The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-11-03

BOSTON, October Gone of the
most remarkable documents of this re-
remarkable campaign has just been
issued. Col. Thomas wentworth Hig-
ginson, William Lloyd Garrison and
ex-Gov. George S. Boutwell,, all of Bos-
ton, have united in an address to the
colored people of the United States.
The three men whose names are sub
scribed to the address are weA-known
to the negroes of the country. They
urge the colored voters to Turn their
backs on the Republican party, be-
cause, they say the national policy of
Imperialism Is full of danger to the cor
ored race. Following is the address:
Boston, Mass, October 4-To the
Colored People of the United States;
We, the undersigned, address you at
one of the most important points in
your history. If ever there was war
of races in this world the war now
going on in the Philippine islands is
precisely that. Yet if there is any
thing which the colored race III this
country has to dread, and the white
race also, it is just such a war.
Every day in the Philippines is al
ready training our young american
soldiers to the habit of thinking that
the white man, as SUCH is the rightful
ruler of all other men. This is seen,
for instance, in the fact that these very
the seat of war describe the inhabitants
of the Philippines more and more con-
stantly as niggers, thus giving a new
lease of life to a word which was pRe-
viously dying out among us. Every
defender of the war in congress sus-
tains the contest on the assumed
ground that the F'ilipinos are unfit for
freedom, although Admiral Dewey at
first described them as more fit for it
than the Cubans, and Senator Hoar de-
scribes them as probably better fitted
than any race on the two American
continents south of ourselves.
I'm other words, freedom is to be-
come for the new Republican party, a
matter of complexion. If this doctrine
is to prevail what hope is there for the
colored race in the United States? The
answer is easy there is in that case
no hope at all. In the name of the
old anti-slavery sentiment, we call on
you to resist this great danger even if
you have, for that purpose, to turn
your backs on the party you once had
reason to love.
This danger can evidently not be re-
sisted by any further voting for the Re-
publican party. In other days mat
party freed the slaves and passed am
endments to the United States consti-
tuition for the protection of those who
had been slaves. These amendments
are now being steadily set aside, and
the Republican party shows no sign OF
raising finger in their defense. There
have been far more outrages on the
American negro during one term of
Mckinley than during two terms
of Cleveland. On the other hand, the
southern Democrats are at least doing
the colored race this service: that they
as rule oppose the national policy of
Imperialism. This may seem an incon-
sistency, but it is really very simple.
The very fact of their unwillingness to
give equal political rights to the Am
erican negro makes them unwilling to
undertake the government of ten mil
! lions more belonging to the colored
race. This much, at least, experience
has taught them. Thus far, at any
rate, they are on YOUR side.
THE undersigned trained from youth
in the strictest school of anti-slavery
conviction, are following up the same
early training when they now write to
you. We wish to warn you that the
imperialistic Republican party of to-
day is not the liberty loving party OF
that name which set the American ne
gro free forty years ago. The time is
past when you can safely give to II
| your implicit support. We warn you
that the American negro must hence
| forth think for himself and must cut
adrift from every organization which
war on darker races as such, and be-
gins to talk again of the natural sup
remacy of the AngloSaxon." We
fought through a four-years war to
get rid of that doctrine, and enlisted
nearly 100000 black soldiers for the pur-
pose. 1t is too soon to see such a the
DRY brought up again. 1t rests with
| you OF make it impossible"
The old missionary bark Morning Stal
has completed her first trip to the Ar
tic mining regions She was twenty
| Francisco.