Show WILL WAIT A LONG TIME tho philadelphia record scores one against the colonel of the third nebraska regiment in these words colonel william J bryan has expressed himself to his friends at washington as being emphatically of the opinion that tho islands lately belonging to spain should not be retained by the united states longer than donld bo necessary to establish stable and independent governments in the same As an alternative to annexation the proposal Is of no practical value the british occupation of egypt Is subject to a limitation quite similar to that suggested by the redoubtable colonel for american control of the antilles and the philippines and it would be quite sate to predict that he babes of today will be grandfathers and grandmothers before any of these islands shall have the requisite qualities of stability and orderliness to maintain themselves as independent les under native rule |