Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-09-13
Saint NarLJ's Beacon.
GOV. ATGELD's SPEECH.
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1t cannot be maintained without it.
This whole system means the sap
ping of the vitality of the country.
1t means false standards of patriot
ism, false standards of honor. 1t
means feverish display of bar
barrie splendor for brief period.
1t means the degradation and i'm
poyerishment of the masses OF the
people. 1t means the death OF free
institutions. 1t is not new ques-
ton. 1t is as old as government.
1t has been tried repeatedly and re-
peatedly, and all history has but
one voice on this question. The
historian, Froude, has summed up
the experience of the world in the
following language
"If there be one lesson which his
tory teaches it is this, that free ma
tions cannot govern subject pro-
vinces. If they are unable or un"
willing to admit their dependencies
to share their own constitution the
constitution itself will fall in pieces
from mere incompetence for it's du-
ties"
New Departure,
And what are we to gain by this
new departure We are told that
We will extend our trade. Think
of subverting our institutions and
blighting the hopes of the human
race for the sake Of extending trade /!
But it will not extend our trade.
We are to maintain what they call
the "open door" in the Philippines
All nations can trade on the same
basis. If we get any trade there
we will have to compete forit. The
fact that we are expanding millions
to maintain a military system and
subverting our own institutions will
not help us get trade. Besides,
the Philippine people are poor peo-
pie they work for few cents q
day there needs are few they can
not buy goods made by American
high. priced labor. They cannot
buy our wheat, nor our cotton, nor
our factory goods. But their cheap
labor can be utilized by the syn
dicates Of America for tho purpose
of thrusting aside the American
laborer and taking the bread away
from his children.
old Policy Of Repression.
Again, this policy has this mate
rial defect, even for the purpose Of
extending trade, and that is, it rests
on brute force. 1t is the old policy
Of repression, which, by costing the
intellect and REFRESHING the noble
aspirations Of man, arrests develop
ment, and in the end produces de-.
cay and death. In the end, pro.
duces the destruction OF trade.
Whereas the principle OF freedom
acts as a perennial stimulant on
the mind Of man and stimulates
the activities in every field of hu.
man effort, and thus constantly en-
larges trade and commercial enter
prise.
Linooln's Immortal Words.
Listen to tho immortal words Of
Abraham Lincoln
"What constitutes the bulwarks
of our liberty and independence ?
1t is not our frowning battlements
or bristling sea-coasts, our army or
our navy. Our reliance is in the
love of liberty, which God has
planted in us. Our defense ia in
the spirit which prizes liberty as
the heritage of oil men in all lands,
everywhere. Destroy this spirit
and you have planted the seed OF
despotism at your own doors. Ia
mlliarize yourself with the chains
of bondage and you prepare your
own limbs to wear them. Accus-
toned to trample on the rights Of
others, yon have lost the strength
Of your own independence and be-
come the fit subjects Of the first
cunning tyrant who rises among
you.
"They who deny freedom tc