The Washington weekly post., 1900-10-02
He Says the Campaign Hinges
on Ordered Liberty.
HATRED BETWEEN NAN AND MAN
This Has Come, He says at Philadelphia.
In the Philippines and the silver Ques.
tea-UItimateIy IL " Nsuld BE the De.
structioa OF Free speech, should Me-
kinney Be Defeated This Fall.

Philadelphia. Pa, Oct. 1-Senator Hen
~ Cabot Lodge this evening addressed an
audience OF 1900 people in the Academy
Of Music presided over by Joseph G. OAR
iington. president OF the Union League.
under the auspices OF which organization
the meeting was held. On the stage were
Representative Bingham, W. w. Gibbs.
chairman OF the local advisory committee
Of. the Republican National Committee.
and many other Republicans prominent in
the city and State Senator Lodges ad-
dress, prefaced by Introductory remarks
from Silas w. Petit and Mr. Darlington,
y.as interrupted frequently with applause,
and al times with cheers.
There is one difficulty" said Senator
Lodge, that / have found in this cam
paign. That is the difficulty of defining
the opposition. They are generally referred.
TO as Democrats. But that is unfair to the
Democratic party. The Democratic party
originally was something to be admired.
But. after the civil war, the Democratic
party went into the paying of bonds with
paper. Thea 1t went after the Greenback
party-one Of its Greenback men sur
wives to-day as its Vice Presidential cart-
ddate. Then they went after the silver
party-an unfortunate expedition, for the
silver party swallowed them. Finally they
went after the anti-imperialists-on of
the smallest parties they ever did go after.
The fact is. | prefer to speak of Mir
Bryan as the candidate for the mixed
ticket
Willing 90 Discuss Imperialism.
But Mr.. Bryan has declared the issue
of anti-imperialism to be the paramount
issue Of this campaign. Let US accept this
as the issue: / am willing to discuss to-
night this paramount issue with Mr.
Bryan, although a great many people in
the West believe the issue that is really
before the American people is still 16 to l.
by Imperialism / take it that Mr.. Bry-
an means the conversion of the United
States into an empire through the medium
of the Philippine Islands. We are not to
be converted into an empire through Por-
10 Rico, which we took in the same way.
We are to be converted by the Philippine
Islands.
Let me ask how we got into the war
with Spain. If | recollect Alright. the
Democrats who were in Congress imme-
diately before war with Spain was de-
elared were at some pains TO find fauit
with President Mckinley because he did
not get into war with Spain soon enough"
WI l@OhSN IGNitA tu DTlSIN ana WALIllN
the history of the Spanish war, down 10
the signing of the treaty of peace. and
the acquisition of the Spanish posEes-
sions, dwelling especially on the defeat in
the Senate of Mr.. Vests amendmarst to
the treaty for the acquisition of the Phil
ippines on the same basis as Cuba, quot
ing the names of men. now opposed TO
the Republican candidates and platform,
who voted against the Vest amendment.
He turned then TO the dread of imperial
ism, with the army as an agent. compar-
ing the 2roportionate strengths OF the
american and the Swiss armies
Army small in Comparison.
in the United States" he observed.
there are eighty-four ohe-hundre,iths
part OF man and eighty-four one-llun-
dredths part of a gCn 10 one thousand of
the population. In Switzerland there are
forty-seven soldiers to one thousand of
the population. The Swiss do not fear
Imperialism very much; need we fear that
tiny eishty-four one-hundredths of 4 SOL
dier we have in our population?
Let me say to our Democratic friends
If they really are afraid of Imperialism
through the army, the Republican partv
is strong enough TO protect them. Let me
V.
and stirring his hearers 10 applause. 'Iet
me say there is something in this cry of
the danger TO the republic that is not
patent on the face of il. What is the
implication against the soldiers of the
United States? What is there in the his
tory of the United States that has justI-
fled this aspersion on the soldiers of the
An erican army? After the civil war
there were 10000 men in the field. the
finest army in the world. There was an
instrument OF tyranny if one was 10 be
found. Those men passed from the bat
tle-feld into civil life as peaceably as ii
there had been no war Danger TO the
republic from those million men in arms?
Why. the man who dared propose to them
an attack upon the Institutions OF the re-
pubic would have suffered at their hands
first of all. Is there any man who be-
lieves that the sons OF those men to-day
are any worse men than their patriotic
fathers were? / for one Will not be-
iieYe IT,"
Conditions in the Philippines.
Senator Lodge reviewed. in a brilliant
descriptive passage. the condition of af-
fairs in the Philippine Islands to-day.
There are no more men in arms They
are merely brigands. AguinalEo is a fugi-
tive and most OF his cabinet. are in iaiI.
Only little while ago Ger. Funston cap
tured the papers of the man who was
Aguinaldo's secretary. and On them the
deliberate statement was made that the
revolutionists were 10 fight until Novem-
| Der 8. Then, IL Mckinley WIS elected, as
he Will be, they were 10 stop
The first thing 10 do in the Philippines
is 10 restore peace and order A great
many people out there have sided with US.
Are we going 10 abandon them TO the
cruel mercy Of Aguinaldo end his follow
ers? Our soldiers have been fired upon.
II seems TO me the thing to- do is 10 leave
politics alone until the fg hting is over
After discussing the situation in the far
East and declaring the philippines the
key to the situation, Mr.. Lodge asked
how the mixed party of the opposition
could accuse the Republican party OF
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