The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-30


people. Government cannot sell Its peo-
pie: A government can sell property and
a government can agree that il will not
interfere in certain territory. That is all
the government can do.
CANNOT SELL SOULS.
1t cannot sell human souls. SO you see,
my friends, if Spain had been in posses
sion Of the Philippines she could not have
sold us six, eight or ten million people;
but on the 21st Of December the treaty
qulre any rights, and had not under the
treaty at that time; SO that the treaty
could not justify this act of the presi-
left to sell. The Filipinos had whipped,
her clean off the island. Her soldiers
were prisoners her officers and tax col
lectors had been driven out. She hadn't
anything left there, and her quitclaim
deed made to Uncle Sam was not worth
the value of a revenue stamp. (Applause.)
Well now. that being SO, then what are
our our legal or moral rights, or what rights
our legal or moral rights, or what rights
moral rights there. But we have the
right Of conquest. We have the right of
brute force, simply that and nothing
more. just in so far as we can burn theft
towns and shoot down their men and
women and maintain our authority, Just
IN SO far, or course. We are In possession,
and have what they call the right of con-
quest. and that is all. We have got the
same moral and legal right to send an
army into England, Germany, or into
France, and insist that those people must
recognize American sovereignty, accept
American governors, accept American tax
collectors, as we have to send an army
into the Philippines and demand 1t of
those people, assuming all the time that
we have the power to do tive have the
power of conquest in the Philippines No
one can doubt for one moment what the
outcome of that war will be. Easy.
Why are we pursuing? You hear it said
@ mar nf no SYM ta. lit.
a question of dollars and cents and there
isn't any sentiment about it, they say
They are; at least candid. They say we
want wan that trade, we want a place to ship
our goods. We want a foreign market
and we are going to have them, and
trade follows the flag.
PRICES NOT THE FLAG.
Well now, In the first place, it turns out
on investigation that it is not true that
trade follows the flag. 1t Is contrary to
all experience. Trade 1t is found follows
prices always everywhere Trade follows
the line OF least resistance. Trade fol-
lows the line Of greatest attraction. That
Is all. 1t does not follow the flag But
upon looking at statistics we find that
only 5 per. cent of our foreign trade is
with the Philippine islands. We have no
trade down there to speak of. On looking
at 1t a little further we find that our gov
door In the Philippines. We have read a
good deal about the open door lately.
The European governments and our gov
eminent have got China to maintain the
open door, throw her ports open so that
all nations can trade there, that is the
tendency among nations anyhow If we
agree to maintain the open door in the
Phil1pplnes-if that is so-we have to COM
pete for any business We get there. If all
the nations of the earth can go there and
trade. We. Will have to compete with the
other nations, and if this is so we won't
derive any BENEFIT fd from from the fact that
liability and expense. If the other fell
lows uhderbid us they get the trade
On looking into the matter still farther
people never will make much Of Of a mar mar
ket for our goods. They are too poor
Labor is cheap there, 10, 20 and 80 cents
a day. They live in the tropics. The COM
mon people live upon rice chiefly. They
cannot buy American products to speak
of. Then what do the syndicates want of
those people? 1t is. that cheap labor they
see there: There are eight or nine million
people-cheap labor And the syndicates
see opportunities-not to sell your wheat
down there; there will be no market for
your wheat-but to utilize that cheap
labor and manufacture goods more cheap
ly than they can with American labor
and make the money that way. Then
there are. cities there. Talk about those
islanders being savages! 1t is true that
In the mountains Of a few of the islands
there are few savage tribes; but it turns
out now that of the eight and odd million
people about seven million belong to the
church. Our officers have written to the
department of war describing the charac-
ter of those people. They say they are
peaceable and Industrious people. They
are among the best mechanics of the
world. They have cities, some of which
nave twenty or thirty thousand inhabit-
ants, and there is a chance to go down
there and issue bonds. There is chance
to go down there and let great contracts.
There Is chance to go down there and
make millions just as millions are made in
some of the corrupt cities of America.
The
OPPORTUNITIES FOR SPOLIATION
innate trade are small. But, assuming
that We can get great trade there let us
assume that even If trade did follow the
nag, are we prepared, after our glorious
history and glorious career to reverse the
Whole policy of government? Are We pre-
pared to set the dollar above the man?
Illus, Linus FAR we have preached manhood.
right, not the dollar right. Lincoln said
the dollar was good and must be pro-
tected, but the man was infinitely better
and greater and must be protected first
(Applause.)
There is little group of islands down
there known as the Zulu islands, which
seem not to be included generally with
the philippines They are governed by a
and polygamy prevails there Our gov
eminent has become so infatuated in this
idea of acquiring islands and running the
American flag up that it has gone down
there and has executed solemn treaty
with that sultan of the Zulu islands.
whereby we bind ourselves that In con-
sideration of his allowing our flag to float
slaves, We will protect him in the posses
sion Of those harems and protect hin,
in the possession of those slaves
Some OF you may have carried a musket
Of nrln tod r,f r..
States for the purpose of wiping off of of
the American flag that great stain Of
slavery, Here comes an administrators
which Is willing to go way off into the
stand not as the emblem Of liberty and
freedom and human rights, but as the
protector of the slave owner in the nos
sion of his slaves. (Applause.)
SULTAN AND HIS FAMILY
That is not ALL They are so eager to
have put him and his whole family on
the pay ROLL (Applause.) Send to Wash
ington and get list of the family. Find
It down there in the treasury department
salary, and, as | remember it, it takes
pretty nearly $4,000 year of Uncle Sans
money to take care Of that family. Now
a. pay sf, roll Is a good thing and dare, say
excellent men who have striven very
hard to get onto the pay roll But I will
venture to say that in all your countries
you have not a man who has succeeded
in getting his whole family on that raw
roll. (Applause) Yet the president has
travelled over the length and breadth of
this land; has stood in the market places
of America. and with a sanctimonious
vision has told the American people that
divine Providence is responsible for all
these things. Now, my friends that kind
of talk cannot wipe out and should NOT
gloss over great wrong. Why insult the
intelligence of the American people by
that kind of conduct When the British
minister. acting under the instructions of
the British government. which was try