The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-07-20
FRIDAY, JULY 20. 1900.
FOR PRESIDENT
WILLIAM. J. BRYAN
OF NEBRASKA
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
OF ILLINOIS

AWAKEN Much current republican
TO THE comment is to the effect
DANGER. that those who oppose the
course of the administration with regard
to the Philippines are traitors to their
country, untrue to the flag, and much
more in the same strain. 1t seems to be
sufficient unto the supporters of the ad-
ministration that the administration has
so decreed and therefore cannot be
wrong. This theory would be all right,
perhaps, in monarchy where 1.-The king
can do no wrong" but in government
of the people the assumption that the
administration cannot do wrong and is
always right is incorrect, and those who
maintain that the administration can be
wrong and in this instance is decided
ly wrong, are not traitors nor disloyal to
the flag. People may honestly differ.
No doubt many republicans think an
empire is form of government prefer
able to republic and many more repub-
licans do not see imperial tendencies in
the course of our government toward the
Philippines, but those of us, republicans
and democrats alike, who believe that
our government cannot exist half slave
and half free, half republic and half en-
pire, are opposed to the war of conquest
now going on in the Philippines. We
give our reasons:
First-We believe in the Declaration
of Independence as adopted by our
fathers.
Second-We believe liberty is as sa-
cred to the Filipino as to the American
of '76 or the Cuban of 98; and the color
OF the skin nor the relative position on
the earths surface should not change
alter or affect a peoples rights as far as
the United States is concerned.
Third-We believe that if the same
assurances had been given to the Fill
pinos as to the Cubans by our govern
ment the war in the Philippines would
have been avoided, and we cannot Justify
one course for the struggling Cubans
and another course for the struggling
Filipinos.
We began the war with Spain in the
cause of suffering humanity. We have
ended it by entailing more suffering and
death on the struggling Filipinos than
Spain had entailed in century, and we
are today butchering them off at rapid
rate and at a great loss of life to our own
soldiers; and all for what? Simply be-
cause we will not say to the Filipinos.
I'VE will set you free and protect you in
your freedom"
We are fighting the Filipinos because
we want them as colony and as sub
1ects for no one contends that we want
them as equals or as American citizens
The same spirit that is carrying on the
war with the Filipinos will, as soon as
opportunity or pretext offers, violate the
pledge OF the nation with regard to Cuba
and find excuse to make that anothc,
colony of the United States.
1t is not that democrats are opposed
to expansion, for nearly all the territor,
acquired, since the original thrice,
states, has come in under democrati,
administration, but the democratic part
believes that the flag should not fly owe
territory not covered by the constitution
that all men who are brought under tn
folds of that flag are equal under GU
government, and that to make congress
or the president greater than our const
tuition is to violate the fundament;
principles of our government and plac
in the hands of the president of the pee
pie the scepter of an emperor of subjects
and is to depart from the course we hay
heretofore followed as Americans ths
we may pursue an imperial policy an
some day crown king in the chair {
Washington.
If congress or the president can abride
or modify the extent to which the col