The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-04-12

i When man assumes to tell what Is 60
ing to be he assumes to prophesy, and
you know man cannot rid himself OF ex-
perience. In '96 about six hundred men
stood up before waiting audiences and
told them that they were'about to listen
to the next president Of the United
States and when after the election was
over found there were about six hun
dred men going about loose and proph-
| esying, who had not been Amounted.
don't mean to say that God may not
now speak to the human race through
the human voice, but do mean to cay
that in my humble judgment whenever
God gets ready to speak to the American
people and reveal the divine will He will
find somebody besides Mark Hanna as
his mouth.piece. The Bible warns us to
beware Of false prophets, and the Bible
tells us how to determine the false
prophets from the true ones. Do you
know the Bible test? "By their fruits
we shall know them; - and the only way
we have of telling who is likely to be
inspired to speak divine truth is to see
what kind of fruit man has been bear
ing. II a man breaches benefit to the
Philippine Islands who hasn't practiced
it, to his own people, don't believe him
and when a man has been deaf to the
entreaties that have come from the
masses OF people OF this country l don't
believe he is actuated by high and holy
purposes when he goes over to the Phil
ippine islands to be better to somebody
over there than he has been to his own
people. When a man has laid upon the
poor taxes they ought not to bear and
been deaf to the distress OF the producers
of wealth; when he allows the big trusts
to plumber the people here, don't be-
lieve he is actuated by high and holy
purposes when he wants to send carpet
bag governors over to the Philippine
islands and then an army to support
them in the government of the Philip
pine people. And if a man wants to de-
fend this doctrine on the ground that we
are divinely appointed race TO go to the
Philippine islands and govern them, and
tax them without representation, you
tell him if God had appointed us to 60
there He would have told the Filiplnos
we were coming, so there would have
been no trouble when we got there. 1t
is mockery to say that God inspired this
people to carry on this war of conquest
for expansion and empire, and then in.
spired the other people to die for the
right to govern themselves. believe In
God; I believe that He knows the
thoughts and purposes of man but my
friends. my Bible teaches me that our
God is unchangeabe-the same yester-
day, to-day and forever. My Bible
teaches me that the laws of God are
changeless laws and that no individual
Is ever great enough to do no wrong;
that no nation will ever be big enough to
trample upon these laws with impunity;
and when | remember that our fore
fathers prayed to that God and asked
Him to guide them as they fought
against taxation without representation,
denounce it as mockery to say that
now God directs US to go and do what
our iorefathers fought to be freed from.
Will we fasten upon the weaker the same
odous doctrine against which our fore
fathers commended?
But my friends, have kept you out
here in the sun for long while. When
| started | was hoarse and | thought l
would only speak about an hour and
half and l have spoken about two hours
and half. Voices in audience-Go on.
go on, go on No, the subject is too
large to exhaust even if l were to talk
longer and exhaust my own strength and
your patience. | have tried to call your
attention to these questions and some of
the principles involved in them and l
want you to take them and study them;
don't let the republicans deceive you as
to the proposition. We are not trying to
array one class of society against another /;
we are trying to bring all classes into
harmony again by teaching justice as
between man and man. Instead of hav-
ing bad law and a big army to burden
the people who want to repeal the law,
l want to make laws so good that every
citizen will be ready to aid if need be to
preserve that government to his children
and his children's children. tApplause.)
Instead OF going across the ocean to
plant the flag where the constitution can
not reach it, want the American flag to