Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-26
MANIFESTO OF MIR. BRYAN.
Points on Which the Late Democratic
Leader Is without support
of Any Kind.


William Jennings Bryan has con-
ferred a favor upon his fellow coun-
trymen in the democratic party and
out of it. He has given out a manifesto
which is in substance the platform
on which he will seek the next presi
Dental nomination at the hands of
the national democracy. says the Chi
cago Chronicle (dem.).
Mr.. Bryan says that Imperialism and
the independence of the Philippines
are still burning political questions
and that it is only by pushing them to
the front that the democrats can hope
for success in 1902.
BY inference, therefore, Mr.. Bryan
has recovered partially or permanent
ly from his unsound money delusion.
The currency of the country is ap-
parently to remain unthreatened by
Mr.. Bryan during the next presiden-
tial canvass. For this promised relief
from an expected recurrence of finan-
cial lunacy on Mr.. Bryan's part the
entire country ought to be thankful.
Elimination of the unsound money
issue from national politics will leave
intelligent men of all parties free to
discuss in tranquility and reason the
real national issues before the Ameri-
can people.
Mr.. Bryan will not find any consid-
cradle number of his fellow citizens
ready to agree to his proposal that the
American flag be Internationally
withdrawn from the Philippine is
lands. He says "the war is unneces-
sary because the people of those is
lands are ready to lay down their
arms whenever their independence is
promised them" Mr. Bryan has no
better means of knowing this than any
other American citizen.
Americans must differ over the
equity or necessity of the continued
presence of our arms on Philippine
territory after the surrender at Ma
Mia. But humane Americans cannot
now abandon the Philippine people
who prefer our constitution to anar-
chy or invasion and conquest by Eu-
ropean power.
Mr.. Bryan says that the people OF
the Philippines cannot be citizens
without endangering our civilization.
They cannot be subjects without i'm
periling our form of government"
The literary habit of mind has
never been characteristic of practical
craftsmanship. Mr.. Bryan's instruc-
tive inclination to prettiness of eX-
preston is a fundamental weakness
in his adaptability to politics.
AS a matter of fact there is no rea-
son why the people of the Philippine
islands should not become in time
American citizens. We have made citi-
Zens out of red aborigines and out of
descendantsof of African tribesmen. The
ruling mass of the Philippine people
are of far more assimilable stock. They
are moral, peaceful, Industrious, ac-
customed TO obey and to command.
They have responded readily to our
overtures of friendship when accom-
panied with convincing proofs of a
sincere purpose to establish among
them firm, free, honest and just repub-
lican government.
The work, it is true. is only begun.
To desert it now would be cowardice.
The ultimate solution of the politi-
cal status of the Philippines cannot
be predicted now. But this can be as-
serted now-that the flag of the
United States must remain in the Phil
ippines for the protection of the peo-
pie from anarchy or invasion and that
the constitution and laws of the United
States must be put into operation in
the islands as rapidly as possible.
Mr.. Bryan will find that no consid-
cradle proportion of the national dem
ocratic party will support him or any
other presidential candidate on plat
form proposing desertion of the peo-
pie OF the Philippine islands to an
archy, dictatorship or invasion for con-
quest or reconquest.