The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-09-01
LEADING TO DEsPoTIsM.
= baltimore Republicans Opposed to
Mr. McISinIey's Policy.


Mr.. McELinIey'S Policy.
BALTIMORE, Sept. Louis P. Hen
uighausen, the we'll known lawyer, and
one of the most prominent German-Ameri-
cans in the city. is strongly opposed 70 the
policy OF imperialism, 10 which the Re-
publican Administration is committed. NJ.
Hennighausen has heretofore been & Re
publican IN speaking OF the issues Of The
campaign he said:
The war in The Philippines now being
waged by this country is q var Of conquest
and subiugation, just as much as was the
war in which Russia conquered and subiu-
gated Poland and Finland Neither this
Administration nor any Of the statesmen
who are IN favor OF it can mean 20 treat
the Filipinos as colonists in Jhe Jrue sense
OF the word. II they believed that any ap-
preciable part of the population OF our own
country would colOnfze il The Philippines
the war would not be carried en- We could
not spare any OF our people We have far
too much OF our land in this country
which needs cultivation TO allow any Of our
citizens TO emigrate TO another land. I'M
migrants for this country are in demand
now in our own State OF Maryland.
Realizing these facts. tte only objects
of-the war must be comm rcialism and
mining exploita ton. The fAneXation of
vast territories like Louisia ia and Calf
fornia were made with the statesman-like
view Of making room for extending our
own population. None OF the motives which
actuate the Administration in its war
against the Filipinos were ia the minds OF
our statesmen when these territories We're
added It is absurd and faIlacious TO com
pare the annexation OF vacant, adjacent
territory, sparseiy populated, with the sub
jugation of thic5ly populated islands, 1000
miles away from US. and inhabited by an
alien people.
There is no pretense of extending our
free institutions TO those distant islands
but they are to be governed by military
force and authority Such is the intention
of the Administration The idea that the
military chieftain knows better how ia
govern the people than the people dc
/ themselves has been the doctrine CT every
| despottsm that ever existed on the face
Of the earth. The pretense that the Fill
pinos are not able or capable of govern
/ ing themselves is no excuse OF reason why
/ we should wage war upon rkenl. This has
! been the pretense Of JyranaN that has ex-
! listed since the world begaz and it would
| be applicable TO many natisas very much
| closer to Us than the FiiipiaoG
4 do not understand hoE any man car
believe in the Declaration g. Independence
!
| instrument by the fathers o. cur Republic
and by the statesmen vino have made thi:
country great and stin fave this war O
| brute force against a peo4e who have
| never dcne Us any injury and upon a prin-
| ciple that we bought the right 10 sub5u.
| gate them for $4,000 coo from power
that We ourselves have termed tyranniea
| and despotic.
The statesmen of the present day, like
| Mckinley and Teddy Roosevelt, ar,
| very unlike those who fouaded this Re
| public, and their ideas are very different
l have studied the life Of nearly ever!
statesman this country has produced ant
find nothing in their writings or teach
ings to justify such a war IS is now being
waged. If General Otis can make laws fo
the Filipinos better than they can mak'
| them for themselves what Is to preven
his coming to Kentucky and giving th
/ people of that State the benefit of his wis
dom? What is to prevent him from goini
| to any other State and doing the sam'
| thing? l do not mean TO say that in
| few years we viii have an Emperor in thi
country but the policy now being pursuet
is the first step in imperialism and is tn
, doctrine of tyrants and deSpots.