The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-09-14
TEARS IMPERIA

TEARS IMPERIALISM TO SHREDS.
No paper or address has been given
the country of late years that is so
strong in it's makeup as a whole, and
so filled with pithy pointed paragraphs
and sentences, showing up the frailties
of the opposition, as is President Nc
Kinley's letter of acceptance. Each
proposition is met in a mastery way,
and the hypocrisy and demagogism of
the opposition fully exposed. His
treatment of their bogy imperialism is
the work of master hand and shows
the fallacy of their cry and the little
ness of it as so-called paramount is
sue Here are his words:
"'Those who profess to distrust the
liberal and honorable purpose of the
administration in its treatment of the
Philippines are not justified
imperialism has no place in it's
creed or conduct Freedom is rock
upon which the Republican party
was builded and now rests. Liberty
is the greatest Republican doctrine for
which the people went to war and for
which a million lives were offered and
billions of dollars were expended to
make it lawful legacy of all, with
out the consent of master or slave.
'There is a strain of ill-concealed
hypocrisy in the anxiety to extend the
constitutional guarantees to the people
of the Philippines, while their multi
fcation is openly advocated at home
Our opponents may distrust them
selves, but they have no right to dis
credit the good faith and patriotism of
the majority, of the people, who are
| opposed to them; They may fear the
| worst forms of imperialism with the
helpless Filipino in their hands; but
if they do, it is because they have
parted with the spirit and faith of the
fathers and have lost the virility of
the founders of the party which they
profess to represent.
"The Republican party does not have
to assert it's devotion to the Declare
tion of Independence. That immortal
instrument of the founders remained
unexecuted until the people under the
lead of the Republican party in the
awful clash of battle, turned its pro-
mise into fulfllment. 1t wrote into
the constitution the amendments guar
anteeing political equality to Ameri-
can citizenship, and it has never broken
them. 1t will not be guided in its
conduct by one set of principles at
, home and another set in the new ter
| ritory belonging to the United States
eff our opponents would only prac
, tice as we'll as preach the doctrines of
Abraham Lincoln, there would be no
fear for the safety of our institutions
at home, or their rightful influence in
any territory over which our flag
floats.
Empire has been expelled from
Porto Rico and the Philippines by
American freemen. The flag of the
Republic now floats over these islands
as an emblem of rightful sovereignty.
VIII the republic stay and dispense to
their inhabitants the blessings of Ii
berty, education and free institutions,
or steal away. leaving them to anarchy
or imperialism?
1.-THE American question is between
duty and desertion. The American
verdict will be for duty and against
desertion for the republic against
both anarchy and Imperialism
VIM. Sullivan enriched the city
treasury to the extent of $3.50 for be-
ing drunk and disorderly.