Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-03-06
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1900.

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From the Pioneer Press:
THERE CAN BE NO IMPERIALISM. -
There can ID no imperialism. Those
who fear it are against it. Those WHO
have faith in the republic are against H..
So that the re il universal adherence for
it ant.,unanimous opposition to It, Our
anly difference is that those who do not
agree with us have no confidence In the
virtue or capacity, or high purpose or good
Faith of this free. people as civilizing
agency, while we believe that the century
Of free government which the Americans
have enjoyed has not rendered them
faithless or esolute, but has fittedthem
for the great task Of lifting up and assist
ing to better conditions those people OF
distant countries who through the for
tunes of tat L. became our wards.
The 1iberators will nev.r bee the the op-
pressors. a selfsoverned people will
never permit despos ism III any govern
nent which they foster and defend.-Pres-
ident Mckinley at the Ohio dinner in New
York.
In these words of simple COM
mon sense the president has
gone right to the heart of the
whole matter. He has laid bare
the silly pretense upon which
the luminaries of Democray are
depending to fool the people in.
to contiding the reins of
government into their hands.
He has laid his finger
upon the line of cleavage
between those who are en-
deavoring to perform "the task
Of lifting up and assisting to
better conditions" the people
for whom tile events of the last
two years have made us re-
sponsible, and those who are do.
ing all in their power to hamper
the fultillment of this task and
to befog the conscience of the
nation. On the one side are
"those who have faith in the
republic" and on the other ar.
those who day in and day out
brand their fellow countrymen.
directly or by necessary i'm
plication, as devoid of all "vir-
tue or capacity, or high purpose
or: good faith, !" a nation of
nisers and hypocrites, who
would out-Spain Spain in the
exploitation of those whom
Providence had committed to
their charge.
There can be no question to
which side the nation will in
cline. No amount of sonorous
rhetoric can make it forget TIN
the war with Spain was of it's
own making, that it was by
Democratic as well as by Re
publican votes that war
was declared, and that
when President Mckinley
was trying to restrain the ma
tion in the vain hope of finding
4 peaceful solution of the diff
Guilty it was the Democratic ele-
ment in congress that cried out
loudest against delay. No
amount of claptrap can obscure
the fact that the treaty of peace
by which the nation became re-
sponsiDle for the Philippines
was ratified by Democratic
votes. and could not have been
ratified without them. The peo-
pile know that it was not of in.
tent but only because of the ext.
gencies of war that the Philip
pines fell into their keeping.
They know that Dewey could
not have avoided the destruc,
ton of SPANS power even if he
had been able to foresee all the
consequences. They know that
by all the laws of humanity and
righteousness, SPANS power
having been destroyed, the
maintenance of order and au.
thority was imposed upon their
government, and that there has
not been a moment since then
when those islands could have
been abandoned without the
certainty of anarchy or a ty.
sTanny tenfold more dire than
that of Spain. They know
that if it were merely a question
sOf commercial advantage they