Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-07-05

contributed 10 the gcnersi result. The ehuBe'
ment OF the sum Of our metallic money has cheap
ened its value, stimulated prices and set the
wheels Of enterprise again in motion.
II the enormous gold yield Of the past 1--WE
years were indefinitely prolonged, and the arcs OF
the gold standard were not extended the needs OF
bimetalism would be relatively inconsequent.
But the production OF gold and silver oscillates.
one or the other always preponderating. The
pendulum will again swing to the other extreme.
Bimetallism knowing this, knows also that the
crisis returns II shall reject the offering na-
ture presents for our continued prosperity. Look.
Ing backward over the past and forward to the
coming years, we ask this great nation to provide
against recurrence OF disaster by adhering to the
system OF finance which the fathers crystaized In
the constitution and base its future policy on
more secure foundation.
Cuba and the Philippines.
The prevailing sentiment OF Democratic sym.
pathy for all people struggling for the blessings OF
liberty compelled the administration two years
ago to interfere with the despotic tyranny Of
Spain over Cuba and secured to the oppressed
people of that island the right OF self government.
Our ultimatum delivered we solemny and off,
ciallv declared them to be free and independent
and disclamed TO the world any disposition or in
tentiou to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or
control over the island, except for the paciAcaton
thereof and asserted our determination when that
was accomplished to leave the government and
control OF the island to its people.
The conditions Of the ensuing war sent Admiral
Dewey to the distant Philippines, where another
people, engaged in the same struggle with the
same opprcs.ors, appealed to the same impulses OF
our natures. There he broke the power OF Spain,
which, suing for peace, submitted to the liberia
tion OF Cuba and the cession of Porto Rico. Our
government disdaned the spirit Of its manifesto
of April and became the purchaser Of the Philip.
fines In January. Since then we have given Cubs
he benefit of our civic institutions by governing
Ter through the war department We have kept
laith with Porto Rico by substituting the sugar
baron for the Castilian duke and confirmed the
Philippine estimate Of the white man by pro-
longing the Spaniards' method Of colonial govern.
nent in those islands Of the faroff seas The ma.
.ional sympathy for all who seek self government
has been made the instrument by which cupidity
ind greed hold feeble nation in thraldom. The
right Of purchase is invoked to Justify the adop.
ton OF so called colonial policy by the great
western republic, and her glorious institutions
declared to be for home consumption, with pro.
hibitive duties against their expectation. The
constitution is bounded by the domain Of the IS
Itates, and the congress it created has absolute
Jurisdiction over all that lies beyond them. The
bill OF rights has become bill Of platitudes, the
military governments centralized in the war de.
partments are the agencies of benevolent assimils
lion wherever the flag floats beyond the confines Of
the ocean. Imperialism has become a fayorite
word in the national vocabulary. Destiny is the
name OF its fateful brother Trade expansion is
the mystic verbal tie that binds them. All
paraded as the cause the excuse for every sin
against the organic law OF fathers, while
clamorous appeals to a SO called patriotism drown
the solemn warnings of sages and Of statesmen
against the certain tendencies Of the new dis
pensation.
Against Colonial System.
We would have no colonial system Its pestilent
brood has already hatched in the Havana post
Office and has grown apace for months in distant
Manila. 1t is the fruitful mother of oppression
and maladmnistraton. 1t has no place in the
domain OF a republic 1t cannot live in the atmos-
phere of freedom 1t is asylum Of dishonesty
and ipcompetency. 1t broods wrong and scandal.
" nsakes a tyrant Of the ruler. a rebel OF the
steses2s
faent.s. u robs and pfufders the subject people.
1t is an instrument of despotsm and antagonist Of
democracy. 1t requires for its successful operation
permanent military establishment Our national
standard has stripe for every colony that
formed the Union, star for every commonwealth
Of the ssteThood. 1t has neither place nor emblem
for subject peoples or colonial systems.
We believe in that expansion which under Dem
ocratic rule brought half the continent gal
axy OF commonwealth into the Union. We de-
nounce that expansion which by contract over
comes the people OF a hemisphere under the pre-
text of giving them liberty, which governs them
by force which denies to them the rights of citi-
kens, which subjects the American workman to the
competition Of hordes Of orientals from the
called American provinces to take his place at the
FORGE in the field and in the factory.
We would build the Nicaragua canal as an
American enterprise for the American people.
We would operate it in times Of peace and con-
troll it in times of war. We would fortify it not.
wthstanding the protests or the objections OF
transatlantic powers. We would share the bene-
fits and responsibilities Of its management with no
associates We would concede its advantages in
times of peace to other nations under terms and
conditions Of our own prescription and deny to
them and to all Of them, any other identification
with its affairs
We would form political alliances with no coun.
tries whatever. We neither need nor desire them.
For century and quarter we have survived the
envies and the enmties Of Europe. We have -four
ished notwithstanding the conflicts of that event
full period, When we were weak, confronted with
the embarrassments Of internal dissensions, with
government Of ill defined authority, with unde.
veloped resources and sparse population, our
friendship was solicited, our strength despised.
Today quoted by the nations which would
utilize our strength and profit by our association
The sentiment which animates the American
volunteer and makes him first among the soldiers
finds its inception in popular government, in the
Identification Of the citizen with the republic.
The same spirit impels American sympathy wher-
ever democracy battles for existence or struggles
for establishment. Wherever freedom makes
stand or liberty utters protest they find response
in the hearts and hope Of our people. Love Of in
dependence is confined to no land or latitude. In
sunny France, in the South American republics,
on the boundless vedts Of South Africa 1t has
given strength to arms that fight and courage to
hearts that beat for home and liberty. 1t has
been baptized in the best blood Of martyred
heroes everywhere. ''Battled oft, 1t never dies"
and we who have for century bathed in the sun
light Of its blessed presence pay instructive hon.
age to its defenders in other climes. May the day
never come when free people, struggling against
the dsmemberment destruction OF their coun-
try, shall look in vain for sympathy and consola-
tion to us as their exemplars.