Show IMPERIAL highfaluting the iowa democratic platform contains a resolution libich alch it is supposed was written by mr air bryan it roods read as follows wo oppose conquest of the philippines bucaj bec e so imperialism Imper lalim mcolia li bec because a be in militarism means government Rovern mont by force and because government by foro means meana loath death of government by consent esti action of political and freedom and the obliteration 0 of equality of rights richla and assassination of democratic institutions tile the reaco league and all the mug bumps are praising it as 03 something most profound and patriotic but that might be paraphrased and read something like this wo oppose the iho sunbeam because sunbeam means sunstroke flood and cyclone tin the cyclone and flood mean tile down of houses bouses and tho the tearing up of cultivated fields and the sunstroke means the killing 0 of f men and when the crop is destroyed there nill be no harvest alien the house is destroyed then men have to camp out and v ahon hen a man Is dead he Is 13 forever after useless IScIe ss at a democratic primary I 1 there la is just as much sense in the one as there I 1 Is in the other when at applied to the present situation we are taking no country hy by ci conquest our army Is an imperial institution but our army Is 13 and always has been subject to the orders of the civil luler of the republic and ulten the people of 0 the united lunsted states stata decree that a certain thing shall bo be done it does docs not decrease tile the liberty of any man lit in any aci tory belonging the tile the united states or curtail the rights of any citizen n under the flag the democratic institutions are arc not in the slightest test 0 danger ang er there is no ono one tiia ho feats imperial power thore ar are e no f foicey cices being put forth chich aou would id by any iveans finans lend lead lip to imperial power for there Is not an officer in ill our army ill ihei etc c Is in not a soldier in the rants ranks uh ho does not thoroughly know that behind him Is the will of tile the people of this republic and that it must eways be obeyed |