The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-04

as possible self-governing; but to maintain
lao and protect life and property at all hdz-
ards. The Democracy say we should with
draw our army at once. The chief object
OF our forces today Is to protect the people
there from the guerrillas left from Aguin.
aldos rebellion. The mere statement OF
the proposition that this government should
withdraw it's forces and leave the peace
able and helpless people to the mercy OF
armed desperadoes is sufficient to refnte II.
But they say again they want 10 be ID
power so they can extend greater Liberties
to these people Their souls yearn Tor the
Fipinos. They chung to slavery and the
right to extend 1t until they almost ex-
hausted the strength means and lie OF
the governme t. They have stood and
now stand openly and boldly for the doc
trine that this is q white mans country,
and not black mans; and at this very
moment they are enacting laws which go
clear up TO- II they do not trench upon, the
constitutional Limitations, in their efforts
to distranchise the colored men OF the
South. And yet they claim they want to
give us lessons in human liberty. / venture
the suggestion that Vermont Republicans
do not want any lessons from them. When
Vermonters would learn lessons OF liberty
they go to their own State con 4titution and
read in it the first constitutional prohibl-
ton OF slavery. They go to Bennington
and behold the grandest monument OF the
revolution, a tribute to the struggle OF their
fathers for liberty. They 20 to tue national
cemetery and look ut the graves Of the
thousands of her sons who died battling
| for liberty. They look at their own green
| hills where Liberty sleeps. They need no
| instructions from the Democratic party.
The Republican party with which Yer
| mont has been allied from its formation in
| 1856 was born in the interest OF greater
| liberty, and stood in 1886 and 1860 against
| the expansion of slave territory In 1868
| 4, al ,f,,ta fla nf
bondmen in the South were made free.
| After the war 1t procured the constitutional
| amendments forever prohibiting slavery;
! and down to the present time 1t Ii the only
| political organization in the land which has
| made any efforts to secure TO our colored
people the full measure of their rights. In
the administration which is now nearing It's
close it inaugurated and carried through the
| policy which released the West Indies and
the Philippines from Spanish tyranny, and
| replaced the royal banner OF Span with the
stars and stripes of our great republic. The
glory OF the party, that VIII CHI will Cause / s
| name to shine in all historic time on the
pages of history, is the mighty work it has
done for human liberty. Can we not trus'
it to light the lamps OF liberty in our new
possessions?
we glory in the mighty record OF the past
The names of our leaders, from LincoI
through Grant and Hayes, Garfield anC
Harrison to William Mckinley, summon
before us the mighty events Of forty year.
which have moved the star of empire west
ward from our mother land until it IL rap
idly rising TO its zenith over our republic
Yet the world stirring events OF the admin
istration so soon to close are replete will
the suggestion that we must build for tn
future. Glorious as is the past OF the Re
publican party, it stands on the threshold
of new duties and new responsibilities.
The growth Of our home population fror
| 81 0O0 000 IN IN 600 GOO since the marty cam
into power has been provided for, but tn
growth from 100000 to 150,000,0 900 twenty
five years hence is a thing to be provide
| for. The man who only sees with his eye
is limited, like a bird, in what he beholdt
He sees the present only but he who see
with his brains scans the future and a
, tempts to provide for it. What in thi
mighty, progressive population OF oui
, doubling every twenty-five years, to do fc
a living. During the present administratio
we have traded some abroad-sold and 81
changed some goods. We haze made enoug