The Forrest City times., 1900-11-02

with the appropriations made then and
Tour years ago We find that the apnro-
prlatlons made now are So 600 600 to 81 600 Oso
greater than they were then. In Other
WORDS, this new departure, this attempt
20 suo1ugate the Filipino people. is in one
iorn ana In any other form costing the
american people between $500 600 600 and
S4Vo'eVo'Wo annually. Who paws thisP The
men ana the women who do the work ~
! america. The lawyers the bankers tha
| syhulcates and the men who are urging me
administration on in this policy and are
~ eh Jung " DO not pay one farthing of
tiat vast sum- National expenses and ma
tional debts have to be paid by products.
bankers simply carry IL to the treasury
/ ana charge commission for doing il.
which swells the burden. The products Of
the held and the products of the shops
bay Ihese expenses. American sweat and
! american blood pay this vast sum
what else does it involve. for us? In
december, 1898, President Mckinley sent
message to congress asking that the
| regular army, which had generally con-
sisted of from 22.000 to 1900 men, should
De increased TO 10000 men. At that time
| the spanish war was over. We were at
peace with the world. We hadn't even a
frontier to protect against Indians. We
heeded a smaller army instead of larger
one. Yet the president asked that the
regular army be quadrupled
We were III udNBtT why not call Tor
volunteers? Volunteers fought the reyo-
lutionary war and founded this republic.
volunteers drove the English off of our
shores in 1872. Volunteers carried the
American flag all over Mexico and ran II
UP on every fiagpole down there. Vol
uhteers Fought the great civil war. formed
battle line that stretched from the sea
to the far-away mountains, and with their
ule blood wiped out slavery and cemented
TINS union. In 1898 volunteers came TO the
Mont and drove an ancient despotism off
of the western hemisphere. The glory of
the republic is written with the blood and
valor Of her volunteers. Yet here comes
a president who wants not volunteers but
regular army.
The Question of Trade.
But we are to get trade. We are going
TO get the markets of the orient in which
TO sell the products of our fields and the
products of our shops. All! my friends,
there was time when we had home
market that consumed all the products of
our manufacturers when they ran day
and night That home market has been
destroyed. The purchasing power of our
people to-day is smaller in proportion to
the population than 1t once was. II II were
not we would not need foreign market
for our manufactured goods.
Our total trade with the Philippines has
been between So, 900, 900 and 81, 000. coo a year
suppose II was to increase. Suppose our
trade with China were to Increase Our
total trade with the whole orient will not
In 20 years equal what we now spend in one
year on this new imperialistic policy And
the profits of the total possible trade with
all the orient will not in 100 years equal
what we now spend in one year, and such
prohts as We get will go to a few syndi-
Gates and not to the American people who
bear this enormous burden.
But to settle the whole question as to
mir or 20 tny, hoc to-
written agreement with the other ma
tons of the earth TO maintain the open door
IN the Philippines and in the orient You
remember that last winter the admins
tratlon journals claimed great credit for
the administration because it had secured
the written agreement of other nations to
maintain the open door. You ask what Is
the open door? Is that free trade? No.
not necessarily. Open door simply means
that all the nations of the earth our own
included, are to trade on equal terms, pay
the same duties and charges and be sub
Ject TO the same regulations.
Well, If that is the case If we get any
trade, we will have to compete for It, will
we not? We will have to compete with
the German, the Spaniard, the English
man, the Frenchman, the Russian and
with all other people that see fit to trade
there, and we will get just such trade
as competition gives us, and we will get
not a dollar more. What are we to get
for these $500, 000, 900 or $500, 600 900 a year
that We are spending on this imperial poll
cy? What are we to get for the thou
sands of American lives that we are
sending to the tropics to die? Simply
bloody hands, bleared eyes and scared
consciences. But the president now tells
u that divine Providence has guided us in
everything that We have done and are
doing.
Syndicstes After Islands.
or Porto Rico. 1t has about 1000, 900 of
inhabitants; peaceable. industrious. fru-
gal hospitable people. In 1898 they well
coined our army and cheered our flag.
Gen. Miles issued proclamation to these
people in the name of the American re-
public in which he told them that we
would make their island a part of our
republic; that they should be citizens OF
our country and that our flag would con-
fer on them all the blessings that 1t con-
ferred on the American people. They were
willing to become citizens. They said 10
Gen. Miles: We trust you. we have con-
fioence in the honor of your great coun-
try At that time they had IS represent
atives in the Spanish cortes. They were
not taxed without representation. they had
free access to the markets of Spain and all
OF our possessions. We cut them loose
from all that. We would not let Ger
many or England or any other country
that would give them free markets have
them.
Then we held that people at arms
length for a year and half, during which
they could not trade with any country
without paying ruinous tariff taxes We
reduced them to actual want. Last win
ter the president sent message to con-
gress in which he referred to the Porto
Ricans and said that plain duty required
US to make them citizens so that they
could trade with our people without pay
ing tariff taxes, and every patriot in this
country, whether republican or democrat,
said: 'Ameni that is right
MIR. Payne. chairman of the committee
in congress that had the matter in charge,
drafted bill embodying the recommended
tons of the president He made speech
in support of that bill. Congress was ripe
to pass that bill. Then a trust magnate
named Oxnard, of New York, hurried to
Washington to prevent the passage of that
bill. 1t seems that Ii was not to the in
terest of his trust to have these people
made citizens.
Trust Magnnte's Power.
ITO the establishment of the American
people and the chagrin of the republicans
of this country, to the disgust of the
great republican journals of our own city
and elsewhere, this trust magnate forced