The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-05

A hT1b1m Lincoln I1lCB WOuAN nAlCW bA&S
he said it was not party, but God him.
self who planted in the human heart the
love of liberty, which no Republican party
can take away So that the Filipinos
would not fight but for the hope of Dem
ocratic success.
PEOPLE LOVE NO FOREIGN MASTER.
sIInfil human nature is entirely changed
people held in bondage will rise against
it whenever there is prospect OF sue
cess. God never made a race that would
welcome a foreign master, and 1000
years from now, no matter what party is
in power the Filipinos will hate us and
stand ready to rise against us if we at
tempt to hold them in vassalage and tax
them without consent
The Germans are planning a movement
east of Tung Chow to capture the arsenal
Republicans, what we object to is that
in order to defend your imperial policy
you have to lay down doctrines, which,
if carried out, will destroy the rights
OF the American people to participate in
their own government That is our OBJ
lection to your policy. If you are simply
going to kill the Filipinos off and come
home we might get over the crime. But
that is not your policy. You dare not
kill them off because you want to trade
with them. You would destroy your trade
argument if you kill them. You cannot
trade with dead people.
s'You want them for subjects, but you
shall not have them for subjects If we
can prevent it. You cannot make sub
iects out of them without changing our
ideas of government. You can't hold them
in perpetual servitude without amending
your Constitution either openly or lndl-
rectly and the same power that can disre-
gard the Constitution and make subject
out of a Filipino can disregard the Con-
stitution and make subjects out OF the
American people. You have as much right
to disregard the Constitution in the Uni
ted States as you have in Porto Rico.
You have as much right to exclude Amer
lean citizens from the guarantees of their
Constitution as you have to exclude Porto
Ricans
APING GEORGE THE THIRD.
1.-The Republican party is following the
paths of monarchy. 1t does not propose
a king, but it proposes a principle upon
which only a king can stand 1t does
not propose a crown, but it proposes a
doctrine that can fit nothing but crown.
The Republican party has done in Porto
Rico Just what England did in this coun-
try and our President is doing today just
what George III did century and a
quarter ago. What difference does it
make whether you call him president,
emperor, or king if he administers the
powers of a king?
eve are not only against Imperialism
because it strikes blow at our principle
of government, we are against it because
it destroys the moral prestige of this ma
ton among the nations of the earth
LET me read you what was said by
Mr.. Mckinley himself in regard to this
nations position and in regard to the
principles set forth in the Declaration of
independence. We have insisted as all
have insisted who have defended the dec
laration that it was not written for day,
nor for a year, nor for a century. we
have contended that it was written for all
time and all peoples and that no nation
would ever be so great that it could not
rest securely on that Declaration of In
dependence We were not alone in this
idea Until the poison of Imperialism en-
tered the Republicans they agreed with
us in this doctrine, as you will sec from
a fourth of July speech made by the
President himself at Chicago five years
ago last July. Speaking of the authors
and signers of the Declaration of indie
pendence and the Constitution, he said:
They built not for themselves but
for posterity. Their plans stretched out
into the future, comprising the ages and
embracing mankind. Not alone for the
present were their sacrifices and their
struggles but for all time thereafter; not
for American colonists only but for the
whole human race wherever men and
women are struggling for higher, and
better conditions. 1t was the yearning
of the soul for emancipation. 1t was the
cry of humanity for decentralization to
think speak and act within the limitation
of just and proper laws which should
be of their own making
There were no limitations on that
Constitution. There were no limitation
on that Declaration of Independence 1t
was not intended for the people who
struggled then, it was for them and their
children's children to the remotest ages.
1t was not for the Anglo-Saxon then. 1t
was for all mankind.
"OH, HOW FALLEN, HOW CHANGED"
the Republican party, | cannot better
picture it's decentralization, / cannot bet
ter describe its complete surrender to
the doctrines that underlie monarchies
and empires and despotisms than to tell
you that when a king dies a Republican
President can send message of condo
leDce but that when two republics expire
no Republican sheds a tear. We want
the American people to attend to their
own business. We want them to have
their own ideas and stand for them. We
want this nation to be among the nations
as a light and example.
81 want this nation to be just and up
right, so that when other nations quar-
rel, instead of calling out great armies
to kill each other, they will say: Leave
the question to the United States, they
can be trusted / want this nation to
be peacemaker among the nations and
then it will earn the reward promised
to the peacemaker Blessed are the
peaeemakers, for they shall be called the
children of God .
At the concluding session of the con-
vention, Hon. Bourke Cochran was the
speaker. Governor Mcmillan, of Tennes-
see, called the meeting to order and in
troduced Mr.. Cochran. He devoted his
speech to the question of imperialism.
Mr. Stevensnn's Sneech