The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-02
CARL SCHURZ ON IMPERIALISM
A Terrible Arrangement of President Mckin-
lev and His Foreign Policy by a Life
Long Republican.
HIS TREACHERY TOWARD FlLlPINOS
"As an Act of Cold-Blooded Cruel and Dsgraceful I~reachery
1t Has No Parallel in the History Of
Republics"
land STILL We Go ON KILLING THEM"
There We're Times When a President Daring to Do Such
Things Would Hardly Have Escaped
impeachment

form out Of it American States clothed
with the full measure Of constitutional
rights?. Whoever denies this or equivo-
Gates about it. only seeks to falsify his
tory, to SANDER Thomas Jefferson. and
to deceive the American people.
Nay, so little did the American people,
until recently, mean to expand our terri
tory without purposing correspondingly to
extend our constitutional system that,
when San Domingo was offered to us, the
offer was rejected by an overwhelming
public opinion, mainly because it was
believed that that tropical country and
its present and prospective inhabitants
were not fit to come under our ConStitu-
ton, while they could not be permanently
governed outside of it.
M'KINLEY'S CRIMINAL AGGRESSION.'
~"ENpansion," in the historical and
truly American sense. Mr.. SchurZ de-
fined as ''the extension Of our cOnstl-
t%utiOnal system together with the eN-
tension of our territorial area and
declared that in this sense we are all
eNpansiOnists, "prOvided the expansion
be honorably effected"
But when we annex to this republic for
| eign territory, especially territory in the
tropics which, owing to climatic conditions
can never be settled by our own or homo
geneous people, with the intent and ex-
pectation that such territory shall never
come into our constitutional system, but
| shall as to the civil, political and economic
status permanently depend upon the will
of our central government in which they
are to have no determining share, those
countries thus being vassal provinces, and
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not mere expansion, in the historic Amer
lean sense, but that is Imperialism. And
when such countries are annexed and such
populations are subjected by force of arms
by what President Mckinley has very
properly called criminal aggression
it is Imperialism in it's worst form. Who
ever calls this Imperialism a mere bug
bear is either grossly deceived or a gross
deceiver.
HIS 'BENEVOLENT ASSIMILATION.'
Will anybody deny that this applies to
our rule over our sO-called dependent
cies? 1t is over and over again admitted
by the Porto Rico legislation as we'll as
by the announcements of the imperialist
spokesman. 1t helps the imperialists
nothing to say that they intend to give
the subject populations as much self-gov-
as may be good for them. For
who is to decide how much sclf-govern-
ment will be good for them? Not they
themselves; not the Constitution, but our
arbitrary will. We may give it and we
may take it away. This is arbitrary rule,
another name for despotism. Nor does
it help the imperialists to say that we
shall treat our subjects benevolently. a
benevolent act is an act of grace, not
| a rpcOpOitiO ion of RIGHT RrncVOlpncp to
others not seldom comes into conflict with
benevolence to ones self, and then the
| result is apt to be very uncertain. How
) ever benevolent the intentions of the i'm
perialists may be, the benevolence of their
acts is SO far painfully felt by it's vic
Tins. Look at the Philippine Islands,
which are flooded with blood and tears.
Look at poor Porto Rico, where our sol
diers were received with transports of
joy and hope, and where, according to
trustworthy reports, q large majority of
the inhabitants would now in their mis-
cry thank God for delivering them from
their American liberators and for return
ing them to the rule of Spain.
Some extra-smart people shout at us:
you talk of Imperialism! NONSENSE!
Where is your Emperor" Why, what
intelligent person does not know that it
NoSo AAo i1N-aAA q III oOlo "
make an imperial government? Rome had
an imperial government in her Senate
long before Caesar crossed the Rubicon.
1t may be the rule Of a republic over an
other people, arbitrary and irresponsible
to the governed, and it will be an jmpe-
rial government in it's essence, however
you may disguise the fact.
THE ARGUMENT OF H DESPOT.
The Disgusting of Imperialism, the
speaker declared, is being practiced
by some speakers, notably Mr.. Nc
kinley, las a fine art" Mr.. Mckinley,
he says, would cover up his imperial
istic tracks by prating of 1.-The party
Of Lincoln and boasting of "the liberia
ton of ten millions of the human race
from the yoke of imperialism.''
The party of Lincoln?' It was Lin
coin who said: Those arguments that
are made. that the inferior race are to
be treated with as much allowance as
they are capable of enjoying; that as
much is to be lone for them as their con-
dition viii allow-what are those argu-
ments? They are the that
kings have made for the enslaving of the
people in all ages of the world. You will
find that all the arguments of kingcraft
were always of this class; they always
bestrode the necks of the peop1e-not that
they wanted to do it. but because the peo-
pie were better off for being ridden"
IT is A WAR OF CONQUEST.
Having clearly stated what imperi-
quire what the imperialistic policy