The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-25
due to the dominant party placing spoils
above principles and honest government.
ADMINISTRATION ARRA1GNED.
Mass Meeting Under Auspices of
Anti-ImperiaIistic League.


NEW YORK, May PA mass meeting
to advocate AN American Policy in the
Philippines" was held tonight in Cooper
Union, under the auspices of the Anti
Imperialist League of New York. Ernest
H. Crosby presided. The speakers were
George S. Boutwell,, of Massachusetts;
Carl Schurz and Capt. Patrick O'Farrell,
of Washington. Mr. Crosby said In open
ing the meeting:
In Cuba one of our fellow citizens from
Indiana is accused of taking all the post
al funds he could lay his hands on. Bet
ter the island be robbed by Spain than
an American and a friend oil senator
Beveridge. Were Washington alive To-
day he would find himself more at home
in the camp of Aguinaldo than in the
the courage of Aguinaldo in lighting
against great odds for over year"
Ex-senator Boutwell, said:
There are indications that attempts
are being made as, to so construct the
constitution of the United States as TO
justify the policy of Selling, through
war, foreign lands and alien peoples, and
governing them as they might be gov
erned if the constitution of the United
States did not exist. 1t is the manifest
purpose Cf the admins stTation to seize
and to hold countries and to govern races
and communities outside of the JurlSdlc-
ton Of the nation. This is the admins
traton creating power III the president
and congress Independent of the consu-
tuition and over which the people can
have no control. 1t is with this usurpa-
ton that | am now to deal The condl-
ton before the country is this: Repub-
lie or empire? 1t was announced in jan
uary that the war preparation was end
ed, and that civil rule was to be extend
ed. In the first three months OF the year
there were 124 SkirmisheS on the islands,
in which $500 Filipinos were slain,
wounded or captured. In April the war
department re-eStablished the recruiting
system for the reinforcement Of tie Phil
ippine army.
1There are supporters of the president,
not content with the possession of the
Philippines but who advocate a Warlike
of our trade in China. The recent
speeches of the Chinese minister should
be accepted as a declaration that trade
with China is to depend on friendships,
agreements, reciprocal relations, and
nothing will be conceded to force. Rus
sia has gained more in five years by
peaceful means than England in a quar-
ter of a century by war
AT a cost of $500, 900 and the Sacri-
flee of many thousands of young lives,
a great lesson will have been taught that
this government cannot be perverted,
either through the follies or the crimes
Of its rulers.
"Of all modern history the most dis
graceful chapter is that which the Amer
lean nation is now writing. At the open
ing of the last third of this century we
abolished slavery in America, and at the
end of the century we are making a war
for the establishment of a system Of
slavery in the Philippines. England's
SepOy war and the war on the upper
Nile are trivial offenses against liberty
when compared with enslaving 100000
of people"
The resolutions, after setting forth that
the administration has committed a
fragrant breach CT faith and most seri-
ously d!scredited the profession and the
character of the republic in the eyes of
the world and that the imperialistic pol
Icy, if persisted in, will inevi ably bring
about the overthrow of our democratic
institutions" recite the history of our
dealings with the Filipinos and say:
Betrayal of allies shows one of the
worst and most cruel breaches ever per
petrated by the most tyrannical monarch
of the world The resolutions then
proceed:
We demand of this government to rec
ognlZe the rights of the islands to free
dom and to proceed on the same basis
We have adopted towards Cuba and to
philippines as soon as they may be no
longer necessary in assisting the people
there in setting up and maintaining a
permanent government.
Resolved, That the question of i'm
perlallsm overshadoWs all other political
questions that the imperialistic policy of
the present government should be the su-
preme issue in the coming camDaipn
and that all American citizens having The
good name and best interests of our
country and perpetuation of cur free in
sututlons at heart should unite in an
earnest effort to secure the condemnatfon
of that policy and the sternest possible
rebuke of its authors and promoters bv
a decisive popular VOTE