The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-03

Heartily Endorsed by Former
and Others-f 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
trail Anti-Imperialist league, to COOPER
ate with other like bodies In arousing op-
position to the policy of expansion. This
organization is not merely local, but is
intended to promote the holding of meet
lngs' and to carry on a general agitation
through the central West. The following
are the officers of the league:
President, ]. Sterling Morton; vice
presidents, A Z. McCIurg, Herman F..
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 zeisIer, 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
Il 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 who do not wish to become either
citizens or subjects of the United States
a conquest which very few, if any, of
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, l fear, are yet
only half known. When congress meets
and gets at the whole truth, [ 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 its whole duty t.
wards itself and other nations"
UNCONSTITUTIONAL WAR.
Senator VIM E. Mason says:
That class of dangerous citizens VINO
feel above serving their country, have
not yet heard of the unnecessary and IN
us to make slaves in the Philippine ISL
ands. Congress, the only war-naking
power under our constitution, has not
declared. They say we bought the right
to govern from Spain. Then we bought
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
before we purchased. To get the tech
meal right to kill, we call them rebels
against government to which they have
never sworn allegiance. We must mako
them subjects before they can be rebels
They say they can't govern them
selves. Why not try them awhile before i.
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 cen.
sent; 1t 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
had to govern us in 1776 without our
consent. If this is treason, make the
most of it."
Mr. Moorfield Storey, the ustingu'sa
Boston lawyer, writes as follows:
AS. was said of slavery, so may we
say. VI the attempt TO SuDJugate the Phil
lpplnes, if it is not wrong, nothing is
wrong. The moral law mas not changed
in a year. The commandments, Thou
shalt not steal and Thou shalt not kilP
still! forbid us to rob another people Of
thtlr 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 n
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 YVES
wrong in trying to subdue Cubans and
kflipinCs, our country is not right in
ca rying 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. J. Lawrence Laughlin,
Paul Shorey and A. H. Tolman, of the
University of Chicago; Judge Leroy D.
ThOman and Frank H. Scott.