Hutchinson gazette., 1900-07-12
DANGERS WHICH CONFRONT.
Our MonIed Arlstoorncy, with It's Hand
maids, Imperialism and Milltarlam,
WIN EnAiavs u.


ism, There are various other enc.
miles, but those are the four arch enc.
mics In n political sense, They all
spring out of the idea that man be.
longs not TO himself, but that he be.
longs, body and soul, TO the country
which owns him, and that the coun.
try itself Is the administration OF
that country's affairs, These foul
enemies, in n dangerous garb, con.
front the United States to-day.
They stand together now, These
four stand together will stand to.
gether' Wherever there is one the
other Is, AristocrOcy, slavery, mill
tnrism and Imperialism, They reach
each others hand, They all have
their fair side, They are defended
sometimes nt the freside, Slavery
was discussed and defended from
many u pulpit in New England
AristocrOcy has its fair side, You
can find It pictured and what II is
In many british novels.
The foundation or quality is arls.
tocracy; the foundation Of our own
liberty Is rebellion against 1.-THE
thing that we came here for.
There Is a fair side of slavery aud
n fair side Of miltarism, How clean
the streets can be kept under mill
tary discipline and how free from
noise, How easily people con he
sent 10 bed nt dark II IL be desired;
how easily cock-hghting can be sup
pressed.
There Is q fair side Of Imperialism.
You will find that in many places
nine-tenths Of the people believe II Is
Il good thing for the world, Maybe II
Is, but when we come to read history
from the one side 10 the other we
viii find that the British people have
been debouched by their course in
India, and that the lIindoos have been
cursed; you will find that the English
people have been turned from being
n strong, freedom-loving people, You
will find, also, that the hearts blood
has gone out of Grent Britain, ns ii
has gone out Of all countries where
they have INDUCED in these constant
wars.
We know how Napoleon depopulated
France by his wars, We know Of the
murders of the nobility, the murders
of the peasantry, and the result In
the France Of to-day, In 1890, when
the Philippine question was burn.
ing one in Spain, In Puente, an Au-
gustine friar, expressed his opinion
of the whole thing when he said;
against the gain of redeemed souls
] place the cost in the loss Of armadns
and Of soldiers and of fri0rs sent to
the Philippines, and these count the
chief loss, that, while mines give sil.
yer and forests give lumber, only
Spain gives Spanlarls, and she shall
give so many of them that some day
she shall be left childess and forced
TO bring up strangers children in
stead of her own"
DO we think that we fought against
Spain? Spain died long ago. Spain
is only shell,
This heresy Of Imperialism is the
most dangerous that has arisen since
the heresy of secession, and IL must
be fought as vigorously as the hcrcsy
of secession. II we admit as citizens
any number of millions Of people that
are not ready for liberty, II we admit
them with all the degradation which
they must bring into our politics, we
must take the consequences,
II Is better that we should be Just
and faithful to our own principle and
to the principles of God, and that we
should in our laws be no respecters
of persons, because II, In our laws, we
are respecters Of persons, we must go
the way OF empire, as oil empire has
gone,
Our danger is illustrated already In
Porto Rico The tariff discussion in
Porto Rico violently agitoted the
American people, because they in
stinctively felt II was simply the in
PRODUCTION Of the thin edge of the
wedge of Imperialism, the beginning
of the contest between the American
government and the American people.
II is the introduction of the principal
that congress, which Is Il creature of
the constitution, and the president,
who is a creature of the constltu-
ton, have certain powers that have
been delegated by the people that are
not given by the constitution, powers
claimed TO come just as the powers
of all despots come, from the hands OF
Providence.
The best way in which the growth
of any man or nation has ever been
promoted has been through sclf-goy.
crnment, democraticaIly looking after
its own affairs. We do not expect
that self-govcrnment will always be
good government, II would be mfor.
tunute If it were, because men learn
not by their success but by mistakes,
Self-govcrnmcnt will be good govern.
ment after long time, But il is not
always as good government on the
surface as it might be in u despotism.
II has been said our treatment of
Porto Rico was odious. Our treat.
ment is but the treatment of any col.
ony, and what the treatment Of any
colony must be that is dependent up.
on other men for its government,
Our treatment Of alaska has been Il