Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-28

/ lie letter Ol acceptance VI d StNOiu
term of the presidency by President
Mckinley is d1cunent of remarkable
dign " and power and the history of a
splendid administrator full ~ E'"'
splendid administration full If good
works. Mr.. Bryan's lette" is an eX-
ceedngly puerile paper. The Door lit
tie bid for few votes by assuring pe0-
Pile that he is so sensitive he could nct
accept the Office of president more than
once stamps the man with a ridiculous
and vain insinceritv The letter is
full of rot" and Nh y. . The low
est bidder for the presidency who has
appeared. He leaves no chance to
play polofox unimproved.
He has undoubtedly been feeling a
shabby sense Of uneasiness about the
reception his extra session of congress
and Philippine business has been Civ
en-. His followers who have some
knowledge of law and history are sim
ply dismayed; and they have waited
to hear from him with anxiety. He
h ad to say something and it is meIan-
choly beyond comparison.
He warns us against connecting
ourselves with EurCDean nations, ''
which seems to be meath for sly not
ice that he has not found anything to
applaud in the presence Of our troops
in China. He goes at the Monroe doc
trine and says a few thing about it that
are not well stated but not far wrong
Mr.. Bryan proceeds:
"T'he position taken by Republican
leaders, and more recently set forth by
the Republican candidate for the pres
idency-viz.: That we cannot protect
a nation from outside interference
without exercising sovereignty over its
peoples an assault upon the Monroe
doctrine. for. while this argument is
Ositicn to give the Filipinos both in
dependence and protection. it is equal
ly applicable to the republics of Cen
tral and South America. If this gov
ernment cannot lend its strength to
another republic without making sub
jects of its pc pie, then we must either
withdraw our protection from the re-
publics to the south of us or absorb
them. Under the same plea, that the
guardian nation must exert an author
ity equal to its responsibility, Europe
an nations have for centuries exploit
ed their wards, and it is a significant
fact that the Republican party should
accept the European idea of a protec-
torate at the same time that it adopts
a European colonial policy, There is
no excuse for this abandonment of the
American idea We have maintained
the MCnroe doctrine for three-quarters
of a century. The expense to us has
been beyond value to our sister repub-
lies. If a Filipino republic is erected
upon the ruins of the Spanish tyranny,
its protection by Us will be neither diff
Ai''''' AA'A 'Nl'ls4Nt4 NJ IIQl ODeAH
naticn would be willing for any other
European nation to have the islands,
neither would any European nation he
willing to provoke a war with us in
order to obtain possession of the ISL
ands. If we assert sovereignty over
the FiliginCs we will have TO defend
our sovereignty by force and the Fill
pinos will be our enemies: il We pre-
tect them from outside interference.
they will protect themselves and will
be our friends If they show as much
determination in opposing the sover-
eighty OF other nations as they have
shown in opposing our sovereignty.
they will not require much assistance
from us"
There is not line of this that is not
saturated with a false understanding
Mr.. Bryan does not get anything in
corr ect facts or form. In fact part OF
the quotation we find chiefly and
mainly misrepresdhts the Republican
leaders. He ambles along, and finall,
accuses this country of Europeanisn
in the Islands. He gets at the Monro.
noctrine and stirs ii up again just Il.
though theIe was no doubt of its ap,
rlicaiion to Asia. whereas he is tn,
only man who ever was so daft as [,
suppose il was not solely an American
affair Mr.. Dryan seems to think 4
shakes up the Monroe doctrine and ;h'