Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-06
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OFF and come home we might get over
the crime. But that is not your policy.
You care not Kill them off because you
want TO trade with them. You would
destroy your trade argument IL you kill
them. You cannot trade with dead peo-
pie.
NOT WANTED AS SUBJECTS.
You want them for subjects. but you
snail not have them for subjects IL we
can prevent 1t. You cannot make sub
9ects out of them without changing our
IDEAS or government. You cannot hold
them IN perpetual servltude without
amending your Constitution either
openly or Indirectly, and the same pow
err that can disregard the Constitution
and make subject out of Filipino
can disregard the Constitution and
make subjects out of the American peo-
pie. You have as much right to disre-
gard the Constitution In the United
States as you have in Porto Rico. You
nave as much right to exclude Ameri-
can citizens from the guarantees of
their Constitution as you have to ex-
Ciude Porto RtcanS.
THE PATHS OF MONARCHY.
1.-THE Republican party is following
the paths OF monarchy. 1t does not
propose a king but 1T proposes a prin-
ciple upon which only king can stand.
1t does not propose a crown, but it pro-
poses doctrine that can fit nothing
but crown. The Republican party
has done in Porto Rico just what Eng
land did in this country, and our Presi-
dent Is doing to-day just what George
III. did a century and quarter ago.
What difference does 1t matter whether
you call him President, Emperor or
King If he administers to the power of
King?
ism because it strikes n blow at our
principle Of government, we are
against 1t because 1t destroys the moral
prestige OF this nation among the ma
lions of the EARTH
Let me read you what was said by
Mr.. Mckinley himself in regard to this
nations position and in regard to the
principles set forth in the Declaration
OF Independence. We have insisted, as
all have insisted who have defended
the declaration. that it was not writ
ten for day, nor for year. nor for a
was written for all time and all posts.
and that no nation was ever so great
that 1t could not rest securely on that
Declaration of Independence.
WE ARE NOT ALONE.
I'VE were not alone in this idea.
Until the poison of Imperialism entered
the Republicans they agreed with us in
this doctrine. as you will see from a
Fourth of July speech made by the
President himself at Chicago five years
ago last July. Speaking of the authors
and signers of the Declaration of In
dependsnce and the Constitution, he
said:
" They built not for themselves but
Tor posterity. Their plans stretched OH.
into the future, comprising the ages
and embracing mankind. Not alone for
the present were their sacrifices and
their struggles. but for all time there
nfter; not for American coloniStS only,
but for the whole human race wherever
men and women are struggling for
higher and better conditions. 1t was
the yearning of the soul for emancipa-
ton. 1t was the cry OF humanity for
and act within the limitations of just
and proper laws which should be of
their own making
There We're no limitations on that
Constitution then. There were no linn
itations on that Declaration of indie
pendence. 1t was not intended for the
people who struggled then-it was for
them and their children's children to
the remotest ages. 1t was not for the
Anglo-SaXon then-it was for all man.
kind.
REPUBLICANS DEMORALIZED.
II cannot better describe the fall OF
the Republican party. I cannot better
picture Its demoralization-I cannot
better describe it's complete surrender
to the doctrines that underlie monar-
chies and empires and despotism than
to tell you that when a king dies n
Republican president can send a mes
sage of coincidence. but when two re-
publics expire no Republican sheds a
tear. We want the American people
to attend to their own business We
want them to have their own ideas and
stand for them. We want this nation
to be among the nations as a light and
example. / want this nation to be
just and upright, SO that when other
nations quarrel, instead of calling out
great armies to kill each other-tAe.
will say: Leave the question to the
United States; they can be trusted
] want this nation to be n peacemaker
among the nations, and then it will
earn the reward promised to the peace
maker. Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called the children of
Cod"