Show THE philippine ISSUE marked modification parkers position nothing in the conduct of the demo critic party is 11 more conducive to the public weal veal van U an the ease with which it abandons untenable is ins its ie after pledl log ing eternal fealty to them for tight eight year years it was indissoluble indissolubly wedded to the free and unlimited cof coin a age of direr silver at an arbitrary ratio fall o ont only y at the tb telegraphic babest of its it candi I 1 late at e to accept the cold gold standard as it firmly mill y and irrevocably established by th the 0 re I 1 publican party I 1 trout rout time beyond the memory of the oldest voter the democracy has been tul rot mutating against protectionism as a robbery only to have david B hill a alve naive the tariff issue into the back yard and abysm of time because it is a ques tion on which very tery few of as us democrats agree nothing could hate have been mort more bean ticul to see than the tham sham frenzy with which democrats and antl anti imperialists denounced n the prompt pt action by which the united santes seized the opportunity and became p messed of the authority to it d I 1 i and control the isthmian canal ex capt the avid ty with which the democratic convention swallowed all its vo TO ci cite ferons rons scruples and resolved that when bentru entrusted eted with power it will con the panama canal speed ly hon bon estly and economically io no wonder the mocking echo when entrusted with power r reverberated through the republic and now comes alton B parker and draws the pen of ante election expediency through the philippine plant plank of his party we insist reads that ti al billant document 6 that we ought to do for the fill pinos platte what we have done already tor for the cubans and it is our duty to make that promise NOW W I 1 at the first opportunity judge parker was given to unburden his soul over the wrong perpetrated in substituting ameri amerl can justice liberty and security tor for span ish cruelty extortion and oppression in the philippines he modified the now in the above quotation with these eso vein words th the accident of war brought the phil into our po possession and we are not hot at liberty to disregard the res ability which thus came to us but that responsibility will be best sub served by preparing the islanders as rapidly as po poi pol l sible tor for self government and giving to themo them assurances that it will corn come as soon as they are reasonably prepared for it ft hen interrogated by john 0 mil burn of U B tiffalo as to whether the del able phrase self government in the foregoing sentence was to be cou const ned as identical with independence political and territorial be cepl ed I 1 am ant in hearty accord with that plank in the democratic platform which advocates treating the ii 1 precisely as we did the cubans and I 1 also faor favor making the promise to them NOW to take such action AS SOON AS IT CAN PRU PHU DENTLY BE 1311 DONE aye there a the rub give the prom ie lie and a democratic promise at that now and redeem it as loon soon as an it can prudently be b done ft IN as there ever a more flagrant case of that juggling with words that gives the word of promise to the ear but puis puts its fulfillment beyond the pale pate of living hope it why by promise now what in the expediency and wisdom of the future it may never be prudent to fulfill no wonder the democratic tic new york times scornfully declarer declare that the only perceptible difference between the democratic po portion mitlon and the republican post tion Is that judge parker would tell the fil fit pinos now what is in store for them and president roosevelt would not 0 0 0 there Is nothing cither either in bis big speech or in hla his letter to sir mr milburn which would in any other than thin a heedless antl anti imperialist mind lead to the conclusions sion that were he in the white house he would pursue toward our possessions in the tar far bast last a policy different from that pursued by pre Pr eident roosevelt I 1 the times further farther expresses the epho ton ion that it if the american people were asked to vote tod today to day d a y upon the question of immediately granting ind independence ce to the philippines they would vote the proposition down ten to one perhaps twenty to one certainly by an a exemplary majority they would vot vote it down because they are ar dot not insane and because they are not heartless if it they were asked to vote upon the question whether we w should mak make the promise gise now they would laugh in the faces of abose who asked them to take the trouble to t express their will upon a mere quest question lom of ap expediency A promise now to do something which it may he prudent to do fifty or two tw bun dred yar years hence bence possibly never wool I 1 seem to almost reach the heights heigh of democratic oily folly certainly judge parker a bromle now with ita its as a oon own as it can prudently be done condl tion eliminates the philippine issue from ibe the democratic category of republican transgressions |