The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-05
M'KINLEY POLICY SCORED.
Voters Asked 10 Sustain the Charter
of American Liberty.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 5.-Isaac Lobe
Straus made rousing speech at a Demo
cratic tent meeting on Saturday night. He
said:
by the purchase of 10000. eco of peo-
pie for 1000, 600 and the subsequent
slaughter of many thousands of them be-
cause they refuse to be sold and resist the
oceupati ton of theiT territory and suhjec-
ton into slavery by foreign power the
present Administration has abiured the
principles of the Declaration of Independ-
enee upon which this Government was
founded and has trodden with an iron and
bloody heel upon the glorious faith which
is the life of the Republic, about which it's
MODEST traditions are clustered, from
which its best achievements have sprung.
and which has won for it the moral lead
ership of mankind
Up to 1898 the Declaration of Independ-
enee was undoubtedly considered by The
whole American nation as the sublimest
code of political ethics ever youchsafed to
man. Its verities were revered as the
only Just basis of government 1t was
proudly cherished as the root of our insti-
tutions and as the spirit and life of our
est moral treasure OF the people 1t was
as Jefferson said, the sheet anchor Of
their union. and, as Sumner said, the
title deed to their liberties It was re
garded by all applicable to all man
kind without exception and Interchangeable
by time or circumstances.
THE plain question which the people
of the United States have now to answer
is: Are the doctrines Of the Declaration
of Independence true or false? Are the
principles of the American Revolution.
which 1t embodies, true or false? Are the
teachings drawn frcm it by the great he
roes and sages OF the nation and handed
down by them to each succeeding genera
ton of Americans true or false2
The commentary OF the Republicans
upon the Declaration. in order 10 reconcile
it with their policy in Porto Rico and the
Philippine Islands makes a mockery OF
that Instrument. To use a smile OF Them
as Paine-'It is like darkness attempting
to illuminate light It eontTadicts and
nulIifes- Il makes Of It a 'sslf-evideBt
lie a2d substitutes in its stead the king
ly Declaration OF the Holy Alliance pro-
mulgated at Layback in 1921 that useful
or necessary changes in the administration
of States ought to enlanate from the free
viii and deliberate and enlightened i'm
pulse CT those whom God has rendered re-
sponsiole for power.
SE2lI we lOISCt IiLdL IilC HE ilAS
principle of the Republic Is the idea OF
right? Shall we forget that the taxation
and rule OF the Porto Ricans. without rep
resentatiL l. aud the sending of armies 70
lay waste the works CT Philippine ciyili
cation; 10 wrap their villages in flames; to
bury th2iT flou isEing fields under bloody
ashes; to starye and destroy their people
by the thousands in order TO subdue and
enaiaye the survivors is The betrayal OF the
eternal justice, of universal freedom and
the rights of man? Shall all these be now
inferred beneath the injustice and tyTan-
ny of imperial colonization? Shall this be
the iRglorious end Ct the Institutions OF
liberty planted at Plymouth. al James
town. and st. MaTy's. and of the Republic
heir Of all the ages, foremost in he files
of time'-reared On those foundations Of
the sword of Washington, the humanity Of
jefferson. the wisdom of Franklin
Appealing to the merchants and business
men present to support the Democratic
party in its present battle for the cause OF
freedom and justice, Ar, Straus referred TO
John Hancock as the richest merchant of
Massachusetts, Bay Colony, who never
theiess. presided over the Congress which
framed the Declaration of Independence
and was the first Of its signers. If John
Hancock" be said had been influenced
by the spirit Of present-day commercial
ism his imperishable name would never
have CLEANED through history as if, in the
words Of Webster 1t were written in let
ters OF light upon the blue arch of heaven
between Orioa and the Pleiades- .