Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-24
TUESDAY JULY "a, 1900.
THE PARTY OF FREEDOM.

The folly of the charge that
the republican party is the party
of ''imperialism' becomes as
plain when the party's recent
history is examined as it does
when its more remote record is
consulted. President Mckinley
was right when he said that 'the
republican party broke the
shaekles of 1900, 900 slaves and
made them free" The republi-
can party also broke the shackles
of 8, 900 900 Filipiuos, 1900, 900
Cubans and 1000, 900 Porto
Ricans. All of these peoples
along until the United States
emaucipated them in 1898 were
living in a condition of servitude
as abject as that which the
negroes of the South were in at
time in 1861 when Alexander H.
Stephens, the vice president Of
the confederacy, declared that
his government had slavery for
its cornerstone, says the st.
Louis Globe-Democrat. And the
element of the people who were
in control of the United States
in 1898, and who directed its
policy then and since, was the
republican party.
When the history of the great
events of the past two years is
written by impartial persons,
after the prejudices and passions
Of the present time are dead, the
republican party's connection
with the emancipation of 1898
will hold as large and honorable
a place in the annals of time as
did its connection with the eman-
cipation through Linceln's pro-
clan1ation of 1868 and the thir-
teenth amendment of 1865.
The same party which freed the
1900, 900 beings whose enslave-
lnent the democratic confederacy
would have made perpetual
struck the shackles off the TO-
500, 900 Inhabitants of Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines.
The recent act will fill as credita-
BILE a place in the history of the
century as the earlier achieve
ment occupies. -
In the present work of human
enfrancisement, as in the earlier
task, the republican party is as
sailed by the democracy. The
emancipation proclamation and
the thirteenth amendment were
attacked continuously for years
after they were carried into
operation. Clement L. Vallan.
digham in 1871 warned his party
that it could never win an cleo
ton in this country again, and
never would deserve to win, un-
til it began to pay some atten-
ton to accomplished facts and
stop fighting the things which
the rebellion had settled. There
is room for another Vallandig-
ham at the present time to tell
the democracy that the flag
which is up in the Philippines
will stay up, and that the free
dom which the republican party
has given to the islands inhabi-
tants, and which the democrats
would end by forcing the Ameri-
cans to give up all control of the
islands, is to be perpetual. VAL
landigham was the most virulent
cepperhead and anti-American
in the United States in 1866,
but he learned something by his
follies and defeats. The Bryans,
Joneses, Stones, Stevensons and
Baileys of 1900, who are assail-
ing their government in its
maintenance of American author
ity in the PHILIPPINES, will meet
the same disaster which con-
fronted Vallandigham when he
wrote the war-a-' ''failure" plank
of the democratic platform of
1864. Let us see after the cleo
ton if they will, like their great
copperhead progenitor of a gen.
Grafton ago, learn anything from
adversely.
SDaoL;,o Cf tho recer,t action