Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-08-01
Boutwell, on the War.

has been governor OF his state, a men, |
Der of congress, United States senator,
and a cabinet officer, shares the antag-
oniSm of all who are welded to the
principles of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence to the Philippine war. He
regards this as the initial step to inn
perialism, militarism and a pro-British
alliance, and conscious that these
must destroy free institutions he patri-
officially and with intense earnestness
protests. In letter written to the
managers of a Fourth of July celebra
tion in Boston he said:
'"There has been no other such de-
parture from American ideas and prin-
ciples in all our history, not even by
Jefferson Davis, as is now in progress
under the lead of the president. JEFF
ferson Davis did not contemplate the
destruction of the republic; he only
contemplated its division. President
Mckinley is Transforming THIS Republic
into on Empire, and the permanent es-
Enlistment of our authority in the
Philippine islands is the consumation
of the undertaking.
eve are engaged in a war which no
one defends, which no one can defend,
as just and righteous war. Its de-
tenders lay the responsibility of the
war sometimes on destiny, sometimes
on Divinity. Is it an answer or only a
guilty pretext when we say that for
800, 900, 900 are hare purchased from Spain
the title to the Philippine islands, and
there,cith the right. ttroagh acar and
slaughter to suNatgate 10000, 900 human
beings ac7,o nerer injured as, and ar1to ask
only for the right to manage their oue af-
fairs-a right as sacred as the right to &C.
ist2
"For the execution of this unholy
purpose call is now pending for the
enlistment of 10000, soon to be 10000,
and then 100000 of the youth of the
country, whose destiny it will be to
either fall in battle, or to perish by
disease, or to return broken in health
to become the recipients of pensions
to be paid from the labor of those who
may have to remain at home. This
sacrifice of 1ne,, and this ,cdste of 1n0neg
and the consequent burden Of taxation
hrOrh generations are not more to be ne.
GREETED than the humiliation to arlich thu
country is no,p subjected IN the abandon.
nent Of the Republic and the acceptance
| Of England as our guide and model IN at;
fairs Of government.
"This administration has been in
weighed into q policy aphtch inrolres q,
alliance acith England for the defense O
her Eastern empire against the frownine
: supremacy of Russia, that has alreaey
laid iron hands upon China, and which
is yet to dominate Japan. We are ,aoo
to choose uhetl,er America shall remain {
Republic and lead the acorG on to higher
ideas and to patrer practices IN public at
fairs, or ar1aet1,er are are to accept the idea
and principles OF despotic governments.
''Justice and peace are possibilitie
in republic. Justice and peace ar
impossibilities in an empire. Impel
ialism and republicanism are impossi
BILE in the same government. Tn
greatest crime which the world cal
ever know. the greatest crime arhicl man
kind can commit, is the inauguration of
} acar and the prosecution Of a rar for til
conquest of territory and the suljugation Z
0 Of peoples, with the incidental and in
i eyitable sacrifice of human life.
!, "THE FOUNDERS OF THIS GOVERN
! MET PREFERRED REPUBLICANIsM AN,
L PEACE TO IMPERIALISM AND WAL
l. PRESIDENT MCKINLEY AND SUPPORT
+ ERs ARE ENGAGED IN AN EFFORT t
u REVERSE THEIR OPINION.
e "Let us unite, one and all, whateve
l. may be our differences on other ma
l. tiers, and whatever our nationality, an
demand the abandonment of the III
d just and thus far unsuccessful war
IS the Philippine islands. %
d Congress was called to meet in exit
y session to promote the ends of prope
IS ty wreckers by repeal of the Sherma
1t purchase act, and it was also special
lie convened to enrich the few at the e.
n pense of the many by increasing pr
tective duties. But Mckinley has NJ
e called that body to put and end to
ID war which is antagonistic to all tn;
" the republic stands for, which is bur-
ar ening the people of the United Stat,
is with oppressive taxes, and which,
" successful, will launch us upon cour
ID that in the end will be as desfructiv
n of our own freedom and Independent
II as of that of the Filipinos. Ielegrap
70 The state debt has been paid al
- there is about half a million dollars
u the state treasury. Postrille Reuicec.
nt And if the state tax levy had BET
lis four times, instead of only twice
large as before, the amount in tt
W treasury could just as well have be,
Il