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most naturally strike hands with the
enemies of our country abroad. The
friend of the bomb thrower and his
apoligists are doing what is fit and
mete when they strike hands across
the seas with those who are fighting
our soldiers in foreign lands. Funda-
mentally, the causes which they cham
pion are the same. The step encourag-
ing the assassination of the guardians
OF the law at home, to the aiding and
abetting of the shooting down of our
soldiers abroad is but a short one; and
1t matters little whether the encourage
ment be given by the exercise of the
pardoning power, by raving speeches
upon the platform, or by the circula-
tion of silly documents composed by
men too feeble to accomplish the mis-
chief they design.
Make no mistake. In the Philip
pines we are at open war with an
enemy who must be put down. It is
absolutely impossible to save our honor
except through victory, and it is
equally impossible to win peace. to re-
store order in the islands, or to pre-
pare the way for self government
there, save through victory. People
tell you that the Filipinos are fighting
for independence. This was exactly
what the Copperheads of 1861 said of
the COnfederateS. Here in Ohio VAL
landingham ran on the issue that the
war was a failure, and that the inde-
pendence of the Southern States should
be acknowledged. The feeble Valland-
inghams of to-day take the same posi-
ton, and if Ohio is true to the great
memories of her past, she will give
the same answer now that she gave
then. No man can hesitate in this
struggle and ever afterward call him
self true American and true patriot.
He must stand by the flag. He must
uphold the honor and the interest of
the nation, and the only way in which
he can stand by the one and uphold the
other is to overWhelm the party that
assails both
Two facts must be emphasized
First, that out of the present situa-
ton the only honorable and humane
way is to put down armed resistance
IN the Philippines, and to establish Il
government of orderly Justice; and, in
the second place, that this situation in
could not have been avoided save by
shameful conduct on our part. You will
meet short-sighted people who say
that Dewey, after sinking the Spanish
fleet, should have sailed away from
Manila Bay. OF course, such conduct
was impossible. 1t is not too much TO
say that such conduct would have been
Infamous. Either the islands would
have been left to their own fate, had
such course been followed, in which
case series of bloody massacres would
have taken place, and the war between
the Spaniards and the Filipinos would
have dragged along it's wretched length
until some outside interference took
place, or else what is far more prob
able, as Dewey's fleet sailed out, the
fleet of some European power would
have sailed in, and we should have had
the keen modification of seeing the
task which we shrank from begun by
some nation which did not distrust it's
own powers, which had the courage
to dare to be great. Dewey had to
stay, and we had to finish the job we
had begun. The talk about the Fill
pinos having practically achieved their
independence is, of course, the veriest
nonsense. Aguinaldo, who has turned
against US, owed his return to the ISL
ands to US. 1t was our troops and not
the Filipinos who conquered the Span
iards, and as a consequence it was to
us the islands fell, and we shall show
ourselves not merely weakliRgs unfit to
take our place among the great ma
tions of the world, but traitors to the
cause Of the advancement of mankind.
If we finch from doing Alright the task
which destiny has entrusted to our
hand. We have no more right to
leave the Filipinos to butcher one an
other and sink slowly back into saw
agery than we would have the right.
in an excess of sentimentality to de-
clare the Sioux and Apaches free to
expel all white settlers from the lands
they once held. The Filipinos offer ex
cellent material for the future; with
our aid they may be brought up to the
level OF. self government; but at pres
ent they cannot stand alone for any
length of time.
"A weak nation can be pardoned for
giving up a work which it does badly.
but strong nation cannot be par
doned for fiinching from a great work
because forsooth there are attendant
difficulties and hardships. The century
which is just closing has seen what the
century which is opening will surely
also see, vast strides in civilization, tie
result of the conquest of the worlds
waste spaces, the result of the expan-
sion of the great masterfuI, ruling races
of the world.
Our opponents are fighting against
the stars in their courses, for they are
striving to bring dishonor upon the
American republic. They can qualify,
refine, differentiate and differ all they
wish, but fundamentally their attitude
is the attitude of hostility to the flag.
of hostility to our sailors and soldiers,
of hostility to the greatness of the ma
tion-the greatness of the race.
The other day in New York a Demo-
cratic club started to call itself the
Dewey Club and had to abandon the
name, because the members quarreled
so among themlseves-half of them
repudiating Dewey because he was an
expansionist- Think of it! They dared
not call themselves after the greatest
hero, military or naval, whom we
have produced since the Civil War, be-
cause they We're not loyal to the policy
for which that hero stood, to the policy
which he has done SO much to put into
effect.
My fellow citizens this contest or
yours in Ohio is no more a State con-
r. GJ5r
opponents are fighting on national
Grounds They ia lxa fbo;r stand in