Show UNAMERICAN In a letter to the KnoxvJIIo Sentinel Mr Bryan asks this question How can VQ Justify tho sacrifice of American soldiers and the killing of FIII plnoK merely to How that wo can whip them Is not that rather small business for a candidate for President of the United I Staten Vo believe that Mr Bryan himself Indorsed the taking of the I Philippines Al least I he volunteered to I I go and take Porto Rico his thought I presumably being that It was necessary neces-sary to break the power of Spain In her island colonies Well after the I conqucsr as he calls It now the very I fact that we hud broken Spains power Involved tho responsibility of giving I to those Islands a stable and Just government More than that they were ours We were responsible for them responsible up to the point of fighting for them if needs be It Is not to show the Filipinos that we can whip them It is first to protect the I liven I of peaceably disposed people there which number ninetenths of the whole population It is second to protect our own property and It is third to maintain before the world the reputation reputa-tion that this country will do what Is Just even If J it requires the killing of the Filipinos or the sacrifice of American I Ameri-can lives and the attitude of Mr Bryan and others of the same kind J has re I sui ted In the killing of more Filipinos and sacrificing more American lives than would have been necessary had they joined In and Indorsed the work of the Government In bringing order and peace to those islands and establishing estab-lishing schoolhouses and the beginning of the lifting up of those people to a piano of civilization and good government govern-ment No man who has ever been u candidate for President has pandered I more directly to the vicious classes of 11 the United States or has given any broader hints to the vicious classes I that they would be exempt from I i punishment In case of his election than I has Sir Bryan I |