The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1900-11-02
TIE CONSTITUTION AND FLAG.
Anti-Impsriaustic League Issues stIrriRg
Addresses signed By Foremost
Citizens Of the Land

The American Aut1-lmperlallSb lea
que has issued an address to independ- I
ent voters, which shows that the most
prominent educators, lawyers and bust
ness men OF the country are opposed
to President MeKinIey's policy in POr-
to Rico and the Philippines.
Every man who signed the address
voted for Mckinley four years ago.
The address is as follows:
sThe undersigned, citizens OF the
United States, regard with profound
apprehension the course Of the pres
ent administration in Porto Rico and
the Philippines. Our prior acquisitions
were Of adjacent territory for the eX-
tension Of the area of constitutional
government and the creation Of new
states Of the union
ave made their few inhabitants citi-
zens: our peOpled settled them; We
there established the institutions Of
freedom. For the first time in our
history it is now proposed that the
president and congress shall rule vast
territories and millions Of men outside
our constitutional system.
aOf6Cials sworn to support the con-
stitutiOn AMI deriving all their powers
therefrOm have acquired colonies and
assumed arbitrary authority to govern
their Inhabitants without consent and
to tax them without representation
sThis policy offers to the people OF
Porto Rico and the Philippines no
hope of independence, no prospect Of
American citizenship, no representa-
ton in congress which taxes them
This is the government of men by ar
bitray power; this is imperialism.
"We believe that it is the first duty
Of the American people to stamp with
their disapprOval doctrines so hostile
to liberty and dangerous to cOnstitu-
tional government If they are to re-
main free and their government is to
continue representative, their servants
must not have or exercise any but con-
stitutional powers. Between the claim
Of freedom that all men are entitled to
equal political rights and the dogma OF
tyrrany that might makes right, there
is no middle ground.
ave have not prior to this year sup
ported the candidacy Of Mr. Bryan
We do not nov concur in certain OF
his views on minor issues. Yet his
position on the supreme issue Of the
present campaign is so sound, and his
advocacy of it has been so able and
Courageous that We now favor his cleo
ton as-the most effective way of show
ing disapproVal Of Mr.. McKinley's
course.
without claiming any special pO-
litical influence, we unite, for what
our example may be worth to our fell
IOw-citizens, in this statement Of pro-
posed action in the presence Of a great
er danger than We have encountered
since the pilgrims landed at Plymouth
the danger that we are to be trans
formed from a republic, founded on
the declaration Of independence, guild
ed by the cOunsels Of Washington,
into a vulgar, commonplace empire,
founded on physical force
.We invite the cooperation Of all in
dependent voters to avert this great
and impending danger.
"GeOrge =. Boutwell,, Boston, ex-
governor and ex secretary Of the treas
Ury.
"Charles Gordon Ames, Boston.
'sMelvilIe B. Anderson, Leland Stan
ford university.
"Franeis Fisher Browne, Chicago,
editor Of the Dial.
"John Beatty. Ohio, general in the
civil war and ex- congressman.
william BirneY, Washington, D, Q.
Cd T. Bremner, Chicago.
ALBERT S. Cook, Yale university.
I'D. H Chamberlain, Massachusetts,,
"Charles R. Goldman, Massachusetts,.
"Henry B. Cabot, Boston.
"StarE Willard Cutting, university
of Chicago.
'Noah K. Davis, university Of Vir-
ginia.
"Jobn Dewey, university OF Chicago.
"Dana Estes, Boston.
Lewis r. Enrich, Colorado.
Joseph S. Fowler, Washington, d.
c., ex-United States senator.
Edward l. GOOkin, New York, for
mer editor Of The Nation, and, New
York Evening Post.
william Lloyd Garrison, Boston.
"Judsony Harmon, Cincinnati, eX
attorney general u. s.
"F. D. Huntington, Syracuse, bishop
OF the Protestant Episcopal church.
Thomas Wentworth HigginsOn,
Boston.
"William Gardner Hale, university
Of Chicago.
"George Lincoln HendricksOn, uni-
Fersity Of Chicago.
Henry T. Johnson, ex congressman,
Indiana
Howard HOltOn James, Seattle, !
Washington
aWiIIiam R Lord, Portland, Oregon. /
i'LeBis r. Larson, Minneapolis, ex-
judge.
HJOhn v. LeMOyne, Baltimore, eX- /
congressman
"Charles F. Lummis, Los Angeles,
editor Of Land Of Sunshine.
Joseph Lee, Boston.
George -Gluyas Mercer, Pennsylva-
MIA
Thomas A. Moran, Chichago, ex-
Judge
"Edwin D. Mead, Boston, editor OF
New England Magazine.
"Charles Eliot Norton, Harvard uni
Fersity. Il
sHenry LOOMS Nelson, New York.
Warren Olney, San Francisco.
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