Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-09-10
IMPERIALISM"
Extract from Remarks Of Hon. ]. @. Spoon
er. of Wisconsin, in Daily Congressional
Record. Nav 9..190O,


From the time that treaty was rati-
| fed, which a been declared or char
| acteriZed as a declaration of war, we
have had an agitation in this country.
Mr.. Bryan, to whom l refer respectful
ly, came here and labored for the rati-
ication of that treaty. If it was a dec
laration of wal he must take his share
of the responsibility for it. If it in it
self involved Imperialism he was a pro-
moter of Imperialism.
Before the treaty was ratified, Janu-
airy 8, he published in the New York
Journal an elaborate article upon the
subject, urging the ratification of the
| treaty, and a declaration of future pol
/ icy as to the Philippines, strongly I
| thought, and think, foreshadowing, in
| the event of failure to make such a dec
laration, an aggressive issue against
Imperialism or colonialism, and from
that time in all the speeches he has
made, which I have read, he has made
anti-imperialism the paramount feature
| of his political creed. Without impeach-
ing the sincerity of his view against
imperialism, as l understand it, or CO.
lonialism, when the time comes to de-
| eide thai question, I have thought, and
1 do think, that it was IN attempt to
1 make an issue where there is no issue,
4 apparently born out of the necessity to
obscure in some respects the issues OF
1896.
For I insist, Mr.. President, that there
is not in this day, nor has there been,
any legitimate foundation for an issue
of imperialism and anti-imperialism.
| Mr.. Bryan is the most conspicuous and
| powerful leader of the Democratic par
ty at this time, and he has done more,
in the way of public speeches and writ
ings, in attack upon what he calls i'm
| perialism than any other man in the
country, and that is manifestly what
he seeks and has sought to make the
principal issue in the campaign upon
which we are shortly to enter.
Where is the issue of imperialism and
anti-imperialism? Upon what founda-
ton of fact does it or a it rest now?
Who has proposed Imperialism in the
Philippine archipelago? Who could
sneak under the constitution upon that
subject? The president has had but one
policy, and that is the policy Of an ex-
ecutive. 1t is the policy to carry for
F ward into execution the law. We rati-
| fed the treaty. We might have rejected
it. We take our share Of the response
bility for laying that foundation. We
had passed the military bill. We had
placed these soldiers at his command.
knowing and intending, Mr.. President,
that he should use them, that he would
use them to assert and maintain the
sovereignty of the United States in the
Philippine archipelago.
Who can dispose Of it? The president?
No. The president has made no speech
in which, as I recollect it, he did not
assert that the power of disposition is
in congress-. He says in his last annual
message hat the whole power of gov
eminent there is in congress. The con-
stitution provides that congress shall
have power "to dispose of and make all
needful rules and regulations respect
ing the territory of the United States
The president a not do it. 1t Is for
congress to do it. 1t is for congress to
say whether we will withdraw our
army from the Philippines or not,
whether we will cede the Philippines
or not, how we will COVER the Philip
pines if we retain them, or how long
we shall retain them. 1t is not for the
president to say, nor has he arrogated
to himself that function.
In the years to come, Mr.. President,
if there shall be a time when the Phil
ippine people, having under u tute-
lage and guidance been uplifted, having
by years of participation in local gov
eminent become familiar in a way with
that science; when education shall have
been more largely diffused in the is
lands; when they have come to know,
as they will come to know, that we are
their friends, not their enemies; when,
in the opinion of the intelligent, pa
triotic people of the United States, the
Philippine people are capable of self
government, capable of maintaining a
government which will discharge the
duties of a government, which will pro-
tect life and liberty and property,
which, if you please, can discharge the
obligations between nations, then, Mr..
President, if they want independence,
and there shall be a party in this u
try which says 'yes," and a party in
this country which says mo, we will
govern them forever as a territory or
colony" that will be an issue of i'm
perialism and anti-imperialism. 1t can
not come until then, and can not be
settled unless and until it shall nave
come. It is not here now.
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