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

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of Territorial Expansion, and
Warns the American People
Against the Dangers That Are in
Store-Start the Policy of Impe-
riaIism and Peace Is 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
flag. 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. 1 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 a 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 q 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
Icy" said Mr.. Schurz, would be fatal
to the republic morally. Congress, in
order to satisfy the consciences of our
people, and to propitiate the opinion Of
| mankind for our war with Spain, de-
clared solemnly that 1T was to be a
war in behalf of oppressed Cuba; a
war Of humanity and liberation, and
| not one Of conquest or aggrandizement.
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, 1t 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 our Spanish war as
| a war of humanity, and not of aggrandize-
| ment, to abstain from that criminal ag-
erosion which has been denounced by Presi-
| dent Mckinley himself, and thus to maintain
| our national honor. Our paramount duty Is
not to any foreign country people, but
to the republic, and to the rs, OOO COO people
| who inhabH it.
'The annexation policy will bring into our
| political system million of Spaniards. creoles
negroes, Malays, Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos
Fagalas and the savage tribes whose names
We nave yet to learn, and thus thrust upon
US race problems compared with which those
| we already have on our own hands signify
little.
"How can It be doubted that the annexa-
| ton policy will be certain to bring upon
| us a flood Of corruption such as we have
| never seen. We denounce the inicuities of
Tammany. and justly so. Adopt your annex
| alton policy and you will have American
| Tammanys ten times worse scattered by the
score over 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 Filipinos, too, if they
| refuse to do our will? Have you considered
| what that means. after having pretended to
| make war for the sake of humanity in aid
of those who fought against Spanish desDot-
| ism, We are told that may have to shoot
down the very men who have fought for
| independent, and we want to rule them. Can
you imagine fouler blot of shame upon the
tnally founded on the principle that govern
| ment derives its just powers from the con-
sent Of the governed? And fol. 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 1t
| lived and prospered and grew rich and pow
| erful and secure, not by war, not by build
ing up great armies and navies, but by not
| needing any. For this we are to raise big
armies and construct big nayies, at immense
cost, and to put full-armed soldier or sailor
on the back of every workingman when he
goes to his toll.
''But l am told that we must now have
| ryntS for dJI0tc n
| get the markets of those countries unless we
| annex them9 Do we 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 can We not get
the Philippine markets without annehne the
| countries behind them?
HOME RESPONSIBILITIES
"But now. am asked, do we owe no
| duty to the populations we have liberated
from the Spanish yoke? Well, 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 to the people of
| the Spanish colonies is paramount to he
duties 1t owes to it's own 7500o, 800 OF pcopIe
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 20
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 FiliDinos, the Tagals, the Chinese and
| nameless 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 can save the republic from
| being hurled over that preciptce except
| vigorous demonstration of popular feeling
against that policy wherever In the present
campaign candidates have asked for popular
Endorsement as imperialists as more than any
| one else, Col. Theodore Roosevelt has done"