Show IflJT ENTANGLING ALLIANCE The Kansas City platform is emphatic l em-phatic In its opposition to what I calls militarism I says that militarism Itvlll Impose upon our peaceloving people a L large standing army an unnecessary un-necessary burden of taxation and a constant menace to their liberties Th se sentiments are concurred in sentments fully by Mr Bryan who undoubtedly this sub vvlll have much to say about I ject during the campaign But should Mr Br llIC elected put in operation that Filipino policy which Is set forth in the platform of his party par-ty and which he indorses unreservedly he will have to resort soonel or later to that militarism which the Kansas City platform calls the strong arm which has ever been fatal to free Institutions In-stitutions He will have to abandon one of the essential features of his T Philippine policy or ask for a larger standing army than this Administration Administra-tion has asked for and Impose on ihc ton people for military purposes a heavier burden of taxation than they are bearIng bear-Ing now That policy Is the establishment of a 1 stable form of government for the Filipinos Fili-pinos rcaIy I of two or more governments govern-ments for theMoros In the Sulu islands would have to be given a government of their ownthen the gift of independence inde-pendence to the Filipino government or governments and finally protection from outside Interference Inasmuch 1 I as not even the most advanced Filipinos Fili-pinos are able lo maintain a stable government J would be but a short time before European Governments were complaining often with good cause or wrongs Inflicted on their subjects sub-jects They would demand redress and would proceed to exact I Then it 1 would be necessary for the United States acting h protector of the Filipinos I Fili-pinos eIther to Intervene In their affairs af-fairs remodel their stable government I govern-ment and force them to behave themselves them-selves which would need an army or take up the cudgels for them and fight I in their behalf against whatever powers I pow-ers are making war on them Then it would indeed be necessary to raise I large afmies and send out great fleets I The advice of Jefferson entangling nlancen with nonels quoted approvingly approv-ingly in the Kansas City platform I Is Impossible to imagine a more entangling en-tangling alliance than would be the one with a Filipino republic which Mr Bryan and his party insist the United Suites shall enter Into It would keep this country continually In hot water and involve It In war after I S war forcing It Into that militarism of which Mr Bryan has such a holy t horror I will be much less expensive i to extinguish the smoldering embers of revolt In the Philippines and give them n stable American government than It will be to go to war with one or more ci Europeans nations on account of them t t Chicago Tribune t EARLY WOMEN POSTMASTERS The Impression that the work of women t I wo-men in the postal service Is a modern t Idea perhapn American Is not foundfd on fact The earliest postmasters in t Salem Mass and Portsmouth N I I of whom we know were women Lydia II111 postmaster of Salem died in 1768 and Elizabeth Harvey was postmaster t i of Portsmouth at the beginning of the I soventeenth century She kept a fat fa-t mous hotel the Three Ton often mentioned i men-tioned in the New Hampshire records Under the Restoration many women served as postmasters in England as t the stale papers show t From 1C28 to 1G4C Alexandrine de Rye x wa PostmasterGeneral of the German I Ger-man empire the Netherlands Burgundy t Bur-gundy and Lorralifc and maintained I the service through the hororors of the t thirty years war As early as 1518 t Leonard of Taxis PostmasterGeneral commissioned a woman as postmaster t of BralncleCompte at that time a 01 t famous point and ntlll the junction or the LlllcNamur and ParisBrussels I railroads In old times a postmaster I kept post horsos and was something Journal more than l mere clerk Womans |