Show THE WEST COAST IN THE CAMPAIGN The Pacific coast has a special interest In-terest In the result of the election this falK Men on the Pacific coast especially espe-cially In the States that have 0 coast line understand what expansion beyond be-yond the sea means Since 1S97 there has been a transformation on the coast With tho needs of Australia and tho Philippines to the south and I west the rehnbltflatlon of Hawaii the extension of commerce north Into Alaska I Alas-ka and the Klpndike rqgion and the increased Oriental trade the west coast States have been givena tivrlir o new lIfe and Importance thai under ordinary l ordi-nary circumstances they would not have attained In twenty years Assuming that Mr Bryan Is sincere sin-cere and that If President he would use 1 his Influence to carry out his stated pinup the result could not help but be disastrous to the coast I must 1p 1 understood that his policy Is to practically give up the Philippines at I once Deep down in his heart he has no possible use for the protective1 tariff and If he cap be elected and with him a House and Senate to carry out his views I will simply means a contraction contrac-tion which will make useless half the ships of the Pacific and whlch will make unprofitable so many of the occupations oc-cupations on land that wageearners will as they always have been when that experiment has been tried be turned out by the thousands to earn n living as best they can Whatever the men of the East may do or think of doing there should be put one question on the Ycstcont Mr Bryan was bred Inland He wns bred with all the narrow prejudices which attach to a people who have but limited horizons at best and whose lives are s hard that they are Interested simply In i what they themselves arc doing A distinguished Senator from Kansas was here some years ago and when It was explained to him what mighty advantages advan-tages would accrue were a system of storage reservoirs to be established In the ROcky mountains which would increase In-crease the area that might be cultivated culti-vated by many thousands of acres ho blunt said that he did not care to see that work carried on at present and when asked why he said with such opportunities thousands of men would leave Kansas and come West to make homes where the promises of reward re-ward would be so much greater than In Kansas As the South for many years had a contempt for and a prejudice preju-dice against great manufacturing establishments es-tablishments so the men of the middle mid-dle West cannot see why they should be taxed that we may have more ships on the sea more commerce and more prestige as a nation Unconsciously Mr Bryan is more or less environed by that hereditary narrowness Hence he is a freetrader lie believes that when the farmer sells his corn at 20 cents L bushel he ought to have aright a-right to send to England and buy what he wants for his house In the lowest possible market in the world and never yet has been able to sec that 11 great manufacturing establishments could be started in Nebraska even If the goods cost a little more at first the result would be that the farmer would get I half as much again for his corn The American people have tried the experiment ex-periment or electing such a President over and over again They have paid fearfully for the experiment but with a strange perversity about once In so often they are beguiled Into trying It anew But the men of the west coast surely ought to be enlightened enough to see that the empire of this country and by empire we mean the prestige and the power ot this country working for the good of mankind does not stop at least J ought not to Htop on the shore The way the Philippines have come to us make certain duties on those Islands unavoidable and as an encouragement to perform those duties the Islands themselves lie basking there under a perpetual summer sun waiting to produce pro-duce all the augar all the coffee all the tea all the rubber which this country coun-try every year pays 5200000000 for and to have this progress stop Just as it Is beginning would be an Impeachment of the Intelligence of our people Tho west coast people I surely I will not add to the shame of that Impeachment |