The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-05-19
CHARLES CRANES OPEN
LETTER TO MAI, GRANT
CONTINUED from page L.

iS5Oo must liOA DG OISOllcIl III TIE race
for wealth and commercial supremacy
| The government of the people must bt
by the people and not by few of the
people
Now listen, major to this culled from
the Declaration of Independence: III
must rest upon the free consent of the
| governed and all of the governed
! Major, get down lower still and open
wide your ears, Power, it must be re-
| membered, which is secured by oppreS-
sion or usurpation or by any form OF
/ injustice is soon dethroned. We have
no right in law or morals to usurp that
which belongs to another, whether it
be property or power"
These are the words of a patriot, be-
fore he became seduced by those around
him. For those principles we (who
denounce the policy Of this a6ministra-
tion) now contend.
You say They Cthe Filipinos) have
now under our military rule more lib
erty than they ever had in their lives
before" So said or wrote General Gage
to Lord Dartmouth week after Bun
ker Hill. The rebels do not see that
they exchanged liberty for tyranny. No
people were ever governed more abso-
lutte than the American provinces now
are, and no reason can be given for
their submission, but that it is tyranny
which they erected themselves"
Flag and Constitution.
Major, those who think as l do be-
lieve that wherever the American flag
floats there is the constitution in force.
Lincoln said this republic could not
exist half slave and half free" and we
who believe in the constitution and the
Declaration of Independence say, this
republic cannot exist half republic and
h6\ empire. We oppose the war in
those distant islands, because it means
disease and death to tens of thousands
OF the brave sons of this republic. not
only by the bullet, but that other great
scourge of war, in tropical countries,
that most loathsome of all diseases,
which once tainting the blood is almost
Major, we Lincoln Republicans re-
we're the constitution and the immortal
Declaration of Independence. which.
written by Jefferson, was Endorsed by
the fathers, and for it's preservation
Lincoln said he was willing to be as
sassinated. Fremont stood on that
platform in 1856, Lincoln in 1850 and il
has been reafffrmed again and again
since then.
We hate imperialism and love the
republic. We deny that 10000, 600 brave
people can be bought from those who
had no right to sell for 81 per head and
then be shot down by tens of thou
sands in the name of benevolent as
We believe We have rot yet advanced
the car of liberty so far that we can
now reverse its wheels. We have not
done SO much for the fair goddess that
we can now turn and rend her
We believe that love of liberty per-
meates every human breast, regardless
Of the color of the skin.
We believe that the Filipinos are |
Gods children, and that a universal !
father has implanted in their bosoms /
the same love of liberty and justice |
that animates our own.
We are opposed to the subjugation Of i
IN alien people. because history teaches |
is that sovereignty acquired by the |
sword must be maintained by the |
sword, and that wealth gained by rob-
berry is certain in the md to weaken |
and corrupt the possessor.
We oppose annexation of the Philip i
pines because it Skaters the Monroe !
doctrine from top to bottom.
Lincoln said: Destroy this the |
spirit of liberty and you SOW the spirit |
If desDotism at your own DOORS"
1t was Lincoln who led us through /.
he red sea of fire and blood, and |
struck the shackles from 4.0OO 900 |
slaves and made them free yet today |
here are those who masquerade in his
name, who arrogate to themselves the
light to enSlave in political bondage
100000 brave people, who dare to do
md die for liberty while in our own
and, dedicated to freedom, are millions
# industrial slaves, whose homes are
'eing looted by tyrannical and pratt
al trusts.
We oppose a great standing army as
IN unnecessary burden upon q free
people, and because we know that all
he great battles for freedom have
'een fought by volunteer soldiers, and
vi the great battles against liberty
AVE been fought by standing armies
3y standing army you tell the SOL
.ier that he is TO be kept in idleness,
nd that the bowed shoulders of toll
sill support him as a hired butcher.
BY q standing army we encourage mill
tarism, a spirit Numerically opposed
o the spirit of our institutions.
We oppose a standing army because
Judging from the article before mel
creates an arrogant aristocracy of
Military satraps on the one hand, and
associated society sapheads on the
Their.
Major, we are Republicans, but we
re not slaves.
We believe Gas it was during the de-
line of Rome) that the majority of the
resent congress and senate merely
onfirm the will of the executive who,
erhaps honest and patriotic himself,
as become, through the power of
-ealth and INSCRIPTIONS greed (by
'hich the great Ohio suspect, Mark
lama, your leader has surrounded
inn, the plant, plastic tool of these
money monsters.
You will. / know, pardon me, when /
uggest that you do not read enough;
hat you have not studied the history
f this nation; that you do not yet
now its aims nor its aspirations. You
ave forgotten the history of Rome,
{ Greece and other republics, which,
Ike our own, were the admiration of
he world, yet through lust of world
over" and empire, and by foreign
are now but a memory.
The power which controls the Repub-
can party, which demands a standing
rmy, which legislates for trusts and
efends corporate greed, which per-
tits our old enemy the British empire,
dictate and make our laws, which
nitates Imperialism in all its malig-
ant forms, which refuses to extend a
solution of sympathy to struggling
hristian people in far-away Africa,
hich permits agents of blood-thirsty
ngland to open official communica
ons without protest, and then kick :
Ie loyal American official because he
mself protested, which is destroying
Iose who demand political liberty as
e did from King George, which is
'ostituting and debauching the SUI
J., IL c-kac.