Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-09-19


you can tell one from the other. IRE.
Moved applause.) There Is 'imperislistit
doctrine. You cannot stand for that doc.
trine without denying the things tha,
our nation has stood for In the past. And
what are you going to DO with the Fill.
pino even II you get him? II you could
kill the Filjplnos of and then come home
you might claim that the nations honor
was vindicated but the trouble is you de.
stroy the trade argument. Applause and
laughter.) Kill the Filipino and then
there will be nobody there to sell to- Nv
friends, Colonel Kilbourne used to send
goods to the Philippine Islands before the
Republican leaders knew where the Phil
ippine Islands we're located. Applause
and laughter.)
Kill the Filipinos on and there is no.
body to sell to over there. A dead man
only needs a shroud and comm and
can get along without both II necessary
(Laughter.)
Citizen or Subject.
II you want to sell to people you havs
got to have live people. Therefore the
Republicans cannot remove the Filipinos OF
they would destroy their trade argument
A Filipino has got TO live and II he lives
he has got to have status. If he lives
uhuci Jul nag ub IhuSt tllutT Dt Ii ClLlEeL
or subject. II he is citizen then be
must ultimately share with us in the
destiny OF this nation. II he is to be a
citizen we have then to hay. states over
there. We have got to h axN epresenta-
fives In congress and sena.-S5 and presi.
dental electors. You are not willing that
they shall be citizens. The Republican
party does not propose that theA shall be
citizens. No Republican OF prominence
has suggested that they shall be citizens
The McEnery resolution expressly declares
that they shall not be citizens. Then
what? II they are to be ours and not ciu
zens they are to be subjects. l deny that
there is onc foot of ground under the
American flag upon which a subject can
stand. tGreat applause and cheers).
A republic can have no subjects. And
you Republicans who have been led
into the support of this Filipino pol'
Icy I want you to ask yourselves whether
you can afford to change your form OF
government in order to hold subjects un-
der the American flag? Look at you flag
1t not only has history but 1t has a
meaning. The white stands for the pur-
ity of our nations purposes. And we call
our nations purposes pure because it diff
fers so much from the purpose of the
monarchical countries of the old world
The red indicates the blood that has been
shed to secure the rights which we en-
Joy and the stars represent the states.
What is there in that flag to represent
q subject? You want the subject TO say,
he loves it, What does he see in it that
stands for him? He has on place in that
flag. And ! am not willing that that
flag shall ever float over subject as
long as this nation lasts. Long con-
tinued applause and cheers.)
A Mighty Minority.
II he is to be q citizen, II he cannot be
q subject. then what? Let him have his
own government. Why, the president said
the other day in his letter that the only
opposition that we had over there came
from part OF one tribe. Well, my friends,
that Is too high compliment to pay to
that one part of that one tribe. To say
that small fraction of people over there
could keep in subjecton all the rest Of
the people and then keep an army of 65,-
600 American soldiers at bay, too, is say
ing too much. II reminds me very much
OF the arguments that were made in Eng
land just before the Boer wNr commenced
DO you know why they went to war with
the Beers? Why, they said that there
were three times as many people down
there who were not Beers as there were
VI 'hr pu~rs' rHBidnus OSteHSlpie reason
for undertaking a war with the Boer re-
public was to help three men get their
rights from one man. Well, wondered
at the time why the three would not take
care OF themselves as against the one.
But when the war commenced we never
heard OF the three at ALL but we heard Of
the one all the time. (Laughter.)
Where were the three men who were
being trampled upon by the one man? !
guess they enlisted In the Boer army.
Where were those men for whose rights
the English began the fighr? They dlsap-
peared. Now isn't 1t strange that If
majority Of the people In the Philippine
Islands wanted our rule. isn't IL strange
that they haven't helped MS; The only
portion of the Philippines which has Of
fered to help MS in the Mohamedan por-
tion. I saw 1t stated that the Mohame-
can has volunteered to fight under our
nag to exterminate the Christian portion
in the Philippine Islands My friends.
Or these people who are lighting us or a
small part Of that race Of people have in
telligence enough according to the Re-
publican idea to like our form of govern
ment, why haven't we intelligence enough
to have that form OF government over
there? If majority Of the Filipinos are
good people, and according to Republl-
cans they are good II they are not fight
ing against us, II majority of them are
good people, then why not risk these peo-
Pile to have their own government.
That Same Old Story.
Oh. my friends, II is that same story
that Is always told. Whenever a nation
wants to conquer another II always does IL
for benevolence. 1t Is always for the good
OF that people who are to be conquered,
for the good Of the people who are to be
governed and the people who resist the
authority are always denounced as very
bad people. l want to tell you that God
never. made race OF people so far down
in the scale Of Intelligence that that peo-
pie would welcome foreign master no
me tier what his color or where he came
will never welcome n foreign master ne
matter what his color or where he comes
from. Great appiause) The Filipinos.
Will never welcome our rule. We can whip
the Filipinos, | have no doubt about 1t,
cannot tell how long 1t will take or how
much 1t will cost or how often II will have
10 be repeated but my friends you never
can by force make a people love you. You
can with an army keep people from max
Ing faces at you while it is daytime. but
they will pray for night that they may
make faces at you in the dark Applause
and laughter)
Destiny Defined.
! want to ask you what Is your idea
of this nations position In the world?
talk great deal about the
nations destiny, Now destiny is not a
matter OF chance. 1t Is matter OF
choice. Destiny is not thing that hap
pens to man, 1t is thing that ne must