The age-herald., 1900-10-17
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(Contlnued From First Page0 with Spain, but, strangely enough, the gov ernment of the United States is still en- gagged in war-a not against our tra- ditional enemy, Spain, but war against the people of the Philippines, who have been our allies in our war with Spain.
 Cost of he var
 Our government has already expended a little less than $2G0 000, 000 on the prosecu- tion of this war, and, what is thousand times more important thousands of lives of our own Americans have been sacrificed in the prosecution of this Now the question I submit to you tonight, and it Is a question that you to determine through the peaceful instrumentality of the ballot in November: When is this war to cease? When is this drain upon the blood and treasury of our country to cease? But assuming that at some time in the near or remote future the war will cease, the Filipinos will abandon all idea of establish ing a government of their own, give up their dream of liberty and consent to be subjects. Then the question occurs to us, what have we gained as a compensation for all this loss of blood and treasure?
 Further on, MT. Stevenson said:
 Let no Republican delude himself with the hope that conditions will be better if Mckinley should be reelected President. Your vote for the continuance of this ad-
 
 is a vote of confidence; it is a Godspeed by the American people along the bloody path way upon which our government has en- tered. And l submit this to you as I con- clude, if three years ago the question had been submitted to the American people: Shall we have a war of conquest or a war of subjugation against the peoples of those faraway islands; a war that would cost us $200, 000, GOO and the lives of our own sol diers? There would not be an American citizen, not one of one hundred thousand who would have given his vote in favor of this war. The question is submitted for the first time, and upon the 9th day of November you are to vote upon this ques- tion as to whether there shall be a contin- uation of this war, a continuation of this policy or conquest against which we are warned not only by the words of the pa triot who founded the government, but are warned by the wrecks that lie along the entire pathway of history"
 Webster Davis was the next speaker In discussing the South African war he said the United States government WAS not even neutral, that absolute neutrality would mean that if mules and breadstuffs could be sold to the British the same things could be sold to the Boers. He charged that a shipload of foodstuffs consigned to the Boera had been sslz>S by the British, and that the United States had not even entered a protest. MT. Davis also blamed the United States representative In Natal for allowing the Stars and Stripes to float beside the British flag in honor of the defeat of Cron- je.
 MT. Davis next reviewed the visit of the Boer euVovs 10 the United States. He said that the President took them to a window 0. the White House and showed them the beautiful scenery. Just them, according to MT. Davis, a message came that three Sen ators representing large trust interests were in an adjoining room. The President left at once, and the Boer envoys were compelled to leave without being permitted to say one word of their mission.
 Mayor Jones' Sp"ech
 At the conclusion of Webster Davis speech Mayor Jones of Toledo was intro- duced He was heartily received.
 Mayor Jones said:
 ''I am in this campaign because I believe in the equality of the Declaration of Inde- pendence because I believe all men are created equal and ought to have the right of self government; and all men means all men eVerywhere-not alone all white men, but every soul on the round globe. I am a man without party. owe allegiance to no man or party. desire to see America stand as a nation for the doctrine of love and the nations of the world as a peace-loving, pedce-making nation. I desire to see our flag floating as an emblem of rest and jus tice, an emblem to be loved by those op- pressed of the whole earth and to be feared by none.
 Tn this election, and In all future elec- tions, I shall use the best qualities of head and heart to give expression to the convic- tions that I hold, and In this coming cleo tion see no way in which I can more ftly give expression to this longing for equality than by voting for William J. Bryan. 1 do not see hope in MT. Bryans economic theo- ries and in MT. Bryan's financial theories, but see hope in the fundamental principle