The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-07-25

war. All the mischief done on the
island since the treaty with Spain
has been the thieving of Republic
can politicians. In the Philippines
the same thieving is in progress,
but with it has come one of the
most tragic stories in the history
of the world. Sixteen thousand
Filipinos have lost their lives, their
country has been devastated and
our once friendly and serviceable
allies changed to bitter enemies.
That is what we have done for the
Filipinos. What for the Ameri-
cans2 Five thousand dead of
wounds or disease, or sent back
home wrecks of humanity, with a
money bill of three hundred mill
ions.
We wish all the power possible
to the brutal Rough Rider in his
eulogies of imperialism and rabid
advocacy of the principles of the
czar and the sultan, and his undis-
guised contempt for those of Wash
ington and Lincoln. 1t empha.
sizes the paramount ISSUE"
The Evils OF Imperialism.
BY Carl Schurz.
am profoundly convinced that
the adoption of the imperialistio
policy, policy of criminal aggress-
ion by forcible conquest, and of
substantially arbitrary rule over
subjugated populations, will, no
mattor what the purposes may be,
involve the subversion of the fun
damental principles of our Demo-
cratic government.
To avert so calamitous a result it
is necessary that the American peo-
pie should in the directest and most
unequivocal manner repudiate the
undemocratio policy of criminal
aggression and of subjugating for
eign populations to American SOW
ereignty; and that can at present
be done only by defeating Mr. Mo-
Kinley. in the coming presidential
election.
To accomplish this we may, be-
ing forced to choose between two
evils, have to pay heavy price;
but the stake is SO great that we
may we'll ask ourselves whether any
possible price can be too high; and
1 say this after very mature dolib.
Grafton, as a conservative man, n
great part of whose public life has
been devoted to fighting against
the financial theories represented
by Mr.. Bryan.
If it were even true that Mr.
Bryan would lead us into an inter
nal revolution if elected, it would,
in my opinion, be not nearly as scr
ious and dangerous revolution as
that into which the policy of i'm
periaIism is sure to lead us, and it's
effects would be much more easily
and speedily counteracted than the
total subversion of the fundamen-
tai principles of our democracy
which the policy ofimperialism in
wolves,
And can you be blind to the Of
fects which tho tendencies of i'm
perialism are already exercising
among ourselves upon the popular
mind?
Do you not hear tho soothing
levity with which the Declaration
of Independence and the high ideals
of liberty and human rights which
SO long have been sacred to our
people are made sport of; how the
teachings of Washington and Lin
coin are derided as Anticipated
nursery rhymes, and how the Con
stitution, when it stands in the way
of grasping schemes, is lightly
brushed aside with the hippant
words that constitutions are made
for men, and not mon for consti-
buttons?
1t cannot be repeated too often
that there are things which may be
done by monarchial or aristocratic
governments without making them
less strong as moharohies or arts
tooracies, but which cannot be
done by democracy based upon
universal suffrage without fatally
demoralizing it as demooraoy;
and that one of those things is the
arbitrary ruling of foreign popula-
tions as subjects.
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