The age-herald., 1900-08-16

l uage and framed the treaty of Paris ac- 1 cording to his own ideas, and. he has l since interpreted his powers upon his own
 theory as to what he was authorized to | do. He is the one person responsible for l what has been done, and if we are onposed l to what has been done our chief duty is l the overthrow of the administration of l which he is the head.
 There has been put forth recently a statement of the conditions that will be 1 required of the people of Cuba if tbev he come independent They are to have no | power to declare war without the consent l of the United States; the United States is 1 to have veto power over the Legislation of | Cuba; the United States is to have a cer- l tain well defined supervision over the Cu- ban treasury; the United States is to re- tain for a period of years, if not inde6- nite, the Qualifications which command the port ot Havana. How do these provisions accord with the promises made to the peo- pie of Cuba?
 Troubles in China
 '"The troubles in China have been agera- vated, and the missionaries and ambassa- dors of the various governments have been put In peril by the policy of the United states Is 1t not true that in the last ten
 years there have been statements again
 and again that it was the purpose of the
 various states of Europe to partition Chi- na? When we entered the Philippines 1t
 was an additional menace to the Chinese empire, and 1t has led to the revolution in China and put the missionaries and am
 bassadors in peril of their lives. Instead of
 being a fortunate circumstance, the fact
 that we were in the Philippines was the chief occasion of that revolution in China l ask is General Chaffee or General Grant
 to be put under the lead of prince of the House of Germany, or, on the other hand, is the government of the United States to take upon itself the peril of al- lowing one of Its officers to take command of the troops of England France and Ger many and be responsible for all the mis-
 haps? If we had treated China in the month of June we would have treated
 Great Britain under similar circumstances there would have been no peril. If rebel lion should occur in London and our min
 ister there should be in peril of his life, would we send force up the Thames river to. bcmbard London? No; we would appeal to the different nations through diplomatic | channels before engaging in a military 1 dertaking. Was 1t not a declaration of war when We trained guns upon the cita- l dels of the Chinese empire? Under the con- 1 stitution Congress alone can declare war | Can the Chief Magistrate make in l the absence of a Congressional declaration l of war? 1 suppose if I said anything in eX- | tenuation of the Chinese policy some one | at Washington or elsewhere would say that I I had spoken against my own country. | But I want to say that the American peo- pie will speak for liberty and for justice even though their words may inflame the fires of liberty the world over. China has always followed the maxim, use that which is thine own, so as not to injdre | others
 That contains every provision of the l decalogue. Through centuries the Chinese l empire has gone on, while Assyria and
 Rome and Carthage have withered and l ded-died because they took into their 1 possession that to which they had no right. 1 It is to such an entertainment that we are l invited it is to such a history as these
 nations have made that our eyes are l turned, and we are asked to initiate it. l "Who does not see that the day of Eng
 lands downfall is approaching? and we l are asked to follow her example and tread l in the imperial footsteps of Great Britain, | knowing that those steps are leading the l British empire to destruction Now is the
 time for the people to arrest this progress
 to ruin, and the laboring men of this coun- | try are the men to whom l appeal. If we
 accept imperialism it means that some peo- | pie shall do the thinking and the rest do | the working; then the cause Of liberty can l not be saved"
 l Asks the Negroes Support l Governor Boutwell, asked the negro l workers to work against imperialism for l the sake of 10,000 900 colored population in the Philippines, and claimed the fact that l some negroes were deprived of their rights l in the South was no excuse for the oppres- l sion of the Fiipinos
 l With reference to protection the gover- l nor said there were many things better
 than money and that. in his judgment l prosperity would not continue long with
 the markets of China closed to American l products and with the cheap labor of the
 Orient and Cuba and Porto Rico brought | into competition with American labor
 "How Is the overthrow of the Admins-
 tration to be accomplished?" concluded | MT. Boutwell,.
 Tn my youth I had no disguses I | turned aside and left the Democratic | party when it surrendered to slavery.
 In my age l leave the Republican party,
 now that it has surrendered itself to
 despotic and tyrannical motives. Great
 applause). I helped create the Repub- | lican party, party at that time of jus
 tce and principle and honesty. 1 now believe it is a party of injustice and | despotism, and I will help to destroy it. And how? There is but one avail | able means, and you know what that is. I am for Bryan Tremendous ap- | plause). I am for Bryan in spite of | what he may believe concerning the
 currency or finances of the country.
 This question to which we invite the
 countrys attention is question of life | or death to the Republic. In such a | crisis shall we stop to consider whether l silver should be worth more or less than
 it is? If a mistake is made in the next | Administration, should Bryan be elect | ed, the people can remedy 1t in four or
 eight years; the country would not be l destroyed. If the currency is impaired | we can redeem it. It was impaired dur | ing the civil war and we redeemed it I afterwards.
 | Willing to Try Bryan
 "If you have not been deceived in a man, | and he promises to do what is right, you
 are not to blame if you try him MT. Bryan
 to me stands in that position. Even his | enemies say nothing against him as a
 man, In this very city ne has made the
 most explicit promises to pursue that poli- l cy which we advocate. I am disposed to
 trust him, If I look on the other side, in
 my opinion. President Mckinley ncS prom ised several things and has done several | things that do not run in harmony with
 his promises But now he pledges himself
 to pursue a policy which we eondemn if | we vote to support him in that policy, we
 have no right to complain l believe Bryan I in, b}c to h a;e