Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-20
OPPONENTS OF EXPANSION ORGAN
IZE 4 LEAGUE.
FORMAL PROTESTS TO BE FILED
SIGNATURES To A GREAT PETITION
TO BE Solicited.
organization Effected in Boston Last
Night. With Edward X
Presiding-Andrew Carnegie
Staked 1t With n Check
for 81 o

BOSTON. MASS. Nov. 1a.-The organic
ers of the movement against the anneNa-
ton of the Philippines met in this city to-
day. A constitution WAS adopted, officers
were elected and an address was issued 10
the people of the United States urging COS
operation in getting signatures 10 a pro-
test against the annexation of the Philip
pines. Edward Atkinson presided. Before
The meeting he received a telegram from
Andrew Carnegie that he had sent him
a check for SlO0 for the use of the move
ment. Funds have already been subscribed
literally. The address says in part:
Whatever lands we take must be an
nexed or held in vassalage TO the republic.
Either course is dangerous 10 the physical
and moral safety Of the nation, inconsist>
ent with our professions and must result
in foreign complication which will imperil
and delay the settlement of pressing finan-
cial. labor and administrative questions at
home.
Impressed with the Importance of these
views. and recalling the declaration of the
president that the war with Spain could
never degenerate into a war of conquest
We have deferred action until it has be-
come apparent that pressure was being
brought upon the president 10 convince him
that public opinion demands the inclusion
of alien territory and great masses of alien
Vcolblc III tHe territory Oh the United SIdleS.
States.
We stand by the presidents declaration,
and. in order TO give evidence to the op-
position to Il foreign expansion policy by a
vast body of our people. have organized
an Ant-lmperialist League upon the fol-
lowing general plan:
"first-The center of the movement to
be at Washington. with a local secretary
there for executive work.
"Second-Committee of correspondence to
conduct the work in such a manner as to
bring together the united efforts of men
of repute throughout the country withou:
regard 20 party. 10 deal with the subject
in all its aspects. as follows:
"First-The moral iniquity of converting
a war for humanity into a war of con-
~"Second-The physical degeneration. the
corruption of the blood and all the evils of
are to be kept in the Philippines and
elsewhere longer than absolutely necessary
to enable n government TO be established
which Will protect life and property.
"Tnird-The political evils and the neces-
sity of reserving the union upon the prin-
ciples of its trainers.
"Fourth-The clear necessity of large in
crease of taxes for the support of armies
and navies. with a great probability that
voluntary enlistment will have TO be sup
plemented by drafts.
Committees of correspondence have be-
gun work under the name of the Anti-lm-
perialiSt League, the first measure being
TO organize the moral forces of the coun-
try for the purpose of presenting the fol-
lowing protest to the president ana 10 the
congress Of the United States:
ITO the president and Congress Of the
United States: The undersigned. citizens
of - in the state of - protest agains:
any extension of the sovereignty of The
United States over the Philippine islands
in any event. or other foreign, territory
without the free consent of the people
thereof. believing such action would be
dangerous to the epublic. wasteful of its
resources. in violation OF constitutional
principles and fraught with moral and
physical evils to our people.
Every citizen believing in the above is
urged to copy II, obtain as many sigma
lures as possible. and send forward the
signed protest to the secretary Of the Anti
Impcrialist League. Washington where the
names viii be enrolled. without liability tc
assessment. as members of the league ant
the protest presented to the president an6
commences"