Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-03
Organization Effected in Chicago for
Purpose Of Agitation.
PRESIDENTS POLICY IS CRITICISED
Several Prominent Men Send Let
ri
tiers Indorsing the Movement.
MEETING NEXT NDAY

Those opposed to the present administra-
ton of affairs in the Philippine Islands
have completed the organization in Chi
cago of the Central Anti-Imperialist
League to cooperate with other like bodies
in arousing opposition to the policy of ex-
pansion. This organization is intended to
promote the holding of meetings and to
carry on general agitation through the
central west. The following are the Of
ficers of the league:
President, J. Sterling Norton vice pres
idents, A. c. McClurg, Herman E. Won
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, ]. Lau-
renee Laughlin, Daniel NJ. Lord, Sigmund
Zeisler, Frank H. Scott and Leroy D.
Thoman.
The league has already published two
tracts and purposes others. They are pre-
pairing to hold meetings in the near future.
Among letters they have received in sup
port of their work are the following:
Edmunds Against the War.
Ex-senator George F. Edmunds writes:
Il glad you are to hold meetings in
government and to oppose the conquest
of people on the other side of the globe
who do not wish to become either citi
zens or subjects of the United States-a
conquest which very few if any, of it's
promoters have undertaken to show would
be finally of material or moral benefit to
our country. and one the immediate evils
of which in losses of life and health in our
army and of the treasure of the United
States | fear are yet only half known.
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whole truth | believe there will be found
an easy means of terminating the war we
are carrying on in the Philippines that will
be satisfactory to nine-tenths of the people
of those islands, and honorable to this
country and consistent with its whole duty
toward itself and other nations"
Senator Mason's Views.
Senator William E. Mason says:
THAT class of dangerous citizens who
feel above serving their country have not
yet heard of the unnecessary and uncon
stitutional war now being waged by US to
make slaves in then philippine Islands
Congress, the only war making power un-
der Der our M not p declared war
from Spain. Then we Bought what we
had no right TO buy and what Spain had
no right to sell. We purchased goods from
a thief-we knew it and. told the world
what she was long Before we purchased
To get the technical right to kill we call
them rebels against government to which
they have never sworn allegiance-we must
make them subjects before they can be
rebels.
They say they can't govern themselves.
Why not try them awhile before killing
them? They tell US they would kill one
another 1t isn't true, but if it We're, it
would be better than killing our boys.
Lincoln said no man is good enough to
govern another man without his consent: it
was true then, and it rs true now. Taxa
ton without representation is much
tyranny in LuZon as ii was in Boston har
Dor at the time of our tea party. We have
no more right to govern in the Philippines
without consent of the governed than King
George had to govern us in 1916 without our
consent. If this is treason, make the most
of it,
Storey Says 1t is Wrong.