The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-06-29
* BRYAN VS.. BEVERIDGE ~
DO WITH THE PHILIPPINES? REASONS
BOTH WAYS SOUND WELL FROM VIEW
POINTS OF THE DEBATERs SYNOPSIS OF ARTICLES

7 have both present ana past examples
OF what each of these powers does
under such circumstances. Witness
JapanS government OF FOTmOSa aud
present absorption of Korea
Senator Beveridge points ONT fur
ther danger by calling attention 10
the fact that an independent Filipino
government would have 20 issue
bonds. He asks If The democrats
would endorse an American guarantee
of these bonds. If not, he. predicts,
Japan would buy them, that the Fill
pinOs would default II their payment
The japanese would then, he thinks.
demand payment Or possession Ot the
ISLANDS, and this would leave the
United States TO DO one OF three
things, pay the bonds, 80 10 war with
Japan or abandon Its pvOrecCOrate.
Mr.. Beveridge takes a view diane
iTicaily opposite to that oi NJ. Bryan
b. declaring that too mucE OF an ef-
fort ras been made To crowd New
Ell glands self-gOvernme1t down the
threats of MalayS, who alc not pre-
pared to digest it. He Uscs what he
terms humble and rathe: course
ilinStratiOn,' by saying: Or giving
of New England's' self-gOveynmCn- 10
eggs and beefsteak, washed down
with coffee. to an infant"
Senator Beveridge asks mis- distin-
guished opponent what Improvement
he would make in the government Of
Porto Rico. He asks: Would MI
Bryan and the opposition make Porto
Rico a state, as Nebraska is? If so,
would he permit everybody, including
the negroes, TO VOte-the negroes con-
stituting a considerable percentage
of the population of the islands?
IF he and the opposition would
exclude the negroes from the ballot
in Porto Rico, why? Since Mr.. Bryan
and his party have planted them
selves upon the academic proposition
that no man is good enough TO gov
ern another man And if he would
place the ballot for all officials in the
hands of the negroes in Porto Rico,
would he do the same thing with the
negroes here at home? If not, why
the discrimination? Are Porto Rican
negroes better than American
negroeS?"
After reviewing approvingly the
course of the United States in Cuba,
Porto Rico and SantO Domingo, Mr..
Reveridge declares that no American
ance to American territorial eXpan-
sion. and no political party has ever
successfully opposed il. He quotes
figures from foreign trade stating that
the total annual sales of American
products to the Philippines have
sprung from S94,597 to $6.2OO.62O
since American possession The FOR
eign trade of the Philippines in that
time has grown from Sl2,366,9l2 so
S31.917.l34. The increase in Amerl-.
can exports to China has been from
S11.924,433 10 S53453, 1855. He points
out that this is the direct result OF
the drawing of American attention 10
the Orient. Further reviewing I'M
perialism. Senator BeVeridge points
out Hong Kong and Singapore, Cal
cutta and Bombay have been rescued
from disease and -StaSnatlon by Brit
ish governmental enterprise, ana
ECypt and India lifted from native
dCDOtism and decadenCe by the same
governments effective colonial policy.
Cuba affords, says Senator Beverage,
a conclusive illustration, and he chaE
lenges Mr.. Bryan TO say that the
three years under American admin
istratiOn were not the most prosper
Gus they had ever known, or have
known since. He points out the
retrOgrcSsiOn under their own indie
pendcnce and the return OF actual
liberty real Justice and real prosper
ity under the present American OCcu-
patton which was entered into in per
suance of the obligations of the Platt
amendment.