The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10

II
! But If the Republican party wins ii
. 1900 you may rest assured that Their,
Twill be larger army in this country
Because they have been asking for i
and some of them long before the war
They are using this new condition as
reason for securing that change which
they tried to secure before. believe il
the citizen soldiery. This nation has re.
lied upon them in the past and 1 an
in favor of relying on them In the fu-
ture.
The Republican party would pass
vicious laws and then ask for a larger
; army to make the laws palatable We
propose to make laws that every citi-
zen will be willing to fight for.
The Imperial Policy.
I thought l loved the citizen soldier
Ebeforeri became acquainted with him,
but few months service with the vol
unteer even in camp has made me love
him more. believe in the soldier who
goes back to work after the war but if
we have an imperial policy we will
have a large army. If we do not have
an imperial policy they will not be able
to furnish sufficient excuse for a large
army. Shall we have the menace and
expense of a large military establish
ment? / do not believe it wise or nee
essary But, my friends. if you are
opposed to large army you must OPP
pose the imperial policy that is being
used as an excuse for a larger army.
Our opponents do not like to be
called imperialists. 1 am not surprised
have known men before to object to
names that described them. We called
them goldbugs, but they said they We're
| advocates of sound money and an hon
est dollar. Now they talk about expan-
sion and do not like to be called inper-
fc 1rx,1 - y:
ence between expansion and imperial
ism. Expansion describes such annex
atoms OF territory as we have had be-
| fore-the acquisition of territory that is
| to be settled by American citizens and
built up into American states-but inn
perialism describes the colonial policy,
which proposes to have a. citizen here
and a subject over there, half republic
and half imperial half resting upon the
consent of the governed and the other
half upon force.
Il do not believe in an imperial pol
Icy or that the two ideas of government
can grow side by side. We cannot have
both upon the same soil. There are two
systems of government, by force and
by consent.
Consent Of the Governed.
THE Declaration of Independence
was that government derives it's Just
powers from the consent of the gov
erned. Is it true or false? I think it is
true. That is the only source of govern,
ment, and l am not willing that we
shall repudiate that historic document
and go back to the European definition,
that government is a thing about thir-
teen inches in diameter, round in shape
and fired from the mouth of a cannon.
am not willing to substitute that for
the American idea. do not doubt that
we can whip the Filipinos. / have
never doubted it. I believe that we can
whip any nation in tie world that wei
ought to whip. cannot tell how long
1T will take to whip the Filipinos, nor
now often we will have to repeat it, |
but we can do 1T, because the Spanish
came pretty near whipping them and |
they had only been at it 300 years, and !
then they got S2O0O0,000 for the option |
on the fight, when they went out.
L repeat, l know we can whip them. |
but my friends, a great nation like this |
ought not to decide questions on that |
basis. 1t is not what we can do, but |
what we ought to do. The man who |
talks about what we can do is the man |
who would sink this nation to the level |
of brute force. The, question is, what |
ought this nation to do?
Imperialistic Arguments.
Il have heard three arguments in |
favor of Imperialism. First, that there |
is money in it. / would be willing to |
settle this question even on that basis |
And l challenge you to estimate it, if /
you can, what it is going to cost us to /
conquer and hold in subsection 5000, 900 !
Mafays, 1000 miles from home, in 1,200
islands, living under tropical sun and
fighting in the protection of jungle. |
Figure up what we are going to make,
and If you can find that you are going
to get more than we spend, then you
have got another problem. Who will
spend it and who will get it back? The
money will be wrung from taxpayers
and what we get back will go to the
syndicate. noticed the interview from
gentleman in San Francisco who had
returned from the Philippine islands.
He said this nation must hold the
Islands for its own sake and for the
sake of those people and at the end of
the interview there was a sentence like
this:
Mr.. So-and-So had come to the
United States to organize a new syndi-
cate to develop the Philippine islands;
and a few days afterward he gave out
another interview, explaining what that
syndicate would do. He was going to
develop all the various resources of
those islands. and made up my mind
that all there would be for us to do
would be to furnish the army while
his syndicate developed the country.
you cannot prove that there will be
money in it. Do you think they are T.
going to furnish a home there for our
surplus population? Do you think our
people are going there to find homes
In the Philippines? Don't you know
they have sixty people to the square
mile Thereon had when we first got
acquainted with then-and we have
only twenty here?
Cannot Golonize Them.
IF we connect the islands with this
people are allowed to move
back and forth and there will be more
come here than Americans go
to the Philippines The white race will
not live in the tropics, and if every
Filipino were to die tomorrow you
couldn't get 100000 Americans to go
here and live in 100000 years; and if
they went they would not be white
people in three generations. Spain has
been trying for 300 years and only has
/ handful of Spaniards there. Ger !
many has some colonies near there and !
has $4,000 natives and 1913 white people.
lava, under the Netherlands, with Co.
100 of European birth and blood, has ;
IS 100000 natives. Overcrowded Eng
and has only been able to force few s
into India. +
England has been there, not for the
purpose of uplifting those people. but
o get out of them all the money they
could spare.
"a distinguished Indian living in
London says that the condition of the
people of India under English rule is a
title worse than the conditions during