Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1900 — What “God’s Agents” Are Doing. [ARTICLE]

What “God’s Agents” Are Doing.

‘•We deplore the fact that an administration of this Republic claiming the right and power to carry our flag across the seas and to conquer and annex new territory should admit its lack of power to prohibit the American saloon on subjugated soil or should openly confess itself subject to the liquor sovereignty under that flag. We are humiliated, exasperated and grieved by the evidence painfully abundant that this administration's policy of expansion is bearing so rapidly its fruits of drunkenness, insanity and crime under the hothouse sun of the tropics, and when the president of the first Philippine Commission says it was unfortunate that we introduced and established the saloon there to corrupt the natives and to exhibit the vices of our race. We charge the inhumanity and unchristianity of this act upon the administration of William McKinley and upon the party which elected and would perpetuate the same. “We call attention to the fearful fact that exportation of liquors from the United States to the Philippines increased from $337 in 1898 to $467,198 in the first ten months of the fiscal year ending June 1, 1900, and that while our exportation of liquors to Cuba never reached $30,000 a year previous to American occupation of that island our exports of such liquors to Cuba during the fiscal year of 1899 reached the sum of $<>29,655,”- Clipping from national Prohibition platform.