The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-03
TO OPPOSE EXPANSION
ORGANIZATION OF THE CENTRAL
ANTT-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE
EFFECTED AT CHICAGO
SOME STRONG SENTIMENTS

Principles of the Organization
Heartily Endorsed by Former
Senator Edmunds, Senator Mason
and Others-If the Tyranny of
King George Was Wrong Then
the Philippine War Is a Crime.
CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 2.-Those opposed
10 the present administration of affairs
IN the Philippine islands have completed
the organization in this city of the Cen
tral Anti-Imperialist league, to cooper
ate with other like bodies In arouslng OPP
position to the policy of expansion This
organization is not merely local, but is
intended to promote the holding of meet
1ngs, and to carry on a general agitation
through the central West. The following
are the officers of the league:
President, J. Sterling Morton; vice
presidents, A. {. McClurg, Herman E.
v)n Hoist, Richard T. Crane, Bishop John
Lancaster Spaulding. Graham Taylor.
Bishop Boyd Vincent, and Judge Rufus
B. Smith, secretary, Howard Leslie
Smith; treasurer, Frederick w. Gookin;
members of executive committee, Messrs.
Edwin Burritt Smith, Edward o. Brown.
j. Laurence Laughlin Daniel NJ Lord.
SigmUnd Zeisler, Frank H Scott, and
Leroy D. Thoman.
The league has already published two
tracts, and purpose others. They are
preparing to hold meetin. b in the near
future Among letters they have received
in support of their work are the follow
ing:
Ex-senator George F. Edmunds writes,,
L am glad you are to hold meetings
IN the interest of the true principles of
our government, and to oppose the con-
globe who Mt wish becme either citi--'
quest OF people on the other side of the
globe VINO do not wish to become either
citizens or subjects of the United States,
conquest which very few, if any, of
its promoters have undertaken to show
would be finally of material or moral
benefit to our country, and one the i'm
mediate evils of which in loses of life
and health in our army and of the treas
ure of the United States, 1 fear, are yet
only half known. When congress meets
and gets at the whole truth, l believe
there will be found an easy means of
terminating the war we are carrying on
in the Philippines that will be satisfaC-
tory to nine-tenths of the people of those
islands, and honorable to this country
and consistent with it's whole duty IT,
wards itself and other nations"
UNCONSTITUTIONAL WAR.
Senator VIM. E. Mason says:
feel above serving their country have
not yet heard of the unnecessary and I'M
constitutional war now being Waged by
us to make slaves in the Philippine ISL
power under our constitution, has not
declared. They say we bought the right
what we had no right to buy and what
Spain had no right to sell. We pur-
chased goods from a thief; we knew
it, and told the world thta she was wrong
- NJ oct he
nical right to kill, we call them rebels
against government TO which they have
never sworn allegiance. We must make
them subjects before they can be rebels.
They say they can't govern them
selves. Why not try them awhile before
killing them? They tell US they would
Kill each other. 1t isn't true; but, if it
was, it would be better than killing our
boys:
Lincoln said no man is good enough to
govern another man without his en-,
sent; it was true then, and it is true
now. Taxation without representation is
as much tyranny in Luzon as it was in
party. We have no more right to gov
ern in the Philippines without the con-
sent OF the governed than King George
most of it. 'il'' 10 ''''oi' MAKE the
Mr. Moorfield Storey, the distingu' SIZED
Boston lawyer, writes as follows:
AS was said of slavery, so may we
soy. VI IIlS dClCIHpl " SuDJuSaIe the P0l.-
1ppines, if it is not wrong nothing is
wrong. The moral law mas not changed
in a year. The commandments, Thou
shalt not steaP and Thou shalt not kilP
still! forbid us to rob another people Of
Their country and to slaughter them for
defending their liberty. The great pin
ciples of freedom which our fathers pro-
claimed when this nation was born, up II
which they founded our state and which
the Civil war was fought to maintain
are still 'self-evident truths If govern
mentS do not derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed, what
Is left but the divine right of kings, or
the savage law of might. If Spain was
wrong in trying to subdue Cubans and
tflipinoS, our country is not right in
ca rytng on the work Nay, we are far
worse than Spain for she was true to
her principles, which we have always
denounced, while we are false to all that
we have ever believed in morals, politics
and religion, since we were a nation
The next public meeting of the league
will be held in Hyde Park Chicago, Sat-
urday evening, Aug. 5. Addresses will be
made by Profs. ]. Lawrence Laughlin,
Paul Shorey and A. H. Tolman, of the
University of Chicago; Judge Leroy D.
Thoman and Frank II. Scott