Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-09-06
IMPERIALISM.
Edilas az DEMooRAT.

Editor Of DEMOCRAT:
The Republican press Of the country are
exhausting their editorial ingenuity in inn
potent efforts to minimize the imperialistic
policy and to dissolve the fears Of those
who believe that such policy is resident
in the Mckinley Hanna idea Of our mani
fest destiny Taking a retrospective view
Of our war history, when Chas. Sumner
one of the founders Of the Republican party
and a broad-minded, patriotic statesman
made his early footprints III public life, he
began By what he, himself, called 'declara-
ton Of war against war, and his Grafton in
fremont Temple, on The True Grandeur
Of Nations, 2 is probably one Of the most
cogent and noblest pleas ever made by an
American for the preservation of happiness
and peace ON earth, and the advocates Of
anti-imperialism can we'll refer TO it for
moral support and resolve at this crisis Of
our national policy, when the innoculation
of the germs Of the benevolent assimlla-
ton by Mr.. Mckinley into the blood Of
the Filipinos, through the medium Of the
bullet, has developed into maleyolent
Discrimination and disintegration with no
tissue of truth to feed upon. IN this
speech special stress and emphasis was laid
upon the cost and waste of war and the
incalculable advantage that would result
| from the diversion OF these misapplied re-
sources to purposes OF education and the
real development and progress Of society
/ Upon this subject Longfellow, also, said:
IF half the money raised to maintain
armies and nayies was donated to educate
the human race and redeem the human
mind there would soon be no need Of
armies and nayies;s in other words-nO
! cdsus beltt.
The deplorable consequences of imperial
ism is now being sadly revealed III the
course pursued by England in enforcing her
imperious decree to subiugate the Beers,
while her subjects in India are dying by
the thousands of starvation in the streets
of Bombay, whittier they come from the
rural districts to beg aims. According to
the Editor of the Christian Herald, it is
necessary to send out courier in advance
of the teams going through the side streets
in order to arouse their emaciated bodies
from the lethargy of death SO that the
teams can pass. The details of the condi-
tions existing there are too horrible to re-
peat, and vet England turns her back upon
this portion OF her family to enforce her
imperial policy in the African Republic,
cost already enough money to save India
from such famine for years to come, if she
devoted as much energy to improve their
condition as she does to conquer the liberty
loving Beers.
In our late war with Spain, 1901 pen
sions have been applied for, which was
more than the number of men in actual
fighting service and the record of the
Pension Office shows that many of these
claims are based upon fatalities resulting
from the notorious "embalmed beef and
unsanitary conditions of camp life due to
the incompetence of "Algerism, !" which
the people of the United States have not
forgotten, is one of the enduring evils and
attributes of bloody war If the older
statesmen, who followed the cardinal princi-
pies of the Declaration as the guiding star
of their patriotism, were not right in their
antagonism to the military spirit which
now characterize the present policy of the
sMc-Hanna7 Administration, can we more
happily trust our destiny in the hands Of
these latter day afmor-ptdtc statesmen,
whose patriotism is measured only by the
Gold Standards
Mr.. DENLY, former Minister to China and
the Governments representative of the
become so cold-blO0ded and commercial in
his zeal Of conquest that he says: ''The
cold, hard, practical question alone remains:
will the possession Of these islands benefit
us as a nation? If it will not set them free
tomorrow and let their people, if they
please, cut each others Threats OF play
what pranks they please" This blunt and
brutal statement clearly reflects the senti-
Aho&
policy in the Philippines and shows how far
our code Of morality has already degen-
Grated into code of brutality.
These facts, with the constantly increas-
ing death list from the "police'' force in
the Philippines NOW about 50, 600 remind
MS Of the burden of war taxes and consti-
tute very formidable argument for the
anti-imperialists and an appalling epitaph
of Imperialism, before which the followers
of the flag and the Constitution will stop,
and, after due reflection, enter ballot
protest against engrafting such military
policy upon the United States and before
which even the Gods OF Conquest would
do well to bow down and atone for their
criminal course With military rule in
Cuba, the Philippines, Porto Rico and our
soldiers in China, we can no longer claim to
I't07eeA7
unless some of the patriotism of our fore
fathers, whose wisdom OWNED the future
creed Of this Republic, as defined in the
Declaration and Constitution can be en-
listed to combat this departure from the
early traditions of our Republican form of
Government, the dust OF antique time
will lie unswept till mountainous error be
too highly heaped for truth to overpeer
Elect Mckinley and you will sustain the
military policy already adopted by the
present Administration, which makes
ieia upon the energy and Likelihood of the
younger generation to compensate the
avaricious greed of the Hanna-type of
statesmen in trying to build an Empire
4aaee to this Republic.
Elect Bryan and you win add leayen to
the patriotism that imbued the early
founders of our Republic, and henceforth
perpetuate the peaceful habitation of our
posterity-a blessing unknown to Empires
and legacy they cannot bequeath.
AN ORGANIC DEMOCRAT.
Sewen, n. j., Sept. 4, 1900.