The age-herald., 1898-11-04
CARL SCHURz
 ON EXPANSION Opposes Policy of Territorial
 AggTandizenent GREAT MASS MEETING HELD In the Interest of the Independent Ticket in New York; CHAPMAN ATTACKS ROOSEVELT Was Bitter in Speaking of the Leader of the Republican Ticket. WRAPPED IN AMERICAN FLAG He Has Appealed to the Voters of the State, Thinking Himself Superior
 to the Emblem of the
 United States.
Was Bitter in Speaking of the Leader
 of the Republican Ticket.
WRAPPED IN AMERICAN FLAG

New York. November 3.-A mass meeting was held in Chickering Hall tonight in the interest of the independent ticket or the Citizens union John Chapman, Wno opened the meeting. was bitter in speaking of Colonel Roosevelt. "He has appealed for votes in military uniform," he said, trying to make capital of 1t. do not mind ti..s bearish campaign. I do not blame him for wrapping himself in the American flag. He really thinks he is the flag. When Roosevelt lends his aid to cover up Alger scandals he Is trying to whitewash the most scandalous thing of the nation. l charge him with this in his silence"
 Carl Schurz was the principal speaker. MT. Schurz opened with a tribute to the late Colonel Waring, who died few days ago with fever He entered upon discus sion of the question of territorial expan- sion, saying the whole campaign should have been waged on state issues. Colonel Roosevelt has forced the annexation prob lem by declaring that his election would be an indorsement of the policy of keep ing all the captured territory.
 ''The adoption of the policy" said Mr. schurz, would be fatal to the United States morally. Congress, in order to sat- isfy the consciences of our people and to prepare the opinion of the just must make some evasive argument President Me- Kinley had already declared in a manner equally solemn that Annexation by force is not to be thought of. because, according to our course of morals, it would be crim- inal aggression. Our first duty is to keep our government within tour govern ment."'
 The Annexation Policy
 Annexation policy will bring into our political system millions of Spaniards, Creoles, negroes, Malays, Chinese, Japan csc, Filipinos and the savage tribes whose names we have yet to learn, and thus thrust upon us race problems compared with which these we already have on every hand signify little How can it be denied that the annexation policy will bring upon us flood of corruption such as we have never seen.
 "Can you imagine a fouer blot of shame upon the escutcheon of this republic-a re- public originally founded on the principle that gets its just power from the consent of the governed? For such business we are to send the youth of the American 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 greatest glory of this re- public, which consisted in the fact that it lived and prospered and grew rich and powerful and secure. not by war; not by building up great armies and navies, but not needing any. For this we are to raise big armies and construct big navies at im- mense cost and to put full armed soldier or sailor on the back of every working man when he goes to his toll.
 'sBut I am told that we must have new markets for our products. Can we not get the markets of these countries unless we annex them? Do we not sell nearly a thousand million dollars worth of goods year to countries we have not annexed? And is not one European customer worth more than twenty Asiatcs? And cannot we get the Philippine markets without annexing the countries behind them? But now I am asked. do we owe no duty to the peoples we have liberated from the Spanish yoke? Well, whatever responsi- :bility may have been put upon us by the destruction of the Spanish fleets and by the capture of Santiago and Manila, will any sane person seriously maintain that the duty this republic owes to the people of the Spanish colonies is paramount to the duty 1t owes to it's own 75, ,000, 900 people, and to the untold millions that will occupy the land in the future.
 Break Solemn Pledge
 Must we, in order to do our duty to the Tagals and Cubans, break our solemn pledge that this was to be a war of hu- manty and not of self-aggrandizement? Must we destroy our moral credit among the nations of the earth? Must we com init criminal aggression? Must we, by an- nexation, make all those incongruous races the Spanish, negro and Malay, Filipinos, the Tagas, the Chinese and the nainciess sayages. citizens of the United States. and thus poison with the tropical vircience our body polite? Must we invest populations that cannot govern themselves with the duty of helping to govern the United States? Must we rule subject popu- iatons by arbitrary government which democracy like ours can never do without abandoning its fundamental principles and rushing Into immeasureable corruption? Must we thus break down the great trial of general government. of by and for the people7 Must we bring upon us the con- stant danger of war for nothing, and bur. den eur people with a measurelessy grow ing load of armaments? Must we con- tinue to send the sons of the republic to