The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-10-17

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the expense OF the United states'
treasury. That is to say, the tAx nav.
ers of the United States are obli,ss
by the treaty to carry heavier bnr.
den 70 pay the expense Of maintainins,
human slavery and eoncuhipn0a =
one OF their recently acquired - -
OF islands. The Kansas - opa r,,'ps
very bravely takes - sy.a @ 49,
the shame and a. gr,ce 90 II is fur,b.
or intensified s"'' "a - = ~ ~.
the su,.. py an agreement with
HE I. Of Turkey, which secured
.huence with the sultan OF Sulu,
> sign such q treaty with the United
States, the Constantinople sultan's
compensation being time 90 suit his
convenience to pay indemnity money to
certain citizens and religious sssocia-
tions in the United States for the de-
struction OF their property by the
Turks in Armenia and in other parts
Of the Ottoman empire.
These things are plaguing the ad-
ministration greatly, and as IL can
end no excuse to justify this coven-
ant with the devil and league with
hell" its organs are raising the hue
and cry, OF "you are anothe8." no
! pretense is made that the treaty is in
| harmony with the spirit or letter OF
our system OF government. but the
president and ais contract.slave or
gans are trying with might and main
to show that the opposition TO the
treaty comes from Democratic sources,
and the charge is directly made that
inasmuch as human slavery In the |
United States found its only cham~
pion in the Democratic party, Demo-
Gratis should be the last to criticise the
Sulu treaty, but they count without
their host and show an inexcus
able amount Of ignorance Of the
ante-ciyil war political parties.
The Republican party is the sue
cessor Of the old whig party, and in
the old whig party belongs the honor,
or dishonor, Of being the only politi
cal organization that received foreign
slave territory into the union as "a
state. General Fremont discredited
himself with a Republican admins
tration for issuing an emancipation
proclamation. And when President
Lincoln issued substantially the same \
proclamation IL was issued as . war
measure to cripple the confederacy
The old whig party the predecessor
Of the Republican party, WAS distinct ,
ively pro.slayery party AL its life
long, aud the only man of prominence
in either OF the ante-civil war parties
who came out boldly and vigorously
against slavery was a Democrat by the
name of Martin VanBuren. As a
Democratic president Mr. VanBuren
refused TO admit Texas because its ad.
mission would extend slavery. In
Is4s Mr.. VanBuren was the free soil
candidate for president and was de-
'eated Overwhelmingly by the prede.
.essor Of the Republican party under
he leadership Of General Taylor, one
II the raukest pro-slavery men OF the
lay. The fact is, the predecessor OF
he Republican party was the friend
II slavery, but the northern wing OF it
became anti-slavery gradually, but ,
lot faster than the northern states
,ould find market for their slaves in
-he south. Before the Mckinley orr
gems try to dna an excuse for the Snlu ]
slave and polygamy treaty in the life !
and principles Of the Demoerrtic party l
hey would better look mp the life and !
principles OF the predecessor Of their }
,Vu marty