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Show i SUPPLEMENT GOOD SENSE FROM TO THR BHAVE n BLADE. TEDDY; ROOSEVELT FOUflCAL FAKAGRAPH5. U Hung (.'bang will doubtless Jula juiuulitu iu boptug fir the success of Hit. I Himet a I i 40 act. A Find 8ii Ann in an who dcprwatcs the prewcte e of ur troaps iu 1'ekiU Uii JiAi Ii lid uu A iim'i nan vi bone lulgli-bu- r are uMiuun'd I iiiiu. rrolivllou; and patriotism j,(..-nt- com-nutte- cold-bloodt- sl IT AH. BEAVER. - wn devices to work out their their as tmderstod by Americans has been MISQUOTING LINCOLN, illustrated by astoundlngly arbitrary and cruel decrees, which were put into A CAMPAIGN DISCREDITABLE by the Insurgent natives, espe- force as far as practicable, aud by the TRICK OF Alt BRYANS. cially upon those natives who refused . assassination of their to join In the ltaurrection.- - Many of ablest generals." wtK.a I knew before Ran the oitlci-rTo give t aucb men the right to What Lincoln Really Said About a t a o w rite me alout affairs in the I'inl Monarchy In This Country, aud What others In the name of liberty oppress i pines. I cannot, as a rule, make pub- woultl be the merest travesty on the Bryan Mays He sahl, are Two Quit lic their name. From one series of principles of right. Different Things. h r ers liow ever, I desire to quote to No nten can Nothing, tt seems, wilt make Mr. the doctrines our certain extracts. In one of the lett- political foes profess as ashamed of continuing to garymi Bryan the FRAUD profes OF regards THE ANCIENT AND SENSELESS er- be ays: without tieiug sieedily ble President Lincoln's protest against ibilippines 'We have worked and planned to get lured Into tlie objects and aims of the Mouther positions even more destruc-tivtin ' The exiss'ple who cared to lie fitendly IMPERIALISM EXPOSED. . Confederacy iu his first message to of the na tn u m an accept our protection to come into tremist among them of every grade Congress iu lstil. Bryan began this Vet.mn. succeeded. Many of the have actually attaikiug the Pres- four years or more ago, w hen he was K.hpmo came itt and were given ident for what he has doin' in China, tlie editor of the Dinaha World-Heral'Ilm-- e without food were yip-.l.- . Ii.i es. and one of their leaders even hud the and though l.e has I .ecu exitosed time Roosevelt's Speech in Grand Fapids What Has Really Been I. the sick were ami again by the new spatters he U doctored, etc. Now, wild folly to state that Hie Boxer Done in the Philippines and How ItWa Done Effect of tt tv the earnest endeavor of a ii tile, si ill at it, and it in hisIn- in China was due to onr possesto burn the town, kill or car- sion of the rhilipp-ncdlanapntis address of acceptance. This sapient Rear."-ThGive Will e Guerrillas "Fire From the up ry eff the pimple men, womtn a, ml gout (email might just exactly as well Iu tils first message, Mr. Lincoln . the ,1 du n. Hiey treat rhclf prisoner have Mated lhat our occupation of the show oil tlmt Hie object of the secession -- - When McKinley 1 1 "There is terrrbie Philippines ri great produced disturbances in convention that had met io organize h'lering among-thamigo when we the raigs of Saturn. It is noteworthy rehcliil.n and adopt a constitution . o nut protect them. I hear continually that the first of the- militarism whose (suiter stone was human slavery In many points lime Is a curious and (bn s not add - mu h to our but- - i"l a brittle tiny are wnitin:; for tlie cumpbiiued of result " a- - to overthrow labor by a combina tlie LhiJippines-lm- l in nr ib I as rtth. r of these. - j elmlldriiy lain ecu November election amt will lie active bcitl to enable lion of enpifaL and to make manual Ussj-Hiiw to the take bcu Piesident' of a lhol, to Now wold a tlieiuinpuign tig cinl then. specim ally ur troops tutcrei a uew the lead In lalMir disgraceful and he solemnly Tresldeiit I.lnrolu was reelected. Not Philippines. It La iu connection with tuw protecting our minister and n nqL long ago and oalleil In the on r hotlc-owarned, tlie tlie North i diffiChina.slliee Die lo-- e of the fiiiT w.ir li.iTe Die I'u.hpplnes that Mr.T!ryan lini It f local oiliccr for a talk. Tlie mat rim and the South this heresy of against know cult to . b W e ever Innl iim a im u to the r.r which admire ,1 , I ,J , ,.,i Up !l the "consent of ter wa laid I airly before him as to most-t- he .in moderation with Jeff Davis and ids disciples. It wa .i did so in Ui li to Upb .fit llie e hot ci tied" no- of il.ri'W lie wished to join with us or i). A a matter a notable utterance and worthy of wltieh tlie President tlnoughout th Interest of Ainclha us I'reeideiit Me fu t we isniiot i learly keep In uilufl go w mu. the ij rectos. Being a think , Klnley's, and not mine the dose of the Dial the since-.-- , of the Aglllnaldial mg man he hesitated a few moments, Chinese difficulty has refused to allow commemoration. thin Iirynn garbles this country to take a vindictive atti passage in tlie Civil war, not even In li,N or IN i, lias rchcls would mean not liberty for all and hen took breath the from faiily tude or to do more than exact justice message and leaves out all reference to ' but It belli of ittli-l- t vital liberty for a certai the otlict r by asking him whether to the subject of the discussion which overwhi'ltu a pubtiial party us it now Fillpm., bbei.ll lot sty section to oppress a great) !nan and McKinley 'would lie elected ori on the other hand, the steadfast was the aim of the rebel government and resolution with which is, for the stntess of our. unswerving fellow j of their us aountryineo. onwuaj. IHIjnty f.,n. He Joined only after being he is Insisting that this Justice should and constitution to strike down free would mean to Uie country a isaster t nder Mpaniali rule the Kili(tlnos were no that there wit jmsslbility ialtor, nnd nuotes It a though Abra, fraught with the giinest consequences treated with intolerable cruelty. miHf p.ryaus being elected. I would be obtained. ham Lincoln was arraigning a tendreT here Is a dose similarity between the as the 4ruth My leader wherever have, Agiiiimhllun In the loyal people who adhered eeriatnly vote the straight Republican gard the present situation i simply ency atguuieuta used Jiy tht populistic De- their power ha extended continued A ticket if I were at home. . to the Union In thnt day of stress and the that American clearly people mocracy at the moment and by their system aliiu st a bad. The chief vi I cannot understand how our own toward tlie establishment now have to decide whether or not of lsi.l; thus of this system have been not tli analogues, the country should do so much to encour- they will of a monarchy. the na of a and exactly as In lfil so now we ap- America us, but their play part great age the insurrection and cause the loss In Mich a shape his quotation la not . peal for tlie support of all good fur their hatred and cruelty have beet of so much life. In tills Island I know lion nobly and well. It only an insult to the American people nation as with the None individual. We have a right to ask that the exhibited chiefly at tlie cost of tkeif that the army of lnurrectos and guerhut to the of the martyr pre Demis thU will stand with us, men, who have had tht illas is kept alive by people at home. of us respects the man whose aim in Idcnt. by memory Is life representing him as reproacle to avoid and for the every difficulty Demoeiacy always good setiHe and genuine patriotism t Bryans campaign is most closely folIng the people who were straining championed bard money ami expan- realize tlmt the true Interesta of th lowed. Tlie sjiecehes of public men danger, and stay in the shelter of bis every nerve to suppress Jeff Dari and sion. Isluii.ls lay In tlie American govern-mcnt.- who expose expansion, and In doing so own borne, there to Jning up children hi tyrannical constitution bn the Acid Moreover, more fortunate than In So far as I am aware, not on praise the 'Filipino bravely struggling unable to face the roughness of the of battle, with an to pervert 18i4, we can now appeal to all good witness who has actually for his lilerty, are translated into the world. We respect the man who goes the government andattempt to destroy the libmen North and Routli, Last and West, eompetent known sic facts, h.jlieves the Elllplnui several dialects and Issued as circu- out to do a man's work, - to front difficulties. overcometo the sous of the men who wore the callable of and to erties of the laboring men. when la at lar. From an Intelligent prisoner the trajn upandhistochildren to them, do like wins.. fact had not Bryan suppressed the key blue and the sons of the men who or iM'Ileves that such an effortpresent would other day I learned that the jieople Mo it is with the nation. To decline to note of the address It would appear wore the gray alike. Not only was the result In anything lint a horrible coix were assured that on its face that he had no suclylntea-tloIlryan would be Spanish war the most righteoiM for- fusion of tyranny and anarchy. Judge elected slid that our ships would be do our duty la simply to sink as China and was denouncing the rebels and eign waiundertaken by any nation Taft, President Schurman, Irofeaaor withdrawn and the massacre of Ameri- has sunk. If wo are to continue to the and not the governduring the lifetime of the present gen- Worcester, Btsltop Totter and all our cana would be the order of the day. If hold our heads high as Americans, we mentConfederacy people of tbe United. eration, but it welded this country once army officers are a unit on this point you doubt this I wish you could' see must bravely, soberly and resolutely State and the loyal to the flag, for their efand for all Into uu undivided nation. ioe Institutions of a free republic can- - their barbarous mutilation of the pris- front each particular duty as It arises, fort to kill liberty and enslave laand it is because of Our generals included not only men nut at a leap lie truth the great Into whol- oners and wounded that they take. I contained in this principle that we ap- bor. who fought on the Tnion side In the ly alien soil among a people who bavt do that if Bryan and hla v However, the man who will to Northerner man. Civil war, but men who hud with equal not tlie slightest conception of liberty abd every cannot make their campaign peal falsify history In thl way for gallantry and equal devotion to what aud as we use those without such acta 'and speech as are Mouther nor, Easterner and Westerner, a political end. they deemed their duly, Isirne arm for words. You might as well try to trane traitorous to the government In time whether his father fought under Grant to have sufficientmust not tie expected sensitiveness to be the Mouth men tike Joe Wheeler, Fi ta- plant a oak into alien noil. ; of w ar, it would be more genSrous and or under Lee, whatever political par- shamed out of, his fraud. The Jour li ugh Lee amt tunny another whom I In the he have to ty may lielouged In hold noble to their abeyopinions Remember that to surrender the Phil nal has more) than once exposed Brycould mention. All alike were Ameriance until we can straighten out tills past to stand with us now when we ans perfidyTtOj, IJneoln by publishMccans and the eountry canal nothing ipplnes now to a little band of military tangle. If ask the bands that of President anil is defeated the ing this portion of that first message be about where they came fntm, because usurpers would lie to surrender tig eountry giveBryan and this that upheld, Kinley nation, the administration the and pointing out. the words and It took equal pi lie In them ait. ' That islands to bloodshed and. misery,. Dig instead of shrinking In unmanly ter- InFull In the islands Is the condithd right support we can finish up this Job ror sentences that Bryan suppresses In his its from shall stride forward Dewey was born In Vermont con- stay duty, here without great loss of American with the intent --.to mislead cerned them no more than that Hob- precedent of peace. With ua expanaiot life and without giant strength for the up- qoutatlon, great punishment to to use its son was born In Alabama, or that Knn-sto- means, as it always has meant, peac the natives. our honor and the Interests his audience as to what Mr. Ltncoia of holding was talking about. came from Kansu and Hale front Wbpn we took New Mexico It mean! This town, on of th worst on the of mankind In doing that part of the The only motive of Bryan cunning Colorado. As we Iu the time of the, i..at we gave to that territory pea eg Islands, In now alworld work which Providence has practically on a of these word suppression and. war appealed to all men who were good and saved It from the quarter of a cenlotted . to ui basis, and the municipal afto make people believe that of followed which Js phrases bloody tury fighting no now In Americans, preserving the for old Mexico, When we fair managed by the native themLincoln was accusing his own people expanded selves. I results of the war. In Justifying what THE NEW COPPERHEADISM. begin o believe things will and party of projects for the enslavewe did two years sgo, we appeal again west of the Mississippi It meant that a within few here month. up ment of labor. In hi rharseterlzsflo we put a atop to the trltial warfask tape to all good men, whatever their polit- which last month to Bryan's Recent Utterances Just Lika of the act and Intentions bad endured for ages amonf Ve made an expedition of the Conical afllllsttou have been in the past, Te-tthe some of relief mountain 153. Those of Vatlandigham In federate government which wa In whether they come fnun the North or Hloux aud Crow, Cheyenne and Tavs Aqericanlsta native held prisoner Mr. Bryan must have been giving his arms against the flag for the defense tbo Mouth, the Atlantic or Iuclfic coast, nee. Ro now the establishment of our by the Insurreeto. We found dajs and nights to study of Clement and perpetuation of human slavery. to stand with na Us a use we stand for rule In the ThUlppines means to gin and their condition and place ofthem, conL. Vallandigliuto works. That notoriNebraska State Journal. the honor and Interest uf our common the Islands peace, aud It la the only finement were horrible beyond descript- ous thoughts are echoed ft chance they have of getting peace or ion. Their crime wa living11 a town in copperhead's country. all Air. Bryan's recent speeches. of gating good government. To A CRY FROM NEBRASKA. and the This similarity Imperialism sa Old Cry. of thought is natural, Instead of expand means cruel protected by American trtfis, 'tW'cre In lSf.4 the Democratic platform detreated with which they for Mr. now, like Yallandigham O, Bryan, come home for your rank cruel despotism for th Islands crselty wa equal to the sort Infticted by our In lHik!, Bryan nounced the further prosecution of the war, are unsteady advocate surrender to rebels. which we would abandon.'" faCMI war, Just a the Kansas City platIndians, In their worst days. Their Since hearing the new most violent and from tto Vallamllgham's a to We have ask the support right form deumineea the further prosecution vorite punishment la to break the legs treasonable East was delivered May speech Of every of lover of peace. every of their with sticks, or mat, 1, 18U3, at Monnt Vernon, Ohio. Je That help is at hand, and were of the war In the l'hlllppine gotng in peace, for the righteous poli- ing themprisoner Bit down on live coals of fire. Moreover, In lwil, the platform conto have Teddy In the Ilililpplues. by proclaiming bis right to we have cy pursued tained precisely the same frautlc asser- No statesman Wouldnt they make a fine class to began four' To lend us for the acts of our military serv day at least. worthy of the name, no govern here! The Insurrectos governed criticise He tion that civil liberty und private rights cited aa a precedent for The ranks of confusion are sorely con- ' patriot or philanthropist who Is en- this Island (Leyte) for about a year and ants. had been trampled on, and that Justice titled . founded. such criticism the fact that "Tom Cora moment's hearing before the a half before we eame. Their plan win, in tlie face of Cougrexts, hoped our and liberty demanded an Immediate bar of tomankind Discouraged, disheartened and gtnmt will maintain that the was to sell the offices to the effort for the cessation of hostilities. highest on the retreat and will soon volunteers in Alexico might be wel- Theyre Much of what is put in the two plat- principles of the Declaration of Inde- cash bidder, and each purchaser sold comed with be surrounded , bloody hands to hospitable mean that any matt through- the office tinder him e manner. forms could tHtiiterehaiigert nn thtr pendence Unless their great leader shall come. Alrr Bryan, m his speech of out the world, no matter what his held good of the munici- graves. polnt. and In lHtt-- there was the same crimes- - or his limitation, i excused The same plan acceptance on August 8, 11)00, at Intelli0, Bryan, return, for your chances offices. for Naturally hypercritical sympathy expressed from the observance of law Mini order pal began by proclaiming the exnatives are now on our side, and same the soldiers ami sailors that of criticism and If he lmiqieii to think tlmt lawlessness gent also right alleged Bight swiftly as chances now run. pressed again iu l!Mxi; In eneh case the ami disorder suit him best. As has I believe firmly that the best classes Mexican war precedents. Free silver is dead and your warrim v expression of sympathy for the soldier been shown again and again, neither will become capable of an Intelligentof the Yallandigham spoke , suppreaneed training , , administration of their Internal afto destruction. -- on I have spoken 'of the cruelties fottn the iltaiu4 picture painted uu ailtey of every proml'f, pledge anil lrchidcut ,'i Uiiilt y s admlltlNtraliuu. i Omaha ami If Bryan imh an cent. of I.liii'iilu uf twenty ifvuu tfiuir InlmbtlinM m U u ynjusluiw long will ll Dike iti .11 to IrHiitiluti the Stall'T a-- r Hie IVpul. I vi tm finds himself rlji'ji . s uu i ii.i nmi w.tn Ing bumis Imtliered to Unbind t filmy ,.t loti w bet her tin t i nan or fin wigwam la lust. -- i s e 1 Is-e- -- . Re-electe- f - d. e -- - a- this-Caurp- itUn d -- . . d i i ' In-t- i Mr. Juiiurt luiMi't yet sold Ida stork Ui tlir Auifi li an i on. in Coin puny; ami k oar .i.andni opinum iu tb If you mutter, wo must say Hist lio Is nut i Ukely to do so. Tbe Ittinoia Central's ten jut runt, raise of wages muat lie another phase of tilt .conspiracy to ki-- t p up general, prices Iu Una country. Mr. Jtryan ought to look luto tills. win' observer of list i try who says that the si tort cut to imperlallsta wou'il In through the anarchy of a government by Bryan, Ailgelil, Weaver, Tllliimu ami I'd llgrew. It Is a Mr. Itrjaa baa requested the Silver Republicans to tuit.fy bliu by letter and not personally. He seems to havf rat, and the facts Iu the given up the ease seem to warrant that count. This year Oregon Increased Its Republican plurality Uve fold. Between Vermont and Oregon the IHiuoeratic srithmellc mau has untiling to say ex-athat be awaits developments. Cart Re bur eopH-rheud- s, s fellow-FlllpIno- dti-sens- old-lin- e fellow-countr- y old-lin- e n trim-plant- ed aym-thlze- drtea-tliw-Ameri- people to say to the llepublicau party: Tou are discharged with a reprimand. Rut before you go tie sure to pass the laws necessary to preveut Bryan from wrecking the country. We'll lake It all back. Mr. Bryan did make one prediction In 1801 that ha ticca fultl lltul. He ald: "We Intend to atop borrowing money In EuAnd we bare, Minneapolis rope," Journal. ' The memlier of the O. A. B, keenly regretted President McKinleys Inability to attend their reunion. But they are men. who appreciate the Importance of the coiuainndor In chief ream lulng at bis post of duty when there la an enemy In the Odd. deRb-eratel- full-grow- n he The beauty of Tammany government the mauncr In which tlie liewey arch Is cared for. The board of aldermen made an appropriation of 12.000 to repair and clean the arch. Tlie money has disappeared and tlio arch continues In Its dilapidated baa condition. The Tsinmnuy a rapacious appetite. la Illustrated by toll-gat- e . fellow-citizen- Doc anybody suppose that John H. Rearlea, lately the dominating spirit In the Sugar Trust of New York, would have made J. K. Jones rich and proud. oent In the Cotton Rale Trust If the aid Jones bad not tieen a mom tier of the finance committee of the Senate? . "Should Mr. Lincoln lie the revolution will lie accomplished. Till will lie no longer a republic of the con-tra- to-da- y. l the-mo- are-wani- 1 114. work and danger of the soldier. The chairman of the convention In IStrl made a speech In which he declared that every lover of civil liberty throughout the world was Interested In the success of the Copperhead party. The chances of Nebraska being enr-rleby the Republican grows brighter each day.' One aoldmieara of a man who voted for McKinley four years Is Just the same type of appeal ago saying that be will vote for Bryan ThU this year, while you "hear of doena who That U being made now. and U is Just voted for Bryan declaring thev will aa baseless Iu one ease as It was In the cast their ballots this year for McKin- other. In ISt 14 the uume of liberty was Invoked to secure the continuance of ley. In this county the slump to McIn V.xi It is Invoked to secure Kinley will lie qnfte Inrge. North alavery. the abandonment of American honor -- llatte Tribune. and to throw the Philippines under the of a corrupt au.l ty rannous oligar-jw'u- t Mr. Bryan finds-proo- f of IniperiaT- - rule - kwt" to our J,n Vy!Ltl.',e. ?7. altered purchase of the cr: was raised as It ls now' Eafsetl, Filipinos at 2, 50 st head, like slaves." with Just aaexactly little Imsls. The IndianapThen we must have bought the peopio Sentinel, for Instance, de'larel that f Detroit, New Orleans, 8t. Augus- olis If Mr. Lincoln was t litre like and Rants Sitka Fe, tine, slaves, lie no longer a republic In the at so much per head. Will Mr Bryan would Itnlted States, but a consolidated emdedare to suggest to ny hand Lincoln was depire." an one scendant of old settler of of nounced(n aaevery a shudder of a tyrant, tow-pJfltnse that Ms ancestor was blood, a foe of lltierty, a wouid-tidic a slave by the United bought as tator, a founderof an empire one ora Rtate? Let Mr. Bryan advance that tor saying: We also have our emperor, Idea In person to the gentleman of French descent nour Democratic mayor Lincoln, who ran tell stale jokes while f New Orleans or to one of the Lunas the land Is running red with the tdood or Oteros of New Mexico. Mr. Bryan of brother." Even after Lincoln's death Dhe aswonlil not tie likely to make any was kept up, and In 1HDS the sptcche fur tlie next month. When sault that If (irant was Mr. Brvan's slave hiiTlng argument same party deriared Inaugurated as president the American Is reduced to coniTete and piraonai people would meet as a subjugated Tom ils alwnrdlty Is apparent. and conquered people amid the ruin of liberty aud the shattered constitution." Bryan excnsi'S his urging Democratic Of course. In 1MV4 militarism as senator (o vote for the rntltleatlen of threat was worked with Infinitely more th tnmty lietweeirSpstlt and the Tuttthnn tt can now Justltlcatlon apparent ed States, by saying that he urged and be workeil. We did have big armies hoped the Senate would at the same In the Held then, whereas now our detime pass a resolution pledging army, including not merely the regupendence to the .Filipino. The gentle- lars, but volunteer. Is not half as man surely flue not wish the public to to the population of believe that lie h so densely Ignorant large relatively as is the New York city as to believe that a resolution of that the country force relatively to the populakind would have any fuice or elTiVt as police tion of that city. To appeal now to the of the the against provisions treaty. average man to beware lest he groan The excuse is uf Itself an Insult to the under the burden of the soldier a the of American Intelligence people. good deal leas rational than to nppcnl fullf-awrtH he-f t ut Hy of tO tltnrtn N of They are to tw- -any such resolution and It was an af wsre Jest he groan under the weight terthoneht of hi, an explanation of a of the numbers of the uniformed mempolitical ldunder that don't explain. In bers of the fire department. We have IK! many gave Bryan credit for being a regular army practically no larger sincere, but mistaken In the theories he In proportion to the population than It advocated:' tday they are forced to was a feniury ago. We nse It Just a conclude he Iu either an Ignhramns or a we ue the police force and fire dejiart-tne.. demagogue, and they certainly do not in great cl tics, and lL i not a believe him to be the former. Wsyao whit more daugerous to our liberties Republics a. d s e -- 1 ee nt national life oorreiqsind with that same doctrine, ever tin anted for s moment of giving It such Interpretation, , in one of hi great speeches, tt Springfield, June 2'., 1ST7, Dins alluded to the framer of tlie Declaration of Imlopei'deuee: "They did not mean to assert the obvious- - untruth that all were then actually enjoying equality, WIT yet that they were aboupToeonfer It Ini mediately uiHtu. j.liuin-I- a fact, they had no power to confer micb a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might fotTow as fast l.lm-otn- mesnMol VmTt.'Vhey' maxim fm free society which sltmild lie familiar to all and revered by allrvonstantly looked to, constantly tailored for, and even, though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreadisg aud deepening Its Influence and augmenting tie ltappluesa and value of life to all peoples. Ulmitw of III Soldier. I received the ftliier day letter from Cnptnin Moffett of the First Iskotn voluntters, giving his experience with the prisoners In Manila prison when that city was captured. of the 15oo prisoners, l.lOti were released. Itaa penred thatyhey Tiad lorf tiresl amt wrongest In the most terrible way tad most of them had not evetTlieen Wwl for the crimes they were alleged to have committed. Over half 0f them were probably entirely inn, sent. 1 mo nor even enumerate the tot turns habit ttally used by the Spaniards to these Filipino prisoners, and when I remt such letters as these of Captain Mof fett. and such letter a that I quote from the gallant son of a (Viufodbrate ofllcer, my bhsvl h,,u the font slanders of the men who dt. honor the name of Aim-ra by a on our isdiey and our soldiers intaek. tu 1hillppiites. The simple truth is th., we D'settetl those island - from the hta iT..ih7vry,i,'f alnq u "n,; surgent chief. We establishing a stable government Yili wherever we have Mtec-edetnhlisldng thnt government we bavti ready given to the native Uch and lilierty as tieilln r thT forefathers have ever kn,rankJL2r out UA ages. No blarioT-wmnKbe them than to lmu them ju!l die with those extracts frevh lu your mind, I wish you to remember that our opponents' proposition is that we should turn over to unspeakable torture at tbe hands of those who have leen fighting us, the men, women and children who have been friendly to us aud who have trusted in our honor and power., dt seems. .to .me. difficult to stigmatize such a proceeding In aufficicutly hard language: The proposition is Pot to give the Filipinos the right to govern themselves, but to give (he Filipino bandits who hare been fighting us the right to work their n wicked will on their who have been friendly to us. Much an act would be not merely one of cutpa-bl- e folly and weakness, hut one of the baoest treachery and inhumanity. . I have in my possession letters from Mr. George F. Becker, the geologist. Who wa out in the Philippines for considerably over a year, aud during a large part of tbe lime acted as a staff otheev to General James T rankl.n BelL In June, 1KD, Mr. Becker, while visit Island of ing a lignite deposit iu the some CaliNegros, under the escort of fornia volunteers, was attacked by tbe Insurgents. A savage fight ensued, aud their the insurgents were repulsed, leader. General Vicente Ornetlo being killed. Tpon hla person was found a list of Filipinos who were to be -killed victorious.The by the Insurgent if list of slaughter thus cooly made up contained the name of the wife of a Swiss gintleman at whose ranch they bad Just spent (he night. Air. Becker utioti instance after instance of the assassination of friendly native by hosThese outrage were much more tile the common than outrages auainst Americans, although I need not recall 15, lSifl), to you that ou February AgulnaidiV government issued an orr Oti der, quoted in General a annual Die massacre of 'I Amevcana and" Europeans in Manila. I have wpoken tbove of General Bell, in on of hi titters the following ap-pe- ! 1 to-da-y fellow-countryme- yon-wil- soul-harro- Anti-Trus- re-fu- , TV the-tlrvi- n. ' v. a war for the ed and tin necessary war crushing out of. lilierty. hile SU4x Ifig to win peoples liean He declared at Ilolxikcn tbe Republican administration did not 'A' town w here you should not a wish to end the war. If it had it could r have saved the 20,000 lives lost at The speech Colonel Bryan would mnk Fredericksburg." In the same vein Mr. is unspoken . Bryan spoke of the suppression of tlie For want of an audience here. Tagal revolt ns "a war of conquest, as unwise as it is unrighteous," for which Republican work, to reformer abhorrent. there was never any occasion. He Goes on without any restraint; . .. . likewise intimated-tho- t the administra- Come home and tutu on Die hot air tion did not Wishio end Lite war. J'The a torrent RepubUean party, he said, 'is responOf deep and sonorous eoinpiaiuL sible for every drop of blood Delay not your coming, but start In a drawn in the Philippines." minute, Vallandighatn feared the war for the Ami come just as fast a you may; Union would result in the overthrow J. Harley admits that BHi Poynteri of the Republic. The men In power, not 4n it- he saidr"are attempting to establish a l And be lost if yon stay,1-- - despotism. He frequently recurred to this idea. - If those In authority are Dick Metcalfe tries nobly to keep allowed to accomplish their purposes, , things he said in the same speech, the peoBy steadily holding the van. ple will be deprived of their liberties But sadly he watches and walts for; and a monarchy will be established." your coming. Tills brave but disconsolate man. - , Mr.r Bryan likewise feared that American law on American Each day he relates some g,il would -- result in the Republic's ing vision overthrow. He said the iresldent had Of evil triumphant oer right; a established He blazes away at tbe trusts with prealready despotism. The will of the President, he said,1 has , cision, lieen the only law In the Philippines. And brings down a new one each He Implored his hearers to consider night. the effect of Imperialism upon our own nation." He declared that "even now COTTON BALE JONES. we are beginning to see the paralyzing influence of Imperialism. He fre- RomJRensons Why t WUI quently expressed his dread of a mom Not Be a Good Issue. arohy. He asserted that the RepubJones of Arkansas, the chairman of lican party has accepted the European the party pledged to kill the octopus idea and planted Itself upon the ground and bury its Imnes nnder the front taken by George HI. porch of tlie White House when Bryan Of course, Mr. Bryans statements is elected. Is now I icing exposed in the now are as false, his fears now are as I Month as a devil fish himself. He baa, his now baseless, are ag been the central figure of the round predictions unwarranted, a were Vallandighams bale cotton company since It started statements, fear and predictions in and Is now a millionaire. lHkl. The Keputilican Under the new anti-lruparty establaw to lished no monarchy then and does not Texas every corporation in that states even dream of establishing one now. which w ill not appear and oath William McKinley is doing now just that It Is not a "trust or make ronnerted what Abraham Lincoln was doing then with the trust, has to go out of busicompelling rebels to obey the laws ness this month. Jones round bale of the United States. cotton com pn n y t, Ich h njranchcs. On the other hand, Mr. Brynn and all through the ,w phraseTjcCtirw: cotton state. Is one of tlie Filipino for self govern- his party are now encouraging rebels, of those two hundred corporations to ment is much more apparent now than Justasyallandigham and his party did Texas that have refused to make Tnflt air. Bryan should now use Affidavit. It wa then. It would probably be to find any fairly competent Yallandigham s arguments against en- - " Mo Jam's is on the sanp basis as an w ho Wands the the laws anti-truof in the United Mtates forcing Democrat as Bos Orokew bite observer the natives a aide to maintain Is altogether natural. Tbe excuse aud and the Van Wvcks and the five Tam the to secession for or and person arguments rebellion many Jude's of Hie ice trust in the dt protect order here and proiierty of foreigners. -- Their lack are alwAys the! same. Chicago Inter of New York. Nebraska State Jour-Oceaof freedom idea mu. of appreciation of the The Philippine Policy ' J i. |