The San Francisco call., 1899-09-07

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And look on the work you do
You bind with shackles your fellow man.
Your hands with his blood wet
And the God who reigned Babylon
Is the God who is reignng yet.
enough to trespass upon the right OF an
other, and no man will ever live that will
be great enough to do wrong with I'M
punity.
What Ought the Nation Do?
My friends, the question is not what
this nation ought to do. And If you be-
! lieVe that We are following the principles
of Christian religion in the warfare that
We are making to throw the net of this
| Government over an unwilling people and
doing 1t as missionaries and for the love
of God, | warn you that you cannot If
ford to plant upon the Philippine soil the
doctrine of forcible Christianity. If you
want to convert your brother go forth
with your arguments and appeal to him;
If he wants TO convert you let him appeal
! to you but if you plant upon the Pn-.lp-
pine islands this doctrine of force-if you
attempt TO shoot your gospel into the
the time is not far distant when that
principle will be planted on American soil,
brands of Christianity into each oa1er
and doing it for the love of God (Cheers)
War Not Made by Speeches.
But they say we must not make any
speeches in this country against forcible
annexation while the war lasts. My
friends, it is not the speeches made in this
country that are melting the tilipinOs to
armed resistance. If their resistance is
due to speeches made in this country
their resistance is due to speeches made
by the generations that are past, and if
you want to find speeches and declara-
tions that inspire nations of this world to
resist foreign domination go back to the
days of Patrick Henry, when he gave to
the world that impasssioned plea, Give
me liberty or give me death: lie ut
tered a sentence that ran round the world
and it's echo will last forever (Cheering)
Go back to the days. of Washington, for
when he drew his sword against taxation
without representation he set an example
known and loved of all men. Go back to
the days of Thomas Jefferson, for when
he wrote that all men are created equal
that they are endowed with inalienable
rights that Governments are instituted
to preserve these rights, and that Gov
ernments derive their just powers from
as jefferson set forth those principles he
melted the people of all races and all
climes to protest against government
without the consent ! OF the governed
But if you haven't time to go back to
the early days you can certainly go back
as far as the days of Abraham Lincoln,
for when Abraham Lincoln upon the bat
tIefield of Gettysburg defended a govern
ment of the, people by the people and for
the people he did more to make people
dissatisfied with foreign domination than
any man who has spoken since the war.
Love of Liberty Our Safety.
My friends, if you want to find words
and speeches and sentiments that stir up
people to fight for liberty. you can find
the speeches and the sentiments among
the records of the past. But you don't
have to go to written speech. You
don't have to go to word spoken or writ
ten by any man, because the love of lib
erty was placed in the human heart by
the Almighty and no matter what mans
color is, no matter where he lives, that
spirit exists and we dare not quencn that
spirit no matter where we find it, for
it is the safety of our own liberty. (Cheer
ing).
said about the spirit of independence and
of liberty. In a speech made in 1858 he used
these words: What constitutes the bull
war1 of our own liberty and independ-
ence? 1t is not our frowning battements,
our bristling sea-coasts, or our army and
our navy. These are not our reliance
| against tyranny All of these may be
turned against US without making us
| weaker for the struggle. Our reliance is
| in the love of liberty which God has plant
ed in us. Our safety is in the spirit which
prizes liberty as the heritage of all men,
! in all lands, everywhere" Now mark
these words: Destroy this spirit and you
have planted the seeds of uespotism at
| your own doors. Familiarize yourselves
! with the chains of bondage and you pre-
pare your limbs to wear them. Ac-
customed to trample on the rights of
/ y
! own independence and become the fit sub
| jects of the first cunning tyrant who
| rises among YOU.
| Those are the words of Abraham Lin
| coin. Destroy the spirit that prizes lib
! erty as the heritage of all men, in all
! lands, everywhere Lincoln says destroy
this spirit. and you have planted the
! seeds of despotism at your own doors.
! You ask me why | protest against forci-
! BILE annexation? You ask me why | pro-
| test against a war of conquest waged by
! a republic? l tell you ! do not want to
plant the seeds of despotism at our own
| doors. l hate despotism and l love the
| Declaration of Independence. And it is
| because l hate the one and love the other
| that | declare to you that this nation
| cannot afford to surrender its principles
! in order to enter upon a war of conquest,
no matter how profitable 1t may be- And
! / ask you this question: What shall ii
profit nation if it gain the whole world
! and lose the spirit of its own inde-
pendence and its own liberty? (Cheers.)
Two Sources of Government.
But you ask me what can be done.
! Strange question for a person to ask in a
| ernment-force and consent. Monarchies
rest upon force, republics upon consent.
| The Declaration of Indepe ndence says that
/ governments derive their just powers from
| the consent of the governed. Is 1t true or
! is it false? If that doctrine is true, then
| this nation cannot acquire title to people
! by conquest. If that doctrine Is true, then
! this nation cannot acquire title by pur-
| chasing domination from an alien mon