The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-22
THE ANTI'S ISSUE
ANOTHER ADDRESS
They Ask All Independent Voters
in the United States to Support
William j. Bryan.
By Exclusive Wire from The Associated Press

BY Exclusive Wire from The Associated Press
Chicago, Oct. 21.--The American
Anti-Imperialist League issued an ad-
dress tonight to "all independent vot-
ers in the United States" asking
them to support William ]. Bryan for
president. Among the names at
tached to the document are those of
George S. Boutwell,, Boston; ID. H.
Chamberlain, Massachusetts. former
governor, of South Carolina; Joseph S.
States senator; Edwin l.. Godkin,
New York; William Lloyd Garrison.
Boston; Judson Harmon, Cincinnati,
eX-attorney general; Bishop f. D.
Huntington, Syracuse, N. Y. Thomas
wentworth Higginson. Boston: ex-
Congressman Henry Y. Johnson. of
Indiana; William r. Lord, Portland,
Ore: Charles Eliot Norton, Harvard
university; Franklin Pierce, New
York; Arthur Lathem Perry, Williams
college; Edward NJ. SHEPPARD. New
York; Mooretield Storey, Boston; Ed
win Il. Uhl, Grand Rapids. Mich; John
j. Valfine, president s-Fargo EX-
press company; United States Senator
George l.. Wellington. Maryland. and
tS-NOllSfGSSllldIl JOull DcWlll w drleI,
New York.
The address says:
1--WE regard with profound appren-
hension the course of the present ad-
ministration in Porto Rico and the
Philippines. Our prior acquisitions
| were of adjacent territory for the eX-
| tension of the area of constitutional
government and creation of new
states of the union. We made their
! few inhabitants citizens; our people
settled there; we there established the
institutions of freedom. For the first
time in our history it is now pro-
posed that the president and congress
f, shall rule over vast territories and
| millions of men outside of our con-
| stitutional system. Officials sworn to
support the constitution and deriving
| all their powers therefrom have ac-
| quired colonies and assumed arbi-
trary authority to govern their in
habitants without consent, and to tax
them without representation. This
| policy offers to the people of Porto
Rico and the Philippines no hope of
independence, no prospect of American
citizenship, no representation in the
congress which taxes them. This is
the government of men by arbitrary
power; this is imperialism.
| I'VE believe that it is the first duty
of the American people to stamp with
their disapproval doctrines so hostile to
liberty and dangerous to constitutional
government. If they are to remain free
and If their government is to continue
representative, their servants must not
have or exercise any but constitutional
powers. Between the claim of freedom
| that all men are entitled to equa
political rights and the dogma of ty-
ranny that might makes right, there
is no middle ground
I'VE have not prior to this year sup.
ported the candidacy of tMr Bryan
| We don't now concur in certain of his
views on minor issues. Yet his posi
ton on the supreme issue of the pres
ent campaign is so sound, and his ad
vocacy of 1t has been so able and cour
ageous that we now favor his election
as the most effective way of showing
disapproval of Mr.. McKinley's course
Without claiming any special politica
influence, we unite for what our en-
ample may be worth to our fellow-citi
zens. in this state of proposed actor
in the presence of "a greater dange
than we have encountered since tn
pilgrims landed at Plymouth-the dan
ger that we are to be TRANSFORMED
from republic, guided by the coun
sells of Washington, into vulgar, com
monplace empire, founded on physica
force"
We invite the cooperation of all In
dependent voters to avert this grea
and impending danger.