The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-25

/ lean citizens. We expanded when We
/ took in Louisiana territory: We expand
( ed when we took in California and New
/ Mexico and Texas.
1 Then we extended the area of the re-
/ public, but did not change the charae-
ter OF the government. Then we carried
the flag little further, but the consti-
/ tuition followed the flag, and now. for
the nrst time, we are told that the flag
| must go where the constitution cannot
reach. That is imperialism. (ApplarseN
want you to understand tha- imperial-
ism means that we have today a people
owing allegiance to the flag who are
not protected by the constitution.
The Republican policy is a little
vague. We are getting at it a little
DIT at time, and, az far as l can
| judge from what has already been done.
the republicans expect TO have several
different kinds Of citizens. We are go
] ing to have the full light of citizenship
in the United States, semi-citizenship
in Porto Rico, and the thick darkness
OF complete vassalage over in the
| Orient. The Republican president dares
not advocate Imperialism In his last
speech he said nobody wanted imper-
! laiism, but actions speak louder than
words. and when l saw the action of
Republican congress advocating a sep
aration OF the flag from the conStitu-
ton. and the2 heard the speech Of the
Republican president, / had to compare
the action with the speech, and 1 was
reminded Of the time when son want
ed blessing. and so fixed himself IN
as to deceive his father, and when he
gave him the blessing, he said: The
hands are the hands of Esau, but the
voice is the voice of Jacob" SO / say.
the voice of the president is the voice
OF one opposed to Imperialism, but
every act is the act of an imperianst
who tramples upon the principles Of
the constitution and the Declaration Of
independence. (Applause)
Compared With George III.
fall, and eaid that he had no doubt
that congress would give the F!lipinos
a government that would bring them
blessings. 1 took that sentence and
struck out congress" and inserted
parliament" and struck out Fill
I pinos'' and inserted "colonists." and I
had the sentence Of George III in
speaking Of the American people. I
took the sentence and scratched out
/ congress" and inserted "Cortez," and
scratched out 'FillpinOs" and inserted
'Cubans," and then I had the GEN
tence that described the promise of the
Spanish monarch that Cortez would
give 10 the CUbans government that
would bring them blessings.
And the people Of Cuba preferred to
die rather than allow the Spanish Cor
tez to make them a government. and
the American people arose and appro-
priated S50.000000 the first time to help
the Cuban people to get relief from a
Spanish government that offered to
give them blessings, and then l found
that the president was asserting a doc
trine that was contrary TO the Declara-
+ ton of Independence
What title have we to the Philippine
Islands? Well, Secretary Day, who was
| secretary of state and afterwards a
member Of the peace commission. said
that we held the Philippine islands by
purchase. He denied that we held the
| Islands by conquest. He said we paid
| $20OO0,O0O for them, and then l applied
mathematics 10 the question, and de-
clared that we paid $3.50 a head for the
! FflipiDos. And a Republican got mad
| and abused me, and said we had just
bought the land, and then 1 asked how
we got the HilipinOe, were they thrown
! in? Did we pay $40, 900 900 for the land
and get the Filipinos for nothing? Did
| the money go to pay for Filipinos or the
land. and if only for land. then where
is our title to the Filipinos?
Republicans, do you mean to say that
you can buy land and that a living
| being goes as a fixture with the land,
that cold inanimate earth has value,
but that when that clay is shaped by
the divine hand and made into the i'm
| age Of it's creator and the divine spirit
breathed into it, that then it becomes
a fixture and passes with the land?
The man who says that our title rests
upon purchase must be prepared TO
I defend ma
with the land or else that we bought
the people at so much a head
Isn't it strange that the Republican
party that boasts that it was instru-
mental in abOlishing slavery in the
United States should now revive the
doctrine Of slavery? The constitution
of this country says that no man can
Own another man, and yet insist that
You can put eight millions of people
upon an auction block and auction
| them off to the highest bidder. Is that
not buying people in a group to avoid
the doctrine that you are buying them
individually? And the Republican adj
ministratiOn of this state endorses the
magnificent administration Of a Re-
publican president, and when you vote
the Republican ticket for congressman
next week or week after next you will
vote to endorse that action of the Re
publican administration.
Republicans, l want to call your at
| tention to three arguments that have
been made in defense Of an imperial
policy. The first is that it will pay.
Shame on you. Trying TO settle a quets-
ton that concerns the principles of
government by trying to find out whe-
Their it will pay. Suppose I asked
one of you Republicans what you
| thought of the commandment, thou
shalt not steal, and you stopped to fig
ure out whether it would pay to steal
or not. And the man who offers to sell
the Declaration of Independence in or
der to secure trade is guilty of an act
similar to putting a price upon the
commandment, thou shalt not steal.
Republicans, 1 am not going to argue
this question on the basis of dollars
and cents. 1 will challenge you 10 pre-
sent your argument, and L will let il
rest upon your argument without Of
fering an answer. l dare you to put
price upon one human being, to tell
what trade is worth measured in Amer
lean blood. to advocate the policy of
sending men to die in the Philippine is
| lands in order that some syndicate may
establish electric light plants or water
systems or street car lines there. Gap
plause.)
Whenever you hear a Republican ad-
vOcate imperialism on the ground that
it will extend our trade l want you
to be prepared to meet him with an
extract from a letter written by Ben
jamin Franklin. If you have any Re
publicans in this state who are likely
to stand in history by the side of Ben
jamin Franklin, let them go in and de-
fend Imperialism on the basis that it
will pay, but let no minor Republican
place his opinion against the opinion Of
Benjamin Franklin. Do you know
that each ball shot in revolutionary
days was shot because England want
ed to prevent the trade of the colonists
/ from getting away from her Let me
read you a letter written by Franklin