Arizona silver belt., 1900-03-29

lLauRnter. FurnlSn homes Tor our
 surplus population: Why, my friends,
 when it is possible for people to pass
 freely from the Philippine Islands to
 the United States and from the Unit
 ed States to the Philippine Islands,
 there will be more Malays coming tC
 this country to bring their oriental
 habits and compete with American
 labor than there will be Americans
 going over there to live in the tropics.
 No, my friends, you cannot advocate
 imperialism on the ground that it will
 pay; you cannot advocate it ou the
 ground that we go there to educat2;
 but there is an argument that has
 been urged; believe 1t has had more influence than the money argument
 and that is the religious argument:
 that God is in it. A republican Sena-
 tor said the other day that God opened
 the door of the Philippine islands. l pushed us in and shut the door. I Laughter and applause. The queS- l tion that arose in my mind was, who told him 50: Laughter. When a 1 man tells me that it is Gods will. l i demand to know when God told him so, Applause, want to know when
 and where the revelation was made, and if he got it from somebody else. want to know from whom in order that l may demand that mans ere dentialS Applause.
 l believe in God, l believe that he | influences the thoughts and purposes of men; but l am unwilling to blame God for every thought and every pur- pose that a man may have. If l feel in my heart an impulse to do good, will trace it to God. Ii l feel in my heart an impulse to do wrong l will
 not blame him. If I feel in my heart an impulse to put my hand into my own pocket and take my money and give it to someone in distress, will trace the impulse to God; but if l feel in my heart an impulse to put my hand into some other persons pocket and take his money, l will not lay it onto the Almighty: there Is another old fellow that I will lay it on. [Ap- plause and laughter.J l heard of a colored man once who was very fond of chicken. but not always mindful of
 the commandments; and he said that when he prayed to God to send him a chicken, God seldom did it: but that when he prayed to God to send him after chicken, he nearly always got il. Laughter and applause be- lieve that the republican party has prayed to God to send it after the chicken. Laughter. l want to denOunce this doctrine that God has selected the republican party to wage in his name a war of conquest Tell me that you want the glory of empire: Why, for hundred years NAiiN llaNsbh titt0 VI AliN Hdlilh dA that leads from the low domain of might to the loftier realm of right
 and l would not trade it's history for all the empires that have risen and fallen since time began. Applause.
 Tell me that you want to be world power. Why, for more than ten de- cades this nation has been the most potent influence in the world for more than hundred years this nation has done more to affect the politics of the human race than all the other nations of the world together. Here you have witnessed the triumph of an idea. During the closing years of the eighteenth century this republic was formed: 1t was dedicated to the doc urine that all men are created equal: that they are endowed with inaliena- bc rights, that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. During the nineteenth century this idea has grown. An. my friends, this idea has been more pow erful than all the armies and all the navies of the monarchies of the earth. | lApplause.l And would not trade this idea for the results of warfare of conquest. Shall we build upon the doctrine laid down by the fathers, or shall we build upon the shifting sand:
 But they say we are in it and can not get out. Laughter. l want to remind you that the people who say we cannot get out are the people who led us into the trouble. Tell me that God did it, tell you that the repub- 1. lican administration is responsible for every act upon which every argument in favor of permanent retention is based. They say, we must stay in the | Philippines, because Dewey destroyed , d fleet at Manila? 1 reply that Schley . destroyed one at Santiago Ap- ! plauSe. And yet the republican pres | ident promised the Cubans that we would get out of Cuba. Tell me we . must stay in the Philippine islands . because American blood was shed on