The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-02-21
A REPUBLIC OR mONARCHY2
DOCTRINE OF SELL oovEuNm VI ENr

DOCTKlNE OF SELF GOVEtN NJ len.
The Din renee Is, tween Imperialism
and the Government Founded b.
Our Revolutionary Fathers.
The speech OF Hon. Vim. J. Bryan ir
Columbia Is one of the ablest efforts o
this gifted and accomplished leade r
and his discussion Of the Philippine
question merits u careful perusal In
every household. Mr.. Brysn spoke Us
folloTs:
l want to speak for little while
about the Philippine question. II i,
not surprising that tue party that
favored the income tax and favored
bimetallism and opposed Industrial
trusts should also stand by the prlnci
plea upon which this government Ia
founded and should oppose the conver.
sion OF a homogeneous republic into a
Heterogeneous empire. cay it is not
strange, but 1t Ia strange that the Re-
publican party that thought in 1896
that this country was not big enough
to attend to its own business Is now big
enough to attend to the business OF
every other country In the world.
Some who are In favor Of the imperial
policy hide behind the doctrine, or be-
hind the term, expansion but there
Is difference between expansion and
imperialism. Expansion describes the
extension Of the limits Of a republic ;
imperialism describes an empire, which
10 q different thing from republic.
II you want to know the difference be-
tween republic and on empire, let
me state the differenbe In few words
We had rs, 600 soldiers in the regular
army In 1896. The President asked
for 100000 In December, 1885, and he
asked for that increase two months be-
fore there was an uprising in the
Philippine islands. Why did o need
an army four times as great? Be.
cause the administration was contemp-
lating an imperial policy. WHAT Is
the difference between d republic and
an empire Twenty-Five thousand
soldiers were enough for d republic Of
70,0oO0 900 OF people and it Ia kes four
times as many soldiers Tor an empire
with 10,U0O,OOO more. This is the diff.
ference. Twenty-Five Thousand soldiers
Tor 7O,O0O, ,OOO who govern themselves,
but 1t takes rs, 600 to govern eight
millions without their cousent. Here
we have republic, there u military
despOtism. The flag here stands for
the rights of those who pay the taxes
and have voice in the laying of them,
and there 1T stands for the odious
doctrine OF taxation without represen-
tation-a a Government without the con-
sent OF the governed. That Is the diff
ference between republic and an en-
plre. Webster has said AN empire
embraces variety In races and u
diversity In government" Our en-
pire 10 TO embrace both q variety in
races aud diversity in Government;
for when we got the Fllipinos-thirt
different races OF them-we'll have
variety OF races enough TO satisfy the
RI nd
will have diversity in Government
that ia sufficient to distinguish re-
public from an empire. We are asked
to have one tariff in this country and
another tariff in another part OF tho
empire. Ii you want to see still
more marked contrast let me remind
you that according to the constitution
as amended since the war, no man in
the United States can own another
man but we new pay! the Sultan of
Sulu for the privilege OF flying our Il az
over the Sultan's palace, and the slave
who works beneath that flag IL not to
be free, but he is able to buy himself
free when he can make enough work
ing for nothing q day to pay for the
market price. Naughter.)
This Ia the doctrine that is now
brought to American people by q party
that has lived tor 80 years upon the
the boast OF what 1t did in regard to the
black man. Don't you think that Is
diversity In Government? And yet, |
my friends, We are just commencing
on an imperial policy, and you can ex
pect that the difficulties will multiply
as we progress. What defense do YOU
hear given of the imperial policy? |
have heard three. First: There is
money in 1t. Second That God Is in
it. The third That we are in it and
caa't get out. (Laughter.) venture
you never heard any other argument.
Take speech OF an imperial st, and
you will find that there Is not an argu-
those three heads. Every imperialistic |
speech contains at least two OF these
arguments. Let me give you the sub
stance OF the most OF the speeches.
The imperialist speaker will start out
by telling you that God did it; that
God opened the door and pushed us in
and shut the door. That God pointed
out the way, and that we are under
religious duty to prosecute war OF
conquest because God directs it, and
after having shouldered the whole
voice and says, 1t will pay" Every
argument made In favor OF imperialism
10 but the elaboration Of the speech
made by Secretary Gage at Savannah,
Ga, more than year ago, in which
he said that the philanthropy and We
per cent. would 60 hand in hand.
Philanthropy and five per CENT?
They have always travelled together in
wars OF conquest. Philanthropy chic.
roforms the conscience and five per
cent. fills the pockets Of the conquered.
Whenever philanthropy gets weary
and rests for q while by the wayside,
Ave per cent. goes on and never feels
lonesome. l do not mean to say that
the imperialist does not read his Bible,
but do mean to say he is mixed on
his quotations. l heard man who
got confused about the Parabies and
tried to tell OF the good Samaritan and
got 1t mixed with the parable OF the
sower, and as he remembered 1t 1t
read like this "a man went from
Jerusalem TO Jericho and as he went
he fell among the thorns and the
thorns sprang up and choked him."
His intentios were good, but his mem.
ory was defective, and so the i'm
perialists are mixed up on the beeuti-
tudes. They know there Is . promise
to the meek and to the peacemaker,
and knowing that We entered the war
rs peacemakers, they have been trying
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