Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-07-26

Zone of the messages given out by the
war department read, Volunteers willing
to remain Representative Lentz found
that in the original it read, Volunteers
unwilling to re.enlist. but willing to re-
main until further transports arrive
"The people have been made the vic
Tins Of confidence ganfe," declared Mr..
Schurz, with energy. "They have been
fooled by sanctimonious cant Disgusting
evil deeds.
III the American voters indorse the
conduct OF the administration in using
the services Of the Filipinos as our allies,
leaving them in the belief that they were
fighting for their own independence. and
then robbing them Of that independence
as soon as their services were no longer
needed-thus betraylng our allies in a
most shameless fashion, and turning
what we had heralded to the world as a
war Of liberation into q war Of conquest,
and of most treacherous conquest at that
then our moral credit with the world
will be gone forever. Unless the people
at the polls discountenance this scandal.
GUS wrong no one will again believe in
any profession Of goodness or virtue we
may put forth.
ut is suprem1ly important to the
American people that they shall not be.
come unfaithful to the fundamental prin.
ciples of their democracy that they shall
not lose their high ideals Of liberty, jus.
tice and right, and that they shall wash
from the escutrheon Of tho republic the
blot put upon it BY such outrageous faith.
lessness to allies.
Reconsideration adherence to the i'm
perialistic policy divides Americans into
two classes, first class Americans, who
take part in the government, and Ameri.
cans of the second class, who are to be
ruled. Instead Of government of the
people, by the people, and for the people,
we have government Of one part Of the
people, the strong, over another part of
the people, the weak. The imperial
policy is teaching the young that might ia
right, teaching them to scott at the Dec.
laration of Independence, to make sport
Of the high ideals Of liberty, to ridicule
the teachings Of Washington and of Lin.
coin as antiquated nursery rhymes, and
even to consider that the Constitution ia
to be lightly brushed aside when It stands
In the way Of land grasping schemes"
It is this moral aspect Of the matter,
Mr.. Schurz insists, that will bring the
question home to the consciences Of the
people, which so far could be depended
upon ultimately to enforce that which
was right.
"Do you believe the moral side Of the
question will influence the average voter
as against the commercial advantages OIL
expansion" asked Mr.. Schurs.
"In the first place." Mr.. schurz ans
wered, "the moral questis n is superior te
mere commercial problems. In the sec
ond place, when the imperiaiists say the
subiugation Of foreign countries is neces'
sary to the expansion Of oui commerce
they say that which is false.
Gas our official statistics show, oul
foreign commerce, and especially the ex
portation oil American products-not only
the products Of the soil, but manufactured
goods-has Of late years tremendously
increased without any territorial contest
and even without the display of formida
BILE ornaments. They have increased
not because we possessed more guns, bu
because we furnished superior goods a
comparatively lower prices. And their
is not the slightest reason for doubling
that they would continue to increase il
the same way II we continued in peace
able way to offer to the world the same
inducements.
II have repeatedly and publicly chal
lenged the imperialists to deny that W
could have obtained all the commercial
facilities and advantages, all the accom-
modations for our navy and all the neces
sary footholds for our Asiatic trade b.
respecting the rights OF the Philippine
Islanders and without killing thousand
and thousands OF them for the purpose o
subjugating them to our sovereignty, ant
those challenges have been unanswered
1--WE could do the same thing today b.
treating the Philippine Islanders upol
the same principles upon which We hav
promised to treat the Cubans. Thus W