Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-04-06

for which your party now stands.
We proposed our plan and we shall
meet you in this campaign and de.
mand that you outline your policy,
and you have got to go before the
people Of this country with your cor.
rupt and contaminated doctrine that
dollar is worth more than a man,
and that you may 90 and purchase a
people against their will and then
subject them to your power. You
hide behind deception; you tried to
avoid detection, and you tried to
throw the blame on men who have
been fighting for the doctrine of the
consent of the governed.
We Want the Flag Revered. Not Feared.
Now you say that it was speeches
made in this country that stirred up
the Filipinos. 1t is false. There had
been protest and revolt before single
speech was made in this country.
Mr.. Schurman, a member of the com.
mission to the Philippines, wrote a
letter the other day denouncing the
Puerto Rican bill and stating that il
might excite suspicion in the Philip
pine Islands, and cause the people over
there to think that that is the way
you are going to deal with them. The
Republicans who favor that bill would
give club to the Filipiuos. But this
people does not need anything to
make them hate US; no, for God
never made race SO low down in the
scale of progress that they did not in
their hearts love liberty and their
native land. 1t is that innate love OF
liberty placed in their hearts by the
Almighty's hand that you defy and
attack. Republicans, you ignore hu.
man nature, you ignore history If you
think that such people will be glad
or willing to accept benevolent as.
similation from your hands. Why
don't you know, have you forgotten,
what was done by our own forefathers
Our own people were not willing that
white people, of their own blood,
should govern them from place a
thousand miles across the sea, and do
you think that a brown race will be
ready to permit a white race, from
across the ocean seven thousand miles
or more, to govern them for the good
of the governors. Why, you Repub
licans, do you want this nation tc
strut and swagger around like q bully
and braggart. You talk about want
ing the flag to be feared, but l wan,
that flag to be loved and honored BY
every human being. You say you de
not wish to haul down the flag.
would rather haul down the stars and
stripes everywhere and forever rather
than to shame that banner and Il
change the character of that flag
Our flag means something. Every
State is q star, and every territory sect
in the future star of hope that will
at some time find place in that glor
ious constellation. But where is there
anything in the flag to inspire love OF
hope in the hearts OF people in sub
lection to that emblem OF liberty. Are
you going to add fiery star Mars te
indicate your bloody rule over colonies
Or will you have new Saturn and his
rings to indicate the beauties or new
carpetbag system of government? OI
will you have a Milky Way made up o.
stars to represent lands so far ava,
from our shores and our contribution
as to have no part in our government
What are you going to put into thai
flag? Will you destroy it as an EN-
blem of an indissoluble union Of in.
destructible States" all willing to figh'
for that freedom and independence
which gave it birth among the ban
ners of all the nations of the earth
and will you declare TO all the world
that it shall no more mean respect
for the rights of the humblest people
in all the world throughout the whole
human racer