Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1904 — No Constitution There. [ARTICLE]

No Constitution There.

Associate Justice David J. Brewer of the United States supreme court caused a sensation in the International Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at the World’s Fair by saying regarding the Philippines: “The purchase w’hich this great exposition commemorates was not the result of conquest and came not as the result of war. A lawyer, not a soldier, made the transfer. The glory of the transfer is one of the laurels of our profession. “You can see twenty acres of Philippine life at the World’s Fair, but you cannot see a. square rod of the constitution. Perhaps it is because it has been judicially declared that there is no connection between the two.” John W. Foster, former Secretary of State, who followed Justice Brewer, declared that the navy Is too big. He said he hoped that the Secretary of the Navy had not made the statement attributed to him, that he wished to make the navy of the United States equal to the greatest. I went up and down your land four years ago as your candidate and in every speech I made I asserted that the question of imperialism was more important than the money question, —William Jennings Bryan.