Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-08-23
Democratic Candidate Receives Notification of His Nomina
ton by the Peoples Party
MAKES CHARACTERISTIC RINGING REPLY
Speakers Hold That the Future of American Nation Is
Stake in Present Campaign

by the United States has been the en-
largement of the territory already
had. receiving the new territory and
people upon terms of perfect equality
with all the other territory and people.
"Imperialism is fundamentally
Roman. This Roman system was
adopted by Great Britain centuries
ago. 1t was because Great Britain
sought to govern the colonies under
the imperialistic theory that the col
onies rebelled. Now every other
monarchy and empire in the world is
striving, with more or less success,
10 ape this Roman and British sys-
TEN. The last imitator is the United
States. Bringing it home, imperial
ism is the government of subject
races outside of the constitution. 1t
| means the maintenance of sovereignty
over territory whose people are denied
the rights and immunities guaranteed
10 the people of her states and terri
tories. Froude, the great historian,
admonishes republics that from the
| facts of history no free people has
ever or ever can govern a subject
race. That if the free people refuse
| their constitution to their subjects
| the constitution must in the end fall
to piece from sheer incOmpetency for
its duty.
1T is dflicult-more, | think i'm
| possible find parallel in all his
tory for the odious pertidy with
which this country has treated the
FiIipinos. Call TO your memory if
you can from ancient or modern his
tory case in which a nation at war
with another induced it's enemies re-
bellious subjects to organize into
armies under their own insurgent
! flag as allies to overcome the common
foe. and when, through their valOr
and sacrifices, their oPpressor was
conquered and his army held by them
as prisoners, the nation they sue
cored bought from their oppressor its
defeated sovereignty and turned the
very guns and soldiers they had well
coined as saviors to slay them until
they ceased to struggle for their in
dependence and humbly submitted to
the new-made yoke Thank God.
there is not such another record of
national perfidy in modern history,
and we should bow our heads in
shame before the world that such a
record was made by the American
government"
Party In Unison.
We find" said Mr.. Patterson. 1.-The
democratic brain and heart acting in
patriotic unison with the populist
brain and heart. The democratic
party gave this grave issue more
prominence in its platform than
did the populists; but it could not
give it greater emphasis. All that
the democratic platform declares
concerning it is accepted by pOpulists
as supplementary. Populists say
amen to the truth that the declaration
of independence is the spirit of our
government of which the constitu-
tion is the form and letter. Populists
hold with democrats that the consti-
tuition follows the flag, and that no
nation can long endure half republic
and half empire; and they unite with
the democrats in warning the Ameri-
can people that imperialism abroad
will lead quickly and inevitably TO
despotism at home. They agree that
while the Filipino has given abundant
evidences of his capacity for self gov
ernment, the Asiatic people with
their modified Asiatic civilization,
cannot become citizens without
endangering our American civiliza-
tion and that they cannot become
subjects without imperilipg our form
of government; and that we are not
willing to surrender our civilization,
or to convert the republic into an en-
pire. With the democrats the popu-
lists favor an immediate declaration
of the nations purpose to give to the
Filipinos. first, stable form of gov
ernment; second, independence; third,
protection from outside interference,
such as has been given for
dearly a century to the repub-
lies of Central and South America.
In conclusion MIR. Patterson ad
dressed himself to Mr.. Bryan as fol-
lows: Mr.. Bryan. nothing that /
can say can add TO the fullness Of the
honor. faith and affection in which
American patriots hold you. Wheth
er native TO the soil or born in for
eign climes, as patriotic Americans
they look to you as the defender
of the faith of freemen and protector
of their assaulted institutions
Those who fed from the tyranny of