The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-26

the States, but when we have ex
banded heretofore we have ex-
tended the limits of a republic.
Now we are asked not to expand
the limits of a republic, but to
recognize the imperial destiny of
the American people and convert
"a republic into an empire. APP
plause.l This is the first time
when we are told that we must
cross an ocean, conquer a people,
drag them under our flag and
then tell them they are never to
be citizens, but are to be subjects
and to be treated with kindness
by our people. Applause.l And
what defenses do you hear made
of itf Well, l have heard three
defenses-first, there is the finan-
cial argument, that there is money
in it; then there is the religious
argument, that God is in it, and
then there is the political argu-
ment, that we are in it-and can't
get out. Laughter and applause. |
"Take the money argument,
that there is money in it. 1t is
the lowest argument ever made
in defense Of a public policy.
Republicans, from what estate
has your party fallen that it will
attempt to settle a question of so
great moment by the measures of
dollars and cents? And yet the
man who attempts to settle this
question in that way, and who
says that it will pay, has upon
him the burden of proof to show,
first, how much we will spend,
and, secondly, how much we will
get. He has got to show that
we will get more than we will
spend or it won't pay, and then
he has got to show that the men
who spend the money we spend
will get the money we make.
He can't show either. How is he
going to know what it will cost
us? Who can tell how much it
will cost us to conquer and hold
in subsection eight millions of
Malays, 1000 miles away from
our shores. scattered over 1900
islands, living under a tropical
sun and fighting from the protec
tion of the jungle, and who can
tell how often we will have to re-
peat the chastisement?
'Ah, my friends, the man who
says it will be has got to show
first how much money he will
spend, and then he has got to
show you how many lives it will
cost, and then he must tell you
how much life will cost. When
he tells you it will pay, you have
got to put a money value upon
each American life. Republi.
cans, dare You to put money
value upon an American life!
lTumultuous applause. When a
boys dies for liberty his mother
thanks God that she has borne a
son for so noble a sacrifice. but
where is mother who will rear a
boy to exchange for Oriental
trade at so much a head? APP,
plause. want trade. / want
to expand our trade by peaceful
means, but | would not put one
American boy on the auction
block and sell him for all the
trade of the universe, [applausel,
and yet the man who says it will
pay must be prepared to figure
with pencil how much the boy is
worth.
THE "HoME" PROSPECT.
"Why, they say that these
islands will furnish homes for
our surplus population. Think
of it! Sixty people to the square
mile over there now, and 20 to the
square mile here. Laughter. Fur
nish homes for our surplus popu
lation? Why, my friends when
it is possible for people to pass
freely from the Philippine Islands
to the United States and from
the United States to the Philip
pine Islands there will be more
Malays coming to this country to
bring their Oriental habits and
compete with American labor
than there will be Americans to
go over and live in the tropics.
Other nations have tried it. Eng
land has the Island of Jamaica,
southeast of here. There are
600, 900 black people alone there
and less than 1900 whites. The
Netherlands have controlled Java
for 800 years, and there are %
OOO,OO brown people and less
than 10000 of European blood.
Spain controlled the Philippines
for 300 years and yet there were
less than 10000 Spanish residents
out of 10, 100000 of people. Eng
land has dominated India for a
century and half and there are
only 100000 people of British
birth out of 100000, 900 there;
and it takes a British army of 20, /.
600 to take care of that 100, 900,
and they have to have a native
army of 100000 people to help
the British army of 10000 to