The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-23
Samuel GOmpcrs Fears Filipino Sol
diers May Some Day shoot Down
LabOring Men.
BOURKE COCHRAN is HEARD
BREADS BREAKING FAITH OF DEC
LARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
Ex-President Cleveland, william j.
Bryan and Others Send Letters
Indorsing the Protest.

NEW YORK, Jan. PA mass meeting OF
citizens was held in the Academy of Music
tonight under the auspices of the Conti-
mental League for the purpose of protesting
against the policy of imperialism and en-
tangling alliances with European powers"
The meeting was attended by a great
crowd. Long before the doors were opened
three thousand people were clamoring for
admission and in a 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 was read including these names:
Wheeler II. Peckham, Abram S. Hewitt,
Henry Loomis Nelson, William H. Horn
blower, Roger A. Pryor. Francis Wayland
Glen, John c. Sheehan and Frederick r.
Coudert. A number of vice presidents
were announced as representing the Central
Labor Union, including Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation of
Labor; John M. Parsons general master
workman of the K. of L., and Daniel Har-
ris, president of the State Federation of
Labor. Communications were read from
ex-President Cleveland, Colonel William J.
Bryan and Bishop Henry c. Potter regret
ting their inability to be present. Mr.. Cleve-
land in his letter said:
Il am so opposed to the eXpansionist
craze now affecting our body polite that
any organization formed in opposition to it
has my hearty sympathy and approval"
Mr.. Bryan said that he fully in SYM
pathy with every effort put forth to save
the Nation from the dangers of imperial
ism.
Bishop Potter wrote: 1.-The purposes of
the meeting have my hearty approval and
l should be glad if 1 had time to say how
strongly l feel that the policy of imperial
ism or expansion, in any such sense as
proposed at present, threatens equally the
normal integrity of the Nation and the
conditions on which it's prosperity has hith-
erto rested
Resolutions were adopted declaring:
"First-That the full discharge of our
obligations to the inhabitants of the Phil
ippines requires that we should without
delay help them to secure in their domestic
affairs, first order and then liberty, and
that we are absolutely and unqualifiedly OPP
posed to the annexation of the Philippine
islands as a permanent portion of the ma
tional domain.
COLONIAL CONQUEST.
''Second-That we are unalterably opposed
10 the dDduQOum6ul ny lillS INSpuDllC VI the
American ideal and national growth, in IA
vor of the European ideal of colonial con-
quest we unreservedly subscribe to the
theory that government derives all its just
powers from the consent of the governed
and tof the theory that there should be no
taxation without representation. we be-
lieve, moreover, that such theories are
wholly applicable to the inhabitants of all
the places abandoned by Spain, as the result
of the late war.
''Third-That neither the government nor
the people of the United States have in
CURED any responsibility or obligation as
to the result of the recent war with Spain
which requires any departure from the
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, therefore,
to the idea that peace-loving and free peo-
pie of the Republic, who are engaged in the
grand task, as yet uncompleted, of develop
ing their natural resources and of estab-
fishing upon a firm basis their own theory
of government by, of and for the people.
should or under any conceivable cir
cumstance enter upon any alliance with any
European power the result Of which might
be to embroil US in European controversies
in which our real interests are not cen
cerned.
THAT we place on record our high appre-
citation and sincere thanks for the corspic-
uous services rendered to the American peo-
pie by Senators Hoar, Hale, Mason and Wei
lington in preventing the new ard danger
GUS policy of imperialism from being forced
through the Senate of the United States
without proper and adequate discussion, and
we commend to all citizens of this Rcpub-
lie the high sense of public duty ana en-
lightened patriotism which have character
ized the action of these senators in resist
ing innovations on our system Of govern
ment that are pregnant with demoraliza-
tion and disaster.
Resolved, That copies of these resolution
be sent to the President of the United
States, to the members of the Cabinet and
to both houses of Congress"
The first speaker was James Z. Eustis.
former ambassador to France Mr. Eustis
said in part: II see before me an audience
in which recognize the type of true Amer
leans banded together to protest against
expansion and Imperialism. What a strange
sight A meeting of intelligent American
citizens on American soil. protesting
against Imperialism and the mperiaistic
policy of the American government. The
representatives of the people of this great
country are combating the idea and |
hardly feel as though | were living in the
Republic of the United States | feel as
though l were living instead in some con
tinental country where imperialism is recog-
nlzed.
The sentiment of the American people is
against the rash idea of expansion. for to
fight the Filipinos would mean the loss of
life to the American soldiers in the future