The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-03-01

Il meckncss thst entities him to claim
that reward p, omised to the mcC k. |
we want to be called (accmakors, lc
US be satis fled with God's reward ant
not claim the tarth for making peace
bt tween people.
Let me take this money areumcn
that there Is money in it, DO 20,
know what that meens? DO You re
al zG the low, level upon which you arc
settling &. great question Are yor
willing TO drag this qu, gtion into tb,
miIc of dollars and cents ? The man
who says it will paw must le prepared d
to show first, bow much il will cost lis
anc how much we will make out OF it,
Who can show it? Who knows the
cost OF war Of conquest? Who can
tell how much war Of conquest will
cost when it is entered urcn And
yct the men who say it will pay must
| DC prepare to show WEaI it will cost
ara now lDut we VIII makC. liz.
must ne pro pared TO tell Us how much
money we wiliSspCuG ard how many
uVes Will DC lost, and he has got TO be
prepared to put b money value upon
INC soldiers who ~ill be sacrificed in
Tic attempt to secure the advantages
Q acol0nial policy. Who is prepared
10 lcll the value OF q human lie ?
who IL prepared to say bow much TT e
|
brain Who Is prepared to sey or cal.
cu'ate' the gCOd that can be done ty
one human heart? Ard yet the ma II
-" no says it will pay must be prepare d
to place a value upon head md heal t..
| imperialist. | dare you put q money
value upon one American Roy in eX-
change for oriental trade. Great ap.
p!euse.) When q boy Gies for " hot be
believes to be right, his mother is
| IL D. u nf,fn u Sl> 49,
| noble sacrifice, but what Anne rjcan
other wants to raise boys at so much
| Il head to exchange for trade. Oh,
that the men who want tho trade
YOU'D buy it with their own blood and
not sacrifice the blood Of other poop. c's
sons Tor the purpose Of exploitation.
(Ircmendous applause.) But | hear
scmc people say that these islands will
furnish homes for our surplus p0pula-
tlon. There are 60 pCOi 10 to the
;,quatc mile there now and 70 here.
10 You think they Will furnish homes
ior our surplus populatiCr? Uaughtcr.)
| Why, my friends, if every Filipino
| we're to ole to morrow, the American
people would not go there to live ard
work the land. tL3Ughtcr) HOu
! could not get 10000 Americans to go
there IN 10000 years, If they had 10
remain there permanently, ard link
! their fate with the fate OF the inhabi-
iants. We will send more people
there 10 work the t'ilipinos than VIC
| would send to work the land if there
were no Fllipinos.
Why, | saw in - message the other
day that the President was talking
about the reconstruction Of the Philip.
pine islands. The word had II famil-
lar sound. Reconstruction When
| you remember how the Republican
! party In its best days reconstructed
the white race near at home, you can
| imagine some thing about the recon.
struction Of the brown race about .OCO
miles away from home cow. Great
applause.)
ii you think our people will 80 10
work under the equator, | want TO re.
mind you tie other nations Lave Ii led
it. The Netherlands have dominated
Java 300 years. There are less than
go COO people Of European birth in al
Java out Of 20, Geo coo OF people. Spain
FAD control Of the Philippines 70"
three centuries, and yet there are less
than 10000 resident Spaniards out OF
100000 Of people. Eugland has
dCminated.i India for $50 years, and
| yet there are only 100 600 OF British
| birth out OF 500, ,O0O, COO Of people in
| India. This has been the experience
| perience. We will send carpetbag
governors we will send tnicers and
soldiers, but, my friends, history has
| taught It's lessons in vain. II one race
can cross the ocean and conquer anOth.
| CT race and hold it in subjection with
out having incurred hatred as it's re.
compcnse forever, it cannot be done,
and we might rs wei! face the condi-
t!ons that will meet us there. Why,
some people think that Eng land went
to India TO educate. Let me tell YOU
that after $50 years Of domination, less
| than per cent. OF the women Of India
can read and write, ard less than pc,
| cent. OF the total population. Some
think she went there to ChristianiZe.
| She has been preaching IS Ln.powder
| gospel for l3O years, and less than /
| per cent OF the people now embrace
| the Christian religion. Do YOU think
we are going to the Philippine islands
| to educate and Christianize Let me
tell you that it is the educated por-
tion Of the Philippine islands that
IS now in revolt against us. The
Christian portion that is now in
amongst the most ignorant Of the peo-
| pie, and amongst those who worship
after the forms Of Mohammedanism
| Ii YOU think that we are going there
TO uplift 10y force, | want to warn you
that VIC daTc not educate those Deo
pie, for if we do, they will read the
Declaration of Independence and mock
us for our Inconsistency. (hpplause. J
But there arc some who think that
this is the work Of the Almighty, and
we must not underestimate the force
Of religious argument. You convince
q man that it is his religious duty 10
do thing, an(, he will do it; convlnc c
him th8t 1T is his religious duty to give
up his money and he will give it up
convince him that it is his religion :
duty to give up his life and he will
give it up; but more unfortunate still
convince him that it is hia religious
duty to ,ake another mans money, and
ne will take IT.. (Laughter.) Convince
him that 1T is bis religious duty tc
take another mans II fe and he will dc
1t. How many lives have been taken
and how much money has been taker
by men who have declared that Cod
commanded them to kill somebody OF
rob s0me bo1y ~