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Show invested iu Alaska, securing title to mountain, glacier, seals, fish, Indiana, Russians and all else the land contained con-tained without their consent being asked or required. Five times have the United States acquired title to land and sovereignty over people by purchase. pur-chase. When the government paid Spain J20.000.000 for the Philippines It did what was done in 1803, In 1819, in 1848, and In 1853 and In 1867. Yet Bryan Bry-an says It Is impossible to secure title to a people by force or purchase. PROPHETS ANDPROPHECY Our Title to the Western United " States Acquired by Purchase Without With-out the Consent of the Governed. (Special Correspondence.) Washington, D. C, Aug 29. Mr. Bryan's Bry-an's speech of acceptance was carefully care-fully prepared and was intended to be a keynote for the present campaign. It is worthy of study, as It is one of the most painstaking efforts ever Issued Is-sued by this new school of politics. Yet like all political utterances, it is an ex parte statement composed of about equal parts of charges against the Republicans and promises of what the Democrats will do in the event of Bryan's election. The Democratic candidate is an experienced ex-perienced proniiser and political prophet proph-et and both promises arid prophesies are matters of record. lie speaks also not only for himself aione, but for his party and his statements must be weighed by the actions of his party in the past. Four years ago this young prophet of the West declared that the gold standard would make it necessary to advocate the closing of the public schools. (Monmouth. Illinois, speech.) To-day under the gold standard there are more schools and better ones than ever before. The prophesy was false. In his speech of acceptance he said: "Sonic argue that American rule in the Philippine islands will result In the better education of the Filipinos. Be not deceived. If we expect to maintain main-tain a colonial policy we shall not find It to our advantage to educate the people." This assertion must have been whispered whis-pered into the speech by the Southern wing of the party who openly declare that they are tired of paying taxes to educate the negro who by education simply becomes a greater rogue. Bryan Bry-an affirms that the Republicans would do with the brown man what the Democrats are now doing with the black man. Then by a peculiar mental process which It is Impossible to follow, fol-low, he pillories the Republicans for what he affirms they will do and Indorses In-dorses the Democrats because they have done the same tiling. One course of conduct Is a fact, the other Is slm-! ply assumed. j Four years ago Bryan said "the gold , standard would destroy the hope of the toiler, it would destroy the oppor-1 tuuity to work, it would increase the number of idle men. It would discourage discour-age enterprise, it would paralyze Industry." Indus-try." Economic conditions to-day prove the falsity of every one of these prophesies. proph-esies. The toilers have hope, there is opportunity to work, there are fewer idle men, enterprise lifts not liecn dis- : couraired and industry has not been . paralyzed. ! Mr. Bonn, however, has fallen into the habit of issuing lamentations and while not making ho many financial1! predictions tearful and dark, trimmed ; with ruined homos and starving freemen, free-men, lie soars to a higher plant? money in VMi is filthy lucre and assures us, after his political halo has been rebur-nished rebur-nished by the Kansas City convention. I that if he is not elected "celebrations of the Fourth of July will pass away." . Is It surprising that the peopls refuse to scare? Indeed past experience has led them to believe that the reverse of the predictions of the prophet is that which will surely come to pass. He also asks In rounded periods: "Who will draw a line between the natural rights of the Cubans and the Filipinos? Who will say that the former have a right to liberty and the latter have no rights we are bound to respect?" Now had he asked those questions with reference to the negroes of Mississippi Mis-sissippi and North Carolina, the answer an-swer would have been easy for the white Democrats of those states, who shoot terrify and disfranchise the negro ne-gro In open violation of the spirit and express words of the constitution of the United States. They can answer, as they are specialists In ueflning rights which they refuse to respect and Mr. Bryan is the man who hopes to profit by their methods that disgrace the states which will send solid delegations dele-gations to Congress by the suppression of the Republican vote. j That part of Bryan's address, how-1 ever, most open to criticism is where he defines his Philippine policy. When Agulnaldo learns of that utterance he will continue his guerrilla warfare against the American flag until after the November election, and In the event of Bryan's triumph for eight months longer. j Whatever may be the opinion of Congress Con-gress In the matter, Bryan as the commander-in-chief of the army and navy, could suspend hostilities and recall our forces. Indeed he stands pledged to i do that very thing. This Is giving aid , and comfort to the enemy. In 1803 Jefferson paid Napoleon the ; Great $15,000,000 for Louisiana and the sale conveyed sovereign rights over all the population, both savage and civilized, civil-ized, of that great territory, and they were not asked to consent to tbe transfer. trans-fer. Had they .rebelled they would have been forced to recognize the sovereignty sov-ereignty of the United States. "The consent of the governed" was not taken Into account and yet our title to that vast territory is considered valid. Sixteen years later the United States purchased Florida from Spain. With the sale went the right to control or govern the people who lived therein. Five million dollars were paid, and General Jackson was sent to govern the territory. Had the people rebelled It is not difficult to imagine what Old Hickory would have done, and had Atkinson or Bryan gone about preaching preach-ing resistance they would have been obliged to have kept a good dlsfhnee from Jackson's long arm and sharp tongue. His rule was autocratic If not imperial. Twenty-nine years later Uncle Sam made another investment In Western land and paid Mexico lS.&'iO.OOO and acquired title to both land and peonle of New Mexico and California. The people of those then distant regions, Mexicans, Zunls. Indians and all the rest were not consulted, but were governed gov-erned and well governed, and the region re-gion has become the pride of the nation na-tion and the garden spot of. the world. Five years later southern Arizona j and its" people were acquired iu the same mauuer without saying anything! about the consent of the governed. I . Fourteen, years after $7,200,000 was |