The Atlanta constitution., 1900-07-30

Hon. Champ Clark'S opeech.
Hon. Champ Clark said In part:
The issue is squarely Joined. 1t is the en-
pire against the republic. William Mckinley
and his cohorts stand for the empire. William
]. Bryan and his followers stand for the per-
petuation of this beneficial republic. Tor which
fathers fought and for which thousands OF
them died. The issue cannot be lodged. waded
shunted out of tho way. They must chooSe
whether they will fight under the starry banner
of the republic under the imperial banner
of Mark Hanna, for Mark is the power behind
the throne. greater than the throne ITSELF ana
William Mckinley Is a mere puppet IN MS
hands,
The Asiatic propaganda Is the most preposter-
scheme ever Eatched in the brain OK man
and is the rankest sort of midsummer mad
ness.
don't care a ''baubee about Aguinaldo ana
tho Filipinos. l American. whlte
man. of the blonde variety at that. ana my
sympathy. my heart my solicitude go OUT 10
the American people who are the real sufferers
in the wild jingo business and who must pay
the piper in this mad dance of death.
One of two things is true about the Fiipinos-
either they are fit for self government or they
not. The jinsos can take either norm OF
that dilemma, and whichever they take marx
my words. they will be impaled upon IT,
II they fit for self-government' In Goa
name let them govern themselves.
ElllpluOS WOulu 0OfOih Vs.
II they are not nt we do not want them
for fellow citizens. We have too many now
who are not strictly prime and they all vote
the republican ticket with Irritating and monot-
onous regularity.
But one thing I do know and that
is whether the Filipinos are fit to
govern themselves or not, they are
not fit to govern US, and that is pre-
cisely what they will do If we take
them into political partnership with
us, for the supreme court of the
United States has decided time and
time and time again that the only.
purpose for which we can acquire
foreign territory is to make states
out of it, and if they are ever ad-
mitted as states they will control the
senate as well as the electoral col
lege.
Where is the American citizen who Is willing
20 have that distant archipelago inhabited by
allen people admitted into the union OF states
on a iat-footed equality with the other states?
What We Owe to Cuba.
You cannot make Malay 1T for American
citizenship in 10000 years. for II is written
you cannot make silk purse out OF sows
n matter of breed.
Speaking for myself alone I would not give
the life of one healthy. brave, ambitious, moral.
Intelligent white boy in exchange for all the
Filipinos in the archipelago or that may be
found there until the crack of DOOM
/ humbly and fervently thank Almighty GOD
that not one drop OF American blood shed In
this senseless lingo war In the philippines Is
upon my head or upon my hands.
At tine close Of the Spanish war IN the sum-
mer of 1898, for that Is when II really Closed
we could have occupied the most enviable po-
sition ever occupied by any nation since the
morning stars first sang together for Joy: and
all we had to do was to do that which we
owed 1T to fathers to do-which we owed
n 20 our traditions to do-which we owed II 70
ourselves 10 do--whicn We owed II TO our
children to do-which we owed 1t TO the cause
of human liberty to do-and tAat was TO say
to both the Cubans and the Filipinos you are
free Your chains are broken. The Spaniards
ar thrashed You helped us do this thing. now
set up your own government and we Will make
the rest of the nations keep their hands OH OF
YOU or we will shoot them off,
That's what we ought to have said That's
what 1t is our duty to ourselves to say. Had
we done SO. today wherever old glory floats II
would be hailed by millions Of loving hearts
as the ensign OF a people free themselves and
who contend that far as IN them Hes al
peoples shall be free and we would not nave
been compelled TO fire a single shot TO make
that proclamation good, for what we say goes
the wide world around
have heard republican orators sneer at the
dangers To be apprehended from vast stand
ing army They ask: Who Will compose tha'
army?' Then answering themselves WIN
triumphant air they say; American boys; ana
the American government mas ioehi"s u Ae0-
from American boys -
will nut and answer few questions OF the
same sort myself. 'Who enabled Philip OF
Mecedon TO overthrow the Greek republics?'
"Crecian boys serving in his army
''What soldiers made the mighty julius mas
ter OF the republican Rome| Roman Doys
serving In his legons'
''Nhat soldiers at the behest OF tho Corsica1
edventurer drove the French assembly from It's
chamber at the point OF tho bayonet. overthrew
the republic and set up the Napoleonic despot-
ism p French boys. -, l., ..
throwing the Cromwelian commonwealth and
In bringing Charles II back from ms royai
verabondage to ascend the throne OF his an
cestors?" ''English boys-and none other
am this day in favor OF anneNins every
foot of the North American British possessions
clear TO the frozen ocean. II IL contiguous Ter
ritorv Inhabited by much the same sort OF peo,
ME that we are and who would become good
citfzens: but l am eternally opposed - holdlng
Asiatic territory 10000 miles away more
tbicklv Inhabited than any state IN the unioI'
Inha bited by people alien to US IN color. race
,h1,-eb+ and habit | would keep only such
places In Asia as We need for coallng ana
naval stations. ! am opposed 10 eNpahdins our
territory In Asia because II - NthstfolS u ~
,nstItutions and would inevitably involve US IN
or1less combinations 'Quarrels and wars We
cannot afford TO teopardize our own Hbery IN
env such wild reckless and wicked manner.
We stand Today on the money question: pre-
ciseIy where stood four years ago.
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