The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-04
FRAUGHT WITH PERIL
POLICY OF TERRITORIAL ExPAN-
SION ADOPTED BY THE PAR
TY IN POWER
AGGRESSION is CRIMINAL

of Territorial Expansion, and
Warns the American People
| Against the Dangers That Are in
| StOre-Start the Policy of Impe-
riaIism and Peace LIS at an End.
! NEW YORK, Nov. "a mass meet
ing was held in Chickering hall tonight
in the interest of the Independent state
ticket of the Citizens Union. John Jay
Chapman, who opened the meeting, was
bitter in speaking Of Col Roosevelt
He has appealed for votes in mill
tary uniform" he said, trying to
make capital of it. I do not mind his
boyish campaign. I do not blame him
for wrapping himself in the American
nag. He really thinks he Is the flag.
| When he lends his aid to cover I'D AL
ger scandals he is trying to whitewash
the most scandalous thing of the ma
| ton. L charge him with this in his ST.
| lence.''
| r. Fulton Cutting, chairman of the
| meeting, said: "Algerism and civil
| service reform are enough alone to de-
mand third party With the gold and
! silver issues out we have a clear plat
| form"
Carl Schurz was the principal speak
| er. Mr.. Schurz entered upon discus
| sion OF the question Of territorial ex-
pansion, saying that while the cam
| paign should have, been waged on state
| issues, Col. Roosevelt had forced the
| annexation issue by declaring that his
election would be an Endorsement Of
the policy of keeping all the conquered
territory. THE adoption of that pol
I ICY" said Mr.. Schurz, would be fatal
| to the republic morally. Congress, in
order to satisfy the consciences Of our
/ nG0Dl1. hn Of
| mankind for our war with Spain, de-
clared solemnly that 1T was to be
war in behalf Of oppressed Cuba; a
war Of humanity and liberation, and
! not one of conquest or ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
President Mckinley had already de-
clared, in manner equally solemn,
! that annexation by force is not to be
| thought Of, because, according to our
code of morals, it would be criminal
| aggression" Mr. Schurz continued
HONOR AT STAKE.
! Our first duty is to keep our word-to
| do honestly that which we promised, to pre-
| serve the character of Spanish war as
| war of humanity. and not of aggrandize-
ment, to abstain from that criminal ag-
| erosion which has been denounced by Presf-
| dent Mckinley himself, and thus to maintain
our national honor. Our paramount duty is
| not to any foreign country or people. but
| to the republic, and to the rs 900 600 people
who inhabit 1t.
The annexation policy will bring into our
political system millions Of Spaniards. creoles,
| negroes, Malays, Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos,
Fagalss and the savage tribes whose names
we have yet to learn, and thus thrust upon
us race problems compared with which those
we already have on our own hands signify
little.
"Howvcan 1t be doubted that the annexa-
| ton policy will be certain to bring upon
| US flood OF corruption such as we have
| never SEEN We denounce the iniquities of
Tammany. and justly so. Adopt your annex
ND will how A
Tammanys ten times worse scattered by the
score two hemispheres.
PERILS OF IMPERIALISM
''Start on your policy of imperialism and
| who will deny that the peoce of the coun-
| try will be in constant peril? Do we not
hear it said every day, now, with horri-
Bile cyncism, that after having thrashed
| the Spaniards at Manila we shall have to
| thrash the insurgent Fihpinos too if they
refuse to do our will? Have you considered
what that means, after having pretended to
make a war for the sake Of humanity, in aid
of those who fought against Spanish despot-
ism, We are told that we may have to shoot
down the very men who have fought for
| their liberty, because they may want to be
| independent, and we want to rule them. Can
you imagine fouler blot of shame upon the
escutcheon of this republic republic orig
inaliy founded on the principle that govern
ment derives It's just powers from the con-
sent sent Of the governed? And for such bust
can people to fight in the tropics, whence
they. return wasted wrecks in health and
| spirits, if they return at all. For this we
are to throw away the greater glory of this
| republic. which consisted in the fact that it
| lived and prosPered and grew rich and pow
ing up great armies and navies, but by not
| needing any. For this we are to raise big
armies and construct big navies, at immense
| cost and to put full-armed soldier or sailor
on the back of every workingman when he
goes to his toll.
But 1 am told that we must now have
| markatS Gan
| get the markets of those countries unless we
annex theme Do not sell nearly a
! thousand millions worth Of goods yearly to
countries we have not annexed? And is not
| one European customer worth much more
than twenty Asiatics? And caa We not get
the Philippine markets without annexing the
| countries behind them?
HOME RESPONSIBILITIES
"But now. asked, do we owe no
duty to the populations we have liberated
from the Spanish yoke? We'll, whatever re-
sponsibilities may have been put upon us
by the destruction of the Spanish fleets and
by the capture of Santiago ana Manila will
any sane person seriously maintain that the
duty this republic owes 10 the people of
the Spanish colonies Is paramount to The
duties IT. owes to its own 75.000 $40 of people
and to the untold millions that will occupy
this land in the future. Must we. in order
to do our duty to the Creoles and the Tagals
break our solemn pledge that this was 10
be war Of humanity and not of self-aggran-
dizement? Must we destroy our moral credit
among that nations of the earth? Must we
commit criminal aggression? Must we- by
annexation make all those incongruous races
the Spanish-negro mixture and the Malays
the Filipinos, the Tagals the Chinese and
nameess savages. citizens Of the United
States and thus poison with the tropical
virus our body polite? Must we invest popu-
lations that cannot govern themselves with
the power Of helping to govern us?
| Il solemnly warn you, there is the strong
est reason for fearing that, as matters now
stand nothing save the republic from
being hurled over that precpice except a
vigorous demonstration of popular feeling
against that policy wherever In the present
campaign candidates have asked for popular
Endorsement as imperialists more than any
one else, Col Theodore Roosevelt has done"