Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 42, Number 8, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 October 1899 — Page 3
IMPERIALISM A CRIME IfcKtaldy! Philippine Policy Denounced by Carl S.hurz.
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v tnit tlulr regrot thai thll war ever have happened. I think I risk j wh.ii I aay that it In not mere!) matins conduci of military operaI,, i - ... irloun troubli of conacleneei irbi th Am. rloaa h. art about ,:. arl that this trOUblt of COI , will mt la- allayed by a trior, suri military cempatgn, Jual as BO y ar ie trout.:, of conscience about sltiv.uid nut be itlayed by any com-
; s people now, an th. slavery eomII i- r- dni then, try to one tbh mit ! raying: 'Well, we nr.- In it. and now n mi io th. beat we can.' in spite of 0 .. is futility .f tin- cry In sum. pict . i w.:i acet pi it with the one proo :..: w. mile an hon t .ff ort to .Min what really In the bent we can r.. -h . ti.i ;. us Ural clearly r. m. mt , i h is h tppent .1 April. ISM. w- w . tif to w ar w i:h Spain kVOWi 1 purport of III rntli.i: th of Cbba, who had Ion been tr g to tt edusS ar.'i Independent cur . in thai wa.- wan deafly and m- ,.'. pr.iclaimiii b a solemn reeecongrcsi re pud la ling .n Inten01 mncsatton on Oar part, and dedartl ' the Cuban people "are. ami of urhl to be free and Indtpt adent.'
o! mn declaration wan made to do the aptrlt of th.- American peo- ) i w.r- Indeed willing to wag ir of litx ration, but would net have I oni to a war ci conojneat. It wa- also itiati the opinion f mankind for nction. President McKinley also .1 - I Ith eiual aoieaanlty that a an. soforce could not be thouKht of, bt -. a rdtng to our code of morals, i . .: i i . 'criminal sggn aaina ' l'nrel n War of I . I lie r a t to n . Can It .luntly he pretended that ths,. itlnrattoni referred only to the Uta ad Cuba? What would th- Atr.. i n an p. o- . what would the world hav. said, if had renolved that tlv t'uhan p- owarf rightfully ntitl.d to freedom i dependence, but that an to the people othi I- Bpanhth co'onien we recoanlaad no . h nah, and if Preatdent McKinley hal rtared that th.- foruihU annexation of iba would ha orlmtnat, bu that th. .- itr.exatlon of oth. r tpantlh col-V.-iiltd be a rii:ht. iU .-"t? A .mr.ii iif pr..le: from our wn p opl . ! of dertaton and con' :rp- from th. world, would hava been th aaawnr. ii. tlnr. can he fu cavilthat war was 1 to all mat. Kind to be war cf r.'.iiin. ard not of oonojuaM, ar.d even w our very Imperialist ar' tili boant- . thai the war wai prompt .1 bj the n a 1 tl-ii and R. ni roun p1 rpoes. and that n Ineull us who do no I b Hi re it. "11. rout'-, of that a r 'omrr.o I .re
I w v. by a brilliant feal of arm, deiyed hi panlnll flit in the harbor : Manila Tbl did not chaaf th- h r.1 character of the war certainly not DewcjrM own opinion. The Filipinos, nntltutlng ih- atfafaajoal and roremo.il tribe of the nonu'atlon of th- archln-lano.
1.1 !oag bean tiKhtinK for frtedam and . : I !. ...'.. Just as the fubans had I 1 vi. at mass of the oth.r l-lat.d. rs I'mpathiaed with th. in. Tiny foWaTht f r tin lanti 1 aus- as the Cuban, und th y fought aaalnat the aaaae enemy th name try .1 ilr.st whom w w- f. w mit.- om ir of humanity ai l lite ratten Th' y had 111 tub to fr 1 .loin and indep. nd . w :.: Ii We r. ( okiiIz. I 'of rlKhf In thi Cubann nay, more: for, a Admiral Dewey graphed to our government. 'the i.re far Mtpt rlor In their Intel'.-,. 1 ce, and itwr. 1 1 Mi ..f elf-governaneni than the nativea Of Cohn.' The admiral adln: 'I am milter with both racea, and further Inrcoum with thm has coojltmed me in thin opinion.' deed, the gtendaclotti utorle. apread b) our Imp. riallnts. which ri present those I I op:.' a- barbariann, ih. ir dolngn an m-r. 'avagery,' and th. ir Chit fn n bo better than 'cut-throatn,' h.iv. been refutod by h a mas if authoritative t stlmor.y. 1 ti Ing In part from m-n who are th.-m-lmperiallt. thai th.-lr authors nhouM hidt th. Ir hi adt in ahnrae-; for surely. It in not the part of really brave mi-n to uinnlate thi Ir vb tltnn In for. sacrificing
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. n um I ii will deny that in pothl of fact ' KUlpiao, huvlng be. n detrod and inI dg tO, w- re. Ie f r. th. capture oi Manila, acting, ar.d wi r- pro Icnlly recgntl d. as our allien, and that an nm h thi j ltd effective tervlc, which we ieCepti I i:r, protltid by. This tn an Indiaputable fart, proved by the record, it i Hlallv In Ilspilt.il.!- fact that lur'hit pt rl.,d the l-'illpino Kovernnient ( 1 -t intly and publicly, no that nobodj could plead njrnoranci of it or Btltunderatand it. informed the world thai th. ir object was ih. acht vi -mni of national Independence, and that I b iii.. the Am. Ii. LR had come In good f iith to h. Ip th. m accomplish that ii la the cani of Cuba, It wae aroeita n rloun proclamations and oth. r pubMi rnncea of AajnlnaMo to that effect Ihi Borreapondenoa between him and Andemon, whicb i bava q noted, 10 k I' ice, and that the useful gerVloea of thriiipltio. as our allien Were accepted. It In, further, an Indisputable fact that dur-
. I I 1 i.vl ut.r f;o'. t : tin lit did i.ot lltf..rrn the Filipltin.s that ihelr fond x- j i .-tit ions an to our recognition of th Ir in!'" fr.tt mistaken. Our getfC 'at j of state of. i-. : v 1 no Z : write I t Mi I'ratt. our cor.-..' penera! i "ttjf -
pore, .:-.'m our Rovt-rnm. et kn w thi I'hllipplUi It urgents nut indtal aa patriot a trutallnf for liberty and who. ltk. thi Cu iti. 'are. atid of rlht ouRh' to be '"- dependent' but werai as 'dlaaonteated and rcbeiiioun nutij-cin of Spain.' w no. It We Occupied their COnntf) In cons, qui noof the war, would have to yb Id u due "obi di. tn e." And oth r oflli r:i of our govrrrntent w. r. I net rooted not to make any promlaea to the Filipinos an to the future BMI th. l-lltplno themn. Ives w r. t ot ffl iaforhned They were left to believe that. wMb flah'InK Iti COOtpt ration with the Atnen iq folic 'V w r- IlKliliiiB for
ih.lr o 11 In.:. p 11b nee. Tin y could nut Imagine thai Ihi yävernmenl of fho grtal a in- ia republic, whll hooatteg od iv lag gone to war with Spain und r lav baa nor of in., rat mn mid hnmnnlty In behalf 01 cm. 1 mi ca p 1 iii n( ...I r. 1,1 ptotttnaj to tum th.tt war lata aa for the conquest iind subjiiKutioii of tb. pMIIgdaeai niie rtrdwfd to i"ii iii'k "Hut Junt that wan to hapjo n As roor. as Maiill 1 was iak. n ami w bad no für t lu r us- for our Killplnu klllv th- hM ordered to fall back and bii,-k from ihi city ami toburha Our military eoanaaandern treated the Filipino' country os tt it wr.. .ur own when Agulnnldo f nl an of his aide-de-camp to den. Merrlti witii a rnut for .in interview QR Merrlti was 'too bus) ' Win n our - ic n K0tlt lions with .in I., gaa ar.d ti pCi II nlatlvi of the Fllipinoa taked for auohence to nolicit coaoidi ration ! ih rictus and wUlv -of th.ir people thi toon wore slammed in their face, In Washington a wU a in Parte, And behind taoas door the schemi w at hatched Wdeprtvi the I'hliippiiie Islanders of the Indepa adenoi from forelcn rah and lo gaahe thean thi aubijeeta of another forelaa rvler, and thai torehm ruler their lata ally. IM great republic, which b oi gr mdly pro- tatet .1 to tht worl 1 that Its war am bint H11..111 v an ic t a aar
of conuueat, but a war of liberation ai d hum ml: . "Behind :ho-;. doonp, which were tlfbtty closed i" tht pt ipl of th Phlllppln, a tr..r wa mode with Ipaln bj th direction ..f Prealdenl McKinley, hieb provtded for the ewasten of the Phlttppln laland by Spain tu th l'nlte Hi : i . s for the conaldi ration of fM,ooo,C 0 it has bet n bt that this sum w is not purchase money, bm a compenaatlon for improve merits mad by Bpaln, or ,1 'tola t Iura' : sweeten the jit l of oewfoa, or what not. Bui te,I of ;t:i cloudy rblsge, 11 a really purchase raont . the 1 1 le being made
by Span ut. Ii r liure, I . . us spa in so 1 ami th.- United S at.s bought what area called the aoverelgnty of Ritain v. r thPhlltpplr.e islands and thii people, Now. lo.jk at the ctrcumustancea under Walch thai 'ceaoion' wa marie Ipaln had teoi thi poesesatos, of th.- country, except ,. fen Isolated and helplc lit tit garrlsena, inos! of which Were effectively bloi k.nl. "1 by the fflllplnoa. The American forces occupied Cavlto and tht harbor ard city 1 f Manila and nothing more, Tin- both of the country was ... . upt .1 and i..ss an 1 by thpeople t hen Of, Ot r whom Kpiln had. In point of fact, eeaied to egercin any ov erelanty, the Spanish power having been driven int or destroyed by the Filipino In-
-uiT'ction. wbi'. ti I'ni' I States had not I iioiiir-.l bevonil Pavlte attl Manllu. any
authority of wli.it. ver naaae by military occupathn nor by recognition en the pari of the people, Agulnaldo'anrnu surround
ed Mar i a 00 the land si.. . ami his SOVemmenl claimed organtaed coantrol aver II province That government was eat linln d at Malnlna, r.ot far from Manila, and a v. ty respectable soveramcnt II . as. Acne Iii to Mr It.irr. tt, our hit- minlsti r in Btam, hlmaelf an ardent lanfstrtellat, who had s. - n It. It had a w. Iborptar.ir. il ix.fiitlve. divided into u ri ral Si partments, abl) con. In. . d. and ii popular assenthiy. aeon
ki i im whb ii would favorably compart with
th-- par iam. lit ol Japan an Infinite!) ! tler governmn) than the haenrrectionary sovernm.tit of Cuba ever Wat cKiftf) im Dtertattor, "Thi.-. is a erim s'ory. Two y. ira kgoth prediction of auch a poaaiblltty would have been regarded ai a htaeouu nlghtniai s the offspring of dttt. i bnsgflnatlon. I tut to-day it a true tali a plain r . ltal of facts t ike:, fr.im the official r- ..r I Th. think;-' have actually been .lone in thi last two yearn by ai 'i andt r thi Iminlat ration of William McKinb y This In our Phblpplr..' war as It stund'. It pn -tended that w. had a right to the pons. "i cf th- Philippine and that H. lf-n sp. ci de manded im la enforce that right, What kind of rlaht wai It? Tin rlsht of onn-
I quest) ii .-i we really acquired tJuit couatry by irm-d romiuml, which, an lr, s i -
.;. nt Mt Kin', y has told us. is, according to th. American coda of morals, 'criminal T But If we bad thrown aside cur cod.- of morals wc had then not conooered more than th bay and city Of Ml nil ri Th' real
of the country was controlled, If by anybody, by lht KHlplros. (trw.if.lt the right of poa tatoti by treaty? i have tlr dj ihown thai the president ordered th in forcement of our soverelgrnty ov r the archipelago long b fore the treaty had by ratlflcatior. trained legal effect, and also that, in m il;l:. ilia' treaty, w- h id bi Ugh! o me thing railed sovereign tj which Spain had coaeed to p aaeaa aad could therefore not sell and 1 liver. "it is also pretended that, whatever our rluht. the ttllphioa Were the orlfrtnul aff sr. aaorn tn 'he p. nding tit;;.t and thai our tro pn f.umil th.ms. i v. s c mpi ib-d to d. -fetid th :r Han ai. tinst ;v s.. ult. What a r. the fu ts? iir-i L'vp alng early la ffebruary last some ffllfplno stiMiers entered th. American lints without, how. v. r. atl iCh" ins aaybody. An American aentr) fired, kllllna one of the Filipino. Tht n a m sultory firing began a1 theontpoata, Itaprtad until it steamed the proporttona of an ent. salve i na tn. t:t. In which a Iura- number of Filipinos wer kiio! it is i welt t talillnhed fa-t that 'hi uik n. tit could not hav. bean pn indicated aff r on th. part of the Klüpino, a- rc.itiy if th.ir officers, Including Affutealdo'i private recft tary. Wi n at ih.- time in th. th. -atl rs and caf. s of Manila. It 1 furtii. -Well known that th. t . xt day fiafahtald I gent an officer, Qen. Torr-, under i Has of truc' ti Ok n otls to il-aire that (hi
fighting had not been authorised byAgulrtaldo, but had be sun scddentslly I that Agutnaldo wished ta have it stopped, i nd .r.jponed. to thai and, tlo Mtebttehraenl of a neutral sota hatwecu the two armtea sin ta a'; miaht h attr. alile to tl n litis, w hereupon den. Otis curtly unnw.r. d that th Ihjntltts, bavins once began, must go on to th- icrim nd. Who v as !t th tt r- a.'.v aant 'd the tinht ? "Hut far muri important than all th b the fact that Prealdenl McKtnlya Iwnevoi. nt asalaltatlon' order, which even i -fore the ratification of the treaty dim-ind-I that the rhiiippltie ivl in-!, is shou'd ur.oond it lonar.y MMTet d r t American overelKr.tv. In default wh-rt of our mllltarj
force would compel th.-m. was r. illy the president' declaration of warasatnat thi Kiiiid.ios inatatins upon Indopcndi nee, how- . v. r you may nulbb:. about it. When ; i . riti- d man entern my hon, under som questionable pretext and toll mo that I must yield to him unconditional contra nf th.- premlaei or h. win anach m i- wn who la tin- gajrreasev no matter win s'rlk.s th.- llrst b ow? N cane of gajVeaelon can DO clearer, shuffle and pr. -r eatt as von will. RfceH t.n " Ithwml Parley." "l.i t aa recapitulate, v go to war with Spain In bi half of an opprtned colony et h re. Wt sob tnt.ly prnci.ilm this to b- i war not r.f conquest-'lod forbid' but ' liberation and humanity. VY tnvsdt the fipnt h colony of the Philippines, dratfoy the Spanish fli i t ar.d Invite th- ci Opl rati I of the Plllplno Insurgent a agatoai Ipatn v. accept their effective alias a!,iea. all
the while permitting them lo betievi that In cane of victory th. y will h. fr. and lull, pi nb nt. By active lighting they get con trul of a lar part of the I nt rlor country, from, which Spain in Virtually av ted Whr-n we hate captured Manlln and havi no furthtr us- for nur Filipino allies t.i.r prealdenl dtrecti that. beCtlnd their bacha, a treaty be mad- with Hpaln trunsfi riH their country to us, an. I ( yea bi for. thai Jr. ... i y Is ratified he ti Ik lht M thut, in placi ri th.- Spanlardi th. mnai sec pt ns a their mantirs. and that lf tli y do not th y will be comp 1K1 bv fa'-ci- of arms Thi v refu.ie ami w ahooi ihfM down, and, nraaides: McKinley anld at Plttciurajrh. w. hall Continue to nh.iot them down 'without us. ;..s- parb) "l bavi t idted them' thlngn in ntud!otis; sober and dry mattt r-of-fact binsnas without oratorical ortium nt er spp. al. I ask you now what epithet ran you 11 r-1 Justly to charade rise ucri scours '.' II;. pplty, you r.i . d nut si arch forune. for Prentu in MiKniK b ma. it l.aa :ui i.t..l. d '.ii
bent. arheSi hi a olrtuoua aaaeat, h. i iM tha ann gallon by farce rhanld not he thought of, for, according lotbe American cod oi mol lis. It WOUld be vniiilii.il angri - ' V. , i ir.ai ii' it the wtutl Hsvt you v r I "I of ant ..nar. --i i. mori clear. i criminal than this? And in iinsc.s- 1 1, leaaent of pacnHnrir reputelv tin ann s- end tr- ichery. i pity tl American who can b hoki this np. ei ii le without ti.. prefoaju U ii i ham, omatrttion aral r iit.ii.nl Is it a wonder. I
r.-ptat. that the American peopb , in who, t gM thi Ii I been .loaf, Should be truubled I n thi : r . oi acii ace ? ' To instil) , or rather to egCUUO, -in h thlr.Ks nothing but a plea of the t-xtr. m- 1 . . --it) wr: ..vail Did sw.li a net. .salty ealnt? in a sort of belplea way Ihi da fend. r Of t bis policy ask : "What Is- could thi prealdenl have done under tho clrcunastaue. uT Tin- iU. sthin Ik simply childish If he IhOttaht Ii-- ' 00 Id not ordi r Commodore Dewey KWay from Manila ..!' r thi execution of the order tad itroi thi loant.di tb et he coald ii t toM thi pi opl el thi Philippin lIaRda thu' tlii- was, on our part, a war, noi r conepii at, but of libi m tiot and humanity: thai w aympathhted v. itb ii Ir ti. for ft. edom and lad. p- d enc I thai would tr-at themai w. bad apecltlcally promised to teat thi Cu ban a opte in furthertnt the eatnbHahsneni of en Independent gov-rtunt nt. And thin tank would hav- been much easier than in the case of Cuba, since, according to Admiral Dewoy'a repi ttedljf emDhatlc ti mony, th Filipino were much better titt. 1 for .-m li a govt ritme.'ii. Our ingenious nontmasti r u : . ra I has told lie that th-
preatdent could not hai done that, becau ... had no warrani for it. ulnce bo did not know whether the Am i can peopb would wish to i p th Philippine Islnnda. But what warrant, then, bad tht prealdenl for pUttinK. I his 'benevolent u.'similatlon order,' before the Filipinos he alternativ oi submission to out overi Ignty or par? t liitlleiiues I'rtitif ul a:i-.,r. "1 am far from meaning to picture th. Phlllppln Ulandera a parag tu ofvtrtu
and gentle conduct. BUI I chaitengi m Imperialist! to show me any Instances of bloody dlaturbam r oth. r savag ry amors themse'vi s -utlici.it to create any necessity of our armed Interference to "restore order" o- to 'a iVi th m fn tn ana. h) ' I ask ar.l dl tttand at. RHSWI P I- it not tru that, ei ii if th- re has been such a dtsordi rly tend ncy, it would hav. HiUr,d a lo.'.g time for i; t . kill one-tenth aa many human b. lint.- as we have kill. ! and to cause Ottt.rth as much deVBKtatlOn as w. h iv. caiis. d b our ,i-s mi's upon th. m? I - It not true that. Instead or being oblttd to restore older.' we have carried not ar.d Si ith and desolation into peaceful communities arh as only offense was nm thai they did not maintain or.i. r and safety within tlv n - iv -. but that thi y refus. d to air.pt us as thi ir rubra? And h r. is ti rub in th- vocabulary of our Imperialist! ord. r mi ana, above all. iubmlsslon to lh.tr will. Any other kind of order, be it ever m. p- at cful ana safe, must be suppressed with a bloody haul. This 'ord. r" Is the kind that h is bet n 'L matnl' 1 by thdespot since the world had a history. Its language ha- air. ady beeot.n ...-t tijit.T. usi fan liter to us a familiarity which canm Bi is : si soon. 1'rom all these points of view, therefore.
th. I'hiiippin war wa aa ufineceasar) as it . Is uii j ' i si . A wanton, wicked ar d abominable war so it is called by untold thou- , .- .,: Am. ej,. in dtiz ns. and sa it Is at
ii irt ft ' to be, I hav Bo doubt, by an im- i men! majority rf the Am. rn-.tn people. Aye, aa such it Is curs, d i many of our . t -. Hera whom oar sovtrnnient order ;.. ehoot down innocent people. And who will di ny thai tht.-. war would certainly have been avoid.-. i had th. prealdenl remain i true to th. national pled) thai the war ins ilnst Spain should In- a war of lib- i erat ion .md humanity, ar.d not cf conqui Bi ? And what h iv. w. now 7 Aft.r iuht i:-. .".'.h-' siauuht. r and tl. va station, sqijitn-
.1 red tr-asiir.- ami Rhame, an mdennite pros!., ci of more and more slauglit. r. äevastattoa, aataanderod trennur anJ sh i n 1 1 w iiaton Kllllwai Hwaaaaef "Win' Is the ultimate purpose of thin policy? To b. perfectly fair, i win assume tl , th. true spirit of American ttrpcri ilisni is r. pr. s. nt. 1 not by the extreanlata who wan; to lubjugate the Phlllppln i Islander al any cost ard th n xp id', the Utlande to th.. hem advantage of the ccnqu ror, but i.y th. more humane porwona who say that we must establish tur soverelgnt) 01 1 r th- m to man tin m happy, lo prepare them for aelf -scvernanent, and t v. ti r. coKiKXe tlnlr riuht to . ntnpbt. indepet .1 t . i soon as tl, y show thi m-stlvt-s HI tor i;. l.-t me ask the Wellmean 1 1 u 1 itiy. r- a simp!- qui -tlon. if you think that th.- American peonle may ulti
mately tonsmt to the Independence of those Is mdere, as matter of rlRtu and K ..1 poll .wh tin y. u insist upon kltl.ng them now? You ganwert 'Bocaoao thej refus 10 recogntm our aoverelgnty.' Why di. 'hy so r-fuse? H. cause th.y 'bil k tii tns.ive entitled to independence and are wflilns; to tiKht and .Ii. for i: But If
you lr."lst upon conti: u ii i . .1100: tii-m down for this reason duel not that psean that you want to km th. m for demanding 1 id-1, ileal thiuK Which yon yours, f think that you may ultimately tlnd it Just and prop.-r to srran; tlnm? Would not
i very drop Oi blood thed in such a guilty port cr to II. iv. 11? To kill men In a Just war and Ii ob. db nee to Imp. r;t tlve net th
slty Is on. thtttg ' " kill met. fordi mandlag what you yourself nnay ultimately havi to approv. is I'tioth. 1 II iw car such kill- , Ins adopt.. I as a polit y 1. count er.a net tl by 1 a man of I in N II 0C and humane feelings? Aafi yet such kll'lns. without useless par- ! 1. y. a the- policy propooi tl no. "Wc are told that w. must trust lr. -1-dt-nt ItcKlnb y ard his advisers to brine us out 'all rlKht." I ,-hould be slaii to b 1 to so, but I cannot form t that th. I bavi got us In all wriWK. And her. w have ! 10 .insider a point of Imtm r M Import;: nee, I which I solemnly urite upon the attention 1 of ihi American people, it is one of the
fundamental principle of .tr systtm of democratic government thai only thi eon-
gr aa has the power to declare wmt. What lee this signify? That a declaration of
wir. tn initiation ot nn aim.ii connict between this nathm and aome other power the most tolefnn nd r. sponsible eel a natioa can perform, involving as it goeotbi lives a -.d fort un. s of a n uncounted number of human I Ings- shall not b. at th.- dlscretion of the esecuttve branch of tka sav srnment, bat ihall depend upon th authority of the U gtstatlve r. pr. lentntfvi 1 of the p opli in othir words, that. a much aa lb machinery of loveraiaeni may make such a thing pooatble, th deliberate win of tin- people constitutionally expressed ih 1 1 di terming the awful ipit s: ion of peace Of M ar. RroMgthl on b lite Paoaldewt, 'Tt-.. in . thi ri fori . by nn means wrot who call thl-t the 'pr. sldt nt's war.' And a war 10 bi oug ht ghoul and i nducted the Am. t ii nt people are ashed to approve and encourage simply becauoe 'w or in it' that is, b. cans.- th- prealdenl Of his own motion ha sol us into it. Have you conKldcred wh.11 this means? Itvery man of pui.n. . v , 1 1. ace kt 0 g bow powi rful and
r ductlve nreCC4W Is as nn aruiinnnt in ihi ini rpr. tatton .f low and of conatliutl n il practlc s Wht n g thin, no matt, r how questionable, has once In n done by ih goveraswai and spproved, or evaa ac quli 1 1 In, by the peop , that act will at I r-;y l 11 la a .lust Ilea t Ion of Its being dottt again. In nothing II thi authority of pn cedent mor.- dangerous than, a defend log uaurpatlon o4 governmental power, "I am r.ot her.- a- a 1 irtl in, hut n an American -i t ia n analoua for the futuri al the ropuh! And 1 cannol to - admonl'h the Americ an people, if th-y aiuc the fundamental principle of their governmeni and Ihelr own security and that of their children, for a momt;,t to throw aotdi all partisan Maa and soberly to consider what kind of a precedent they nroutd s. t if ih- cor,', nted tn, gad by con 1 atlas npnroved, ih prgldetu manas - menl 01 thu PhUiBPteO bu.aiit a merely be-
, a use we ar g It ' r o- egpeCl all our future pr -id- a'- I. m.i I sot put j virtu.- and wi-ilom a- Oeoegt WTashlagl 0 wa- Imagine now in the pra4dnltel n ic-- a bmo well m anlag, but maybe, hortlighted and pltabl and under th lndu eg of so-called 'friend' who are gt. -d ar.d ri 1. . it specula ..rs. aid who would not scrupl t push film lata w .r' r.. og p I a Ilona in or b r 10 SI 1 r I I"" ' ':i"" " ar profit, or a man of thai laordlnati ambition which Intoxicate the mind and 1 -fjrs the oauncti i tt ar a man of gtrtm partisan spirt;, who hooeltl) ! leve it.e rl lory of hli p i rty to be necessary f,.i th solvation of the galvwtna, find may think that a tor-Ian broil would gerve tl" chnnc I of his party, or a man of an un ontroll comhatlveaeea f temperament whlcb miKht run away with bis aeOSi Ol reponlbil ) .md thai we ahatt have each mni hi the prtdenttel chair is by no means unlik ly w it ti our loo wa y of ai l 1 tins ' am didatei forth- preatdenc) Imagine, then, ., future prealdenl belonging t" tlthr of thi s.-1 lass. s to hav b fori inm tb pret -d nt of Mr Mi Kini. ) ' nmnagi mt al of the 1'hillpplr." busioc, satictlon. d by th. approval or only thi leojuleocen of tin p -nb. and to feel l lms. lt p. emitted- nay,
t yen encouraged do say to hlmaelf that, aa ti,.; pr. ..d.-i.t ihow -. h- may j.Iuiik. the country Into waiiik. loi.tii.ti f hi own motion, without asking leave of congress, with only aome legal lechnlcalltlea tooovnr his usurpation, or. even without auch, and that he may. i a machinery .r dec. pttea called a war censorship, keep lbs people in th dark about what Is n Ott, and that into however bads men hi maj nr. a gOI the '-(itltlt.'l he may count l.p..t. Ill p. opl . a- soon as .1 drop i.f blood ha- Ished, to uphold the uaurpatlon and to cry down evi rylifidy who opposes it as a 'tralior,' and all this bet suae 'ff nr.- in it!' Ci a you conceive a more baneful precedi t;t. 1 n.tin- prolific sour. 1 of danger to th p. and sr ortty of tin- oountry ? Can any sat e man deny that it will be ail the mOM prolific Of vil If In thi way w dr ft int.. a farelga t.oiicy full of temptation fo: Lab gerou ad vent un ! it. iti. ti, tor the BltunlloUi "i iay, ther fore, that if we hav. (hi future of the republic at h.art we must not only not aphold the administration in IM . nurse. In . .us- We ar- in It." but Just be1 iuti we ar, 'n it. having b' ti S0 Into it i In such t way. thi Arn. ri an peOpli fhould tamp the admlnwtratloa'a proc.tdlrgs I with 1 verdict of disapproval ao deaf aad emphatic, and 'et out of if in such a f -11-ton that this will be a solemn warning 10 future preatdent instead of a aedUCtlv precedent. What. then, to accomplish this nd, is to b. done? Of eourat we, gg IW are here, can only advise. But by c tiling fort h t xpr. saton - of t he popular will by various mtur. of public demonstration. I und. If need be. at the polls, we can make , that advtci so strong that thus, in poo r will hardly disregard it Wt havi often been taunted with havi g no positive policy to orooosi Bui mch a policy I is mora
than o ! been Bronoai d. and leal 01 ! re- 1
I peat it. "Ir. th- first place, i.-t it be well understood thai tii. . are egnKiousiy mistaken who think that if i. itrons Militär f-
fort th. Phlllppln wai be stopped, every thing will be rUiit and no qu.-stlon aliout It. Ho, the American trouble of 1 iroclenc wlU
not be app is. 1. mi in question win m a.s bt and vi rub nl a i ver unli -- the laug jf the warbt- promptly follow. 1 by an 11 suranc to thi island, rs of their freedom
and Independ- r.c. w hich assurance, .1 frlvt 11 now, woul 1 surely 1 t d I h war w ith out more fighting. We jiropoe.-. therefore, that it be gi 1 ow I. t thu re he t once an rm tl between our forces anä the Fii U t tin- Philippine Island r at th tame tim. bi told that the Atn.ritau 1 pl will be glad to aee them eetabtuh an Independent government, and to aid th.m in that task u far us may be aeceooary; that, if the dtaTereal triits compo-itm the population of the Phlllppteea nre dtepi led, as at ast most of them, if not all. are likely to be. to attach tlv m.- l s in sum. way
to thi Kovcrngaaat already existing under the presidency of Agulnaldo, We shtil cheerfully accept that solution f the question, and ev.n, If nqnlred. ! nd OUT gOOd ..flicea to brll'K it about, and that meaawkdl wi iha I m it our duty t. protect th.m against Interference fum other foreign powers-tn other word, that A .-h i- u .rd '. 'Ii m w- m in h-r. Mly to live up to th. righteous principles With the profCKSlon of which we comrr.cndid to the wor.d our Sp: :,t.- Ii u ar. "And then ii 1 g h i In the Phltlpplnea, to tarry out this programme, not email pol. . 11 i. 1 11 or a n.. d ii' .- nn- mart im t . bu .1
1 it- sman of larg mil d ana u nuine .-y mpathy, who will hot merely deal In inncttmontoua cant and oily promts.- with g strlna to th.m. nut who will prove by hi; acta thai ti. and we nr hoc-si. who will knp in mind thai t htjr jiov. i timi nt is r.ot m r. ly to rult us. but to suit thi m. thai ould not be mi uiurcd by atandarda which We ourselves hav not b- n able to reach, but be a Km rnnu : t of tht Ir own. adapt) d to their own condition and notion whether It to a tru- republic, ilk- i nr- at better, ora dictatorship Ilk. thai of l-ortirio in iz in Mi xi. ... . r an oligarchy Hk. the,..'. maintained by hi In Hawaii, or even 1 m--thlng like the bors ru 1 w. are to!' ra tlr.-; la -N.w York and Pennsylvania, 1. ei Them Walk Men.. "Thaw Who talk so much about 'flttltg a people for s. '.f-govcrnment' often fot that uo people wen ver madi 'fit' for i .- I vemmest by betas hept in the leading strlr.KM of a for. Ign pow. r. You I. an. to walk by doing y nir own CraWiiUS atid tumhilns. Self-government is learned only by eaercisliig it upon on. '.- awa re sisirs lilllty Of . ours. , th r- willl.. mls-
I tahea and troubles and ills rders Wehav. ! had and now l av. th.s.-. too at the begin 1 nina our persecution of the torti , our Roundertns before the cor.stitutioti -as 1 formed, our Shay's rebellion, 1 ur whisky w ar ar.d various failures an l disturbarie. s ; umoiiK th.m a civil war that tost us a ! loss iif life and tr. a-ur. horrible to think
I of, aid the murder of two preaidenta Hut who will say that on account of these i thi'is some for.ian tiow.r abOUM have kept the Am. rican people in lending ttringro to teach th m to c ivern themaelvea? it the Philippine It landen do as veil aa the Meaioaaa, who haSre work. 1 ihelr way, rlni.-e We left them aloi.e aft.r our war I f 117, through mar.) dl-a rders, to an ord fly government, who will havi a riuiit to tlnd
rault with tii- r. -ult 7 on may tak-- it as 11 K m r.i! rule that he w ho want.-; to tintn ovi r others Is sol mn'.y convinced that tin y at Hiiitt unahli to govern themaelvea "Now, wilat ol.J. ctlor. Is thOIT to ihe policy dictated by our fiitidume t.tal pflnClpll and our gotsl faith ? I tnar ti 1 ariur) cry : What? Surrender to Agulnaldo? Will not the world rldicul at . -11- ti- for such a confession of our Incompetency to dee! with so feeble foe? What will come of our prestige? Ho, w- ihall got surr i.ii.-r to Aali.altlo. In glvii t up a criminal aggrt salon on ihall Burrer.deC only to our own aenae cf right an 1 junlce, to our own undtratandlng of oar owi true int. fists and to tin vital p: im Iplt of our own republic. Nobody win laugh nl us w lu.se Mood opinio 1. w l.a ve ; a si. 11 t o .a. r-t-li There will, of course, be an outcry of I appointment n Rng'.and Bui from whom will It conn ? ProM rut h men as J ittea itryct or John alurley, or any one of tho e true frb-rds of this n public who until rstand and admire and wish lo perpetU ate and sprnao the fundamental prhV . 11 a s of its vltslltyT No. not fruag th.m. i'.ut the outer, wi .1 conn from those In Kneland who long to see ua entangbd in complications ap; to Irak- th. Am r. can republic Aependn upon Brittoh ail and thu aubSMVleot to British inter-sts. "The true friends of this rt public in I'.ngtend and, indeed, i over ih world, who 1 "w gri- ving to se us ko art ray. will rijoicc. ai d Ihelr hi arts will fit upilfti d i'h -.w t ontiib ci in our horn sty. In our WlOd itn and In th. virtue of d-mocratlc Instil: tlon-; When th. y I., hold thi Am rican p. OS'- throwing ald. ali th. purrllttle of fala prl rttuiiuiig to tli 1 t h of ihtir tru e-u'v.''
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U C i C aVC C-C
The Currency Question.
3 3 5-5 33 Ü j3 933 3 3 - Md)M)
THE SILVER ISSUL
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Got. Mnnr'i Mmnu l'osltloa He. lleeesln I lit U u u I H t e I beor of II one .
Cov. Stone of Iflwswtttl is an nblc mun. He gsjrt Iii anJ 1 1. a t lv, strongly and forcibly. Head what be sa.vs on 1 he ailve-r issue in u na-.-iit spcecli: "Silver ia no fetish with me; neither i (,'old; Salthat i sixteen tti psgv Silver and pi'itl uit ilmplj Inartrum talt tics lot the use of inaiikintl. ami fcixtt cn to one e vjiri s. s onlv u ratie) of value I bsttgaa in s eraantltlve taveory of ni.mty. I bcUera that the vsIm o, yiropcrty anil labor art diri-tl aÄOCt cd hy th quantity of Hagener in gB ral uac. Whan SMngej taslrandanl am! MCklltg itiM-si incut in the Icpitiitiate industries of the e-otintry, the vnlucs nf nroncrtv mhtcum and labor timi
i----.-rcaiiit-r employnieni at ramanamtive wapca. On tha eemtvasy, orlws morn is gosras sad diAcnll to obtain, the values of jit ti ri fall antl the lak-on r finds em ploy mm I more dlflealt and wagaa lower, l believe that oalytbeoc who have listti Ineomt sad capitalare benelitctl by an inadequate supply of money, and that all others aninjoriotmly nSactod. Waal I want sad oll I want is money ennttph to easily supply the monetary Beedo of the e-niiti-try and the World 1 I helicxed that (.ld alone would yield that nipple I would care BOthlngj for siher. If 1 la licved that silver alone would yield thai supply I would care aotafguf for puid. it is aaasaag I da not be ttevc that either aaetal, uaaided by tha gdaer, can supply n vulunie of iiinney sui: cicnt to meet the legitimate rextiiremcnts of husinCM that I uihoeate the imperial use of both metals for monetary purposes. "If both metals are coinel impartially into primary tnoncy they must be
ci lined at some piven ratio preociibed by law. I favor sixteen to one as that ratio. I Know that at this lima, and under existing conditions, sixteen t one is not the ei.tnmereial ratio of vain between lac two metals, l know thai as Dane of ioid is comino re tally warth twice 10 ounces of silver. IJecaitse tliat Is true our opponents say that n silver dollar coined on mr theory at tinratio of bistet n 1) one Would be WOTth
onlv 5o cent:- and would hnve i.ut ra -
ball the parehnainfj power of ihe pohi i oaf mJaea, . . ' ,r rl'l,.- snv that tlie clifntii-e I much wold
money would drive the dearer money Out of circulation and out of the country, and that v.c would soon tiad n lurches on a si i er basis. In onaaaqaance of this they say that enormous vested interests at home would be peralelv embarrassed nnl our industries prostrated, and that OBf foreiirn tXeaaSdfS would rise sad fluctuate no violently na to make commerce with foreign nations both dlfflcnll and unprolitable. I do t ot bellevo iheso apprehensions are well founded. Tory tire all predicated on tha idea of a difference In the value of the dlffcfwnt dollars. If the parly, so ealfa d, of 1 he !- lnt s sli'Hiltl be mailitaita d hy w bit Ii I mean if they should he kept of equ al value then the ilantrcrs cmroppatM i ts apprehend would pgractkmllj dlaappfST If the siher dollar iliould he as alitable as tae goM dollar: if the debt -pa J -inir and purcbaaiag ptiuer of tin two should be aOjaali they would be ilitcr(lianueable. and there vvtmld be no more reason for laootrdtafr tha aact thnn the other, and no more reason for the flight of one to foreipn eountrien tliau i f the other. Kepuhiicnn statesmen Sad NpabUcaaS peiicrally indeed, everybody rxeept thorn who are nctuntcd by s, lfisli eonsidcralions- adml j that bimetallism would he battCt for tht coaatryr, waaM he s boon ta the country and to mankind asawholc.it it were only possible.
"Hut they say our policy is impraci iealde for the reason that the dollars would part at tapaay nr.d lhat all tinevils they spprehaad would follow sg a ennsi ipn in c. Raw, democrats aral ! hinietallists believe as touch in the parity of the dollnr as the must r.r: -pant gold monometnllist aliie. if We ghoald sc. ore the control of the go. I emmrnt. it is 1n lie pri sinned nnd ghaald be presumed, that our statemen. aetaatcd by anaaoaalg and patriotic motives, wt.iild jirtiiettl in such
a way nsio prniect (ac iniemii oi hi own people sad eoantry. Tha parity nf the (lnilnr would be pn--i t w d. "Hut they say the pariti eai Bat BS PW served if the metnls ar- coined viitli(ittt restriction at th," ratio of W BJ 1. That is probl. tnatienl; that is a nutter of (minion noon w Ii Ich en im hl e and
B , prudent men are not agreed. We did maintain ihe ssritf r.i thai ratio, or substantially that ratio, or SO years. I Know conditions- BStC ehSBged since thea. I know that Krai: -c. licrtnnny gad other natnns. follow ind us. as w follow Baglai I, have gaae to s gal b,:is since tin' : and 1 ITBOW thai the w rM'a prods ft ion of tbt praciou metals lias greatly Incraam ri sin-c tht -.. But I know shw that the popnlntionaf this country and the world has pn fitly increased sir.ee then: a .' f knot n'n that the business cf this or.mry nitd
Iha World hr 11 crrnscd sir.ee INT. Tlie need I f gfl iticfcasit'-T VOlBIBt of money has kept pne-c with the ir.cri :. of popalatJoB and hiisir.it. Sad otir ability to art indent ndaBthj i- nlnti'cly prrnternow- than evcrdefore. "AVhcthi r Indapendaat Mail lalUrj cnlBSgt can he BialBtSlgntd It tlie ratio of 1fi to 1. Is s pustion we niny admit la not free from doubt. I think it ran be; Others tln'tik it ennnot be. There I hut BSC way to ttff the question r.nri thnt is by experiment. If we coin both metals nt all, we Btnat hnve n ratio. lf not If! lo 1. what? W could n't bee-ir Bi 'be i:reri
comtnen'ial ratio, f. r the free coin age of siher wouldauiuioubtedly enLance its commercial value; and ut the same UsM i -wer the BSSlSaSPOlsl aiue of Sg)d and. in tha MSBi the siHer dollar would be of p. atcr value than tin gala dolhir. It t hole who oppose the ratio cf lo to ; would name some ' hsr reasonable rat ' . I have no eloubt an agreement could be reached. Hut the trouble is that thong who are oppostd to i etaül m in lata object Is every suepesi mi.. .. 1 conjure up an army of bugaboos to frichten others away from w hat ih y ri iiliy dtalra. Those of us who mean hat we seiy when we declare for bimetallism nrn impatient ut thote who dJatiM jirrtexts, if not nbtgrfagOSi for procrastination. "We do not hold the ratio of H to 1 to be like the law of the Medea ami i'l-rsians. u'lchutitealiie. It is neither
sacred nor supernal ; it hivomsno fundamental Brlacip!-. Uhat we want is lo opes our mint ta tat free and in-
dependeat coinage of both goal and
silver at sonic precise ratio. We believe the aatfty of tht twa mctak can be maintniaed at the rntio arg propose. We want to trv it. We want to begin
where we left off. ar.d determine by
onrcfttl and gaaitSt d experlmeat wheth
er we are right or wrong. At all events, by experinn n1.ni d ei-rimnt
ali ne, will tic reach the ratio at which
gold and silver dollars, can be coined
on equal terms and kept at par. The American people mWSt W ' ri deterBBBM whether they will have bimetallism or abandon it. If wo nre to have it, wc must bagtl ii. and t bt difliculty of heginnitig it is nutrmcnteri hy every year it is delay ed." Illinois State Register.
PROFITS OF SILVER MINING.
V Foollsli triainii-nl if the (ioldltea anil nn (lulrnKe on nn Ii aiorl n a i In (I nut r .
For years it has been a stock argun.eiit with tht gold people that siiv.-r Las lallen in value btcau.se of the reduced cot of prod uction. The idea that in a. nm t i.J ion- shutting ofT the regnlar demaad for the me tal- Had say efled has ii a sioutnl us ridiculous. Sol a word have they uttered us to the nd in i.i expense' of c;old mining; tat tircanuttnnct that the rlchaat sii-
-I. called, yn el m arly as as silver, and hence that
any economy of production must ap
ply lo both, has been passed by in silence. .Not a mention have they made of the hundreds and thousands of silver mines that BSvav paid for even the labor i pi tided upon them. They have simply taken a few vary rich mines, tilth tali tils I tail iipim thi ay tad BgSItd it out to their own salisfaetion that siher can be produced at from 14 ta 41 cent! an ounce. The ( lositig at tht Last Indian mint rieatroyed both grgaaaentn. Almoal instaatly illver dropped Crass above so en!s to ' eaatS per ounce, it rallied back ta gboat tj. and there it
.-t. o I until the repeal of the Sherman law. whan i he decline began again, and continued until it fell below gg vtits. With tha sudden nnd tremendous fall which followed tin closing of the J tt Indian n.int. siher mine s all over lue west c losed, thousands of miners were? throWB out of employment and whole towns wire almost depopulated. For the year ls'.il the average price of silver bullhin wag B little more than tH cent-, '-"' cents nbove the highest cost of mining, acenrding ta the ligurea gives by the eminent champion of the gold standard, and y t it fairly east a Idicbt upon the siher mining states aid territories of the union. What ihe effect would have luen had siher droppad to 41. the highest cost of pro
duction, accord lag ta our opponents, can lie easily imagined. It would nave virtually pot nn end to silver mining in the I'nited States. Modern history fails to record another net of legislative injustice at all comparable with that of demonetizing silver. Not only did it increase the hurden of every struggling debtor, but it was a deadly blow at nm- of the great industries of lht Coaatry. When the debtor objects to having bis obligation doubled, he is dctntineed by the money power as a repudiates When tht silver mining states object to the ruin of their industries by the denial to siher of its chief use ii. e. as money) they nre ehafacttrU d as free baatera, attempting to levy tribute upon tht rest of the country. For the First time since the dawn of alatory, n rivt lined nnd
presumably int( lllfrtnt country, benvily ia d( lit. ha, gone deliberately at work to double its ,', bt and at Ihe same time d est ray oas of h - taaot latpartaat iadaa tries. And what is stranger than all. the outrage is deb tided by the most hrtilnl sccanatio! bnrhrd at tha heads of those who pro .si ggaiaat Its caaaBmaaatlaa Will the pi permit themselves lobe deceived for- ver?
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i he money power SB)d monopolies are pressing Iba fight hy anbaldbdasj
; the pram sad having monopoly pnpeta
olTcred to Iht people at ntte-nnii tnrir cost. Tin. La dangetoug work nndeaa only be o ," t by tMMtiaa work of llm IntelHgaat loyal democrats. No tlsas ihOoU be bst in ha' ing a canvas. mad in order ta pises tht pat ers that ar on the side of t! - people in ihe hands of the von n. Tha battle nf land will lve won or h 1 BS Iba result of '.he
rending matter that vNils tie hotnea
of the rot en daring th eomipc ran nnd winter. io neh Ttit-K. There Is t. uch il i- .- S good tfBgSj nml cannot hl Bat II S raMireBBr derwoes n ro.lical ebntt