Evening journal., 1900-10-25

years, SO that the increase expires next
year.
Now. what want to know is. does the
Republican party intend to make this
army permanent at i00,000l Let the Re
| publicans say whether they want il or
not, and il they want it let them defend
it before the American people if they dare
to do it,
The increase Of $4,000 men asked for by
/ President Mckinley less than two years
ago and less than two years after his in
auguration means that we shall multiply
by four. and I want TO know whether
these $4,000 extra soldiers are to be kept
at work outside Of this country or inside
WHAT ARE SOLDIERS TO DO?
If they are TO be kept on the outside
then want you 10 know that the Repub-
ican party stands FOR the policy that re
quircs three times as many soldiers out
side Of the United States as were used
in all OF the United States before and if
the increase is TO he used here | want TO
know whether the soldiers are 20 be kept
idle or busy If we are to have 100000
soldiers in this country are you going to
maintain them in idlenessy Why do you
need TO maintain SO many in idlenesst
and il you are going to maintain them in
use and keep them busy what are they
going to busy at? What does a soldier
do when he is busy?
Now, let the Republicans tell you
whether they want that army asked for
by Mr. Mckinley and il they want il let
them explain what they want it for, and
If they want it for service away from
home. let them defend a policy that re-
quires $4,000 soldiers for service outside of
the United States, and if they want it at
home let them then defend the army OF
100000 men. being $4,000 increase Of idle
or busy vassals Of the government.
THE SECOND QUESTION.
Second-If the Declaration of lnde-
pendence is true and governments derive
their best powers from the consent of the
governed. then / want to ask how can
You buy the right TO govern the people OF
secure title to them by forcey
! charge that'the Republican party can
show no title 20 the Filipino that har-
monizes with the Declaration Of Ameri-
can Independence. Did we buy n title
from Spain? Why, how can you buy the
right to govern pcoplef 1t is only "a gem
Grafton that Republicans said you could
not buy black man for one thousand
dollars and now they win buy eight mill
lion Filipnos in job lot at two dollars
and fifty cents apiece.
Oh. well, you say that we did not buy
the Filipinosi that we just bought the
land.
If that is your answer. then l ask you
how did we get them il We just bought
the land and did not buy the Filipinosf
Why didn't we shoot the land and why
do we shoot the Filipinos?
CAN RIGHT TO GOVERN BE
BOUGHT?
want YOU TO answer If the Declaration
OF Independence Is true. If governments
derive their just powers from the consent
of the governed. how can you buy the
right to govern people or get it by forcei
What title did Spain have TO selly None.
When she sold MS the Philippine Islands
she did not own one. and all she could sell
was a license to hunt in the Philippine
Islands and shoot the natives.
But. my friends. if she had title what
was ity A title based on force. She found
the Filipnos and put them into submits
sion with a club and then sat on them
with the club. We found her sitting there
and paid S2O,O00,OOO for the club and the
right TO sit on them ourselves.
But do you believe that the title based
on force is good? Can big man thrash
little man and then own himg Can a
big nation thrash a little nation and then
own itl That is the big nations doctrine.
II is never asserted by a little nation. /
/ deny that a big nation can secure the
/ title TO a little nation by force. Why. In
1856 the Republican platform said that
the highwayman's plea that right makes
might" is unworthy Of the diplomacy Of
any nation. and yet to-day the Republic
can party places itself IN the position IF
the highwayman's plea that might
makes right"
I defy the doctrine. You never created
a right by might since the world began
and you never can create right hy
might and no might on earth can over
throw one human right
CITIZEN OR SUBJECT?
Thirds the Filipino going TO be a
citizen or a subject.
The Republicans won't know what "a
do with the Filipino when they get him.
A man saw a dog running after train,
barking, and he asked the question
"What would the dog do with the train
if he caught itf"
l want TO ask you, "What are you go-
ing to do with the Filipino when yor
catch him?"
Are you going to kill him? No, my
friends. the Republicans wouldn't dar,
to do that because if the Filipino wa.
killed off he could not buy the goods OF
MS. We have to let him live on or i
would destroy the trade And ii he live.
under our flag he must be a citizen or
subject. DO you want him to be citi
zenf Do YOU want TO bring 100000 Fill
pinos and let them share in the citizen
ship of this great nationf Do you wan
congressman from the Philippine
Islands? 10 you want senators from thl
( Philippine Islands? Do you want presi
dental electors from the Philippine Is
lands?
FILIPINOS NOT TO BE CITIZENS
The Mckinley resolution expressly de
clares that the Filipnos are not TO bc citi
zens. because in that resolution the Re
puhlicans of the Senate declared that tn
D Philippine Islands are never TO be an in
tegral part Of the United States. Then
what are they TO be? Subjects? Let tn
Republicans defend having subjects?
Are you going to have the Filipinos 10
subjectsy Not if we prevent &C., for ! an