The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-02
MAY b RlGHTED
HOW THE
The First Thing Necessary is to De
pose the Wrong Doors and Put in
Their Places Those That Re-
cognize the Wrong Done
and Will Repair It.
(By the Associated PresS.)

New York, Sept. 2S.-Cooper Union
was not large enough to hold the
crowd which came tonight to its doors
to attend the meeting of the Antrim
perialist League of New York. The
crowd was a noisy one and before the
meeting was called to order cheered
for Mckinley, for Bryan, for the
full dinner pail and for Debs. Car
Schurz was received with a tumult of
cheers. Ernest II. Crosby then intro
duced the first speaker Of the evening,
Arson Phelps Stokes, who said in
part:
I'VE are met tonight to protest
against the violation of the COnstitu-
ton and to d~isassociate ourselves from
blood outlines. The rcsult of for
eign conquest is the gain Of a few,
and the degradation of the people.
The harder the laborcr works the bet
ter pleased are the m~onopolists. The
Filipino war is the greatest folly OF
any administration. We will fail il
we should gain the war. The Filipino
we cannot make citizens without
harm to ourselves and we can never
make t1eIl SUBJECTS.
Carl Schurz was introduced and vas
given another round of applause.
After some preliminary remarks,
Mr.. Schurz declared that it was his
purpose to defend the principles OF
free government from the attack on
them made by the policy of impe-
rialism as carried on by the present
administration" He added:
IMPERIALISM IS NO BUGBEAR.
Let me say at the start that l consider
the manner in which the imperialistic
policy is being commended by some per-
sons to popular approval, the highest con-
fldence game ever practiced upon a free
people. In my whole long life l have
never known of such systematic use of
distortion Of history, hypocritical cant
garbling of documents and false pretence.
| am here to speak a word for truth and
justice; and in doing SO | shall call things
by their right names. You will pardon
me if those names are not always of the
mildest. For l must confess, when wit
messed some Of the means employed to
lure this great republic from the path of
righteousness. high principle and glorious
destiny, my old blood boiled with indig-
nation.
The partisans of the administration OBJ
ject to the word imperialism" calling
it a mere bugbear having no real exist
ence. They pretend that in extending our
sway over Porto Rico and the Philippines
we merely continue that sort of terrific
rial expansion which has been practiced
by this republic from it's beginning. This
is a mere juggle with words amounting
to a downright Justification of history.
The truth is that until two years ago
this republic did indeed add to it's terri
tory, but never without the intention and
we'll founded expectation that the acquired
soil would be occupied by a population of
our own, or at least homogeneous with
our own. and that it would in course of
time be formed into regular States OF
this Union under our Constitution. 1t
was therefore not mere expansion of our
territorial domain to be perpetually ruled
by our arbitrary will, but it was essen
TALLY an intended. and in the course OF
time practical extension, of our constitu-
tional system in entire accord with the
fundamental principles of our democracy.
A ISLANDER ON JEFFERSON.
The only apparent exception to this rule
was the annexation of Alaska-but that,
too, only apparent, not real; for Alaska
may be inhabited by a population of our
own; and when the development Of tina
territory has sufficiently progressed and
its population becomes numerous enough
its claim to full constitutional Statehood
will, no doubt, be readily recognized.
Some imperialists pretend that the pur.
chase of Louisiana by Jefferson and the
legislation connected with it furnish {
precedent fully covering the principles o
Mr.. McKinley's policy with regard tt
Porto Rico and the Philippines. This
emphatically deny. Whatever that tenn
pcrary Legislation may have been, is Their,
anybody brazen enough to aSSert-anC
this is the essential, the true pOint-tha
1t was the spirit and intent of Jefferson.
act and Of the legislation referring to it
to hold the acquired territory perpetual.
as a vassal dependency outside of GU,
constitutional system subject to arbitra
ry rule by the President or Congress-
Docs anybody dare to deny that it wa,
the understood intent and expectation tina
the territory OF Louisiana would be file,
by people substantially our own who woul,