The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-26

can read and write, and leSS fbai
B per cent of the entire popuIa.
ton. If You think she went there
to christianize, let me tell Won
that after $50 years of gunpowder
gospel less than l per cent of the
people profess the Christian re.
ligion. Applause.
WHAT REPUBLICANS PRAYED
81 believe in God. l believe
that He influences the thoughts
and the purposes of men, but |
am not willing to blame God for
every thought and every impulse
that a man may have. If I feel
in my heart an impulse to do
good, l will trace it to God. III
feel in my heart an impulse to do
wrong, | will not blame Him. If
| feel in my heart an impulse to
put my hand in my own pocket
and take my money and give it
to some one in distress. | will
trace the impulse to God; but if
feel in my heart an impulse to put
my hand in somebody else's
pocket and take his money l will
not lay it all to the Almighty.
but there is another old fellow
that will lay it on. Laughter
and applause. | heard of col
ored man once who was very fond
of chicken laughter, but not al
ways mindful of the means of
getting it; and he said that when
he prayed to God to send him a
chicken that God seldom did it,
but that when he prayed God to
send him for chicken he nearly
always got it. Laughter and
applause. l believe that the
Republican party has prayed to
God to send them for the chicken.
| Laughter. l belive that it has
simply yielded to temptation.
Temptations will come. The
Bible tells us that 1880 years
ago that the devil took the Sa
yiour up on high mountain and
pointed out all the Kingdoms of
the earth and their glory and Of
fered them to Him if He would
fall down and worship him, but
Christ said, Get thee behind Me,
Satan.' But when the Republi-
can leaders were taken up OH a
high mountain and shown the
Philippine Islands, instead of
their saying, Get the behind me,
Satan, they hunted up the Span
ish monarch and said: we will
give you $3.50 apiece for them.'
Laughter and applause.
III want to denounce this doc,
trine that God has selected the
Republican party to wage in His
name war of conquest. There
may be prophets, but you will par
don me if express it as my de-
liberate opiuion that when God
gets ready to speak to the Ameri-
can people he will choose some.
body besides Mark Hanna as Hn.
mouthpiece. Laughter and app
nlause.l
THE POLITICAL ARGUMENT.
"But they say we are IN 1t and
cannot get out. | want to re-
mind you that the people who say
that we cannot get out are the
people who got us in. Why, they
say we must stay in the Philip
pines because Dewey destroyed
a fleet at Manila. l reply that
Schley destroyed one at Santiago.
| [Applause.] And yet the Re-
publican President promised the
Cubans that we would get out of
Cuba. Tell me that our flag has
been raised over the Philippine
Islands, and that when once
raised it can never come down?
| tell you that that flag was
raised over Havana a year ago,
and the President told the Cubans
that he would haul it down when
the flag of the Cuban Republic
was raised in its place. TAp-
plause. You cannot find an argu
ment for the permanent holding
of the Philippine Islands that
would not apply to Cuba. When
we went into the war we said
that the people of Cuba are. and
of right ought to be free, and |
challenge you to draw a line be-
tween the rights of the Cubans
andthe rights of the Filipinos. Did
God say that the Cubans were
entitled to their freedom but not
the Filipinoss No, my friends,
there is only one difference be.
tween Cuba and the Philippine
Islands. We promised independ.
ence to Cuba; we did not promise
it to the Philippine Islands. But
my friends, our promise was but
the recognition of a right that
would have existed without the
promise.
Il say that if the Administra.
ton, in making the treaty, had
provided for the independence of
the Philippines when it provided
for the independence of Cuba.
there WOuld have haan NO +ro,blo