The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-09

| ed with fearful eyes the SuDJugatlon oi
| the Beers. Aye. more, when the Fillplnos
themselves, only yesterday, as 1t were
before we took hand in the contest, were
beating the Spanish back into the sea,
there was not an American heart that did
not beat in sympathy.
What has come over the American peo-
pie that We dare not utter single WORD
in support of those who contend for lib
| erty? What has happened that no official
of this Government would have dared TO
| have said a word in sympathy Tor the
| Beers? Only one. and to suit himself,
brave man that he was. And when he got
! home he received his punishment. Web
| ster Davis was that man. He did that on
his own account and was duly punished"
Governor Stone was here interrupted by
| the entrance of the Seventeenth Ward
Democratic Club, which had been having
street parade The invaders marched
down the centre aisle, armed with Bryan
| and Stevenson transparencies and other de-
| vices. and cheering vociferously. They
were followed by brass band in full blast.
After several cheers for Bryan and Steven
| son, and for the Seventeenth ward, the
| paraders issued from the hail, and the
speaker resumed his address. Referring to
| the interruption. he said:
! Il am always willing to be interrupted
| by Democratic club / consider that they
have the royal imperial right OF way"
An American View.
Before l finish," resumed the speaker.
81 will speak of Imperialism from an
American point of view. Whatever title
Spain had to the Philippines passed to the
United States by cession made in the
/ Treaty of Paris. 1 am not going to dis
cuss the validity of that title. Let it be
conceded that we had a right over the
archipelago. What are we to do with the
| islands? What disposition can we consti-
| tutionally make of them? l do not believe
/ that under the Constitution of the United
| States We had right to acquire these ISL
| ands and these people otherwise than un-
der the conditions that we acquired and
disposed of the Louisiana Purchase. We
| had not right to receive these people as
! subjects and not as citizens. ] do not be-
/ lieve that We have right to establish
colonial policy. II we hold these islands
We must hold them for one of two purposes
either to make States of them after
while and to organize them as Territories,
such as Arizona, and in due time admit
them to the Union, or We must hold them
as mere dependencies and ruled by the
Government at Washington and denying to
that people the ordinary rights that we
enjoy under the flag. That means that we
establish colonies in accordance with or in
imitation of the policies of European mon
archies.
do we want to admit these people as
States? Do we want to give them the
rights OF citizens? This is the United
States of America, or rather these are the
United States of America, material dis
tinction. II we admit the territory as
States into the United States we are no
longer the United States of America, but
the United States of America and Asia
Why stop there? Why in all conscience
Ehnn1d haei OF for to nj
with His Imperial Majesty King William.
that powerful autocrat who has put
his foot on the neck of so many thousands
OF subjects? Partition China while we are
about Il and lake our part OF tiss booty.
II We are going TO adopt this policy.
why not seize opportunities as they
come? Why hesitate? Why not have
United States Of the World? II we hold
tnese -.Siands as territories. az Arizona |
10 a Terflrary, then -%dat? Under the |
Constitution of Inc United States a citI- !
zen Of the United States has free entry
into the ports Of the U.'ited States. and !
they could not be excluded from any
port of the Union. There are 18.ee0. 600 /
of these people. IN the Philippines
labo. is worth but a few cents a day. |
Do the laboring men of the United States
want to enter into that kind of competi-
tion? Our Republican friends are always
talking about protecting the product OF
the factories. but they would have the
freest sort of free trade IN men
Governor Stone paid a glowing tribute
to Washington, Jefferson. and the falh-
ers OF the Republic whose immortal
memory, the speaker said, should be
preserved at all hazards.
Enthusiasm Breaks Out Again.
at ought not to be difficult for any of
US TO see II We enter upon policy like
that. when we will" At this point an
other Democratic marching club appeared
at the hall door. headed by Il band, and
marched through the big hall. Governor
Stone cried amid the widest enthusiasm:
Let them come on. give them royal
welcome. The boys who carry the torches
are boys who fight In the ditch"
AS the club passed through the hall
another appeared. and the enthusiasm,
instead o. diminishing. seemed almost to
have been redoubled. The transit of these
clubs consumed about ten minutes. When
Governor Stone could resume he said that
he was going back to New York with a
word that would give increased courage
TO the Democratic workers there He had
no doubt that Maryland would do its Guty
by the flag of the Republic
''If we oEce enter upon this policy of
holding colonies we will go on, for re-
yolutions do not go backward it will
break down the home of the Republic,
and end in the destruction of our free in
stitutions. 1t will weaken and pollute
our ideals OF liberty.
''If we are to go into Asia to acquire ter
ritory and 10 hold 1t We abrogate the Mon
roe Doctrine, that great doctrine for which
we have battled for ssventy-6ye years, and
which we have succeeded finally in writing
into the law of nations We cannot go
into the business Of taking land in Asia
and elsewhere, and at the same time say
TO the nations of Europe, Keec off this
continent
IF We should reach out the hand OF
amity to the Republicans to the south of
US. so that We could uphold Americas
form OF government and American c!yiliza-
tion, if we could construct the Nicaragua
Canal and own II, IL we should restore our
merchant marine SO that our mariners
should swarm over the seas as they did in
the olden time. winning the commerce of
the world in this way rather than by the
brute force of armed battalions, we would
enter upon far greater policy than that
which has been begun by President Me-
Kinley" This sentiment called forth great
cheering.
Next to the question OF imperialism
in the public mind" continued the speak
er, "is the question of trusts. / am not
going to discuss the question further
than to say that II the Democrats win
in this election the trust era will close;
II the Republican party wins the trUsts
will grow and flourish. Does anybody
here believe that the trusts are AFRAID
of the Republican party?
ANY man who believes that the Re-
publican party would strike a deter
mined blow at these monopoliCs is
either blinded by his partisan zeal or is