The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 15, 1900, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEM 1900, BER 15, REPUBLICANS Senator Fairbanks Dissects the Fallacious Issues Put Forth by Bryan and His Composite Party of Calamity Howlers in This Land of Prosperity. as had work. certifics some pro- opposed to the Alexander 1 for the coln- r market ratio, to the policy of Andrew 1 first ap- en this exalt e will have their we have made en falthful imperial- e for at the ruins nt re- lic a Myth. a_ Philippine repub- such republic, f the term, ne Republ Aguinaidoan 1 b establish after t ot he vanished, and > are vainly ng tor tne the present cket in ion with respect POSTUM stable govern lipy w CEREAL. "We dia not. enter FOR BUTTER. NEW USE i Personnel of the Commission. € FO-| The Presiden from the beginning given of the stonp to believe there was no ago I quit th 1 tc e Postu 14 v the appar- ited States 2| ent and th sy v opposition Lo the ssed the stim- | humane p of the President, e the food cof. e authority of the United rightful sove in the ® . Notwithstan hellious yays 1 forgot all about my he work of fnstituting municipal gov- | t and providing for the welfare of the e In the different islands has proceeded conelderable ces, £0 that more Fij- participating In their own civie ad fon than at any time in their previous e satisfaction I derived from found that appe- bilious condition_and i, so that now I am mintstr history ¢ coventy-| We Gid not obtain the Philippines because of ze of sevent s the age of VENLY- | sheir con roe or becau: their proximity e ! food as well as|to the C al countries i which the ad 1 ; dyspeptic | ministr Ben beeh wucosmbTily. SotmiAID: g a great and expanding commerce, but we fonal duty com- . no nation de- tble of the stomach the “world" s . « approval dare c es had been with me for | arobey. Our course in the Philippines im- it is really remark- | perialistic! Whoever so affirms misjudges the history of his time. No one can look upon the efforts of the President to uphold our authority and integrity in the archipelago and do other- Wise than praise. He stands for the American people. His succéss ix their glory, his failure their shame. He is not acting as a partisan, but as a President. He is acting for the en- w so perfectly well. To | ful does not express | le T find a person that ostum, but T always find . vl t is because it has not been properly | fir. Teople, not with imperialistic intent, but repaned. here but one way o for the purpose of asserting the national mu- ke good Postum, and that is to make | Dority. & Zuty Which, (he ratimcation of the treaty of pesace imposed upon him. Future of the Philippines. What of the future of the Philippines? The ¥ future rests within the supreme control of the bubbling begins. Use a small | American people. It rests within the sound butt about th f | Giscretion of Congress. Until Congress shall itter, about the size Of tWO | oy orwise decree the President of the United peas, to prevent bo | States must go forward in the work of pacie- exactly according to directions, allow- | g it to boil full fifteen minutes, not | is placed on the stove. but after | ) piece 0 CROWD MECHANICS PAVILION TO HEAR ELOQUENT SPEAKERS OPEN PRESIDENT WiLLIAAM MR, A.G.BOOTH PRESIDENT, UNION LBAGUS CHANICS’ PAVILION. - | and reconstruction. | SENATOR BEVE — THEIR MINDS ON THE BURNING ISSUES { SENATOR FAIRBANKS ADDRESSING THE GREAT AUDIENCE IN THE ME- AND THE MEN IN | | I | l | | | i | E3 | | pince during this process of evolution? The | oppesition propose that we should alienate o | ttle: tuat should deliberately surrend | our ownership to people confessedly incapab cf self-governm | and establish a protector- | ate. No mg | {se and Insane step is con- ceivable. ¥t ‘we have no right to govern the Filipino s what right shall we establish a protectorat vi establish a protectorate ? the circumstances is of- of absc ndependen the prin d us to | tensive to t | It_is repugnant elf-government to It rding to Tt should not b would be y and army to 1 nos “foreve occupancy of t If they are to b | Biven the abeolute posseeston of the island iminister them accord equate conceptions of government, there al certainty that they would become | volved in trouble with their nelghbors and v would be constantly menaced. But If we a sert our authority and gradually educate t! to a full measure of participation in go & to their own 1 ment, we will avold the vexatious co tions’ which wo naturally and inevitab arise If a protectorate were establi proposed by Mr. Bryan. | Lawton’s Prophetic Words. The opposition to the administration In its | effort to uphold our rightful sovereignty in t Philippines has made more difficult the task Abundant evidence comes to us to the effect | that divided sentiment in the United States has cost many lives of American soldiers. The sad. prophetic words of the intrepid Lawton should be a warning to those whose opposition to our own ‘army may give encouragement to t enemy. “If T am shot,” sald General Lawton, | | “by a Filipino bullet,’ it might as wi | from my own men; because I k | captured prisoners that continuance of fighting | is chiefly due to reports that are sent out fr | America.’” The past is beyona recall. Let | | hope that in the ture the brave boys at th front may be supported by a united sentiment | and that thelr arduous duties may not be ma. | | more aifficult and dangerous by divided coun- | | sels at home. . 1s Situation in Porto Rico. Rican act. This measure, Which for a gave rise to a difference of opinfon among many well-meaning cltizens, is constitutional and just. most_exception has been taken is that wn: provides for the retention of dutles upon com merce between Porto Rico and the United It has been charged that these dut are in contravention of the constitution, as d Criminating against the Forto Ricans. When we expelled the Spanish armies and | took possession of the island, we found 800,000 people in & deplorable condition. Commerce Was paralyzed. There was much poverty much need of public improveme were fed, suffering was relfeved, the jud administration was improved, Jjalls were emptied of hundreds of prisoners unjustly held and the people were invited to share in a: | measure as possible In municipal and 1 administration. Schools were started, highways were improved and the work of uplifting the people was begun and has been pushed to the present hour. There was no selentific system of taxation in the island. It was deemsd w { by Congress that the people of Porto I | should bear part of the expense of the admin- fstration of their own government, rather than that the entire burden should rest upon th TUnited States. Fifteen per cent of t imposed by the Dingley law were retain all commerce between the island and p 8 of the United States, the entire revenue being held for the benefit of the Porto Ricans. It was provided that these duties should not be continued after January 1, 1%2, and shouid be abolished at an earlier date If the new go ernment established shall have provided t requisite machinery for ralsing its own re: nue. By direction of the President the Spa ish export dutles were abolished and food p ucts and agricultural implements were admitted without duty. |‘ Anti-Trust Laws Enacted. The hungry The Republican party recognizes the hones: co-operation of capital to meet new business conditions and to promote the extenslon of our foreign trade. " . It is inexorably opposed, how- k of establishing civil gov- | Spain. It is consistent with our Institutions; | pire? T¢ Mr. Bryan is right now his potential | nup - . e - ¢ ual message he sald: | it is the spirit of liberty, not of bondage. It iRl L il & Ry AP | S e s i o e tromt made known the | is not the language of imperialism, but it is | a stupendous blunder. If, however, he was | yUfO0en 10 Bt O€ TR STRRECIHON. o I shall use the | the utterance of républicanism. It means that | right then, his present attitude with reference | ™prOholes of t@ SORIE BACR o0 authos e by the constitution and | under our guidance these people are to be lifted | to the result of the ratification is utterly in- | «ieis TIuE. e ik that Sher enmt b oo the 10 the sovereignty of the | to a higher level of civilization and to the | excusable.. 8 Tl o R by e n, free Unite distant islands, as in | enjoyment of free government, which to them | The question arises, why did Mr, Bryan sup- | (rade as well as in protected countries. They i lag rightfully floats. | has ‘been hitherto unknown. ' The opposition ' port the ratification’ of the treaty? It was | gr° found In Basienr. WROES they have o ted sal of the army and | will find little in this policy, so admirably ad- | ratified by only one majority. With his oppo- | for many vears Furthermors, trusts exist in 5 hich the liberality of | vanced by the President, upon which to found | sition it would have been easily defeated. Was | Lhis country in articles and commodities which nd the 4 to cause | their claim of imperiallsm, with which to | there any danger to the repubiic in the ratifi- | 87> upon the free lst as in those which are ul_insurrection to | {righten the American people into a forgetful- | cation? If so, was it not his duty to have op- | Protected e m, onsplcuous s the Stand ne were required to | ness of the important economic and domestia insure luct of military and | problems which are placed in peril at home. naval ould not be lacking; | There is nothing in this policy inimical to of our troops | the republic or in contravention of its splendid anity which has | traditions. ided insurgents. The Bryan Supported the Treaty. It the possession of the Philippines Is imper- lalistic Mr. Bryan's insistence upon the ratifi- cation of the treaty was unwise and indefens- ible. What thik you of a statesman who would advocate the ratification of a treaty which is Inimical to the republic and which lays strong and firm the foundation of an em- | | truest kindness to them will be a switt and | effective defeat of their present leader. -rm\) hour of victory will be the hour of clemency Our Traditions Upheld. | This is consistent with the exalted purpose with which we entered upon the war with RIDGE WILL SPEAK IN SAN FRANCISCO ENATOR A. J. BEVERIDGE of Tn-| | diana will deliver a political ad- | dress in Mechanics’ Pavilion Octo- ber 4. It will be his only speech in California, and Colonel Stone and Senator | | Cutter of the State Central Committee are | planning to make the occasion one of the | | greatest rallies of the campaign. | Senator Beveridge is coming West under | the auspices of the Republican National | Committee. He will make but one speech | in each State visited on this side of the | | continent. From here he will go to Port- land and then to Seattle, The reputation won by Indiana’'s junior Senator as a brilliant orator will insure a tremendous audience for him at the Pa- | vilion. He is the youngest member of the Senate, but has won national recognition as an able debater and an eloquent speak- er. His epeech on the Philippine ques- tion, delivered after having studied the | situation first hand in the islands them- | selves, was one of the great efforts of the session. Senator Beveridge is 38 years old. He | was born on a farm and worked his way through De Pauw University, at Green- castle, Ind., and In his senior year won the interstate cratorical contest, against competitors from ten of the Middle West States. After a year spent on the plains to recover his health he began the prac- tice of law in Indianapolis. He quickly rose in the profession by force of his ap- plication, logic of mind and powers of SENATOR A! J. BEVERIDGE. ® - ® oratory, and in January of 1899 h, elected United States Senator w?th';n previously having held any political office. ard Ofl trust. A r notable instance Is the fce trust in New York. Neither of these trusts has been fostered by the tariff. The latter is posed it to the utmost? ““When the war was over,” sald he in his Indianapolis speech, | “and the Republican leaders began to suggest | the propriety of a colonial policy, opposition at The Kansas City platform condemins the Por ’.‘ The feature of the measure toewhich | - | her to go to Mayor Phelan for ass wh THE CAMPAIG “The Stars and StripesAreUp to Stay and Must Not Be PulledDown.” ¢ the Democratie poli- are Mr Bryan Quiet in Congress. 1 H States, was stubbornly c members, in restraint of the trus: was then engaging publ ublican party proposes to deal with t in an honest, intelligent and ef- gitimate enterprise shall ombinations of what ablic be prote against unjust exacts | Names Paramount Issues. | The para yunt issue In the Democratic cam- pafgn s n erfalism but Bryanism. The paramount issue with the Republicans is the ion of McKinley. This done, the pres power, the honor of this natiom will 1d among the nations of the earth and will be known to_a this e for McKinley and sther three cheers for Senator Fairbanks the vast audience dispersed. LOWER PASSENGER RATES FOR INVALID SOLDIERS « | Uncle Sam’s Disabled Will Be Car- | ried to Missouri River at Re- duced Fare. The Southern Pacific Rallroad Company and other companies between this ity yuri River have arranged to alid soldier, discharged from Government service, the bemefit of an exceptionally low rate, commencing | vesterday. > rate will affect only those soldiers Ly n service in China or the ines and who have been honorably charged here. They must have a cer- tified letter from the surgeon that they invalic al rate will carry them as far er for $25. The us There have b a ere unfortunate sc were anxious to get to their hom East, but had not enough m ry them. The new rate, will enable all to get home, be- ving them enough mogey to buy Take Your Own Pictures. e have cameras from %0 cents up to 5 each and all materials for taking p res. Prices low. Sanborn, Vail & « 741 Market street —_————— TRIiES FOUR TIMES TO KILL HIMSELF S. Zwall, While Despondent, Swal- lows a Dose of Carbolic Acid. 8. Zwall, proprietor of an awning and tent factory, while despondent on ac count of his wife leaving him, swallowed a quantity of crude carbolic acld yester day afternoon on the porch of the home mother-in-law at 2% Seventh is the fourth time that Zwall tried to end his life bec his_wife re- fused to make up. He will probably die. e Gt Voters, Attention! s more to register. Office open from $:30 . Westerfelds Are Divorced. Orivida V. Westerfeld was grantsd ree from Herman Westerfeld yes- terday by Judge Bahrs. The decree was | issued on the ground of faflure to vide. Mrs. Westerfeld testified as_to husband’s penchant for assisting hims with her money and forcing her to more. At one time, she sald. he forced tance. h ‘was refused her. Mrs. Raymon, tif's mother, _corroborated = Mrs. sterfeld’s story and the decree was granted. S SRR e o Dr. B. W. Haines, dentist, returned from abroad and resumed practice. S13 Sutter.® poeaivivecs e i wbl. Kitty Le Blanche in Seattle. When the case of P. J. Curtin, privata detective, charged with being an acces- | sory to the assault to murder Kitty La | Blanche, was again called In Judge Con- |lan’s court yesterday, Policeman Me: | told the court that he had been unabl | to serve the attachment upon Mrs. Lo | Blanche, as he had learned she had gone | to Seattle. The case was continued il Monday, when it will probably be dis- missed. Fokkdok kkkok ok once manifested itself. When 'the President finally lald before the Senate a treaty which | recognized the independence of Cuba, but pro- | vided for the cession of the flii"rmne islands | to the United States, the menace of imperiaiism | became so apparent that many preferred to | reject the treaty and risk the ills that might | follow.” Did not Mr. Bryan see the lurking dangers of | imperialism which were so manifest to others? Did he sympathize With their preference to re- ject the treaty? Let him answer for himself. | T was among those who belleved,” said he, “it better to ratify the treaty and end the war, | release the volunteers, remove the excuse for | war exnenditurs, and then give to the Fili- | pinos the independence which might be forced from Spain by a new treaty.”” Was the pres- ence of a few voluntsers and the necessity for War axpenditures a more sericus menace to | the republic than the danger of imperialism? | It is apparent from what he further says that his supreme desire was to create a new issue. | The dafeat of the treaty would have have | been the defeat of alleged Imperialism. But it wust not be defeated, for an lssue must be made. The exigency of a political campaign was near at hand. Imperialism a Sham and a Fraud. Mr. Bryar said it the Bacon resolution, wi ich | was introduced nearly a month after the rati- fication of the treaty (and which vromised in- | dependence to the Filipinos) had been adopted | by the Senate and carried out at the time the | treaty was ratified or thereafter, ‘It would have taken the question of imberialism out of politics.” But the resolution was defeated. | It should be remembered that only a major- | ity of the Senate was required to pass the reso- Iuticn, and the Democrats were in the minor- | ity; therefore without the power to pass the resolution and take ‘‘the question out of poli- tics.” But it required only one-third of the Senate to defeat the treaty. Upon this propo- | siticn_the Republicans were in the minority and the Democrats in the majority, with abso- lute Dpower to defeat the treaty, and in that way remove the question of imperialism from polities. Senator Hoar, Who strenuously op- posed the treaty, thus speaks of Mr. Bryan's efforts: “He put forth all his power as a great party leader * * * to secure the ratification of | the tres Not content with writing letters | he card: to Washington in person to overcome the reluctance of his followers. Seventeen of them voted for the treaty, of whom only four or five at most had been previously known to be mlm '1::"'; 1l this, the utter hypoerisy n view of a e ul of the imperiallstic cry must be manifest to every American citizen. I do not indulge In extrava. gant language when I say that the lssue of im- perialism is an unadulterated sham and fraud. Dangers of a Pro ‘What should be our attitude toward the Filf- * SEND YOUR FRIENDS flmimitmfim*fim;fii***i*;flt*fi*fit*t;fiifltitt***t l OF Native Sons’ of the great fete. R e e S S S e WASP’S soweric 36 pages beautiful half-tone engravings, printed on the finest paper. in colors and gold. All the striking features «--. ILLUSTRATED.... 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