Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-19

ana republican, and drought and hot
winds when they voted against the repub-
Hcan party Why, my friends, if man VIII
stop TO think for moment he viii know
chat the republican party does not control
the rains, because If il did there would
be monopoly of water and you would have
to buy every shower. 1t does not give you
larger crops 1t cannot give you a better
price for farmers crop.
Trusts Fostered by the Party.
While the republicans have not raised
the price of what the farmer has to sell.
they have permitted the organizat ton OF
monopolies that raise the price of what the
farmer has to buy And if the republican
party cannot bring down rain from tn
clouds it can charge the farmer more for
pipe when he goes down into the ground
after water.
No man. he said, in celebrating the i'm
perialism issue. who has studied history
or knows human nature believes that the
F1lfpinos would ever be glad to have US
govern them. What excuse can be given
for it? L have heard three. The first is
the money argument-that it will pay; that
there is money in IL. The second Is the re-
ligious argument-that God is in it And
the third is the political argument-that
We are in it and cannot get out. L need not
dwell upon the money argument Dr. Tay-
Ior has already commented upon that
1t is the lowest argument ever made The
man who will justify war of conquest On
the basis of dollars and cents applies tc that
subject the same principle that the burglar
or the hiShwayman applies. You cannot
very well go to a mourning mother and tel
her that it pays to have her boy die. The
mothers of this country will send their
sons to fight for liberty, and if the sons fall
the mothers rejoice that God gave them
strength to bear sons for such noble serV-
ice. But where is the mother who will rear
sons for dollars and cents to be exchanged
for oriental trade2
Decries War for Gain
"And yet the man who says it will pay has
got to put a pecuniary estimate upon the
lives of American soldiers. He has got to
tell you how much we are going to spend
in money and how much in men, and then
how much each man is worth. believe in
the extension of trade. 1 want this nation
to extend its trade. 1 want this nation to
have communication with all the peoples of
the world. want this nation to send forth
the products of its soil and supply the needy
everywhere. But would not put one Amer
lean soldier the auction block and trade
him off for the Golfers of the orientals.
There is a more potent argument than
that of money. 1t is the religious argument
Very few men will attempt to defend i'm
perialism the basis of dollars and cents,
but many have attempted to defend it on
the basis of religious grou Ids. Convince a
man that it is his religious duty to do a
thing and he will do it. Convince him that
it is his religious duty to take his money
and give it to someone else, and he will do
it. Convince him that it is his religious duty
to give his life and he will give it. But
more unfortunate still-man is so consti-
tuted that if you will convince him that it
is his religious duty to take somebody else's
money he will do il. Convince him that it
is his religious duty to take someone else's
life and he will do it. And how much money
has been taken, and how many lives have
been taken by men who have deluded them
selves with the idea that God told them to
kill somebody or rob somebody
''One republican senator said the other
day that it was Gods work, that God had
opened the door of the Philippine islands
and pushed in and shut the door There
we were. The question L ask is: Who told
him so? Did God tell him? If SO, when and
where? And if God did not tell him, then
to whom did God reveal it? have seen re-
publicans going up and down this land
telling about Gods plan, when L have
known that if God knew them well as
did He never would have revealed any
thing to them. You will find that this reli-
gious argument is a potent one All, my
friends, there is one who has right to
tell us that God commands US either to take
another mans property or another mans
life. There is one who can present ere
dentials that would justify him in COM
handing US in the name of God to do
wrong