Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — CALL THE WAR A CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CALL THE WAR A CRIME.

Anti-lmperiali*!* Meet and Denounce the Philippine Caapiio-Anti-imperialists from thirty States were congregated in Apollo Hall at Chicago Tuesday induing. when the conference against expansion was opened. Public meetings were held Tuesday evening, Wednesday afternoon and evening. Edward Burritt Smith called the meeting to order. I’rof. A. H. Tolnian es the University of Chicago delivered the opening address and was followed by a number of other speakers. The speakers announced themselves, some in violent and some in quiet words, as the bearers of the true spirit <>f iudei*cndcnee and free government. Following are some of the sentiments expressed: The American people should stamp the administration’s proceedings with a verdict of disapproval so clear and so emphatic that this will be a solemn warning to future Presidents instead of a seductive precedent. —Carl Schurx. The people begin to comprehend that homicide is homicide, that bloodshed is bloodshed; that it serves nothing to call oneself Caesar or Napoleon, and that in the eyes of the eternal God the figure off a murderer is not changed because instead of a gallows cap there is placed upon his head an emperor's crown.—JL Sterling Morton. In nearly all the eventSTff'TSstory the dominant minority fought out the principle of liberty. History will repeat Itself.—Edward Atkinson.