The Indianapolis journal., 1902-09-22
CHARLES B. lands.

RUSHVILLE, Ind, Sept. 2O.-After speak
ing at Greensburg this afternoon, c. B.
Lands, who represents the Ninth Indiana
district in Congress, addressed large
throng here tonight. Mr.. Lands said, in
brief:
ION the 29th Of last July, talking at
Bar Harbor, Me-. to New York repre-
sentative, William c. Whitney, for many
years one of the most conspicuous men,
bers of the Democratic party, declared his
intention of staying out of politics and
added: 'The trouble is that the Democrats
situation in a nutshell. The Democratic
party has neither an issue nor a man. On
the other hand, the Republican party has
an issue and lots of men. Its issue is pros
perity and its men are almost as numerous
as the States and Territories that comprise
the Union.
Il cannot understand how any man can
vote any other ticket than the Republican
ticket this year The issue was clearly
drawn in 1896 and the contest was fierce.
The victory was with the Republican party,
and 1 hold that the record that has been
written since that victory was won is at
once vindication of the wisdom of the
Republican party and a condemnation of
the policies advocated by Democracy. In
that campaign Mr.. Bryan said that If the
gold standard was indorsed and the Repub-
lican party brought into power wages
would decrease, hard times would come
upon us and over the land, the price of
wheat would go down, the price of gold
would go up, mortgages would be fore
closed by money lenders and sharks. fac
tories and mills would close, we would ex-
port no goods. but would import from for
eign nations all goods we would use. He
summed 1t up by saying that want and
misery would be with us and exhorted the
people to remember what he said. In view
of what has transpred since that prophecy
was written, these words, read now cause
an involuntary smile to- clothe the fea-
lures of every man who hears them The
general iS ncy
is a complete vindication of the position
assumed by our party in 1896 and in 1900 on
the money question.
1.-The situation in the Philippine islands is
a complete vindication of the attitude of
the party on that question which Demo-
Gratis claimed threatened to revolutionize
everything and subvert the liberties of the
people IL the Republican programme was
carried out. Take the Philippine islands
to-day and We find law and order, peace
and happiness In all parts of that archi-
pelago. with possibly one exception. We
have reduced our army to $4,000 men, and
they are simply acting as policemen. We
have cleaned their streets and towns, vac
cinated three million of their people and
| established at Manila a free hospital that
| will accommodate nearly thousand pa
| tients. We have given them ], 200 teachers
| and provided normal schools that have
| educated 5000 normal teachers, and there
| are to-day nearly one-fourth of q million
| children in their public schools. We are
| teaching 2500 adults in the night schools
| industrial and agricultural school in ManiIa.
! We have given them new public library.
| We have established supreme and lower
! courts have modified both civil and Grim
| inal codes, bringing them to suit Anglo
| Saxon ideas of equity. Lawsuits are now
| terminated. Under the Spanish regime
| lawsuits were simply legacies We have
given them the right of habeas cornus
| thousands of imprisoned have been turned
| loose We have established a native con-
| stabulary of 5000. Every dollar collected in
| customs is turned into the treasury for
| the benefit of the islands We are now
| arranging to purchase millions of acres of
| friar lands and convert them into home
| steads for the Filipino people, We are
building roads over there, one of them to
cost Noo'OOo. and IL we We ar are improving Manila
| ing the islands with telegraph lines. We
are arranging to connect them with cables
We are arranging to extend steam and
! electric railways. We are giving them the
| largest possible participation in their own
| affairs, in the government of municipal.
| tiles. in the control of their courts, in the
| levying and collection of their taxes; In
| short, in self-government
! "And is this all right? Are we performine
| our duty over there? If we art not done
what Is right II we are not performing oul
duty in the Philippine islands then civiliza
| ton is a fraud. enlightment a lie and Chris
| tian churches whited sepulchres If we ar,
| not doing right in the Philippine islands
| then idleness is to be extolled rather thar
industry, the bandit and cut-throat anC
! assassin are more worthy of emulatio,
than the law-abiding citizen who builds {
| home and the condition of cannibaiism i,
preferable to that of modern culture. No
a move has been made in the Philippin,
| islands, not blow has been struck, not !
| gun has been fired not a life has been los
that does not represent voluntary dedica
tion of American sympathy. American hu
| manity, American Christian nobility to th
cause of enlightenment, civilization. free
| dom and self-government"