West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-08-30

he persuade the American people
that the Monroe doctrine on this
hemisphere requires our armies to
fight for the partition of China side
by side with the minions of mon
archy Is this his way of avoiding
"entangling alliances ?" How can
VIM. Mckinley as comm and erin
chief of the American armies send
troops to fight for the "open door
of free trade on the other side of
the earth and champion a protec
tive tariff at home? Can he ex.
plain to the wage-earners here how
these 10, 900 900 colored people
under the protecting folds of the
Stars and Stripes either as citizens
or subjects can be prevented from
competing with our own Iaborers ?
Have the Vaccinations of monop
oily and the labor saving machinery
OF the factories not yet made con.
dltions hard enough for the working
people ? Can VIM. Mckinley per
suade the ''plain people whom
Lincoln loved and labored for, that
standing armies, which crushed the
Roman republic. are necessary to
the maintenance Of Republican in
sttutions here as they are to bolster
up the thrones of the Old World2
No. No more can Satan make the
worse appear the better reason than
can VIM. Mckinley justify the ways
of his administration to the out
ragged Republican sentiment OF this
free country. How can any one.
no matter how astute, induce Amer
lean patriotism to barter conscience
for commodities at the gates of the
East, to adopt the English colonial
system of acquisition by blood and
treachery, to declare a truce with
British oppression in the numbering
of weak and harmless republics
If to do as one would be done by
is Christian conduct in the inter.
course of nations, McKinley's treat.
ment of ne Iaefo Filipino allies has
been perhdiously Christian. If
it be principle of Republican free
dom that government rests upon
the elective franchise, not force, it
must follow that the Presidents
policy has been hagrantly un-
American.
Now, my friends, 1 know that
you are reasonable men. | know
you think. know you have con
sciences that adore the right. I
know you will think honestly.
Though some Of you may differ
with me, please don't accuse me oil
treason and charge that the free
expression Of opinion in regard to
our foreign policy is accountable
for the continuance Of the war in
the Philippines, as the rough-ridin,
Roo sevelt has affirmed. Let tn,
truth be told though Mark Hanna
fall
II is not question Of hollow
sounding party names. Itisaw war
fare for principle, for eternal right
The issue is the Republic OF IN,
Fathers-shall il live or die
Shall the ballot rule, or the bayone
ruin the Republic2 Shall the grea
exemplar republic become, ia effect
an empire, going into the market
and the shambles, to buy and q
wrest sovereignty from foreigt
people?
Shall we as nation do right
Can we not be just2 II Is not tn
question Of money now. lts th
transcendent one Of morals. III
money question is laid on the she'll
E The Senate win be against &c 70 {
for The next four years. al
3 glad this is so. It brings The pee
] pie face 70 face with the impendin
, crisis Of imperialism and 10, worl,
2 wide sway by force Of arms SO
E that we may have an emperor yci
b soon, but going ont conquering an