The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-11-04
SCaURZ'S SHOUT.

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He Attacks the AdminIEtFation. aAA
NvOuId, It AppsarS, Bag Spain's ParaaR
for sinking Her ships- BeOominG Child-
iSh with Old AEo aud Accumulated pils
appointments,
NEW YORK. Nov, IA mass meetinG
was held in Chlckering hall to-night 10
the interests of the Independent state
ticket Of the Citizens Union. John jay
Chapman. who opened the meeting was
bitter in speaking Of Colonel Roosevelt.
"He has appealed for votes in military
UNIFORM" he said. trying to nsalCe cspl,.
tai out OF it / do not mind his toyibh
campaign. 1 do not blame him for
wrapping himself in the American aag.
He really thinks he Is the nag. When
Roosevelt lends his aid to cover up Al
gers scandals. he is trying 70 white
wash the most scandalouS thing Of The
nation. 1 charge him With tais n HE
silence
R. Fulton Cutting, chairman Of the
meeting, said;
| "Aigerism and civil sefvtee reform afa
enough alone 10 demand third party.
With the gold and silver issues out We
have a clear platform"
Carl schurs was the principal speaker.
Mr.. Schurz opened with a tribute 70
| the late Colonel Waring who died last
week from yellow fever contracted II
| Havana. He then entered upon q dis
cussion OF the question Of territorial ex-
| pension, saying that while the campaigu
| should have been waged on state Issues,
Colonel Roosevelt had forced the an
nexation issue by declaring that his cleo
tion would be an endorsement OF the
policy OF keeping all the conquered ter
ritory.
"The adoption of that policy" said
| Mr., Schurz, would be fhtal to the re-,
public morally. Congress, in order to
satisfy the condolences Of our people and
to propitate the opinion Of mankind for
our war with Spain, declared solemnlH
that It was to be war in behalf Of op-
pressed Cuba, a war Of humanity and
liberation and not Of aggrandl dlEement.
President Mckinley had already de-
clared In a manner equally solemn that
annexation by force Is not to be thought
! Of, because, according TO our code OF
morals, It would be criminal aSsres-
slon.' i.-.sasa,L.,A,
"our first duty is to keep our word
to do honestly that which we promised.
to preserve the character Of our Spanish
war as war Of 7lumanlty and not Of
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, to abstain from that
Criminal aggression which has been de-
nounced by President Mckinley himself
and thus TO maintain our national
honor Our paramount duty 10 not TO
any foreign country or people. hut 70
| this republic and 20 the 7S,000,000 who
inhabit It. Our duty Is soberly to con-
slider how the annexation to the United
States Of the Spanish possessions or any
of them viii AFFECT, not merely the inter-
ests of the inhabitants thereof, but the
character and the welfare Of those 49,
| 10000 OF our own cnuntrymen.
"The annexation policy will bring Into
| our political system millions OF Span
iards, Creoles, negroes, MaIayS. Chic
nese. japanese, Filipinos Tagals 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 hands signify ht4lo.
"But am told that we must have nsW
markets for our products. Can we not
get the markets OF these countries un-
less we annex them? Do we not sen
nearly thousand millions worth Of
| goods a year 10 countries we have not
anneXed7 And is not one European
customer worth much more than twenty
Aslatcs? And can we not BET the Phil-
| ippine markets without anneXing the
countries behind them?
But now am asked, do We owe no
duty TO the populations we have hher~
ated from the Spanish yoke? Well,
whatever responsibilities may have been
put upon US by the destruction Of the
Spanish feet and by the capture Se SAM
tiago and Manila, will any sane person
seriously maintain that the duty this re-
public owes 70 the people of the Spanish
colonies IS paramount TO the duties it
owes to it's own 75,OOO.000 OF people and
to the untold millions that win occupy
this land in the future? Must We, IN or.
der tn do our duty to the Creoles and the
Tagals, break our solemn pledge that
this was to be war Of humanity and
not Of self-aggrandizement2
Must we, by annexation. make an
those lncongruous races, the Spanish me-
gro mixture and the ATalayS. the Fill
ipnos, the Taghis, the Chinese and
namelesS savages. citizens OF the Unlted
States and thus poison with the tropical
virus our body polite? Must we invest
populations that cannot govern them
selves with the power Of helping to gov
ern us?
Must we attempt to rule subject pop
ulations by arbitrary government which
a democracy like ours can never do
without abandoning lts fundamental
principles and rushing to immeaSureable
corruption? Must we thus break down
the great trial Of general government OF.
by and for the people? Must we bring
upon us the constant danger OF war
often war for nothinE-and burden our
people with a measurelessly growing
load Of ornaments ?Must we continue to
send the sons OF the republic to the
tropics to be ruined or killed by tropical
diseases? Must We pay suCh terrible
price for commercial facilities which by
sensible diplomacy can be secured for
nothing"
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