The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-29
SCHURz ON THE ISSUES
Former Republican Talks For
the Bryan Principles.
OPPOSES THE EMPIRE
SPEAKS TO IMMENSE AUDIENCE
AT COOPER UNION.

New York, Sept. 2s.-Cooper Union
was not large enough to hold the
crowd which came tonight to its doors
to attend the meeting of the Anti-Im
perialist League of New York.
The crowd was a noisy one and be-
fore the meeting was called to order
cheered for Mckinley, for Bryan. for
the Full Dinner PAIL and for Debs.
Carl Schurz was received with tu-
multi of cheers. Ernest H. Crosby in
troduced the first speaker of the even
ing, Arson p Stokes
Mr.. Schurz was introduced and was
given another round of applause
/ Mr.. Schurz said, in part:
. Let me say at the start that 1 con-
slider the manner in which the i'm
perialistic policy is being commended
by some person of popular approval
the hugest confidence game ever prac-
ticed upon a free people In my whole
long life have never known of such
systematic use of distortion of his
tory. hypOcriticaI cant, garbling OF
documents and false pretense- L am
here to speak a word for truth and
justice; and in doing so 1 shall call
things by their right names. You will
pardon me if those names are not al
ways of the mildest. For must con-
fesS, when / witnessed some of the
means employed to lure this great re-
public from the path of righteousness,
high principle and glorious destiny, my
old blood boiled with indignation
The partisans of the administration
object to the word imperialism, call
ing ii a mere bugbear having no real
existence. They pretend that in ex-
tending our sway over Porto Rico and
the Philippines they were merely con-
( tinuing that sort of territorial expan-
sion which has been spracticed by this
republic from its beginning. This is
a mere juggle with words amounting
to downright Justification of history.
1.-The truth is, that until two years
ago this republic did indeed add to its
territory, but never without the inten-
ton and well-founded execution that
the acquired soil would be occupied by
a population of our own, or at least
homogeneous with our own, and that it
would in course Of time be formed into
regular states of this Union under our
constitution 1t was, therefore, not
mere expansion of our territorial do
main to be perpetually ruled by our
arbitrary will but it was essentially
an intended and in the course of time
/ practical extension of our cOnStitu-
/ tional system in entire accord with the
| fundamental principles of our democ-
| racy.
Accuses Mckinley of Evasion.
! Mr.. Schurz gave an exhaustive re
! view OF the Incidents leading up to the
war with the Filipinos- He discussed
Mr.. McKiniey's letter of acceptance
| and accused the president of evasion
| and concealment of the facts.
| President McKinley'S benevolent as
/ Sanitation order of Dec. q, 1885, he
said, was an open and rude declara-
! ton of war against the FilipinoS stand
ing up for their freedom and indepen-
4 dence.
Il have again and again challenged
| the imperialists to show nee in the
whole history of the world a single act
| of perfidy committed by any republic
! more infamous than that committed by
Mr.. McKinley's administration against
our Filipino allies. and 1 have received
no answer but sicf<ly sneers
| "a grievous wrong has been done to
the Porto Ricans by denying them their
! just rights. and to the Philippine ISL
anders by basely betraying them and
subjugating them with a bloody hand
A wrong has been done to our own
people by violating the vital and con-
sentative principles of our republic be-
smirching our national honor A
| wrong has been done to all mankind by
setting a. bad example which discour-
i ages the belief in the salutary efficacy
! of democratic institutions. We are
! bound to repair that wrong, even if II
cost us something.
I 1.-The American people should insist
4 lndI the government DI lillS ISpOOll'
should do all in its power, instead OF
4 slaughtering those who fight for then
freedom and independence, to assis
/ them in forming an independent gov
eminent of their own and take SucI
measures to protect them against for
eign interference as, may be required
In one word, we should simply do fol
them what we have promised to do fol
the people of Cuba. This IS what TIT
plain duty of the American people de
mands-a duty Of honor and of patriot
ism.
What is there to be said agains
this? The administration party pre-
tend that they substantially propos
the same thing that is proposed by
their Opponents-to give the islander
a stable government. But cannot ev
cry child see the vital difference b!
securing to them a stable government
under foreign rule, which they ar
! fighting against, and a stable govern
ment under their own sovereignty
/ which thew are fighting for p