Evening star., 1900-09-29
SCHURZ ON IMPERIALISM.
He Delivered n Speech in New YOrl
Last Night.

Last Night.
Carl Schurz delivered an address before a
large audience at Cooper Union, New York
city, last night. The meeting held un-
der the auspices of the Anti-Imperialist
League.
Mr.. Schurz devoted most of his remarks
to a denunciation of the administrat toms
policy In the Philippines. This method OF
dealing with the islands acquired from
Spain he declared to be Imperialism. Con-
tinuing, he said:
Some extra smart people shout at US:
You talk of Imperialism! Nonsense, Where
is your emperor? Why, what intelligent
person does not know that Ii does not re-
quire a personal monarch to make an i'm
perial government? Rome had an imperial
government in her senate long before Cae-
sar crossed the Rubicon. 1t may be the
ri.le of a republic over another people, ar
bitrary and irresponsible to the government,
and 1t will be an imperial government In
its essence, however you may disguise the
fact.
Indeed. Disgusting the character of impe-
rialism is cultivated as fine art by its
devotees. President Mckinley himself re-
Gently furnished an example of this. bold
enough to make us gasp. In the speech re-
spending to the announcement of his nomi-
nation he said: To the party of Lincoln
has come another supreme opportunity
which 1t has bravely met In the liberation
of ten millions of the human race from the
in this sentence
1.-The party of Lincon?' 1t was Lincoln
who said: Those arguments that are made
that the inferior race are to be treated with
much allowance as they are capable of
enjoying: that much is to be done for
them their condition will allow-what are
those arguments? They are the arguments
that kings have made for the enslaying
of the people in all ages of the world You
will find that all the arguments of king
craft were always Of this class: they al
ways bestrode the necks of the peopie-not
that they wanted to do 1t, but because the
people were better off for being ridden.
Turn it whatever way you will. whether IL
comes from the mouth of a king, as an ex-
cuse for enslavilg the people of his coun-
try, or from the mouth of men of one race
as a reason for enslaving the men of an
other race, 1t is ell the same serpent 1t
was Lincoln who said: Those who deny
freedom to others deserve IT not themselves
and under just God cannot long retain it
AS to the money question. my conyic-
tions have, of course, not changed In the
least But while the money question was
the paramount issue four years ago. We
never admitted that 1t must remain the
paramount question always; or that how
ever important sound money is to the econ
omtc interests, as well as to the character
OF the nation, there may not be other things
OF even more vital moment: or that party
representing sound money may do things
ever so obnoxious to good morals or good
policy and still rightfully exact our support
under all circumstances. In my correspond
ence with Secretary Gage 1 have shown L
think, tnat the dangers to our present mon
etary system are by no means as threaten
Ing now as jealous partisanship represents
them, and that we may freely act upon
the question of imperialism without serious
peril to our standard of value. candidly
believe so. But frankly declare that even
IL the dangers luridly depicted by the
imperialists really existed, my position In
the present crisis would be the same.