The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-24

Now YORK, jan II - iiAeeA9ko ANS@
eotizpps was held in the Academy of
u ,ln ul, nnder the auspices of the Con-
h.n MUTT League for the purpose Of pro-
,i D-ting against the policy of imperial
It." and entangling alliances with
European powers"
AT Tba meeting was attended by a great
unmd list Of vice presidents was
.aad including these names: Wheeler
NJ II ppckham, Abrani s. Hewitt, Will-
lam L. IcrnbloWer. Roger A. Pryor, f.
% p- Glenn: John G.. Sheehan and
= Cbudert. A number of vice pres
i,onts was announced as representing
ibo Central Labor union; including
samuel GOlrpers, president of the
American Federation of Labor; john
II Parsons master workman of the
Tnirhts Of Labor; Daniel Harris,
npsdpnt Of the State Federation of
Labor:
Communications were read from eX-
President Cleveland, Col. w. J. Bryan
and Bishop Henry G. Potter, regretting
their inability to be present Mr..
Cleveland. in his letter, said: Il am SO
ODposed to the expansionist craze now
affecting our body polite that any or
ganization formed in opposition to it
has my hearty sympathy and APP
prevail" Mr. Bryan said he was in
full sympathy with it.
Resolutions were adopted declaring:
First-That the full discharge Of our
obligations to the inhabitants of the Phil
t1,aA oh
delay help them to secure in their do
nestle affairs, first, order and then lib-
erty, and that we are absolutely and un-
Cualifedly opposed to the annexation of
the Philippine islands as d permanent
portion of the national domain.
''SecOnd-That we are unalterably 0p
posed to the abandonment by this repub
lie Of the American ideal Of national
growth in favor of the European ideal
Of colonization; we unreSerVedly sup
port the theory that the government de-
rives its Just powers from the sanction
Of the governed, and to the theory that
there should be no taxation without rep
FesentatiOn, and we believe, moreover
that such theories are wholly applicable
to the inhabitants of all the islands
abandoned by Spain as the result of the
late war
nat IellueI Tie
nor the people of the United States have
Incurred any obligation or responsibility,
as the result of the recent war with
Spain, which requires any departure from
or abandonment of the policies and prin-
ciples laid down for the guidance of the
republic by Washington in his farewell
address to the American people
Fourth-That we are opposed there
lore to the idea that peace loving and
Tree people of the republic who are en-
FACED in the grand task as yet uncor1~
peted of developing their natural res
sources and of establishing upon firm
basis their own theory of government by,
Vl and for the people, should now or un-
oer any conceivable circumstances enter
upon any alliance with any European
power the result of which might be to
eGoroil us in European controversies in
which Our real interests are not con-
cerned
mat we place on record our high APP
Hecation and sincere thanks for the con-
SFcuous services rendered to the Ameri-
cdh people by Senators Hoar, Hale, Ma
Scn and Wellington in preventing the new
slu dangerous policy of imperialism from
,Ueng forced through the senate of the
onlIed States without proper and ade-
Quate discussion, AMI we commend to all
.lzens of this republic the high sense Of
pGoAc duty and enlightened patriotism
'. nulch have characterized the action Of
uVSe senator's in resisting innovations on
uur system of government that are preg-
iaHt with Generalization and disaster"