The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-05

in the person of our ambassador. If
we invaded China and if we conquered
it we would be furnishing enemies In
attemptingt o subdue the Philippines
We are butchering our allies
If congress has the right to erect in
any territory newly acquired whatever
form of government it pleases, we may
have the president of the United States
exercising more multifariOUs duties
than POObah. He may be a cOnstitu-
tiOnal monarch in Canada, a captain
general in Mexico. prO-cOnsul in South
America, son of heaven in China; 1
know not what elsewhere
If congress can eSta bliSh extra con-
stitutional power in the Philippine isl
ands and govern as 1t pleaSeS, it can
establish fifty different forms of powers
in just as many different places as it
can seize by the use of brute force and
might"
Stevenson on Empire.
Mr.. Stevenson said in part:
1T augurs well that in this battle for
the preservation of the government so
many of the young Democrats of the
country are actively and earnestly at
work The Importance of the pending
struggle for political supremacy cannot
be measured by words. The supreme
issue is that of Republic or Empire
important and far-reaching as the
trust evil is, it is secondary to the yet
greater evil of Imperialism No IN
clared to be the paramount issue Of
the campaign Imperialism was the is
sue of the pending contest before even
the assembling of political conventions
The Republican administration is
engaged in the prosecution of war and
this without he constitutional require
ment of a formal declaration of war by
congress It is in the StricteSt sense an
administration war The reelection OF
President Mckinley viii be held by
himself and his party, and justly so, as
an endorsement of the policy of the ad-
minstratiOn towards the Philippine isl
ands- Let no Republican with an IN
easy conscience delude himself with the
/ hope that if sustained at the polls there
will be a change in the methods and
policy of the administration Such deIu-
sion is worse than midsummer mad
ness
1.-The condemnation of the adminis-
/ tratIon by the ballot is our only hope
( of escape from the perilOUs policy it
has inaugurated.
tImperialists claim they can give the
FilipinOs a better government than
/ they can possibly establish for them
I selves. This plan of governing other
people for their own good did not orig
! mate with the imperiaIists of today. It
was the plan urged by the crafty and
I heartless Talleyrand for the govern
/ ment of the American colonies.
Imperialism knows nothing of limi-
]
! the controlling agency OF government.
/ 1t means the empire Following close
/ in the wake OF imperialism will come
the immense standing army The dread
hand of militarism win be felt in the
4 new world as in the old. The strong
arm of power viii be substituted for the
/ peaceful agencies which have for more
! than a century made our people con-
/ tented and happy.
In the great struggle now before us
I
revere the memory of our fatherland,
/ to whom this declaration IL no I'M
/ meaning parchment, but the enduring
/ chart Of our liberties; we appeal to
/ the sober judgment and patriotism of
/ the American people
AT 1910 O'Clock thine convention ad-
1 journed sine die.
Daily is Made Treasurer.
Governor McMiTfn of Tennessee pre-
| sided at the morning session Presi-
| dent w. r. Hearst did not arrive
The convention took up the report
| of the committee on permanent organ
/ izatior as soon as the session began.
| TIE report recommended that the
follC wing officers be elected: w r
Hears. president; Max r. Ihmsen
secretiIT; Marcus Daily, treasurer.
Resolutions Are Adopted.
The resolutions commend the Kansas
City platform. declare a Democratic
club should be organized in every pre-
cinct in the nation, appeal to every
Democrat in the country to pledge him
self to win one vote for the party, de
clare that the evidence that great cor
poratiOns are endeavOring to contrO
the votes of their employees is too
plain to be denied, condemn the pres
ent administration for its fragrant ere
fusal to enforce the federal anti-trus
statute" denounce the administration
for permitting two republics in SOutl
Africa to be destroyed without a wore
of sympathy" condemn failure TO Wig
orously prosecute the men connected
with the Cuban postal frauds, urg'
that all American institutions are il
danger, proclaim sympathy with tn
coal miners of PENNSYLVANIA in thei
stand against the anthracite Goa
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