The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-01
A NEW ISSUE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY.

PARTY.
The Democratic party is In great luck in
having a new issue furnished for IL at a
party that lives from hand to mouth as
far as principles are concerned and that
always has scouts and foragers out for a
supply of issues TO last 1t through a cam
paign is certainly TO be congratulated when
a new one is Unexpectedly furnished. like
mamma from heaven. Up to the present
time the Democratic issues for the next
campaign have all developed serious de-
fects. Free trade is wormy. opposition to
trusts a sham. anti-expansion unpopular.
pathy for Aguinaldo savors too much of
the unpatriotic. and sympathy for the
Beers will have nothing TO live on when
the war ends. The new issue is sympathy
for the Chinese Boxers. The time. the cir
cumstances and the nature of the issue
point TO it as a providential deliverance for
the Democracy. To begin with the Boxers
are fighting for independence, just as the
Filipinos and the Beers are. The Filipinos
are fighting to throw off the tyranny of
the United States government. the Beers
the tyranny of British rule, and the Box
ers the tyranny of Chinese dominion. All
alike are fighting for license TO do as they
please and in opposition to government
without the consent of the governed. The
Tagalos want to rule the other tribes in
the Philippines. the Beers want to enslave
the native Africans, and the Chinese Box
ers-well, they want to put down the fell
lows who are trying to hold them down.
In this they are entitled to the sympathy
are "ag'in the government on general
principles. They ave another claim on
Democratic sympathy in the fact that they
propose to expel foreigners from China.
The Democratic party does not believe in
allowing foreigners to rule anywhere ex-
cept in the United States. 1t is in full SYM
pathy with the efforts of the Fflipinos TO
expel foreigners from the Philippines and
with the Boer policy of discriminating
against o~utlanders. 1t believes that Amer
it0io cAAOaAo w "
pines, and that both Americans and British
in the Transvaal should be taxed without
representation and subjected to every sort
of legal disability. Naturally. therefore, 1t
should s~ympathize with the purpose of the
Boxers to drive foreigners out of China.
Throughout the north" says a dispatch.
''the Boxers are enlisting hordes of des-
peradoes. They are intent upon expelling
everything foreign" Substitute Aguinaldo
for Boxers, and this describes the situa-
ton in the Philippines. In the Transvaal
Ii differed only In that the Beers enlisted
hordes of adventures and soldiers of for
tune of all nationalities. the main object
being to expel everybody except Beers and
Boer sympathizers from South Africa.
The dispatches also say that the Boxers
have murdered nine Methodist mission
aries in one province, and that all the
powers are likely to take action for the
suppression of the outbreak. This should
fire the heart of a party which is ever
people fighting for independence and
against foreign oppression. What right
have Methodist missionaries In China?
Certainly no more than they have in the
Philippines, where the Democratic party
says they have no right at all. If the Fill
pinos are justified In driving American
missionaries out of the islands or into the
sea the Boxers have an equal right to MUIR
der those who have gone to China to in
wade the traditions of the people. Fore
most among the powers that threaten to
interfere in China under the plea of estab-
fishing order and protecting the lives and
property Of their subjects is Great Brit
ain-the same odious and tyrannical power
that rejected the ultimatum of the Boer
Republic and repealed the war for inde- |
pendence which the Beers began by carry |
ing IT into British territory. Here is a fine
chance for the Democratic party to give
the British lions tail a twist and to de- |
clare their unalterable conviction that the
Boxers are and of right ought to
free and independent. the Infamous
threat OF the British government to extend
its dominion under the false pretense of
protecting its subjects to the contrary not
withstanding. II the Democratic party
wishes to preserve it's character for con-
sistency and for always espousing the
of the weak and the oppressed and
of those who are fighting for the right to
do as they please ii should lose no time in
declaring in favor of the Boxers. Resolu-
tons of sympathy should be introduced in
both branches of Congress Immediately.