The Irish standard., 1898-11-19
ALLIANCE AND IMPERIALISM,

ALLIANCE AND IMPERIALISM.
Both Are Dangerous to the Liberties
Which We Enjoy.
In speech which he delivered in
Denton, Md, Nov. 4, United States Sen
ator Arthur P. German said in part:
The time has come when the several
nations of the earth are struggling for
that trade - England with her
navy; Russia, with her railroad,
and France, with her navy.
Each of those great powers is
trying to divide the property and
control the trade for the future. Here
we have stood, contented and happy un-
til 1893, with the trade we have had
among ourselves and with civilized peo-
pie, until now we have reached the
point where our ingenuity controls the
price and manufacture of everything
made from steel and iron; when we
send steel blooms to London and Liver
pool, outdoing the English in their own
market, which they have controlled for
the last Is years. That trade is not
enough to make our commerce grow.
We have four or five lines Of railroad
running across the continent, built by
the people of the United States. The
wheat from the Red river, which goes
to the Chinese, and which is not
brought to the East will increase the
price or our wheat, and did increase the
prices of last year, and it was not the
speculation started by Letter.
We desire to enter into that trade
without etangling allionces-not with a
scheme of colonization, but for legiti-
mate trade, recognizing, as we must.
that electricity and steam have taken
the place of sails.
Then comes the question of the Phil
ippines. How many people in this
country ever thought of the Philippines
until Dewey was heard from. They are
filled with small darkies. America
ought not to undertake to take care of
them. Dewey found the Spanish fleet
in Manila harbor, and, like a true Amer
ican, he either captured or destroyed it,
Until the past ten days nobody ever
dreamed that Mckinley or Mark Hanua
ever thought of changing our policy
taking all the islands. There are about
100000 of these savage or half-savagc
people. We passed bill j., -
the presidential election of 1892 that we
would not admit into this country any
Chinese, because they were disagreed.
BILE laborers, and and were working and
turning out our people in all industries
Socially, they were pests, and we could
not have any more of them. Both par
ties in congress violated a treaty with
the Chinese, which the United States
had never done before. We never wish
to introduce any more of this class of
labor
They want to take advantage of con-
dltions and sentiment they have
raised up. Do not lower the American
flag where it has been raised. Hold
Cuba and retain Porto Rico, which we
have acquired as prize Of war. Keep
the Philippines and every piece of land
where the flag has been raised, and to
keep them, organize an army of loo, 600
troops. One hundred thousand SOL
diers, an increase of four times the
number they have now. jefferson took
the territory in Louisiana concession
extending from the gulf of Mexico to
the Pacific, in which there are now mill
ions and millions Of people. 1t was ac-
cepted under negotiations when it was
populated with hostile and half-hreed
Indians, of greater bravery than the
Spanish, and included it in this nation.
No Democrat ever thought of increasing
the army because we had this popula-
ton to deal with. He went back to the
foundation stone of the republic, that
these people were abundantly able to
take care Of themselves. We will never
nave potentate, king or president who
shall WELD an army large enough to
control the liberties of the American
people. This is the legislation the
Republicans want.