The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-02
AGAINST IMPERIALISM,
POLICY STRONGLY DEMO UNCED BY
CONGRESSMAN LENIZ.

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tions on the Subject.
| Congressman John J. Lentz of Ohio
addressed large democratic gathering
in Music hall last evening on the sub
ject of imperialism He kept thi:
subject as the theme of his remarks
throughout and denounced the policy
in scathing terms. The speaker was
introduced by Chairman John Barlow
who called the attention of the audience
to large banner hung over the stage
on which were the words: For Presi-
dent, William j. Bryan, Nebraska; y
For Vice President, John ]. Lentz
Ohic''
Congressman Lentz spoke over an
hour and half. In opening he said
that he knew he was speaking in a col
lege center, but he thought that town
which is a college center is of all others
most fitted to take UP and discuss the
questions upon which he would speak.
He said he realized that he was on the
under side of the questionable side
that Is not supported at Washington,
but" he added that will not detract
from the truth of my statements"
Going on he spoke in part as follows:
"When Mr. Mckinley says he is carry
ing on his present policy by divine right
l must question his partnership with
the Almighty. I have no evidence that
the Diety has ever been in partnership
with kings or queens or presidents
Therefore I undertake to strip the ques
ton of this pretense, for it is nothing
but pretense. agree with Senator Hoar
when he says, we have dishonored our
great history! ! agree with Senator
Hoars resolutions, introduced in the
senate a short while ago, and which
nearly all the administration papers of
the country were too cowardly and UNI
just to their readers to print"
Here the speaker criticized the press
of Columbus, o., and of other places.
Senator Hoar's resolution" he said,
was printed in but one paper of Co
lumbus. All the other five ignored 1t and
refused to give it to their readers. SEN
ator Beveridge's resolution, introduced
at the same time, was published by all
the papers. How can the American
people have free speech or free ballot
when the NEWSPAPERS are guilty of such
treachery to their readers. The bust
ness of the newspapers is to publish the
news and this is the way they do it.
How well it serves to illustrate my ar
gument you may judge for yourself I
insist upon it that an imperialistic pol
icy is a policy that requires censored
press, requires suppression Of the
truth and the facts, and therefore that
is a shameful policy that
resorts to falsehood and secrecy, fit in
struments and emblenls of all those who
work in the dark and are guilty of
criminal aggressiveness.
THE presidents Philippine policy IS
by the vainglorious thought
hat he is not only the president of the
United States, but emperor of islands
IN the other side of the earth. Let us
compare a speech made by him at
o., on the 18th of October,
500, with the telegram he sent to Ad-
niral Dewey on the 18th of, August, |
1893. At Youngstown the president :
aid: Our boys in blue are in the Phil i,
pppines and they are there because in |
he Providence of God who moves !
nysteriously, that great archipelago has |
an people. 1t was no responsibility |
e-sought, but it was responsibility |
tut upon us
II cannot understand in the face of |
uch patriotic sentiments as these, the
elegram sent by the president to
Dewey on the very day Manila surren-
ered, in which he asked only for any
Dewey could give him in
egard to the Philippines
Mckinley says only one small tribe
ow resists our authority in the Phil
ppines and yet it takes more men than
herman in his march to the sea, than
frant had at Appomattox, to subdue
his one small tribe, and it isn't done
ct
why is it that the young manhood
f the country is so Indifferent to this
ar in the Philippines? If you wanted
olunteers in New Haven to-day you
'ouldn't get them. Has it ever been
} before? No, and it's a dangerous
ystem to institute. The cry is, My
1untry, right or wrong, my country,
ut that is all This cry should be
hanged to My country, right or
rong, my country If she's right,
and by her; if she's wrong set her
ght'
why should the people Of this coun-
Y be denied the knowledge of what is
cling done in this war? Why shouldn't s
lie truth, and nothing but the truth
! given out? That's the issue. The {
resident not only conceals what is go |
g on over there, but he absolutely ;
les not know how to issue 'procla- ,
alton to the Filipinos. In the procla- !
alton he sent down to Otis a little ,
Ter year ago he said that we had OBJ ,
ined sovereignty over the islands
It's changed it and modified it and is
led it to the people in form that {
entioned nothing of sovereignty |
hat did the Filipinos think? Why I
ey asked themselves, is the presi-
mt guilty of duplicity in issuing two
one totally different from {
e other?' That's what they asked {
and as they did so they also +
1ndered which was the more crafty |
the two, the king of Spain or the ,
esident What authority did Otis {
We to do as he did? What right has 7
major general to alter his presidents 4
oclamation? And why did President 7
permit it? This is but {
other question which arises in the G
scussion of this subject. The war in i
E Philippines was begun by a stray 7
ct, which Aguinaldo immediately ev-