The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-04

ply of gold ample for its needs is now
transparent Its error IS admitted in the
creased our per capita circulation The
vast qualities yielded by the mines are
for its use, and its multiplied increase is
earnestly hoped for. No voice is raised
Is expressed that We can be embarrassed
by its abundance. yet its annual output
years when the latter was repudiated be-
cause of its threatened inundation- Our
| opponents stand COMPOUNDED by the ire
SisIpie operation OF a law they nave oe-
MED Industry breathes with more con-
tent because there is more money for her
purposes, ana her VotarleS IN the presence
of its operation unite with Democracy in
procidlmlng the great truth tnat clilVlllza-
ton gains and humanity ADVANCES with
every addition to the worlds stock of gold
and silver. that each is the handmade of
the otner and Doth essential 10 the con-
slant and harmonious progress and devel-
opment of the world.
II the enormous gold yield OF the past
five years were indefinitely prolonged and
the arcs of the gold standard were not
extended the needs of bimetailiSm would
be relatively incOnSeQuent. But the produc-
ton of gold and silver oscillates, one or
the other always preponderating. : The
pendulum will again swing to the other
knows also that the crisis returns if man
shall reject the Offering nature presents
backward over the past and forward to
fT7se ran1f1,e~ .ra-rS Ne ask this great ma
ton to provide gainst recurrence of disas-
ter by adherine to the system of finance
which the fathers crystalized in the Con-
stitution and base its future policy on
that secure foundation
The prevailing sentiment of Democratic
sympathy for all people struggling for the
blessings of liberty compelled the admin
the despotic tyranny Of spain over Cuba
and secured to the oppressed people OF
Our Ultimatum delivered, We solemnly and
officially declared them to be free and in
dependent, and 'd1Sclalned to the world
any disposition intention 10 exercise
sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over
thereof. and asserted our determination
when that accomplished to leave the
government and control OF the island TO
its people
The conditions of the ensuing war sent
Admiral Dewey to the distant Philippines.
where another people engaged IN the same
struggle with the same oppressor. appealed
to the same impulses of our nature There
he broke the power OF SPAIN Whlen, SUNG
for peace, submitted to the liberation of
Cuba and the cession of Porto Rico Our
government dlSdaIned the spirit OF It's
manifesto of April. and became the pur-
chaser of the Philippines in January.
Since then We have given Cuba the bene-
fit OF our civic institutions by governing
her through the war department We
have kept faith with Porto Rico by sub
shutting the sugar baron for the Castil-
han duke and confirmed the Filipino es-
innate Of the white man by prolonging
ment in those islands of the faF-of seas.
The national sympathy for all who seek
self-government has been made the in
strument by which cupidity and greed
hold a feeble nation in thraldorn; The
right of purchase is invoked to justify the
adoption of a so-caIled colonial policy by
the great western republic, and her gler-
ious institutions are declared to be for
home consumption. with prohibitive duties
against their expectation The eonstftu-
ton is bounded by the domain Of the 10
states. and the congress il created has alb
SOlute jurisdiction over all that lies be-
come bill of platitudes, the military gov
ernments centralized in the war depart
ment are the agencies OF benevolent as
sanitation wherever the nag noatS beyond
the confines of the ocean Imperialism
has become a faVor1te word IN the ma
ttonal Noca Oulary- Destiny IS the name
of its fateful brother Trade expansion
is the mystic verbal tie that binds them
All are paraded as the cause or the ex-
cuse for every sin against the organic law
of our fathers, while clamorous appeals
to d so-called patriotism drown the SOL
efnn warnings Of sages and of statesmen
against the certain tendencies of the new
diSpenSatiOn. The salve of unavoidable
necessity is applied 10 the national con-
science. while its criticisms are stiiled by
the lamentations of trade statistics COM
piled in the interests of monopolies which
pursue their pathway Of constant accurn-
uIation through all the vicissftudes of the
eventfuI years unmindfuI of the decay OF
institutions and unperturbed by the
ebb and flow of the s11rgfner tides of bubble
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have used the machinery of the republic
w have S7serfr,fiv s1,-rirtei to bur
densone taxation that Cuba might be
free that Porto Rico might enjoy the
consecrated our sons TO the cause of lib
erty and sent them freely forth to extin-
hemisphere. We protest against payment
of tribute or the devotion of lives TO the
archy neither in conquest nor in govern
ment- We would perpetuate the Monroe
Doctrine. and realize with Jefferson that
its first and fundamental ma xinl IS never
to entangle ourselves in the broils of the
old world We need not despoil the help
less that we may trade with them We
realize that a standing army is the at
tendant of imperialism. We would avoid
Me latter because once aTOWed as ma
tionaI policy, it must undermine our do
nestle institutions We would avoid it
because Its adoption must lead 10 0tner
wars and other conquests. to the shedding
OF innocent blood. to burdensome taxa
ton. to hopeless national debt. TO the
forsible annexation of other lands. to con-
slant entangiements with the affairs Of
other nations. in short, to all the evils
foreseen by the Father of his Country,
and depicted in that immortal address
whose earnest warnings are forgotten or
Disregard by our rulers
we would have no colonial system. It's
pestilent brood has already Matched in the
Havana postoffice and has grown apace
for months IN distant Manila. 1t is the
fruitful mother Of oppression and ma1ad-
onny of a republic. Tt can not live in the
atmosphere of freedom 1t is the a-FyIum
fraud wrong and scandal 1t makes a
fyrant of the ruler. a rebel of the ruled.
rnent It robs and plumbers the subject
people 1t is an instrument of despotism
and the antagonist of Democracy. It re-
quires for It's successful operation per-
naueut military establishment Our ma
UOn2i standard mas a stripe Tor every
state that framed the union. a star for
every commonwealth of the sfSterhOod-
It has neither place nor emblem for sub
ject peoples or colonial systems
We believe in that expansion which I'M
der Democratic rule brought half the con-
tinent as a galaxy of common wealth into /
the Union. We den0unce that expansion !
by which contrast overcomes the people /
Of another hemisphere under the pretext
of giving thin liberty. which governs them |
by force. which denies to them the rights |
of citizens. which subjects the American |
vvorknen TO the competition of hords of
OrfentaIs coming thither from sO-eallSd |
American provinces to take his place at |
the forge in the mine and the factory.
THE stretch of thirty-three peaceful |
wears from the close of the Rebellion to |
the opening of the war for. Cuban. indie |
pendence has wrought no change in the |
vaIor and self-denial of the American |
soldier Inspired by the loftiest patriot |
ism the highest devotion to country. he /