Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-18

our taking the Philippines They pulled
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 woe, we would have to do
in the Philippines should they be success
full in this election. Yet not one of them
now would dream of saying that we were
not do so, when by strange irony the
Kansas City convention had to rely upon
the vote of Hawaii before 1t could settle
its views on the financial system of our
country.
A Wicked Absurdity.
A more wicked absurdity than the Kan
sas City proposition for dealing with the
Philippines was never enunciated by the
representatives of political party.
1 would ask those who by their word
have encouraged the warfare of the Fill
pinos against US to recall the letter of
General Lawton, written just before his
death, in which he pointed out that the
blood of his soldiers Redeemed the hands OF
the men at home who encouraged our foes
abroad.
Some years ago when certain fasteners
were clamoring in the name of humanity
against the army officers who warred to
protect the western settlers from the In
dams General Sheridan wrote: Il do not
know how far these humanttarians should
be accused on account of their ignorance.
out surely II Is tle OIiy tACuSc lHdt Gail
give shadow of justification for aiding and
abetting such horrid crimes" The schem-
ing politicians at Kansas City have not
even the excuse of ignorance when they
against our soldiers, with the base hope
that thereby they may further their own
political advancement
Expansion Means Peace in the End.
Expansion means in the end not war. but
peace. But, like every other great good. 1t
can normally be achieved only by effort at
the outset. Woe to us We shrink from
such effort woe If we fail to do our duty
because the first step seems hard to the
weakling and the men of little heart. If
we are to retain the respect of mankind, we
must do no wrong and must not endure
wrong from others. We must strive with
earnest good faith to secure the steady bet
terment of the populations over which we
have assumed control. We must show our
selves anxious to work in a spirit Of frank
and open friendship with other civilized ma
lions. 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 we shrank
in the past from the various kinds of ex-
pansions which carried us from Florida and
New Mexico to Alaska.
This election is more important than any
that this country has seen, save only the
election of "a, and have the right to
appear TO every man worthy TO call ntmSelI
good citizen that he shall stand by us in
this contest for upright and honest legis-
lation and administration at home and
abroad, for the unfolding of the flag and
the great privilege of doing the worlds
work as beseems a great world power.
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 1t
is almost unthinkable, and a disgrace so
lasting that more than a generation would
have to pass before 1t could be wiped out.
They stand for lawlessness and disorder
for dishonesty and dishonor, for license and
disaster at home and cowardly shrinking
from duty abroad. We ask the support Of
all Americans who have the welfare of the
country at heart. no matter what their
political Affiliations may have been In the
past. We ask the support of all sound
headed men who do not wish to see our