The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-01-26
A WESTERN GOVERNOR.
(Pittsburg Post.)


John Lind, the silver Republican
governor of Minnesota, elected by the
cooperation of the Democrats and
others, has a mind of his own, and is
not slow in talking out of meeting. He
served in congress as Republican, and
is very strong with the Norwegian ele-
ment of the northwest. The governors
speech on Jackson day at Minneapolis
shows that he is profoundly moved by
the issues Of the time, and more by the
issue of imperialism than any other.
The Minneapolis Journal in it's report
says of the governors repudiation of
the idea we owned the Filipinos: 1T
is impossible to convey an adequate
impression of the governors fire, zeal,
emotion, intensity and even fierceness
as he pronounced many sentences"
These for instance:
The eliminating point of the govern
or's magnificent oratory was when he
said: IN the nature of things one peo-
| pie cannot own another people. 1t is
a lie. 1 don't care who says it," That
| hard word. That burning word, ''lie,"
was spoken with great emphasis and
defiant determination; the governor
hurled it out as if it We're a gauntlet for
| the whole world to take up.
Here is a passage from Governor
Lind's speech that will appeal to hun
dreds of thousands Of men and women
in America. 1t illustrates the depth of
feeling and pathos with which he ar
gued the question:
why should we assume that crime of
governing a people against their will?
l am an anti, and l propose to be an
anti until this blot is wiped from the
American flag. Why, my friends, my
wife has wept when we have talked
about these things, of that lovely flag
of ours, which means all that there is
in the world to me in the way of in
spiration, hope, ambition, pride. She
said: John, only a year ago that was
an emblem of liberty, of love, of pro-
lection, to all the people in the world
1t was loved by the Filipinos, the brown
men and women and their children. Tc
them it was an emblem of freedom thai
wrested them from under the Spaniard
LONeIJ ~ - Nui oNu DS VbVVObVOV luiieNi
souls Yes, my friends, this flag Of
ours is cursed by 100000 human souls
as an emblem of oppression, an an in
, sigma under which homes have beer
laid waste, babes lost men slaughtered
women abused. Isn't it shameful
Isn't it terrible? And for the sake O
lucre, for the sake Of money, and
tell you there is no money in it. Mo
t rality means something. 1 don't be
| lieve in morality simply because TIL
bible says that we should do this ant
| do that, and abstain from this and alb
: stain from the other. England ha
/ bullied, she has robbed, she has op
5 pressed for generations, for centuries
; Today she is despised by every self-re
3 specting citizen in the world. 1 don
1 mean the English people, 1 mean tn
{ Tory government; the Hannaism o
/ England. Why, think, of it, my friends
e The Orange Free State, that noble littl
t republic on African soil, the first an
only country in the world to copy ou
4 constitution and make 1t it's fundament
= al law, word for word. letter for let
! ter, and we stand silently by, not will
0 ing to even utter a word of protes
r against its annihilation from among tn
t nations of the world. Yes, this is i'm
T perialsm. Are we not paying dearly?