New-York tribune., 1900-09-08

ton OF trusts private ownership in them.
PARALLEL WITH 1864.
In many points there s curious similarity be- e
1854 when hens Preadeg Lincoln @ Sa was reeiected Not
since the close of the Civil War have we ever had had
honor and Interest Of America President uAI Nc
not even in 1865 or 1896 has it been Of such vital
consequence 70 overwhelm a political party as 4
mean 10 tn the Country disaster fragght with the
a TheFs 1SS S is the o9oe
ocrsSy at the momsnt M and by fneir m IN & so
nOw GS we appea For OF the % Of all good
We have right 10 ask that the old line Democrats
ways ways chan champoned O hard ard me money and expansion
~ m & than ann N sob eaSt
west, to the sons of the men who wore the blue
Not only was the Spanish the most righteous
foreign war undertaken by any nation during the
this oountry no enee snd for ali into an undivided
fought on the Union side in the Civil War, but
men who had with equal gallantry and @ equal de de-
for the South-men like Joe Wheeler, F1tzhugh
All alike were Americans and the country cared
%noInng % Tnere tney game IRON because use II & to9R R
Vermont concerned them no more than that Hob
son was born in Alabama & or that Funston @ came ne
the time Of the war appealed to all men who were
of the war. in justifying what we did two years
ago. We appeal again TO all good men. whatever
whether they come from the North or the South
the Pac1nc Coast,
US because we stand for the honor and interest
of common country.
further prosecution of the Civil War just the
Kansas City platform de1ounces the further prose
over in in 1851 the platform c@Gnaped cont precisely the
rights had been trampied on and that justice and
liberty demanded immediate effort for t4e cessa-
ton of hostilities Much Of what is put in the two
platforms could be interchanged on this point and
IN 5Sos eaef e was s ng S p @
pressed again in 1900 IN each case the expression
deciaration Of hostility to f the Cause US for Witch
the soldier vas ghng S & oE r6 W6Gh %as
Of the soldier. The chairman of the Convention
every lover of civil liberty throughout the world
was interested in the success of the Copperhead
& being made and is just 6aseiess in one
b as yoed III nf 70 secure The 0Us connusnne of
slavery. In 1900 II is invoked to secure the aban-
Philippines under the rule of corrupt and tyran-
nous oligarchy.
FORMER CRY OF IMPERIALISM
In 1864 the Of %Psrasm n fg RAISED eHa9y 5
Indianapolis Sentinel" for instance, declared that
If Mr. Lincoln was reelected there would be mo
soIidated empire on every hand Lincoln was
STy Of %
empire9ne orator saying I'VE also have s our em m
land is running red with the blood of brothers.
up, and in 1868 the same party declared that if
Grant was naugurated as President the Ameri-
gSeFd people amid the ruin 0f of liberty ,as and % the
faTism as thTeat was WORKED with Infinitely
more apparent justification than It can now be
worked We did have big armies IN the field then.
whereas now Army. including not merely the
Regulars. but volunteers is not half as as large
the New-York city police force relatively to the
man qf to tnf Beware lest h pps goan Tnd % the
burden Of the soldier is a good deal less rational
cago to beware bRS lest % he grosn under the weight
a Regular practically
no larger in proportion to the population than it
police force and fire department in great cities,
ana it is not whit more dangerous TO our liber-
ties and does not add as much to our burdens as
Now word specifically as to the Philippines.
It is in connection with the Philippines that MI
Bryan has chiefly harped upon the consent of the
too clearly keep in mind that the success of the
Agunaldian rebels would mean not liberty for all
section to Cypress great majority Of their fellow
%eFe reaed %h Ie casy
Asunaldian leaders have wherever their power
The ohef Tts Of this system have been net
The Americans but Their fellow FiPn9s; for their
the cost of their fellow counrymen who have had
that the true interests of the islands lay in the
American Government.
Fiiinipos cansbie Of SeIf-goYernment at nTesent.
or believes that such an effort would result in any
thing but horrible confusion OF tyranny and
lessor Worcester, Bishop Potter and all our army
officers are a unit on this point The institutions
into wholly alien soil among people who have
government as we use those words You might
as well try to transplant a fullgrown oak into alien
EXPANSION MEANS PEACE.
Remember that to surrender the Philippines now
TO little band of military usurpers would be to
Our stay in the Islands is the condition precedent
has meant peace VIXEN we ea took SS5y It
meant that We gave to that Territory peace, and
aghng which followed for 6d MeEieo u When S1o% %e
sf west st Of Of the MssssPp it meant that we
dured for ages between Sioux and Crow, Cheyenne
rule in the Philippines means to give the islands
peace, and it is the only chance they have of get
contract instead Of expand means cruel war
abandon We have right to ask % the sueport %fu Of
every lover of peace, Of every believer in peace.
Philippines No statesman worthy Of the name. no
patriot or philanthropist who Is entitled to a
maintain that the principles of the Declaration Of
world no matter what his crimes or his Iimifations
IS 70 be excused from the observance Of law and
disorder aGit HIM bes 1 'nN 'a' and
roa,s As has been shown again and again. neither
peHdenfe nor Lincoln the man who did most TO
with that same doctrine, ever dreamed for
moment Of giving it such interpretation. Lincoln
Is 1857 thus alluded to the trainers of the Decara-
ton l5 Of Independence: They did not mean to as
enjoying equality, nor yet that they about to
conter IT Immediately upon them. In fact they had
simply to declare the right, so that the enforce
ment Of II might follow as fast s circumstances
would permit They meant TO set up a standard
maxim for free society which should be familiar
10 all and reYered by ALL constantly looked to
constantly labored for and even though never per
tecty attained. constantly Appropriated, and
thereby constantly spreading and deepening its in
fuence and augmentng the happiness and value
of life to all peoples"
SPANISH CRUELTIES IN PHILIPPINES
l received the other day a letter from Captain
Monett. OF 1he LIST Dakota Noluniears giYine his