The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-23

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expSSsionist was needed at once the meeting
Chairman cal ed on Prot Van Bnren Denslo,W.
Prot. Densoy began by saying that ne
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services Of the Iilipinos whom We were night.
allies. and that we had no right to war on
them now. He would ,Tcnly saving tha It, the ,n
fanny. that It was guilty Of perndy, rant. treach;
cry and falsehood. Incidentally lie remarked
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attachments from history Intended TO show th s
every nation that had ever reached out foT the
the anti: imperialism sentiment, which showed
pstrot tic nt asi ESQ" u Mr. Dobson.
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known or he never would have got chance.
As 1t was; the chairman began .snannine rs
Rowley. however. dec ined to stop until hei
had fair chance. and as the andienco liked his
OF tbe things Mr. Rowley said:
This speaker came here to tell US some.
thing about the scors OF HmtiiRmperlsiism; PVT
scoqndre mi. man says that at MeRinis s ,b 70
on the scone Of anti rerislism? This
Does he approve "' Of what has been done there
and contine his dsapproval to tho Philippines!
His whole speech is II general condemnation OF
everywhsre Tor hen IDS to bob up so that he can
crack them, and that's apparently what he
Now, how many OF US Knew anything about
the Philippines before Dewey sale for there
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there and in Cuba Is very much alike In so lar
as American pretensions are concerned. 1et
these nnti-imperialists never say anything
about Cuba.
This speaker advanced one proposition to-
proof. He states positively that this war Is be-
ing prosecuted for political purposes This Is
fearful statement Tor amy one to make and no
one has right to utter such thing unless
prepared to follow it up with the proofs. How
does MIR. Bradford know thisI Ical on him to
produce. proof Of his statements.
We know that the Philippines were. ap-
preached by an American fleet as rart q the
that menaced our Pacific Coast. and il had to be
destroyed. Dewey attended to that In admirable
style. All our action in the Pacific was part OF
our war with Spain. and 30 could not have been
political move. The speaker to-day has tried
TO befog you by, inficting on this audisncs
our OUT plain duty to stand BY the Government in
tho present crisis. and to soc to IL that when
the war in thel Philippines is over that the
natives have as good government as II is posi-
to give them.
There's no use in trying to NAL e hero OF
Aguinaldo, for he's n humbug and every ono
knows IT,. He never had an established gov
eminent in the Philippines and it's nonsense to
gay that he had. We are morally bound to
keep the Philippines and to keep Spain away
from them and It IL the duty OF every American
to stand by the Administration"
There were a mum Der ~ patriotic Americans
who wanted to follow Mr. Rowley. but the
chairman shut them of He said that Mr..
Bradford could speak again il he wanted to.
though, One man rose IN the middle OF the
hall and said:
That man Bradford has had an hour and
half already, 10 no one to get chance to
answer him?"
Mr.. Bradford spoke again. winding up with
a polt raj address in which he said:
III William Mckinley Ia reelected President
Of the United States there are men here to-day
who will live TO see this country under a ni-
tary Dictator"
The meeting broke up peacefully. about half
OF the audience going up to shake hands with
the man from Boston and the other hall getting
out OF the hall IA fast as they could. One man
voiced the sentiments OF many. when he re-
marked as he passed out:
Thank goodness they didn't have the cheek
to display an American flag here this after
noon lh"yd have passed the limit II they'd
done that