Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-10-12
a great come down from GOD to me


us 10 the Ph.ilipp.ucs, WI - u. !
Republicans want to lay it on Dem
ocratf IL IL well To lie there. If il is |
a par: Of the divine mission, why !
don't they defend cir being thei e.
They claim tn be silent partners with |
the Almighty, Tut the trouble is the,
make all the noise and thus far the
Almighty has been the silent partner.
"Now they say the wal wound stop
If 1t were not for the Democratic
party. They say the FilipiDos would
lay down their army but for the hope
they have that L may be elected.
"Wheneyer Republican tells YOU
that, you tell him that the colonist
fought the same battle that the Fill
pinos are fighting, and they did it
nearly hundred years before / was
born.
Tell them that the Filipinos issued
declaration of independence pat
termed after ours before the question
OF Imperialism entered into American
politics. The do me too much hon
or when they say / am responsible
for the Filipinos' hatred of foreign
domination. If they have not forgot
ten The teachings of Abraham Lincoln
they would know that he said thot il
was not a party, but God himself
that planted in the human heart the
love of liberty, which no Republican
party can take away.
Until human nature is ert;relv
changed. people held In bondage will
rise against it whenever there is 3,
prospect OF success. God nevo,
made race that would welcome n
foreign master, and LOCO years from
now, 10 matter what party is in DOW
er' tho Filipinos will hste us and
stand ready t" rise against us if we
attempt to hold them in vassaL,e,
a"u TAX 'heE without thtir co sent
IN THE PATHS OF MONARCHY.
Republicans, what we object 10 is
that in order to defend your inpoli.
al policy you have to lay down doe
trines, which, if carried out. will
destroy the rights of the American
people to participate in their own
government. That is the objection
we have to your policy If you are
simply going to kill the Filipinos off
and come home, we might get over
the crime. But that is not your pol
icy. You dare not kill them off. be-
cause you want to trade with them.
You would destroy your trade argu-
ment II you Kill them. You cannot
tradeSwith dead men.
you want them for subjects. but
you shall not have then if we can pre-
vent 1T. You cannot make subjects
out of them without changing Your
Ideas ofgovernment. You can't hold
them in perpetual servitude without
amending your constitution either
openly or indirectly, and the same
power that can disregard the consti-
tuition and make subjects out of the
tlllpinos can disregard the constitu
ton and make subjects out of the
American people.
You have as much right to disre-
gard the constitution in the United
States as you have in Porto Rico.
You have as much right to exclude
American citizens from the guaran-
tees of their constitution as you have
to exclude Porto Ricans.
"The Republican party is following
the paths of monarchy. 1t does not
propose king, but it proposes a
principle upon which only king can
stand. 1t does not propose a crown,
but Is proposes a doctrine that can
fit nothing but crown. The Re-
publican party has done in Porto
Rico just what what England did in
this county, and our President is do
ing today just what George III did
century and a quarter ago. What
difference does it make whether YOU
call him President, or Emperor, or
King, if he administers the power of
king?
ave are not only against imperial
ism because it strikes blow at our
principle of government; we are
against it because it destr oys the
moral prestige of this nation among
the nations of the earth.