The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-25
ROOT TAKES TIE STUMP
THE SECRETARY OFF WAN Talks
M'KINLEYIsM AT THE MEG
CA THEREOF
INVADED MKMLEY's LAWN
Did the Crowd That Assembled to
Escort the Orator to a Hall
Touched ON Imperialism
and Trusts.


meeting here tonight was an impromptu
affair. 1t was conceived, arranged ana
under way in period of little more than
three hours. Ffie secretary and Mrs
Root are here for a social visit with
President and Mrs Mckinley at their
Canton home sa
The meeting was announced for
Youngstown for tomorrow evening. As
4 mark of respect to the late Secretary
Sherman, all political meetings arranged
for Ohio Thursday and Thursday night
were called off, including that one at
Youngstown.
When the local committee heard of
these circumstances, it prevailed upon
Mr.. Root to speak here. The efforts re-
suited in crowded hall and a most en-
thusiastic meeting. The Grand Army
band and the Canton Republican league
marched to the Mckinley home to escort
the secretary. An immense crowd followed
and there was an enthusiastic invasion of
the Mckinley lawn. The president him.
self escorted the secretary to the car
riage, elbowing his way down the dark
walk and then across the lawn to the
side street, where the band was stationed
He bowed his thanks for the impromptu
serenade and then retired to the porch
amid deafening cheers.
SECRETARY ROOTS ADDRESS.
In his opening remarks Secretary Root
referred to "the security, opportunity,
confidence and activity of trade and la
bor,' which he declared were the fruits
of good government alone and which the
American people secured for themselves
when in 1896 they committed the powers
of government to President Mckinley ana
to Republican congress. He spoke OF
the competency and effectiveness of
President McKinley's dealings with other
powers in the various International ques-
tons which have arisen, and declared
that the logic of events had proved that
the American people were right when
they rejected Mr., Bryan and the theories
of his false Democracy in 1896
The Democratic charge of Imperialism.
he declared, is a cry that lis one Of the
cheapest and most threadbare of the
demagogue's stock, always certain to pro-
duce q sensation among a people alert
for the projections of their liberties. y
What President Mckinley had done IN
the Philippines, Secretary Root said "has
been to defend and assert the sovereign
ty of the United States thus acquired
with the assent of both parties and OF
both candidates for the presidency, with
the means thus placed in his hands by
congress-" He declared that 1t was i'm
possible for this government to have
yielded the sovereignty of the United
States in the Philippines to the armed
Tagologs, whose, hands were red with
the blood Of American soldiers. Self-re-
spect forbade it, national honor forbade
it, the whole world would have condemn
ed and despised US if we had done 1t. =
He added: as,
FILIPINOS INCOMPETENT.
1.-The testimony is absolutely over
whelming that the people inhabiting the
Philippine archipelago are incapable of
lf-government Most of them have not
the first conception Of what self-govern-
ment means, or the first qualification for
its exercise. Many of them have the ca
pacity to learn, but they never learned. >
The secretary declared that the true
proposition is the precise reverse of the
charge that the exercise of government
must be over the. people Of the Philip
pine islands as subject, not as citizens,
which exercise of power over others, it
was contended, would be destructive to
cur national character and institutions.
The government of the Philippine islands.
he continued, would not affect the CHAR
acter of our institutions, but the char
acter of our institutions would determine
and mould the government of the Phil
ippine islands.
ITO govern as a despot would be fatal
to the character of a republic, but to
govern in territory outside Of the limits
Of the states, IN accordance with the
spirit of our institutions subjects to all
the great rules of liberty and right and
responsible for every act to great liberty
loving people can, but extend and
strengthen Our institutions. 1 will not
say that the men who are encouraging
the Filipinos here are traitors to, their
country. 1 don't think they know what
~ r, n p,rt xxrlJ and
with justice. that the men who are re-
Wiling and belittling America here, and
the men who are shooting from ambush
there, are allies in the same cause, and
both are enemies to the interests and
credit of our country"
THE TRUSTS.
The secretary paid some attention to
the question of trusts and In this con-
nection, said that the trouble with Mr..
Bryans treatment of trusts is that he
treats them not as a matter of business,
but as a matter of politics, and he thinks
that a general and indiscriminative de-
nunciation of these great industrial en-
terprises which are employing the labor
and increasing the wealth of America is
a good campaign cry"
He declared that Mr.. Bryan's two pro-
posed remedies constituted imperial
ism" indeed, and would concentrate In
the government at Washington entire
and absolute control over every business
interest In the country.
He said: Are we opponents, sincere
Is Mr.. Bryan, who four years ago made
his campaign upon the money issue and
talked of nothing but money and so
eloquently bewailed the empty dinner
pail, really sincere in pronouncing the
full dinner pail to be sordid issue? Is
the party which Is governing and
avows its intention to still govern 10,
100000 of black citizens In the South,
without their consent, whether by law or
fraud or force, really disturbed about
Imperialism and the Declaration of In
dependence? Was that distinguished
company which gathered in the Louis
XIV. room of the Holman house and ate
their $12 dinner with Mayor Van Wyck,
of the ice trust, as presiding officer, and
Richard Croker, of the ice trust, as pre-
siding genius, and chairman of the Dem
ocratic National committee, Jones, of the
cotton bale trust, as the director of the
campaign-were they really solicitous
about the evils of trusts and agonizing for
the delivery Of their countrymen from
their effects?