The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1900-09-29


face OF the open welcome of the people
of Porto Rico. told them that they
should receive the immunities and
privileges of American citizenship, aud
they gave up their country TO us upon
fhat assurance. for us now to go back
upon the traditions of a century and a
quarter. to repudiate the fundamen u
principles OF our constitution. and the
immortal guarantees OF that great in
ssrument OF liberty, the Declaration OF
independence, is to commit a national
crime or colossal proportions, for
which We shall surely be arralgned at
the bar OF historic justice. Great APP
plause1
Fourth, says the Judge, do you
believe that any member of either the
democratic, populist or republican
party cit is very kind of him TO put In
the democrats and populists with the
repuhEcans) ever entertained the
thought of changing our present form
OF government Yes, frankly do I
do not think any populist or democrat
ever did. for 1t Is not in accordance
with their principles and Is absolute
ly against their platforms as lust
adopted; hut most distinctly / affirm
that certain influential members OF the
republican party do entertain the
thought of changing our present form
OF government. and that its present
policy, IL continued, must lead To ex-
actly that. When Augustus Caesar
was gradually having himself elected
TO all the offices In Rome, although he
did not call himself a king, don't Won
su pose that an old Roman. with his
back turned to the future. and think-
ing only of the past, would have been
shocked if some fellow citizen had
told him that Augustus Octayius was
engaged in changing the very form of
the state? He called himself only the
hrst citizen. He was really "Impera
tor, which means commander. that ia
commander of the army. You and I
nave named emperors from that name
or his, but at the time the Romans
did not have the association OF the
name to make them aware of the real
ity OF the thing, and so, good, easy
people, they drifted into Imperialism
without knowing 1t. simply because the
man who was doing 1t disavowed that
he was making any change In the
state. You are not only in danger OF
changing the form OF this government
rellow-cltlzens. but you have changed
II already. II you approve which has
been done. Never. until we enacted
the law taxing Porto Rico without her
consent and undertook a policy look
ing toward the maintenance Of colo
MES that shall be under our flag bur
without the guarantees and PRO
lection of our constitution, have we
done anything inconsistent with re-
publican government But this new
policy Is Imperialism. They use the
word expansion" sometimes. dare
say the distinguished writer OF this let.
ter would do so, since he speaks OF
Imperialism as being a term used by
the democratic party; and Roosevelt
and the rest, persist In employing the
term expansion Now. my friends
let me remind you that the modern
leaders OF the republican party are vert
shrewd In the use OF terms. They will
deceive you and they are deceiving
you now by the cunningness OF words
They got you to vote for the gold
standard by calling Il honest money.
II they had said gold standard the,
would not have carried ten states ir
the American Union. They do not Xix,
to say trusts" When they diatin
gulsh between bad and good ones ant
are In favor OF the good ones. they cal
them combinations OF capital" II T.
all right, YOU know, to be- In favor oil
combinations OF capital" Applause
So over in the Philippine Islands, tn,
president Of the United States has ne
Sotiated a treaty with the Sultan oi
Sulu. whereby the American flag 1,
raised over the auction book. In spit,
OF the 18th amendment to the constitu
ton. which old soldiers IN this audi
ence fought and lmpsriled their live,
to put into the constitution. and vow
Ing TO support which 7 saw the present
president Of the United STAYS rails,
his hand solemnIy To heaven In IN.
presence NJ two hundred thousare
American citizens, and touch with HI,
lips the Holy Book And yet, that
president has negotiated a treaty with
the naked chIeftain OF the SuIu archi.
elago. In which he expressly stipu.
lates that the American flag shall aoaI
over the iviolabls Institution,
OF the Moros. among which
Is domestic slavery IInco. you re-
member, gave the world proclnrnn,
ton of emancipation. Mckinley mads
an agreement. article 10 or which says
Any slave In the Sulu archipelago
may purchase his liberty by paying e
his master the usual market price
daughter and applauaeD That ~ the
most Infamous document In American
history. Think OF It. my old republi.
can friend, with the memory Of Lin
coin fresh In your mind and his pr.
cspts saCredly enshrined In your haa-7
Think Of H. particularly n you be- IN
Of that noble and honorable body d
citizenship that became soldiers In or.
der to exemplify the highest fuurrIor
Of citizens In free governmrrr
namely. to vindicate liberty You
whose sacrifices put that guarantee oi
liberty into the 18th amendment. think
OF It; your president has negotiated n
treaty perpetuatinR slavery under IN.
American flag. Ny friends In nj
sober earnestness. president that
would do that should not receive the
vote Of one single man or woman In the
United State. Great applsus~)
There is not a republican In this au
dience that would vote for that thing
n it were presented to him az n propo
sitiOn by itself; and I invite any sub
seduent speaker from this platform I,
tell an audience like this why h. sun,
ports a president who would ana ii,
negotiate that treaty with the suItar
Of Sulu. (ApplauseJ You cannot tel
me II was necessity. else why did yot
not negotiate with AgulnaIdo? Azuin
aldo wants his liberty and you hgh
with him. Great appIauseJ vii
tell you why they did it, Prof. Srnur
man, the president Of the first Philip
pine commission. says that these Moro,
with whom the treaty was made ar,
large, fierce fellows: and war. ne says
would have been precipitated had ".
interfered with their domestic lnstJtu
tiOna, one of the blOodiest wars u,