The Anaconda standard., 1899-01-23
.M'K|NLEY A DICTATOR
Eustis Sounds the Warming at a
Mass Meeting.
IMPERIALISM IS A CRIME
Vigorous Resolutions Passed-A Policy
of Infamy-Go ompers and Bourke
Cochran in Denunciation
of Expansion.

New York, Jan. pa mass meeting
of citizens was held in the Academy
of Music tonight under the auspices
of the Continental league for the pur-
pose of protesting against the policy
of imperialism and entangling allan
ces with European powers" The meet
ing was attended by a, great crowd
Long before the doors were opened, 5000
people We're clamoring for admission
and in short while the police ordered
the doors unlocked because of the
crush. Ten minutes later there was not
vacant seat in the house. A list of
vice presidents read included these
names: Wheeler H. Peckham, Abram
S. Hewitt, Henry Loomis Nelson, Will
liam H. Hornblower Roger A. Pryor,
Francis Wayland Glenn, John c. Shee-
han and Frederick R. Coudert. A num-
ber of vice presidents were announced
as representing the Central Labor
union, including Samuel Gompers, pres
ident of the American Federatio of
Labor; John M. Parsons, general mas
ter workman of the knights of Labor;
Daniel Harris. president of the State
Federation of Labor. Communications
were read from Ex-President Cleve-
land, Col William J. Bryan and Bishop
Henry c. Potter, regretting their ina
bility to be present. Mr.. Cleveland, in
his letter, said:
L am so opposed to the expansion
list craze now infiicting our body polite,
that any organization formed in oppos-
itfon to it has my hearty sympathy and
approval"
\
pathy with every effort put forth to
save the nation from the dangers of
imperialism.
Bishop Potter wrote: THE purposes
OF the meeting have my hearty ap-
proval, and / should be glad If + had
time to say how strongly I feel that the
policy of imperialism or expansion, in
any such sense as proposed at present,
threatens equally the moral Integrity
of the nation. and the conditions, on
which its prosperity have hitherto
rested"
Resolutions were adopted declaring:
First, That the full discharge of our
obligations to the inhabitants of the
Philippines requires that we should,
without delay. help them to secure in
their domestic affairs, first, order and
then liberty, and that we are absolutely
ana unqualihedly opposed to the annex
alton of the Philippines as permanent
portion of the national domain
Second. that we are unalterably op-
posed to the abandonment by this re-
public, of the American ideal of nat
1onal growth, on the ideal of colonlal
conquest; we unreservedly subscribe to
the theory that government derives
all its just powers from the consent of
the governed, and the theory that there
should be no taxation without represen-
tatlon. and we believe, moreover, that
such theories are wholly applicable to
the inhabitants of all the places aband-
oned by Spain as the result Of the late
war.
Third, that neither the government
nor the people of the United States
have incurred any responsibility or
obligations, as the result Of the re-
cent war with Spain, which requires
any departure from or abandonment
of the policies and principles laid down
for the guidance of the republic by
Washington in his farewell address to
the American people.
Fourth, that we are opposed there
fore, to the idea that peace-loving and
free people of the republic, who are en-
gagged in the grand task as yet uncom-
pleted of developing their natural re-
sources, and of establishing upon a
firm basis their own theory of govern
ment by, of and for the people, should
stances, enter upon any alliance with
any European power the result of
which might be to embroil us in Euro
pean controversy in which our real in
terests are not concerned That we
place on record our high appreciation
and sincere thanks for the conspicuous
services rendered to the American neo-
pie by Senators Hoar, Hale. Mason and
Wellington in preventing the new and
dangerous policy of imperialism from
being forced through the senate OF the
United States without proper and ade-
quate discussion, and We commend to
all citizens of this republic the high
sense Of public duty and enlightened
which has characterized the
action of these senator's in resisting in
novations on our system of government
that are pregnant with decentralization
and disaster.
Resolved, That copy of these reso-
lutions be sent to the president of the
United States and to both houses of
congress"
The principal speaker was James B.
Eustis, former ambassador to France.
Mr.. Eustis said. in part:
II see before me an audience in which
I recognize the type of true Americans
banded together to protest against ex-
pansion and imperialism. What a
strange sight! A meeting of intelligent
-hIHellSdu SFllLcflS Oh american SOIL,
against Imperialism and the
policy of the American
government. The representatives IF the
people of this country are combating
the idea. and I hardly feel as if I were
living in the republic of the United
States; l feel as if / We're living instead
in some continental country where i'm
perialism is recognized
THE sentiment of the American neo-
pie is against the rash idea of expan-
sion. for to fight the Filipinos would
mean loss of life to the American SOL
diers in the future in a sickly cline. if
this wild theory is carried out. There
are only two persons whose ideas on the
question of annexing the Philippines
have given me cause for serious
One of them thought that by
annexation certain United States mer-
rhandise could be sold to the Filipinos.
The other was a preacher who thought
by expansion and annexation he could
sell some Protestant bibles to the ma
fives. The president of the United
States will, cn March next adjourn
congress, which will not meet again
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