The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-13

merts. implying war and the prepare
aion for war.
We shall become militant instead
4 OF peace-loving Nation.
We shall seek TO conquer by the force
OF arms instead of by our own indus
try. commerce and superior mentality
] and civilization.
We shall be compelled 30 open the
gates and a6nlit the Chinese. Malays
and slave laborere who may come from
our new possessions" since the con-
stitution OF the United States forhies
the Introduction OF the free entry of
men and their products between our
States and our Territories.
Our constitution requires the Judges
of our Federal ;Sour.s To make their de-
cis!ons general and applicable to all
the States sri Territories; and the con-
tracts for the specific enforcement OF
labo. and the performance Of personal
service VIII necessarily have TO be IN
terpretei In tho light OF these laws,
and may become generally applicable
#, trM ,Ysj-iss 1, a. ttsa If,h Ell Safes.
The decision OF the supreme court IN
the case OF Robertson VS.. Baldwin. reT-
deTed las. year.. payes the Way for
broader decision ON these lines, and
Increases the peril.
The di-r-S,.al ferS.NfiqusNNi, az TRAILS
abroad is based upon the ldes that we
al,anufactara to d larger extent tNan
we can consume, when there are 20
MANY OF our ipeople who are worthless,
aliungered and ragged.
Expansion of trade abroad has for
Its basis the contraction of the som
nchs of men. women and children at
home.
Tho policy of imperialism Is a
declaration that selt-government has
failed. and that the people can rot he
trusted: thpt the dollar is OF more con-
sequence than man, and plutocracy ana
milltarism nobler than humanity.
Tho attempt 10 divert the attention
OF our people from the ills from which
we suffer at home to foreign questions
will fail.
The principles Of liberty and Justice
have beer imb.bed by our people too
many years TO permit them to be
cheated out of their birthr ght.
The institutions OF our Republic have
taken root too deeply in the minds and
hearts of our people to permit US to
become nation of conqueroTs. or TO
dominate by force OF arms psople
struggling for liberty and independ-
ence.
Recently, speaking upon this ques-
ton. had the pleasure of saying:
I'VE do not oppose the development
of our industry, the expansion Of our
commerce. or the power aud influences
which the United States may exert
upon the destinies OF the nations OF
the earth. On the contrary, we realize
that the higher intelligence ard statd-
ard of the life OF the American work
ers will largely contribute toward at
tanning the highest pinnacle OF indus
trial and commercial greatness; and
these achievements In the paths OF
peace Will glorify the institutions OF
our Republic, to which the grateful
eyes ami the yearning hearts Of the
people OF the earth will turn for cour-
age and Inspiration to struggle onward
and upward, SO that the principles Of
human liberty ard human justice may
he implanted in their own lands.
America. and particularly American
institutions, are not only worthy OF our
love and yeneration because they give
us greater freedom thar those OF any
other nation, but the institutions Of the
United States represent principe
the great principle of sel'-goys rmnen,t
Of the people, for the people, by the
people--telf- restraipt as well as great
power. This principle we shall only
prove ourselves worthy of representing,
and holding forth as an insplrat on for
the peoples OF other nations TO emulate
and seek to establish by manifeslln2
restraint upon ourselves or upon tbose
who would thrust US out of our ply
sIcal. moral progressive and powerful
sphere into the vortex of imperialism,
with III the evils which that term i'm
plles-miltariem despotisln and ven
ality on the one hand; slavery, misery
anu despair on the other.
The flag of our Republic should
float over a free people, and must never
form a cloak to hide slavery, barhar-
ism, despotism on tyranny. America, as
we know 1t, with its blessings OF peace
and stability. must not be hazarded for
u new era"
The possessors of inc wealth of our
country enjoy liberty and freedom. 10
matter where they may be or wherever
they may go. 1t has always been the
howers Of wood and the carriers OF
wnter. the wealth producers. whose
mis- ion Il has been not oaiy to struggle
for freedom, but to be ever viglant
TO maintain tho liberty or freedom
achieved. ana 1t behooyes the rep-c-
sentative OF the gran9 army OF labor.
in convention assembled. to give vent
To the alarm we feel from the dangers
threatening W. and our entire people.
TO enter our solemn and emphatic pro-
test against what we Already feil that
with the success Of the policy o. M
perialism the decaderce OF our Republic
will have already set IN.