
opinion OF the paramount issue" contin-
ued Mr.. Long. and I observe that you
devote less than ten minutes time TO
what Bryan declares to be the para
mount issue. I am glad to have You
come to the point where you say you
viii support the Democratic nominee for
speaker if the Democrats Of this district
will support you. It has been the policy
| In the pass for Populists in the house TO
support tl&r own caucus nominee for
speaker. I wanted to know what you
would do.
80 the treaty should have been
ratified? II was that treaty that got US
into trouble?''
Mr.. Campbell-Did you buy the people?
Mr.. Long-Yes; bought them as JEFF
ferson bought them in Louisiana; bought
them as Madison bought them in Flor
ida; bought them as Polk bought them
in New Mexico and California. McKin-
ley followed in the footsteps Of the au-
thor Of the Declaration of Independence
and the father, Of the Democratic party
He followed in the footsteps Of the man
who wrote the phrase that all just gov
ernments derive their power from the
consent Of the voverned.' Are you sorry
that the Polk conquered New Mexico
and California when the natives and the
white citizens rose up in rebellion
against the authority of the United
States? Are you sorry that he brought
them to submission?
Mr.. Campbell-I haven't time to an
swer.
Mr.. Long-No. you haven't time: Bryan
has no time; no other Democrat or Pop
ulist has time
You ask what we will do in the
hiiippine Islands. We made a law for
Porto Rico last winter. Have you ever
read L? Under the provisions Of the
constitution giving congress power to
make sl nsedfu rules and regulators
respecting the territory belonging TO the
United States we established a govern
ment in Porto Rico, and 7 want - call
your attention TO it bec.uss It intimates
what we are going TO do in the Philip
rines''
Mr. Long here read a statement from
a Porto Rican journal, showing the ad-
vantaees of the new law and the al
mirable way II was working out.
"As soon as It IS known IN the Phil
ippines," he continued that Bryan IS
defeated. inst SO soon VIII the insur-
rection there cease. and that congress Of
which you or 7 OF some Democrat VIII
be member win proceed TO legisYata for
q government for the Philippines We
viii govern IN the Philippines IS W.
have governed IN Alaska in TIE pas.
thirty-three years: as we have IN Okla
bona and Arizona and New Mexico We
viii give them a government that thsy
viii enjoy 70 the fullest extent-tnev and
their people We viii d. orr duty there
as IN A,aska, where we have governed
thirty-three years
we know how 70 govern people IN fff=
country. The M-Kinisv administration
VIII simply follow IN the footsteps ~
Jefferson and Madison and Jackson and
Polk, and give them good government
To Cleanse the system
ETsctuallv yet gently. when costtve or
bilious % permanently overcome hahftusl
constipation. TO AWAKEN the kidneys and