Smyrna times., 1900-09-05
The Nations Peril.

III MS elONtptSlllCt SpeeCu at llulal-
apOlis Bryan said that if elected he
would call congress together imme-
diately in extra session. That is pre-
cisely what The Press pointed out on
the same morning would probably
be the course Bryan would take. We
gave the reasons then why Bryan's
election would mean Democratic
house of representatives and perhaps a
free silver majority in the senate. Bry-
ans absolute control of the Democratic
party was demonstrated at the Kansas
City convention. In the executive chair.
with the federal patronage at his dis
posal and a cabinet made up of Alt
gelds, Suffers and Pettigrews, he
would rule supreme.
Bryan tells the country that he
would at once scuttle out of the Phillip
pines and leave the so tribes there to
fight it out among themselves as to
which one should rule though he could
not evade the responsibility of the
United States to other nations for the
safety of their citizens resident in the
Philippines and the property they own
there. The United States would have
to make reparatiOn for all damages of
that kind to foreigners in the Philip
pine Islands, though exercising no con-
troll there, or else the European powers
would take possession of the islands.
But Mr.. Bryan says that he would not
permit them to do so. Then he would
have to fight the European powers or
keep on drawing millions from the
treasury to pay for injuries to foreign
ers and their property bv the savage
and semicivilized tribes al the Philip-
pines. Any sane man can see the
frightful consequences of Bryan's pol
icy.
In the meantime Bryan holds out the
greatest inducements possible to the
Iagals, who might hope to rule the
other tribes In Luzon, to keep up their
guerrilla warfare on our soldiers and
XIII every one possible. BRYAN Drom-
lses to reward them for that bloody
work by giving them independence. Ts
1t any wonder that the Manila Free
dom has already printed a report that
the Filipino junta at Hongkong has
voted to send $5,0OO,O0O to the Demo-
cratic national committee to help elect
Bryan? If the junta can raise the
money from the rich spectators who
have furnished funds to AguInaldo. its
use IN behalf of Bryan would be the
natural and most effective way to help
the Aguinaldists. But the junta proba-
bly, does not know about what happen-
ed to Vallandigham and the Conner
heads in our civil war.
And what of silver? On that oues-
ton Bryan was significantly silent. He
has said many times that there "can
never be true and lasting prosperity in
this nation until there Is free and un-
limited coinage Of silver at the ratio of
IL to J." The same extra session that
would support him In scuttling out of
the Philippines would pass a free coin
age OF silver bill and cause ten times
greater loss to the United States than
did the civil war. There would be
panic unprecedented in the worlds his
tory.
And what about the tariff? Mr.. Bry-
an says that 1t Is unconstitutional
and ubiquitous" The repeal of the
tariff laws and the adoption Of the
free trade policy must come at the
same extra session If Bryan is honest,
and that is generally conceded.
What prospect to hold out to a ma
tion enjoying greater prosperity than
any other nation on earth and prosper
ity unprecedented in its own history!
Ihe danger Is too great for any patri-
Otto man to remain quiet. Every one
should do what he can to remove the
possibility of such frightful disaster
Philadelphia Press.