Show FREEDOM AND IMPERIALISM The Government of the United States despite the wording of the Declaration of Independence does not mean that all men are equal for that Is an impossibility I Impos-sibility The meaning is that all men shall stand upon an equal footing under the law and that equal opportunities I shall bo extended to all This Is the theory but this presupposes certain I things I docs not promise that 0 man without means shall make a much money as a man who has a large capital to start with it docs not mean that the illiterate man shall be given a place where an expert accountant Is required It does not mean that a blacksmith should set up a l watchmaker I watch-maker or that n watchmaker can shoe a horse Rather a certain amount of Intelligence for any calling Ispresup I posed and that before a man can be absolutely free he must break the iron envIronments Ignorance and acquire that intelligence that Judgment that I comprehension or his own duties and the requirements of society and or government I gov-ernment that will enable him to take on the responsibilities of citizenship The I Declaration of Independence a not made for Mr Jeffersons slaves nor for the Indians In the then wild woods of America Again while the fathers prescribed the ballot as the remedy for wrongs and as a means through which the people could express their sovereign sov-ereign will that Implied that the people peo-ple should possess not only the Intelligence Intelli-gence but the patriotism to use tho ballot with the discretion which knowledge knowl-edge and a love of country combined would direct Hence the ballot was not given as a right but as a privilege and to each State was left the making of the needed Qualifications of the citi zen to use that privilege All this Is but preliminary to the consideration of the Nations present duties toward the Philippines Mr Bryan says he would establish for the Philippines a stable government l he will stop to think he will have to admit that a stable government cannot be maintained unless un-less the people to whom it Is Intrusted possess the Intelligence the patriotism and the levclheadcdncss to control themselves while directing tho government govern-ment A moments further thought will convince him that the Filipinos have not these attributes that given n stable government now within a year I would become a despotism controlled by a few chiefs and enforced with spoliation and cruelties or that the Islands wouldbe but so many smoking volcanos or anarchy and revolution Hence the dishonesty of his pretension for I presupposes Impossibilities Even now Home of his adherents admit that If mln > lt I i bui iciiunu uu inuciinitc number of years to establish that stable government gov-ernment on a safe basis Mr Bryan Is working for votes lip has not In his mind a thought that if elected President he could within tho four earp of his term recall the authority au-thority of the United States from those Islands Ills proposition regarding the establishment of a government la I not a day in advance of the position of President McKInlev on the day that tho treaty was ratified by i Spain Ills proposition that so soon as the slubld government can be established he will order our shins and soldiers to come away is a deception for In the very nature of things that cannot bo done for years The buncombe that those people are llko our fathers Is disgraceful tho buncombe that they are lighting In precisely pre-cisely the same cause Is untruo for tho leaders have no conception of our Government and their dream Is not of seeing a people free but rather of seeing see-ing the people their subjects The men who plan the working of something through wholesale asnasslnation do not yet belong to 0 libertyloving race but rather an unbridled JlcenHolovIncr race raceI la I sometimes said I 80melmcs that those people peo-ple are ns competent to govern themselves them-selves as are the Cuban H Jntellectpally perhaps they arc but they have not the other attributes They are Asiatics What nation of Asia ever yel has had n clear Idea of republican government Not ailu Thonjunless almost a miracle Is interposed in-terposed it will bo swiftly demonstrated demon-strated upon tho retirement of American authority from Cuba that It was a mistake to come away I Cuba has within her limits 0 second Diaz I man who while giving the people every opportunity to advance at the f same time has the will and ability to crush out incipient rebellion upon its llrst appearance Cuba will get along 1nl rl h but unless there Is such asian r a-sian it will not be three years until the whole world will seethe I see-the mistake that our country will have made In leaving those people I peo-ple to their own devices for so sure as the world until a people possess Intelligence I Intel-ligence patriotism Judgment and that lovelhcaclcdncss necessary for self j government Ils necessary for their own best welfare that they leo chll I then be governed I |