The age-herald., 1900-10-07

Chief Justice. that territory annexed is as much a part of the United States as Maryland or Pennsylvania Does the power to regulate territory already part of the United States while in prepar- edness for statehood, authorize a govern ment outside of the Constitution to be treated by the revenue laws as not a part of the United States
 Republicans Unmasked
 "It was indeed the Porto Rican tariff that unmasked the Republicans real foreign policy It was their endeayor to conceal their plans until after the election, but when the Porto Rlcan tariff came up and II became a question as to whether the trusts the sugar trust and the tobacco trust, should suffer or the Republican. party, the trusts decreed that the Republi- can party should take the chances; an un- wise policy on the part of the trusts, it is true, for by doing what they did they killed the goose that laid the golden egg for them.
 Cubans Released. FIipinos Held
 'It is true. as MT. Mckinley charged in his letter of acceptance, that the Demo- crats are responsible for the war with Spain, cruel nation that was waging a cruel war against patriotic people fight ing for liberty; but it is not true, as MT. Mckinley claims, that the Democrats and the people generally must accept the con- sequences those consequences according to his statement being the favorable an- nexation of the Philippine Islands to be governed as a colony of this country.
 There is one thing that the Republican party cannot, and does not, attempt to ex- plain, and that is: Why when the terms of peace were settled at Paris, the Cubans were released and the Filipinos held? We had pledged ourselves by resolution of Con- gress to liberate the Cubans, but was the
 
 the F'ilipinos because they were net mem toned in the resolution. I challenge any Republican to tell why one policy was adopted as to Cuba and another as to the Philippines. Did not Admiral Dewey, in a letter to the President, declare that the Filipinos were more capable of self-govern- ment than the Cubans?
 Senator Wolcott in his speech as tenn porary chairman of the Republican Ma tional Convention, referring to the resolu- tion passed by Congress, declared that 1t was for the purpose of showing to the world that we had "clean hands,, and yet as soon as we conquered Spain we turned on the Filipinos and pursued the same policy and waged the same war of conquest against them that Spain waged against the Cubans
 Change of Policy
 Why this change of policy? Was it not the same power behind the Mckinley ad- ministration that, later on. made the ed- ministration wheel about and adopt a Por- to Rican tariff law? Was 1t not that power in this country that wanted a large standing army but never before had op- to get one? Did they not realize that the opportunity had come while the nation was intoxicated with a successful war with Spain? Is not it plain that this Is the reason why a war of humanity was turned into a war of inhumanity?
 Ina say that we have proclaimed to the world that we did not go into this war for the purpose of conquest? If they did. they yielded to the command of those behind the throne.
 " Take up the sword and rife,
 Do not fear to pause
 What though your hands be bloody
 Who calls ye to the laws?'
 Tn order to cover up their real purposes and their change of front the Republicans immediately began systematically to put forth, through the press of the country, obtensible reasons why it would be of ad- vantage to have the Philippine Islands annexed. while their real reasons were concealed until they were completely un- masked by the Porto Rican tariff law.
 "The ostensb1e reasons that they gave out were: First that it would open new markets to export trade; second, that it would make the United States a world power; third, that it would aid in the propagation of the Christian religion, and fourth. that a question of duty to the Filipinos themselves was involved
 Imperialism and Trade
 ''The proposition that a colonial policy 
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