Show DOLLAR ABOVE M MAN N NI I Beveridge Treats Philippines As An Au Investment t I EULOGY FOR ENGLAND D 4 DECLARES GOVERNMENT MORE MOKE AMERICAN I 1 Kansas City Cit Mo Oct 1 Senator Beveridge of Indiana spoke here to tonight I night light to a large audience In a tent at I Shelley helley park the tent in which Bryan I poke poe two weeks ago The capacity of he be tent was taxed standing room be beag beng I I ng ag at a premium I His speech was an argument for the retention of the Philippines and other Colonies on the ground that It would be profitable le He did not beal to any ex X ent cent with the moral phase of the ques tion I In his speech Senator Beveridge said The whole problem of prosperity to today today today day and for all the future consists In finding and securing to ourselves S for forever forever forever ever markets for what we produce in factory and on farm more than we our ourselves ourselves selves consume The Republican R poPeS policy is to secure these new markets The Republican party has secured i ithe j the Philippines for the abe American peo pee people pIe and we propose to hold them for forthe forthe forthe the American people till the end of tithe time the opposition proposes to give j I Ithem them up upI If I the opposition tell you that the Philippines have haye already cost us 20 provided for in the treaty and required in suppressing the Insurrection and that our an annual annual annual nual exports is no return for that out outlay outlay outlay lay I answer first that the lS never would have been be n spent had it not been for those here in America who have baye aided and abetted the rebellion against our flag in the Philippines I Ianswer Ianswer Ianswer answer second that now nv that that money mone has been spent S ent it Is better to stop further resistance by sustaining the government in this election keep keepIng keepIng keeping Ing the islands and having baying something to show for our rather than elect Mr Bryan surrender the Phil Philippines Philippines and have haye nothing to tl show sho for our I answer third that even if rif the Philippines have by reason of the resistance to the t e government in inthis inthis Inthis this country which has encouraged the resistance to the government in that I country cost us more than nay even if it they th bad had cost us this without resistance they would have been an excellent investment Has Man Eulogy For Por England If 11 the admits all this but says that our form of government is not adapted to holding balding dependencies and colonial possessions and that our republican form of government Is more valuable to us than all the strongholds of commerce of the world I answer that France is a republican form of ot government and yet France has begun to administer her possessions 1 almost as ably as England I answer that th t I England a monarchy in name Is a republic in reality whose queen has bas f not the powers given gien by b the constitution constitution tion lion to our president and yet demo democratic democratic cratic England whose responsible gov government government changes not every four years but often orten in as many months demo democratic democratic cratic England which Is as sensitive to the will of the people as the ther thermometer thermometer is to cold or heat democratic England more flexible and popular in government than any an nation on eth e th democratic England is nevertheless the ablest administrator of possessions the world has ever seen Why cannot the republic hold pos possessions possessions sessions and administer government over them This world has got to be occupied by civilized mankind govern government government government ment of liberty and law is going to be declared over all aU the globe All n is the highest mission to hs mankind can lay Jay ay its haRd if wre w we are not fitted to do A our p art spreading civilization over the th because we are a republic then a public is not fitted for fo th the re hi w achievement nt required of civilized Sov gOV eminent Says Rights Bights of Man Han Are Limited Lin ted Further on he said Rights R ghis of or o man There can ca be no rights of man outside of organized so Regarding the constitution fou Ion ing ins the flag he declared UTo To give to children who do not v what liberty libert means who have not know t the th iW most elemental idea of free institutions to load upon their shoulders mighty weight of the the 5 the most monstrous proposition Dr v ever by the exigencies produced of a pout cal campaign |