The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1900-01-12

and republican. and drought ana not
winds when they voted against the repuo-
lican Marty. WHY. my friends. If man Will
stop TO think for a moment ne Will KNOW
that the republican party does not cohlro.
the rains because If IL did there Wouiu
be a monopoly of water and you would nave
to buy every shower. IL does not give you
larger crops. Ii cannot give you pe''ei
price for a farmers crop
Trusts FostereG by the Party
while the republicans have not raised
the price of what the farmer mas 10 sea-,
they have permitted the organization OF
nonopolies that raise the price of what the
farmer has to buy. And If the republican
party cannot bring down rain from the
clouds it can charge the farmer more LOT
pipe when he goes down into the grouHo
after water.
NO man." he said. in celebrating the I'M
perialism issue, who has studied history
or knows human nature believes that the
Filipinos would ever be glad 10 have US
govern them What excuse can be gwen
for It? / have heard three. The Hfst i
the money argument-that IL will pay; that
there is money in it. The second IS the re-
ligious argument-that God Is IN IL Ana
the third is the political argument-that
we are in il and cannot get out. need not
dwell upon the money argument. Df' laS-
Tor has already commented upon mat
1t is the lowest argument ever made Inc
man who will justify war OF conquest on
the basis of dollars and cents applies 10 tnat
subject the same principe that the burglar
or the hghwayman applies. You cannot
very well go to mourning mother ana te.i
her that it pays TO have her boy die. Ihe
mothers of this country will send the'r
sons to fight for liberty, and II the sons fall
the mothers rejoice that God gave them
strength to bear sons for such noble seFV-
ice. But where is the mother who viii rear
sons for dollars and cents 10 be exchanged
for oriental trade?
Decries War for Gain.
And yet the man who says il 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. | want this nation
to extend its trade. / 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 on 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 on the basis of dollars and cents,
but many have attempted to defend 1t on
the basis of religious grounds. Convince a
man that 1t is his religious duty TO do a
thing and he will do it. Convince him that
il is his religious duty to take his money
and give it to someone else, and he will do
IL. Convince him that it is his religious duty
TO give his life and he will give II. But
more unfortunate still-man is so eonsti-
| III h
is his religious duty to take somebody else's
| money he will do it. 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 us in and shut the door. There
we We're. The question / ask Isl 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 X? have seen re-
publieans going up and down this land
| telling about Gods plan, when | have
| known that if God knew them as 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 no one who has a right TO
| tell us that God commands W either to take
| another mans property or another man 5
| life There is no one who can present ere
| dentials that would justify him in COM
| handing us in the name Of God 10 do
| wrong.
Parallel to Boer War.
When the Cubans were struggling for
the right to govern themselves both the
| great national conventions put in theil
! the struggling Cubans. But over in South
| Africa the Beers are fighting for repub-
| lie, and this nation, the greatest repub-
| lie in the world, nation that heretofore
| has announced with boldaess its sympathy
with all who seek to govern themselves,
| this nation stands with its hands tied and
| its mouth gagged, fearing to say a word Is
nation for fear the answer will come
back; What's the matter with the Fill
| pinos? Our sympathy for the Beers, the
| sympathy of the opponents of imperialism
here, does not rest upon the fact that Eng
| land is the aggressor; IL rests upon the fact
| that II is an American principle that is at
stake, and no matter VINO is the aEgres-
sor, we believe in the doctrine of self
| government. What mockery to appeal to a
| Divine Providence TO aid in the overthrow
| of the principles of our government
1t may be that the time has come when
this nation, conceived in liberty shall be
turned over to the doctrines OF the past
1t may be-no man can tell what the
future has in store. But if il is true that
the time has come when these fundamental
principles will be changed; if ii is true that
upon the ruins of homogeneous republic
is to be built a heterogeneous empire.
pray to God that the party OF jefferson and
jackson may die with the republic rather
than live with the monarchy"
The Mother of Trusts.