The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-21

better day? Can you not see that the
morning cometh and that its rays al
ready gid the mountain tops? Can you
not see that the hour is near when you
may strike strong blow for liberty !?
Not with the sword. Not with weapons
that send the soul of man without
warning into the presence of his maker
but with the ballot?
That might, weapon that falls as stffl
Ae snoWiiakes tail upon the sod.
P1t when executes freeman s will
AS lightning does the will of God.
The Republican party appeals to our
PATRIOTISM, to our love of country, 10
our pride in our liberty and to our ma
turaI desire TO see our nation great and
power in the world before which all
people VIII bow In our hearts we have
the desire. but there is the stronger
sentiment, that the expansion of our
borders must come as a victory of
peace. We cannot throw aside our
teachings for more than 100 years. We
cannot afford to christianize DeOple by
handing them the Bibles upon the BAY
onet'S point. Rather let us go into thf,
world imbued with the spirit of the
Christ, who said, Suffer little children
10 come unto me, for of such is the
Kingdom of heaven We must insist
that the constitution that the bulwark
OF our liberties, that the document of
inspiration shall follow the flag No
president and no congress can be good
enough and wise enough to govern de-
tendencies of this land without the
limits of. the constitution. When our
flag was carried to Porto Rico it was
welcomed by the people as the har-
blnger of greater freedom. They had
read OF this great land and of the
beneficence of our institutions and they
welcomed our army as Columbus was
received by the natives: But the people
of that island have learned that while
we own them they are not of US that
they are a subject people with but a
small measure of self-government. In
the Philippines there has been given no
measure OF freedom and under the
strict censorship of a military power
which SmotherS the voice of the press
we are unable to learn the true condi-
tons. Is this the spirit of the Declara-
ton of Independence? Can we afford
to attach to us a subject race to be ex-
plotted and experimental upon by the
trusts and the politicians with a pull?
Can we afford to violate the principles
which have made us the great nation
that we are? Is it any answer to our
objection to deSpOtic rule to raise an
unreasoning clamOr that we must not
haul down the fiag?" This catch phrase
Will not answer when we remember
that upon the soil of Alaska, pursuant
TO our subservient British policy, we
hauled down the flag and elevated the
standard of England and turned Amer
lean miners over to foreign rule.
THE FILIPINO LABORER.
What are you going to do with the
F1llpinoS? Are you going to make them
citizens? If you do you will bring them
INTO direct competition with our labor
erS at home. They would be free 10
come here if they chose and their
habits of life are such that they would
be as dangerous competitors as the
Chinese. Are you going to make five
states he ieI1
and put ten or twelve Malay senators
IN the senate of the United States? Are
you going to keep them as subjects and
exclude them from our shores? If YOU
do you viii place them in indirect com
petition with our labor, and no tariff
viii keep out the goods made by the
cheap labor of the Philippines
No man can tell what is to be the
policy of the Republican party toward
the Philippine islands. In their nationaI
platform they announce that they pro-
pose TO give to the people of those
Islands the largest measure of self
government consistent with their well
fare"
This is a tyrant's promise. It is the
argument which despots have used. 1t
is not democratic doctrine 1t is NOT
republican doctrine. It is the doctrine
OF Imperialism. Is my language too
strongs Then let me convict the Re
publican party out of the mouth of
1iiAOOiAA, WHO, Trough ne is DEAD, vet
speaketh. In speech which he de-
hVered in 1853, Mr.. Lincoln said:
Those arguments that are made that
the inferior race are to be treated with
as much allowance as they are capable
OF enjoying, that as much is to be done
Tor them as their condition will allow
what are these arguments? They arc
the arguments that kings have made Tor
enslaXing people in all ages out of the