Evening star., 1900-10-02
LODGE ON IMPERIALISM
SENATOR SPEAKS
IN PHILADELPHIA.
He Accepts This Issue as Paramount
and Defends the Adminfs-
tratiOn's Policy.

Senator Lodge Of Massachusetts, delivered
an address at the Academy OF Music IN
Philadelphia last night on the issues OF the
campaign. He said in part:
"Mr. Bryan has declared the issue OF
anti-imperialism to be the paramount issue
of this campaign Let US accept this as the
issue; 1 am willing to discuss tonight this
paramount issue with Mr.. Bryan. although
a great many people in the west believe the
issue that is really before the American
people is still 18 to 1.
by Imperialism take It that Mr.. Bryan
means the conversion Of the United states
into an empire through the medium OF the
Philippine Islands. We are not to De con-
verted into an empire through Porto oco'
which we took in the same way. we are 10
be converted by the Philippine Islands.
Let me ask how we got into the war
with Spain. II recollect Alright. the demo
Gratis who were in Congress fmmedlateiy
before war with Spain was declared were
at some pains to find fault with President
Mckinley because he did not get into war
with Spain soon enough.
Mr.. Lodge reviewed briefly and wittily the
history OF the Spanish war. down to the
signing of the treaty Of peace, and the ac-
QUESTION of the Spanish possessions, dwell
ing especially on the defeat In the Senate
of Mr.. Vests amendment to the treaty for
the acquisition of the Philippines on the
men, now opposed to the republican candl-
dates and platform. who voted against the
Vest amendment. He turned then to the
dread of Imperialism, with the army as an
strengths of the American and the Swiss
armies.
In the United States he observed.
there are eighty-four one-hundreths part
of a man and eigthy-four one-hundreths
part of a gun to LOCO of the population. In
Switzerland there are forty-seven soldiers
to 1000 of the population. The Swiss do
not fear Imperialism very much: need we
fear that tiny eighty-four one-hundreths OF
soldier we have in our population?
Let me say to our democratic friends
II they really are afraid of Imperialism
through the army, the republican party rs
say" continued the senator earnestly, and
stirring his hearers to applause, let me
say there is something in this cry of the
danger to the republic that Is not patent on
against the soldiers of the United States? p?
What is there In the history Of the Unitsd
States that has justified this aspersion on
the soldiers Of the American army? After
the civil war there were 100000 men in the
field, the finest army in the world. There
was an instrument of tyranny II one was to
be found. Those men passed from the bat
tlefield into civil life as peaceably as II
there had been no war. Danger to the re-
public from those million men In arms
Why, the man who dared propose to them
an attack upon the institutions of the re-
public would have suffered at their hands
first of all. Is there any man who believes
that the sons of those men today are any
worse men than their patriotic fathers
were? L for one will not believe it,
Senator Lodge reviewed. in a brilliant de-
scriptiye passage, the condition OF affairs
in the Philippine Islands today. There
are no more men in arms. They are merely
brigands. Aguinaldo Is a fugitive and mos,
of his cabinet are in jail. Only a little
while ago General Funston captured the
papers of the man who was Aguinaldo's
secretary, and in them the deliberate state.
ment was made that the revolutionists were
TO fight until November 6. Then. IL Nc
Kinley was elected. he will be. they
were to stop.
THE first thing to do In the Philippines
Is to restore peace and order. A great
many people out there have sided with lis
Are We going to abandon them to the cruel
mercy of Aguinaldo and his followers? OuI
soldiers have been fired upon. 1t seems to
me the thing to do is to leave politics alone
until the fighting is over"
After discussing the situation In the far
east and declaring the Philippines the key
TO the situation. Mr.. Lodge asked how tho
mixed party of the opposition could accuse
the republican party of seeking to enslave
the people of the Philippines.
Let them," he exclaimed. mot say that
to the party of Lincoln The party thai
struck off the shackles from four million
slaves will not put them on nation OF
free men.
...rhe American flag has never been hauled
down where once 1t was raised for liberty
and the Constitution OF the United States
And ii has never been Hauled down while
IL was being fired on. Two words we have
never put in our history in the past hun
dred years have been retreat and sur
render We are not going to put then
there now.
He said the silver question was one thai
ho apti-irpnerfaffSf Sf Ions
after the present campaign was over i
was settled in the east: but 1t Is live
issue still in the west and south. The re
publican voters must not let themselves b.
deluded into the belief that the question
which Mr.. Bryan declares to be the para
mount issue is the vital thing. He remarked
in conclusion:
II have said there was no paramount Is
sue. l have felt that all through this cam
paign until a few days ago. I now thinl
that there Is one. and it involves q grea
deal more than the Philippine Islands-mor,
in my judgment than the tariff. than th'
silver question. 1t Ia the question of or
dered lberty-whether We are to turn thf
government over to men who preach hatret
between man and man, who try to Sc
class against class, labor against capital
whose only object is to tear down. That
the paramount question. Whether we ar
willing to turn II over to these men. I hav
seen what this preaching comes to. Whel
II breaks loose with men who are too de
praved, too ignorant to know what the!
are doing, 1t is the destruction of fre
speech / do not believe in Imperialism
There is no imperialism. There is no DANCE
of imperialism while the great poitica
fabric OF American liberty stands.''
SENATOR HANNA ON THE STRIKE.
He DenOunces Any Attempt to Proi0ns
the TPOuble.
ANY man who would Dut a straw in tn
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