Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-07

country to the highest pitch of pros-
perity at home and which has kept the
honor unstained both at home
and abroad. To deliberately undo the
work would be dishonor to the national
and would throw us into
dreadful industrial chaos. The Kansas
City platform commit our opponents
to a policy which means material dis
aster and moral disgrace; which
means a violent panic in the business
world and therefore widespread and
prolonged misery among all our people;
which furthermore means upsetting the
courts. the violation of the nations
faith in financial matters and the un-
worthy abandonment of our duty
abroad. The nation that accepts such
mora principles cannot live. 1t will rot
to death in the loathsome stew of it's
corruption.
1T is a terrible and most larnentable
truth that our soldiers who are Eow
facing death in the Philippines are fore
ed to recognize in the Bryanistic demo-
cracy their most dangerous foe. The bull
let's that STAY our men in Luzon are in
spired by the d%enouncers of America here.
No Tagal general, not Aguinaldo himself.
can do so much to prolong the fighting.
can do as much to increase the ~bloodshed
of Americans and Filipinos alike as has
been done by the Kansas City convention.
so far as I know there is no man in
the United States who believes in either
Imperialism or militarism. They are
pure phantOmS Of an eve more shadoWy
and intangible quality han the UBIQUITOUS
'robber gold dollar which disturbed MI.
Bryan SO much four years ago. The reg
ular army Is not nearly so numerous
relatively to the whole population, as is
the New York police force relatively to
the population of New York. Just at
present we have in the regular army as
comma rod with n,rr nnr,,lo<sOp ~:,1
tenths of a soldier for every 1000 of the
population. The increase of m~ilitarism
since h palmy days of Jefferson, a
century back. is represented by exactly
one-tenth of a soldier to every thousand
inhabitants and the increase to the
danger of our constitutions is measured,
therefore, by the amount of
which is capable of being exercised by
n American in a uniform over 10, 900
OF his fellow citizens without uniforms.
CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED,
"Mr. Bryan and his associates cannot
say enough about the consent of the
governed doctrine as applying to the
Philippines. They dwelt upon the fact
that No man is good enough to govern
another In North Carolina n other
southern states we see before our eyes
the process of the disfranchisement of
the negro. We see before our eyes the
oAoSn AAioiI SoStIIcU without HIS con-
sent by the white man. Until our D
nents have removed the beam from their
own eye, by applying their consent Of
the governed doctrine at home. let them
hold their peace about the Tagal bandits
to whom their words give fresh heart to
our soldiers in the far eastern archi-
pelago.
The policy of expansion is Americas
historic policy. We have annexed the
Philippines exactly as we have annexed
Hawaii, New Mexico and Alaska. They
are now part of American territory and
we have no more right to give them up
than we have the right to restore Ha-
wall to the Kanaka queen or to abandon
Alaska to the EsquimauX. There is not
a particle of difference between the cases.
We cannot go back: first for the sake of
the islands themselves and next for the
sake of our honor. The men who are
making speeches on the unrighteouSness
of our expanding in the Philippines, might
with as much justification incite3 the
Sioux n the Apache tribes to outbreak
against us on the ground hat we have
no right to retain South Dakota or Arr
IONA. The policy of the Kansas City
is a policy of economic disastn
and financial dishonor at home and Of
unworthy shrinking from duty abroad;
and we appeal to all honest, far-seeing,
brave and patriotic men, north or south,
east or west, whatever their political
affiliations may lave been in the past, to
stand with us now against the men
who would bring such abuse and misery
upon our country and to support us as
we uphold the cause OF honesty and indus
trial well-being at home and the honor
of the American flag in theface of all the
people of the earth"