Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-02

slaughter of men. women and chlI-
 dren in the Philippines by the United States soldiers. @.'And, for what?" he asked. ~''To crush out the national as-
 pirations of F. 0000 000 of human beings, 9,0O0,000 of whom worship the same
 God as we do, partake of the same
 sa garments. believe in the same Saw | four and hope for the same resurrec- tion!' He wanted to know what the
 world would think if the French sol diers who came over here to assist the coloniSts. instead of going to their own homes after the war was over, they turned their guns upon Washing ton and his shattered army and forced | them to adoDt system of government not in accordance with their own ideas and stated that it would not have been more inhuman and unjust than the course pursued towards the Filipinos by the present administration.
 After reviewing the unrighteous cause for which are soldiers are fight ing fn the Philippines. the sneaker paused and then said: What doth it profit a man to gain the whole world | and suffer tie loss of his own soul!'
 Mr Davenport reviewed the strug- gles of the c0lonists for freedom and stated that there is but little similarity
 in the form of government we have
 here to-day compared with what the fathers of this county be- l Ouea thed to us and cOntended that Ma
 rolCon was no more an emperor when i he was devastating Europe than Nll-
 liam Mckinley is when trying to
 plant the flag over deDendencleS Wno
 are denied the rights of citizenship. He
 closed with an impass1oned appeal for
 united effort on the part of the Deo-
 ple to stand together and thus pre-
 serve intact the cherished institutions
 that tho fathers of this country bulid-
 ed and which were intended as last | ing protest against monarchies or all
 kinds.
 The address of George Fred Will Hams was q masterpiece and was liS- tened to with marked attention. lie confined himself to imperialism and handled it in a masterly manner. He likpned the audience to the residents Of Porto Rico. the vice-presidents on
 the stage to the congress Of the Onlteu States and himself to the president of +ha Tnited States This was done with 9 view to explaining in the most lucid way the manifest unfairness Of 1 the \IcKinley administration towards the Porto RicanS and if worked like
 charm for when he got through ana
 then asked the ''POrto Ricans' how
 they liked their form of government,
 there was general protest. The ex-
 ecutive counsel. Mr Williams said,
 which holds the governing power Tn
 Porto Rica. is un-Amcrican in name as , un-Amcrican in name as well as in
 everything else. The administration had to go back over 200 years to find a name that suited their monarchial , ideas He drew q picture of the har- cm of the sultan of Sulu. with his 300 wives and Old Glory floating over all , and then informed the audience that the people of the United States were ! footing the bills. By way of mocflng the imperialists he again referred to
 the Stars and Stripes floating over the , slaves in the Sulu islands and the sul- , tan's harem and then asked: And who shall haul it down?' Continuing : he said: ''Well, I think if I should happen along there some day and sec ' the flag futtering ovc- slaves and hab [ itrcs of harem it would not grate ? much unon my Amcricanism to han t it down. He wanted to see the flll : pinos free and hoped that after the 4tl 2 of next March the United States would : be in a position tc establish q republic . in those islands and then say to the { world: Hands off! Let no man dar' e tear down the republic the United : States has established bcrc.' He dem Y onstratcd very clearly to those ahOu l. him that the charge of imperialism Q hurled at Mckinley and the Hanna f iyed republicans should not be regard t ed as a joke and satisfied every man il r. the hall that the laws passed by tn i present administration are practical, 2 the same and in many instances nor s viciouS than the ones the cOlCniStS re Il bel1ed against a hundred years a@c e and reminded his hearers of tn T. marked difference between the cor T. duct of republicans in this campaig l. with that of four years ago when
 e Bryan man was buttonholed at ever e point to explain why he was a den " ocrat. Now one might travel fror o here to California with a Bryan but l. ton as big as a plate on his coat co n lar and no one would think of critici! d ing him for it. He considered the COT
 duct of the president in sending ou lg troops into China without the conse1 Li- of congress was unwarranted by th D. constitution which reserves to cOl ts gross the right to declare war. Bac D. of this whole pretence at saving til as lives of our people in China. he sai' le was the scheme to get the Unite N States to maintain an army in tn; is country to protect the capitalists ( nt this country and London. who ha1 be opened their eyes to the fact that il " Chinese empire offers excellent oppo C. tunities to the capitalists. He r es mindef the audience Of the stability Ill the Chinese government, the numb' b. of it's people. a third more than all Il st white people of the world. and state lie that Napoleon warned the Caucasis sh race a hundred years ago that the or fate depended upon the movements )u the Chinese government. His ta h. upon the meetings held in Boston If, protest against laws made for the e
 a onists in England, the throwing Of u IS tea sent over here into Boston harb CT and the long struggle and hnal U he umph of the colonists. was the gran 1t, I est thing of the kind ever heafd re Waterbury and evoked tremendous nd piause. ey MT Williams had a copy of the Pf es to Rican bill in his hand and stat nd that he wanted to be reported corfe' to ly. He did not want any repupiic'
 sending word to his home in Massacn ;- ahnIlt