The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-25
ANTI-IMPERIALISTS
Hold a Mass Meeting in Cooper
Union.

New York, May PA mass meet
ing to advocate A American policy
in the Philippines" was held last night
in Cooper Union under the auspices of
the anti-imperialist league ofNew York.
Ernest H. Crosby presided. The speak
ers were George S. Boutwell, of Massa-
chusetts. Carl Schurz and Captain
Patrick O'Farrel of Washington. Mr..
Crosby said in opening the meeting:
In Cuba one of our fellow citizens
from Indiana is accused of taking all
the postal funds he could lay his hands
on. Better the island be robbed by
Spain than by an American and a
friend of senator Beverage. Were
Washington alive today he would find
himself more at home in the camp of
AguinaldO than in the camp of Otis. We
can but admire the courage of Agui-
naldo and his men who have been fight
ing for over a year against tremendous
Odds
In the course of his speech, ex-Secre-
tary Boutwell, said:
"Of all modern history the most dis
graceful chapter is that which the
American nation Is now writing. At the
opening of the last third of this CEN
tury we abolished slavery in America
and at the end of the century we are
making a war for the establishment of
a system of slavery in Asia. The crimes
Of England in the SeDoy war on the
Upper Nile in South Africa, are trivial
offenses against justice and humanity
when compared with the crime of sub
jugating and ~enslaving 10000, 900 of peo-
pie"
Captain O'Farren, who stumped the
country for Mckinley in 1896, was very
bitter in his criticism of the president.
The meeting adopted resolutions, which
after setting forth that the admins
tratlon has committed a fragrant breach
of faith and most seriously discreditcd
the profession and the character of the
republic in the eyes of the world" and
that the imperialfstic policy, If persist
ed in. will inevitably bring about the
overthrow of our democratic institu-
lions" recite the history of our rela-
lions with the F~ilipinos and declare
that the betrayal of III allies cOnSti-
tuteS One of the baSest acts of peT1idy
and cruel i~nhumanity ever perpetrated
by any tryant in the history of the
world" The resolution continues:
Resolved, That it is the plain duty
of the American people to stop the
bloody war against the F%flipinos, to rec
Ognize their right and title to freedom
and independence on the same basis
the right of the Cubans. and
to withdraw our armed forces from
those Islands as soon as they may nc
longer be needed to assist and protect
the people thereof in setting up and
maintaining an independent govern
ment.
Resolved, That the question of i'm
perlalSm OVerSnadoWS IN importance al
other public questions; that the approVa
or disapproval of the imperialist policy
pursued by the present administration
should be the supreme issue in the com
ing national election, and that all Am
elfean citizens having the good namt
and the best interests of our country
and the integrity and p~erpetuity Of oul
free institutions at heart should unite
in an earnest effort to secure the con
demnation of that policy and tha tbs
sternest possible rebuke of its author:
and promoters by a decisive popular
vote"