Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-08-16

10 Degln the war OF conquest, Wnen the
Spanish war was over, when we were at
peace with the world, when nobody was
threatening us, when all that the Philip
pine people asked of us was that we
should treat them the same as the Gu
bans, the president sent message to
congress asking to have the regular army
increased to 100000 men. What for? If
we were in danger, why not call for vol
unteers? Volunteers fought the Revolu-
tionary war and founded this republic;
volunteers drove the English off of our
shores in 1912; volunteers planted the
Stars and Stripes all over Mexico volun-
teers fought the greatest war for liberty
ever waged, struck down slavery and ce-
mented this union and in 1898 volunteers
came to the front and struck down the
last vestige of ancient despotism on this
The glory of our republic has been
written with the valor and blood OF our
volunteers. They founded it and they
have defended it and made it great. Yet
now, in time Of peace, republican
president asks, not for volunteers, but for
regular soldiers. Why? Because we are
departing from the ways of the fathers;
we are going into rivalry with the des-
potic nations of Europe in governing
people by brute force, and we must have
the same kind Of machinery that our
rivals have used in that business.
Listen to the immortal words of Abra-
liberty and Independence. =. 40 ..vv go.
frowning battlements or bristling sea
coasts, our army or our navy. Our re-
lance is in the love of liberty, which
God has planted in us. Our defense is
in the spirit which prizes liberty as the
heritage of all men in all lands, every
where. Destroy this spirit and you have
planted the seed of despotism at your
own doors. Familiarize yourself with
the chains of bondage and you prepare
your own limbs to wear them. Accus-
toned to trample ON the rights of others,
you have lost the strength of your own
independence and become the fit sub
jects of the first cunning tyrant who
rises among you.
"They who deny freedom to others,
deserve it not for themselves, and under
a just God cannot long retain it,"
Now, my friends, we propose to stop
this criminal aggression into which the
syndicate and the British ambassador
have launched us. We are going to stop
bloodshed and devastation in the Philip
pines by saying to the Filipinos that
when they establish government which
in our judgment is good government
worthy of recognition, that then we will
withdraw on such terms as may be just.
We are going to do what the president
called our "plain duty toward the Porto
Ricans." We are going to redeclare that
King George was wrong, and that his
principles shall not disgrace our statute
books.
This is not partisan question it is an
American question. In 1851 you were
not asked, care you democrat or a re-
publican?" You were only asked, "Do
you love the flag Of your country, and
will you fight for it?" Today you are only
asked, "Do you believe in free institu-
tons, and will you help preserve them?"
Are you son of the Revolution? Then
step to the front and help save that for
which your ancestors died.
Do you believe Washington was right
when he led his men over the icy hills of
Valley Forge? Do you believe the fathers
were right when they fought at Bunker
Hill or fell at Lexington? Do you be-
lieve Lincoln was right when he stood on
the battlefield of Gettysburg and prayed
that government of the people, for the
people and by the people might not
wither from the face Of the earth? Then,
join the free men Of America in one SUI
preme effort to again establish repub-
lican government at Washington-to
forever drive Hanna and the syndicates
from the temple, and put an end to inn
perialism, militarism and McKinleyism.
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