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HILLSBORO INDEPENDENT JCutorad ia U p.tomeU HUiskoro, Or, aa MOuita-eUaa auul luailar. ubaortpUoa, U duo, par jmi, f MM mUMUOHO tVUUAUlUQ CO., fropa i. M. U OAULT, Editor. B1U1-AY, ttOVKMBKU X, .KMJ. far lraUat WH. HclUXUf, at vu. tar Tloa-Praataaatt THEOUVKS KOUMKVKLT, Of Xtw lark. For l'raidnll Elation, T1LMAK yottl) Haifa Gouty J. C. rULLKKXON DougUa County W. J. FUKMlliU UaulUla Couuty U. F. fi-XTON Ualtuuua County During tbe next week there will be political speaking at tbe time and placee mentioned ; HON. TilOH. H. TONUUE will address tbe citiien of Washing ton county once more before election, lie will be at: Hillsboro at 2 p. in. Nov.8. HON. 8. 11. HUSTON will wake three speeches in thla county at which time be will ex plain wby be intend to vote for McKinley and Hoosevelt. Time and place are: Greenville, Saturday, Nov. 8. Cornelius, Nov. 6, at 8 p. m. ADAM KLIPPEL Helvetia school bouse north of Lenox at 8 p. m. Not. 8. II. L. Bark ley, who speaks next Monday, waa formerly a republican, lie was a candidate for U. B. senator to succeed Dolpb. lie was not select ed: Then be was a fuaioolst, popu list, democrat. Now he is an auti imperialist. Did he flop. Young Venvllle, who, when wounded, sat in the boat and adjust ed a Krag rifle so that Lt. Gilmore could use it during the memorable tight in which be and bis command were taken prisoners, was supposed for a time to be alive, but tbe news reports of last Saturday tell how he was murdered by one Capt. Novicio, a Filipino. This Novicio is under eeutence of t'eath. It appears that he richly deserves that fate. In the 6th column, 4th page, of Mr. Huston's speech, an error ap pears that ought to have been caught in proof reading. Tbe second sen tence of the paragraph commencing "The editor of the Argus, etc" reads, "He aneerlngly refers to me who feel strongly, etc." The word "me should be replaced by "those." An other error at the top of the third column annoys the printer more than the reader, sinoe it is a "doublet. the first five lines should be omitted The Argus did not say in its issue of Oct. 18th or in any other Issue that Mr. Hubert Bernard was a delegate with Anton Pfanner to the gold democrat convention In .Portland 1896, but he was there Just the same. And now Long, of the Argus, (who calls the American soldier "skunks," says that "Mr. Huston and Anton Pfanner were the leaders of tbe Mc Kinley sideshow, Palmer and Buck ner, the ticket nominated by tbe 'gold democratic convention' Portland." Who's a liar? "Mr. Croker, the head of the dem ocratlc organisation in New York has ordered his subordinates to gather in force at the polls next Tuesday and in case they see the re sult of the count going against them to eject the election officers and take possession of the ballot-boxes by force. This astounding anarchistic order has been approved and in Uorsed by Henator Jones, the chair man of the democratic national committee." Seeing, however, that Roosevelt is governor, this Is seem ingly a bad tim to attempt to carry the election by a mob. Young Venvllle, whose mother lives at Sell wood, only 20 miles dis tant, is one whom the Argus charac terizes as the rif-raf of the country He whs put to death by the Argus' friends and Mr. Bryan's, the Filipi nos. They opened his blood veins and sucked his life away. Venvllle Is the hoy. who, under fire, used his skill to adjust a rifle and for the third time announced "I am hit again, Lieutenant, but the gun It clear," and then fainted and dropped to the bottom of the boat. The Bry an organs call him of the rif-raf fight Ing for tlS a month. It is reported that Germany wants a coaling station In American waters The available harbor is one in an island off the Venecuelan coast South America. The United 8tates will object and urge the Monroe doc trine. At this time the fleets of Kurope are not greatly feared for the reason that by the time they steam across the ocean tbey are short of coal and practically helpless hulks riding on the waves at the mercy of our war canoes, and if the foreign ships cannot recoal they cannot get home again. Thus it becomes matter of self protection to prevent European powers acquiring coaling stations within American waters. This pre vention is as vital to the defense of the United States as the fortification defending New York or any other of our coast cities. BRYAN EXPOSED IS Continued rum fvt i'ny policy lor you. Oh, but some one says, Bryan won't do anything ou this subject even if he is ejected What reason have you for saying w? Would he not be a scouudrel If he should refuse to carry out the poli cies upon which he is elected? 1 do not believe this. I believe be is de termined on this question. 1 doubt whether be believes in it, but if he is elected he would be an lngrate and a traitor to the people that elected him not to undertake to carry out his policy, and he would ruin the country if he did. Mr. Carl Schuri meets this Question in another way. He admits that aa the law now stands, Bryan could do icreat injury to (he country in tbe manner in which 1 have stated. He does uot undertake to minimize It In tbe least, but he says that it is the duty of the repub - lican congress which meets next wlu. ter to pass laws so strong that Bryai would be unable to carry out his tides. Mr. Schuri is so afraid that the Filipinos shall be governed with out their consent that he is willing to take thla chance and depend upon the republicans next winter to tie up Mr. Bryan's hands. Is not Mr. Hchurs a delightful specimen of con sistency. Though tbe people of tbe U. S. may declare for free silver ty the election of Bryan, yet he is in favor of congress enacting laws Im mediately In the very teeth of the last expression of the people. He is so anxious that tbe Filipinos shall not be governed without their coo sent that he is willing to d ny the right of self-government to the peo ple of the United States. If the peo pie of this country declare for the free and unlimited coinage of silver by a constitutional majority, as ruin ous and as dishonest as I believe that policy to be, yet I believe in the rule of the majority, and were 1 in con gress, I should not lift a finger to pre vent the will of the people being car ried out. If Mr. Bryan is elected It is certain that the lower house of congress will be in political accord with him and it Is an even chance that the senate will be likewise. I have not so much fault to find with a free-silver man for supporting Mr. Bryan, but a gold-standard man who supports him is taking a res ponsibility that 1 should very much dislike to assume. Some ot the gold democrats who opposed him four years ago are supporting him now. This to me is almost incomprehensi ble. Some of them excuse this by tbe assertion that the U. S. senate will be perfectly safe for the gold standard even though Bryan be elected. My friend, Mr. L. B. Cox, says in his letter to the Otegonian which is now being circulated by the Bryan people as a campaign docu ment that it will take years to change the sentiment of the senate, and that no house of representatives can be elected on that distinctive issue. 1 Use Issue with Mr. Cox on his pro position. I think that if Bryan Is elected, that the states which he will necessarily have to carry to be elect ed will make tbe U. S. senate dan gerously close. I should like to know what good it will do men like Mr. Cox to elect Mr. Bryan if they can not at the same time carry congress. Mr. Cox's position is that the repub licans cannot be trusted on the trust question or the Philippine question, and therefore, he proposes to elect Mr. Bryan, and at the same time he contends that congress will be sate on tbe silver question. Now the treaty of Paris under which we ac quired title to the Philippines is the law of the land. It can only be altered in two ways : First, by the passage of a law in direct conflict with It. Second, by the negotiation and ratification of a new treaty sup porting it. It is well known that there are at least three democratic senators, Morgan, of Alabama, Mc Laurin, of South Carolina and Sulll van, of Mississippi who are open ai avowed advocates of the retention oi the Philippines. It would be inter frting to know by what sort of poli tlcal mathematics men like Mr. Cox figure out a two-thirds majority in the next senate for ratification of treaty abandoning the Philippines and at the same time retain the gold standard ms)ority therein. Every gold standard democrat senator has been retired from the senate as fast tbe free silver men could get st him. There were a lew democrat In tbe lower house from New York City, one of them a grandson of Thomas Jefferson, who voted for the gold standard bill In the last con gross. At the dictation of Mr. Bryan, Mr. Croker refused a re-nomination to this man. The only democrat who voted for tbe gold standard hill who has been re-nominsted so far as I am aware, was Thayer, of Maa chusetts and that only aftr a desper ate fight against Oeo. Fred William, Mr. Bryan's particular chum. If Mr. Bryan's election will not carry congress with him and the republi can party Is in league with the trusts how does Mr. Bryan propose to suit- press IheroT lie will certainly not call out the militia as he has too great horror of imperialism. Ifhiselec tlon does not carry congress with Mm, how will he avoid the duties and responsibilities which we as sumed in the Philippines by the treaty of Parts? Will Mr. Bryan dare to disregard the law of the land, and refuse to uphold and enforce the provisions of that treaty? 1 think Mr. Cox would hardly say so. We may aa well face the facts. If Mr. I Bryan is elected nd bis party elects In eem-nte, in accord with him upon the question of the Philippines, it will t the same t me be in accord with til in upon the Onauclal ques tion, anJ by no sort of Juggling with figures csn it be made t'J appear ctherwL-. He Is the same candidate and he stands for every principle which we agreed four years ago In dnn jun-iiig. lu addition, to Ibis he lias given us personal reasons for not Hunoortiuir him. In a Biteech at Kichuiond, Virginia, in 1897, he said that : "Every democrat who did not support the ticket in 18 ought to be branded as a traitor and never al lowed to come back into the party," In a speech at May field, Kentucky, on October 16th of last year, he said: "That we constituted the lowest ele ment of tbe democratic party." When a candidate for the great office of piealdent of the U. S., descends to vituperation and abuse of men who Micrinced their uolitlcal future for what they believed to be their coun try'a welfare, be puts himself upon ; iower plain than a presidential can , jite ought ever to reach. In that same election there were thousands of republicans who believed in free silver. They conscientiously left their party and voted for Bryan. Can you imagiuo President McKinley de nouncing them as traitors and refer ring to them as the lowest element of tne party or descending to abuse or vilify them in any manner, Whatever Mr. MeKlnley's faults may be, aud he has faults no dount, be la too much of a gentleman to stoop to an act like that.The faithful dog who crawls and cringes at the feet of the brutal master, who beats him with out cause simply submits to the fear of superior force. Not being under such compulsion, I have no desire to imitate him by voting lor Mr. Bryan In the face of his vilification aud abuse. But some democrats says how can you vote for the republicans with the views you hold on the tariff ques tion. I have not changed my opln ions on the tariff question nor upon any other question that I am aware of. But, what is the democratic posi- tion on the tariff question? The old democratic doctrine was a tariff for revenue only. In 1896, in order to secure the votes of the silver re publicans and some of the populists, the party abandoned this doctrine and declared that they were opposed to any further agitation on tbe tariff question until the money question was settled, that is until we got free silver. What encouragement can I have on the tariff question fiom the Bryanised democratic party? But, you say we have declared the ques tion of imperialism as the paramount fcsue. Strictly speaking, Imperialism means the rule ot an emperor. 1 do not believe there is a man, woman or child who has any fear of such a thing and anyone who asserts that any considerable body of tbe Ameri can people are in favor of an emperor makes himself ridiculous. But as I understand this as applied to the questions of this campaign, it refers to the government of the Philip pines. ' It seems to me our Bryauite friends make quite an admission here when tbey say that the paramount issue is as to tbe government of the Philippine Islaniis. If our own country is not properly governed, then certaiuly the question as to how you and I and our neighbors at home are governed is paramount and su perior to any question as the method or manter of the government ol a lot of half naked savages in the tropical islands of the sea. And for a party to declare that the government of these Islands is the paramouut issue is to confess that they have no im provements to suggest as to the gov- ernment of tha people of the United J .j ....... . ii... 1 1 1. -. t States. But Mr. Bryan says we have no right to govern those people with out their consent, yet, at the same time, if Mr. Bryan is elected, two thirds of his electoral vote will come from a section of our own country where practically half of the popula tion is governed without their con sent by the very people who are ar- dently supporting Mr. Bryan. Many of the electoral votes which will be counted for Mr. Bryan, he could not get if those people were not governed without their consent. But Mr, Bryan says the cases are net parallel, and in this he is correct, they are not. in the case of the negro, we went over to his country without the slight est pretext and took him forcibly In cruel and inhuman manner and brought him to this country, made him a slave aud stole from him the fruits of his labor for more than 200 years and are now governing him without his consent. Id the other one, we were involved in a war with Spain, the owner of these islands for more than 300 years. She had op pressed these ple, they had com plained of her oppression, they had resisted, but they bad been defeated and their leaders had sold out for money and had left the islands. We found them in that condition. They were making no resistance to Spain hut were in a state of forced submis sion. We drove out their oppressors and removed tbe yoke of bondage from their necks, and we now pro pose to give them the largest free dom compatible with safety and give them local self-government as fast is they shall show themselves capable as we are now doing in Cuba. And this is w hat our friends on the other side are pleased to denounce as ths essence of tyranny. A strange senti ment Is it not lor Americans to hold that a governmi nt uuder the etars and stripes is Imperialism and tryan ny and that liberty and freedom can only be found under the pirate flag of Agulnaldo. There are some nen. pie who, in every question w hich arises between our owu country and any other country or pw;!-, are al-1 way able to discern IU.A we are wrong and the others are right. If a question of veracity arises tin y al ways believe the word of Aguinaldo in preference to Ihut of Im wey, O I-, Law ton or Anderson. While 1 have no sympathy with such a feeling and while there is no common grvui.d upon which these people and I can stand, yet I have no particularly harsh words to say of them. Hut when these questious are suhuiii t si to the arbitrament of rms, then the American who by speech, by writing, or by other acts encourages the arm ed enemies of bis country is as p! du ly guilty of treason as he can he. Our constitution defines trean si givlug aid aud comfort to nur coun try's enemies. Not nly has this been doue but it has been done oen ly and fligrantly. One gentleman whom I am aorry to say I voted f ir Superintendent of Public Incfuctiou published a poem w hich Is-gan : "Here is to you Agqiimldo, aid, mid comfort if you please." Ho would have been a good nmu to teach pat riotlsm to the youth of our land wouldn't he? I am very thankful that the people of the state ot Oregon caused me to lose my vote on that occasion. Our title to the Philippines is ns good as our title to Florida, to Loui siana, Including the state in which Mr. Bryan lives, or to Ali-ka. Thomas Jefferson purchased Loui siana, Andrew Jackson, purchiMd Florida, Wni. II. Seward pun linked Alaska, Frauklin Pierce purchawfl a Isrge part ot what Is now Aiu ua known as tbe Gaitsdeu purchase. In neither case were the inliitiitniiia consulted in the matter and it was reserved for the great mind of Wm. J.Bryan to discover that the action of these great statesmen was illegal and wrong. Say Mr. Bryan can yon buy people? Nolxsly ever claimed THE LAST WORD. IlwtiwW Congressman Tongue will speak dates, McKinley and Roosevelt, at at I o'clock p. m. Uhis will be the last Republican audience during the campaign. to buy the people in these cases or In the cases of the Philippines. Again Mr. Bryan asks: "Can you buy the .... .. . ... n. right to govern tne peopier" 1 nos. Jtffcrwn thought so, Andrew J,ick sou thcught so, Franklin Pierce thought so. Thfy were preltj good democrats In their time and Mr. Bryan takes pleasure in boasting that be Is a Jefferson iar democrat, I l ough w herein he agrees with Mr. Ji hVrson does not appear. The only attempt that has been made so far as my observation goes to distinguish lay tween the Louisiana purchase snd the purchase of the Philippines was made by Hon. Bourke Cochrane. He says the cases are not parallel.in any sense and he hoa t'.iat the one will never again lie cited as prece dent for the other, and then he pro ceeds to point out the difference. He says in the Louisiana rase we nistled an open river, that it was necessary to our commerce, and that if Jeffer son hadn't bought it the result would have been a war between us and France over the control of the outlet to the Mississippi river, and that Jefferson bought Ixiuisiana from France iu order to prevent us from thrashing her and taking it away from her. According to this it is all right to buy or sell territory If you need it, but it Is very wrong to buy or sell anything which you do not need. Mr. Bryan also accedes to this theory of morals, because he avers that while we have no title to the Philippines yet he profHMes to reserve coaling htation ami naval supply stations such as we nets.1. Mr. Bryan says that the republicans have discovered a new commandment: "Thou shall not steal on a small scale." It seems that Mr. Bryan himself and his supporters have adopted another commandment: "Thou shalt not steal anything you do not need." Whenever Mr. Bryan admits that he intends to retain any part of the Philippine on the ground that we need it or to distinguish the Louisiana purchase on the ground that we needed it, he removes the discussion from the quetiou of morals to a question or public policy, whether or i i.t It Is la tter for us to reUiu the Philippines or to abandon them, aud this really Is the question a.'b r all, taking Into consideration our duty snd it r obligations as well ks the benefits which may tm di rived. But suppose that ttiere is anything wrong alsmt our acquiring the title to the Philippine Islands, Is Mr. Bryun lu a position t critici.-c the administration In that luattei? 1 think not. We acquired the tide to the Phlllpi me Islands by the treaty el Palis. We paid t Spain llM.OOO, (MM) and relinquished any claim upon her for indemnity on account of the wsr, ami we received Porto tBieo, I tie islaud of Guam and the Philip pines. It Is always customary aud In accordance with the law of nations that where a war is fought out, the loner pays hn expenses of the vie t'iry. It is like a law suit, the loser always pays 1 1, ecue-tH. Our expenses lu that war were approximately 2, 000,000 so Ui.ft we paid for these Is lands f22", oo.oimj, This treaty whs negotiated i t Paris and before it could go into effect it had to be rati tied by a two-thirds majority of the U. S. senate. At that time Mr ' Bryan's friends were in the majority in the seuate. Air. liryau himself went to Washington and personally urged democratic senators to vote to ratify this treaty. It was only mil tied by a narrow majority of one or two votes. There is no ques'iou thai it would tive failed of rrt flcitlon had it uot lain for the active t-upsrt of Mr. Bryun. lie does not deny this, he ailfiii s I', Ho admitted it her. in thetimit house yard. Ye now ho stiys that Spain had no title to sell, is t ml true? Did Mr. Bryan urire the senate of the U. S. to ratify a treaty by which we paid $2L0,0(M), ono for property to which she hsd no inli'. If i hi:, is true, Mr. Bryan is hardly the man to trust with the ?oi,trol of the busiuess of the U. S, in support of the republican candi the Court House, Saturday, Nov. 3 sjaker to address a Hillsboro If be is so reckless of the people's money as to invest (220,000,000 in the purchase of property when he knows that he is getting no title, lie shows himself well qualified for a populist financier, but not the pio- s?r man for president of the U. S, What were we paying this money for? Were we simply throwing it away? It seems that Is Mr. Bryan's .dea of it. But Mr. Bryan says that republicans are not fair. He says they neglect to state that at the same time he urge. I the passage of the li con resolution and he says that If that had tsf'ti passed, there would bsve ts-en no war and no blood shed lie. tween us and the Filipinos. That this statement is subterfuge and an untrutli can be demonstrated by overwhelming evidence. In the first place, the fighting began on the 4th day of February. The treaty was not ratified until the 6th of February and it was known at the time it was rati fled that the fighting had already be gun. Senator Allen of Nebraska in explaining his vote In favor of the ratification of the treaty used the fol lowing language: "Mr. President, the news has come to us within the lui-t lew hours of a conflict between the American Army and Navy and the Filipinos. To my own state has fallen much of the loss ot life and limb. Ten out of twenty of the young men who lost their lives In the battle that has been fought In the last forty-eight hours were memls-rs of the First Nebraska Infantry. There Is mourning in Nebraska today: there will be weeping at ti e hearthstone of u.iny a Nebrarka home tonight. Mr. President, this ought to lie a warn ing to us. I cannot condemn too severely the assault, the treachtrous assault made on our troops. We were dealing with savages as blood thirsty and Incapable of being recon ciled as the Ogallala Sioux, Tbey precipitated this con 11 let of their own volition. "I uphold Hid gcmral and com mand) r of the Navy In repelling the a'taek. We are In the Philippine Islands .as a conquering military power. We hold them today by vir tue of the power to make war, and iu no other sense, aud there those la lauds and those ople must remain respecting the law, resptstlng tbe dignity and the sovereignty aud the flag of this nation, until their statu among the nations of the earth shall be detintsl by congress, the sole power to deal with the qun-tion. They must lie taught as long as we deal with them that submission to tbe constituted authority is the first duty of the citizen and the inhabitant." I need to quote no other authority to show that the attack upou our soldiers was made before the ratlfi cation of tbe treaty helore congress had voted upon the Bacon resolution and that the attack was dastardly aud unprovoked. The Bacou reso lution was not voted on until several days afterward, so Mr. Bryan advo csied the ratification of tbe treaty after the fight had already begun As soon aa the treaty was ratified Mr. Bryan left Washington and so far ss anybody knows paid no at ten tion to the Bacon resolution. Sena' tor Allen of Nebraska is Mr. Bryan ers4iiiiil and isilitical friend. He was the man who presided over the lsipullsi convention at St. Louis four years ago and when Bryan telegraph ed him that he would uot accept the nou. illation unless Sewall, the candi date for Vice president was accepted Mr. Allen suppressed the t legram I Mr. Bryan's Interest. When there w. s a vaiiu cy in the U. S. senate from Nebraska, Mr. Hitchcock, democratic editor of the Omaha World-Herald was very anxious tobt apHiiiied. The governor would in appoint until he could hear Irom M Bryan. Mr. Bryan Instructed him to aiiKiiit Mr. Allen. When the populist convention was held atSiou Fails this year Mr. Allen went there as Mr. Bryan's jiersonsl represent)' live and manipulated and manage the convention iu his interest, He Is as cloKe to Mr, Bryan as Mark Hanna is popularly supposed to be to McKinley, and yet, Senator Allen sp'.keaud voted against the Bacon resolution. D.ies anyone believe h would havu opposed it if Mr. Bryan hsd desire.! its passage. Suppose that some measure that had been dt feated was under discussion and Pre sident Mi'Kiulcy should say that he was very much in favor ol the met sures and tried to secure its passage and the record showed that Mark I lamia had spoken and voted against the measure, would anybody believe Mi. McKinley? Not for one minute. Mark lluuu'a action would be point ed to as conclusive evidence of Mr. MeKlnley's wjshes, and .so It is with Mr. Bryan. His statement that he urged the ratification of the treaty expecting the IUeon resolution to be panned also is as certainly an after thought as anything can be. Besides wha ever might be tbe chances of this resolution passing the senate everyone Locw that it could not pass the lower branch of congress 111 r be signed by the president both of which were necessary to give It any effect. It was a resolution which amounted to nothing at best. It de clared, as Mr. Tongue has well said upon a former occasion, that when at some future time nobody knows when when a satisfactory govern ment should have been established nobody knew what kind of a govern ment we should withdraw from the Philippines upon such terms as should be Just nobody knew what terms and it left us to be the Judges of those terms. Mr. Bryan simply makes himself ridiculous when he undertakes to Justify his action upon such a pretense as this. The fact ts either Mr. Bryan was afraid of the patriotic sentiment of the country afraid to have the treaty defeated by the democrats and therefore thought it good politics to have it ratified, or else he deliberately planned to have this country give away 1220,000,000 for the purisise of making bogus issue of imix-rialism upon which he might ride into the presidential chair. But what doe Mr. Bryan propose to do w ith the Philippines? He rays bis purpose is first to establish a sta tic form of government in the Philip ptne Islands; second, to give them independence, and third, to proteit them from outside interference. If we have no right there, if we secured nothing by the treaty, If Spain had nothing to m il: what business have we got in establishing a stable gov ernment? May las the Tags Is do not want a stable government? Is it to be established by their consent or witho t their consent? Who are lo be the Judge as to the stability of this government? How will Mr. Bryan find out whether or not tbey consent to it? Will he hold an elec tion, among the various tribes to de termine their consent to this stable government? Is it to he determined by a majority? If so 69 tribes out of 60 prefer the government of the U, 8. The Viasyss who are twice as numerous as the Tagals, welcome the government of the U. S. Many of the native trilies have met us with friendly hands, gladly welcoming the advent of the Americans and American civilisation. Thousands more would gladly do so were they certain that this government Intend ed to stsy there and protect them. Shall we now plsy the part of cra ven cowards and ingrains ami basely tescrt those who have been our friends and abandon them to the savage reprisal of Agulnaldo? If we do, it will lie the worst blot on the escutcheon of the American people. If the voter? of this country Indorse a pol icy of this kind then I very much mistake their sentiment. Then Mr, Bryan proposes to protect them from outside interference. A flne program this. We have do rights there. These savage and half savage Malays can Indulge their pi ratical Inalluct to theu'termost with the comfortable assurance that Uncle Sam will not allow them to be inter (erred with. Mr. Bryan is very much afraid of a standing army of 65.000 men, but be will need a 100 000 lo carry out a policy like this. Tbey would keep us In hot water all tbe time aud foreign nations would not submit to our playing the dog iu the manger, aud nurturing aud pro tecting a nest of pirates to pray upon their commerce and to loot the prop erty of their aubicts. We would soon be Involved iu a wr compared with which tbe Spanish war was child's play. But cur frieuds of the other side say tbat It coatu too much; that too many Uvea are being lost; tlntt we had better give It up Ibwu to spend so much and lose so many Uvea. Is that true? Has patriotism in this couutry sunk to so low an ebb tbat we cannot afford to defend tin American flar when it Is lired upon? Is money so valuable or eacc so de sirable that we can afford to save the one aud purchase the other by hsv ing tbe American flag trailed in the dust of defeat and dishonor. My friends, this Is an old familiar argu ment, Mr. Bryan . comes by it honestly. When he was a boy the great conflict between the North and the South was going on. Mr. Bryan's father was making that same argument through Southern Illinois. It was a common one in those times with the people whose sympathies were with the South. They said the struggle was too hard: that it cost too much money and too may lives to preserve the union, and that we had better al low the country to be divided and the Southern Confederacy es tablished; but the loyal peo ple of the North scorned this A regular army private at Vancouver suggests that anti Imperialists go over and enlist With Agumaldo, that the American soldier might slnsit them. Anti-Imperialists have no time to shoot at skunks who enlist for $13 00 or $14 00 per month rather than enter the lists of legitimate occupa tion. What a first el iss Bur gnyne tory this fool from Van couver would have made a cei tury aen. Hillsboro Argus Oct. 6, 1899, 21 page, commen cing near notion 3d column. argument and spit upon it and they will repeat that action on next Tuesday. The American people are not cowards, they are not truck lers, they are not afraid of effort, they are a strong and vigorous peo ple and they will make any sacri fice rather than submit to disgrace and dishonor. Our friends are very much troubled about the sol diers whose lives arc being lost in the Philippines. This comes rather sudden. A few short months ago the columns of the Bryanite papers were filled with statements that our soldiers in the Philippines were the offscourings of creation. No name was too vile to apply to them. It was said that they were drunkards; that they were looters; they were butchers; that they were rapists. Some of you may doubt this. You j may bave forgotten. Let me call your attention to some of the. choice eAnvba l tha llriranitaia r 1 11 m Inr . remarks of the Bryanites with refer ence to our soldiers, and I shall not go away from home for all my ex amples. I shall quote from your home paper simply as a representa tive of the Bryanite sentiment. When the volunteers came home last year, the Argus, alter referring to the fact of their services, said: Common sense and honesty pre vailed, tbe nation at last came to its senses, it concluded to put hired fighters in tbe field for the glorious American institutions and the boys who volunteered for a noble pur pose were allowed to come home. Tbe American volunteers enlisted for a righteous cause, .they were never mere hirelings. They are home and the scrapjiers can do the Philippine service at so much per month." A short time afterward the Argus referred to the regular soldiers a the offscourings of white- chapel. In the issue of October 5, 899, the Argus said, referring to the regular soldiers; "anti-imperialists bave no time to shoot tt skunks who enlist for 13 or 14 dollars icr THREE COLLEGE COURSES - CLASSICAL, SCIENTIFIC, LITERARV PACIFIC UNIVERSITY - - - he Academy prepares for College and flices a thorough English Education, the best pre paratjon for teaching or. business. All ex penses eery low. Board and rooms a the Ladies' Hall 3 to $4 per tceek, including electric light and heat. THE CCLLEQE DORMITORY nder experienced management, tcil) fur nish rooms and board at cost plan, not to exceed f 1.60 For full pai iculars, address president McClelland, Forest Croce, Oregon month." These choice extracts a re from your local pajier, and it is o ne type and a fair representative of the Bryan ptess of the countiy. and this is a correct cxpicssion of their sentiments. Mr. Chairman, if the soldiers of the regular army are hirelings and skunks and the oil scourings of whitcchapei. then the men who fought with Ievey at Manila bay ore the same. The men who sailed on the Oregon in her wonderful voyage around the Horh aud who fought upon her on the glorious 3d of July, at Santiago, were skunks and hirelings. Fred Ramsey, son of Judge Ramsey, ol McMinnville, our neighlioriiig city, is a skunk aud a hireling; Jacob Boyd, the brother of Mrs Cave, who died iu the Philippines, was a skunk and a hireling. Ia the mouth ot June, 1898, upon San Juan hill, was an army of Span iards. Their fortifications were constructed with all the ingenuity of modern engineering; 011 top of a range of hills were ditches dug in zigzag fashion. There were stone forts, there were Catling guns, ma chine guns, Krupp guns; the Span iards were armed with Mauser rilles and smokeless wder, and in front of it all were strong barls-'d wire fences. At the foot of the hills were some boys in blue carrying the stars and strities, they had no artillery to assist them (it had ln?eii put out of action for the want of smokeless powder), their com mander was from three to four miles in the rear, they had no leader who had a right to command them; but when they came to the foot of the hill and saw the flag of Spain waving over the battlements 011 the heights, they could no long er be restrained and led by Col. Roosevelt and old gray-haired Col. Hawkins, who was 011 the tetircd list, they went up the hill. They went through the barbed-wire fences, they captured the stone forts, they drove the Spaniards out of the intrench tnents which had been considered impregnable, and they planted the stars and stritK-s on the hills so recently occupied by the yellow banner ot Spam. The foreign army officers, who were watching them, turned their heads away because tuey thought the boys were going to certain death. After the battle was over, one of the English officers was asked if there were any soldiers in the Eng lish army who could have done that. He hesitated and said, that the Queen's Own might have done it. And, yet, Mr. Chairman, the men who made that charge, who climbed those height and left 17(H) of their nutnlx?r dead and wounded on the hill belong to that class of men our Bryanite friends take pleasure in denouncing as skunks and hirelings. Do you want to vote with a party that expresses sentiments like these? Would you vote for a man whom you la-lieved for an instant entertained such sen timents? Is there a true American with red blood in his veins who will not resent by his voice aud his vote the slander and abuse of his coun try's defenders? The country that does not respect the men who fight its battles will soon cease to exist and justly so, for it has forfeited its right to exist. There is a society in the East with its headquarters at Boston known as the auli-iuipcrial-ist league. It is a Brpan organiza tion, gotten up in his interest and is urging his election with all of the means at its command. It has compiled a book of poems and has circulated tuein as cJa:ni,aig)l litcra " ture. Let us call attention to a few choice selections from these ptHtins. Here is one: Ala! Alar! Columbia! The stars upon her brow Hve lost their radiance, and her llag Trails in dishonor now. Hero is another addressed to the Filipino-: "Our fate to yours is irou linked, Ou you depends our weal or wis'; Our lilierty will bo extinct With your own overthrow." And here is another addrcssis! to our soldiers: 'Nay, if they still demand recruits, To curse Manila bay, I!.) men; refuse to act like brutes And massacre aud slay! Or 11 you will m rsinl to light With all the soldier's pride, Why, then, Im; rels-ls for the the right By Aguinal lo's siib 1 Continual on Fmtrlh Pna FALL TERM BEGINS SEPT. 10. on the club sv
