Show MR BRYAN ON CLAY In a spcechtit Chicago Saturday Mr W J Bryln Raid We cannot adopt a colonial V policy without Ignoring Ignor-ing the doctrine of selfgovernment so long cherished In tills country and we cannot ignore this Doctrine In dealing with the Filipinos without endangering endanger-ing the existence of the United Stales If true ihls statement is serious Mr Byran believes In it and seeks reinforcement rein-forcement In the words of Henry Clay whom he quotes as declaring that those who deny Ihe capacity of any people for selfgovernment Jnineuch lie wisdom of the Creator Andcon limes the Nebraskan orator Clay was right Mr Clay V belonged to an era in which lalesnien oilen preferred lo let facts oscupo from their mental horizons If they seemed likely lo obscure or spoil a figure of speech V But the predominating predominat-ing power oC cloquonce Is a tiling of the past and it Is no longer permitted to overcome us In opposition to recorded re-corded history and ordinary commonsense common-sense From this point oC view it is allowable to show that the doctrine of selfgovernment as expounded by Bryan from the gospel of Clay has never been cherished absolutely in this country cither1 long or at all The people of the District of Columbia in Mr Clays lime as now were not allowed al-lowed selfgovernment A man could then and can nour be a citizen of the United States a large property owner an Intellectual giant a street railway magnate and pastor of a church and yet have no more power of selfgovern meat than a Digger Indian Yet the country has never regarded such a fact as evidence of impeachment proceedings proceed-ings against the Almighty From lie foundation of lie Republic wo have denied political rights lo all women1 many of them far better educated edu-cated and In every other way better qualified to exercise the some than the husbands or brothers who have enJoyed en-Joyed Item We have denjed self government to the wild Indian tribes who could not be considered less capable capa-ble of It thai a majority of ouwiPhilip pine islanders In many of our Slates we Impose educational or other quall ileallons which arc In denial of self government wlion time extreme of the doctrine is applied For a gonorulion wi have kept Ito h Torrllory of Alaska is a colonial possissiun wllhoul V Iho Hclonso uf gnonilujT It otherwise than ns a dopondoiKy of un Imperial power In adopting a colonial policy we do not fifsjiumo responsibility for u men tlonablf t thing that we have not been doing in fact or in principle ever siucc the adoption of the Constitution V V if Mr Bryan and the late Mr Clay are right then the Apache Indians the headhUnters of Luzon lie cannibal blacks of Haiti and the other cannibals canni-bals of the Kongo basin arc all entitled to Golfgovernment and the privilege of keeping the parts of the earth which they infest In a condition of hopeless savagery and chaoa But It will require re-quire moro than the asscrtlonof political polit-ical loaders present or departed to Impress such a view upon the mlnda of the American people Washington riImeu V V |