Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-27
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JefIerson,s and JAckson's Precedents.
"When under JEFFERSON the great west
beyond the Mississippi was acluire1, ,
Florida was added to the union, ths nn~
provinces, with their Indian popu ntit 40,
the theory under which the Philippines
"President Jefferson secured the Louisi.
sec secured FED the Philippines, and Andrew Jack
son warred against the Seminoles Wnen
we had acquired Florida from SPAIN, pre-
cisely as Gen Macarthur IS me nov Taaals II,
Luzon. Unless we are willing 70 9eprss
JEFFERSON and Jackson Of the need OF honor
which has been held to be peculiarly tne'l ~
AT Kansas City the men engaged IN
preaching the gospel of dishonor ana re-
perialism abroad will lead quickly ana
inevitably to despotism at home: YOU
men of Minnesota and the Dakotas VINO
are here this evening can appfeciha v the the
simple process of thinking whether your
liberties have been abridged by the return
of the Minnesota and Dakota troops WIZ
won such honor tor themselves in the
''The army we have now is, relatively to
the population of the country, less IN SIZE
than 1t has been again and again curing
the last century and a quarter, IN times
when we had only our own Indians to
guard against.
"Our Opponents mean nothing, and know
that they mean nothing, when they pirate
about militarism and attempt to say that
they favor expansion, but are against
'imperialism They used preelssiy o onr
taking Hawaii that they now use agalnss
our taking, the Philippines. They pulled ,e.
down our flag in Hawaii Just as they now
wish to pull 1t down in the philippines.
We had to undo their work In Hawaii Just
as in the end but at an infinite cost OF
bloodshed and VICE. We would have to do
in the Philippines, should they be success
yet not one Of them now would dream
of saying that we were not right ABOUT
Would License Murder. =
"Our opponents say that they wish now
to give the Philippines independence. TO
give independence now would be precisely
like giving independence to the WlldeS!
mean the turning over of the most peace.
full, law-abiding and prosperous part or
the population to be plundered by the ban
ditu who are following Aguinaldo: .,o
awful tragedy that is following just ex-
actly such movement as that which the
so-called anti-imperialists have cham
China are the precise analogues and rep
resentatives of the Aguinaldian rebels IN
the Philippines. Had we adopted the pol
pion. the, streets OF Manila would nave
S1Sh scenes as tn9 the T 81
T TeSes to % establsh their own so-calied
government and then to protect them
against other civilized nations, would be
exactly as If we now sided with the Box
erty' to butcher their neighbors, allowed
them to establish their own independent
government and then agreed to protect
them from the wrath Of civilized man.
sas City proposition for dealing with the
Philippines was never enunciated by the
representatives of political party.
Expansion Means Peace.
"Expansion means in the end not war,
but peace. But like every other great good,
it can be achieved only by e effer t at the
effort. Woe if we fail to do our duty be-
cause the first step seems hard to the
weaklings and the men of little heart II
we must do no wrong and must not en-
dure wrong from others. We must strive
with earnest good faith to secure the
steady betterment of the populations over
show ourselves anxious to work IN a spirit
of frank and open friendship with other
civilized nations. But we must no more
shrink from introducing orderly liberty
and just and stable government in the
islands to which our new duty has called
US than 1--WE shrunk in the past from the
various KINDS or expansion Wnlcn carried
us from Florida and New Mexico to
Alaska. ~. T..
Policy Of Infany. m
"Study the Kansas City. platform. and
you cannot help realizing that their policy
is the policy of infamy. that their triumph
would mean misery so widespread that
it is almost unthinkable and a disgrace SO
lasting that more than generation would
have to pass before it could be wiped out:
They stand for lawlessn s;ssa and d u.s.
license and disaster at home and cowardly
shrinking from duty abroad"