Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-17

Zine islands should be held for COM
nercial reasons should be able to show
wherein this nation, as whole, will be
financially benefited by so doing. Linn
ted to this common sense basis, that
man will never be found.
In considering tn, moral side we
should remember that no wrong is made
right by the numbers engaged in it. To
kill without CAUSE is murder; robbery Is
a feloay; arson, a hateful crime; and yet
we are guilty of all, and more than all.
for we have committed those crimes
againat people who trusted US, believ-
ed in US, and welcomed us as their de-
liverers from a bondage against which
they and their fathers and their fathers
fathers had fought for generations.
All, yes, hear some one say, we are
in the Philippine Islands for the Fill
pinos' good; we will give them better
government than they could maintain
for themselves.
Give them! Where did we get it to
give? Who commissioned US to deal
out to 100000 human beings, 1000
miles from our shores, any form of gov
eminent whatever? From what source
did authority come to us to kill, upon
soil where they were born, 10000 ma
tives of another cline and leave more
thousands still to starve and die? Who
put the flaming torch in our hands and
sent us forth to burn the homes
of men who never wronged us, whose
only offense against us is love of the
identical liberty for which on Bonded
knees we lift our hearts to Him who
watched our fathers struggle that made
this nation free?
Destiny, / hear some one say. What
il destiny? Who ordains 1t?
No, no. Speak not of God. Before l
would believe an overruling Providence
has sent us with fire and sword to kill
and starve and burn in lands prepared
by nature for an alien race, born upon
their soil, would believe there is no
God: that all these countless. worlds
with all of life that's in them, are crea.
lures of aimless chance: that blind and
deaf and dumb, with no hand to guide
"a them, each found in unmarked spaceitl
Ia certain orbit, and learned to tread 4
with unerring step; that man, himself
ia with all his faculties, is the soulless off
n. spring of q mere nonenity, to which b
must soon return-and this will no
n believe.
h Alb, my brother, be not deceived. N,
n merc'ful Savior has ordered this. 1t
all the work of man-vain, selfish, an
I. bilious, heartless man. Ours is by
means the first effort of one people
At subject others to their will, and too ofte
has it been claimed that an all.wise pr
ds violence directed the blow. 1t was {
In the beginning. 1t will be so to tt
mo- end, but in the past it has been and
the future will be that the vengeance
to| 8 just God follows the tyrant's trea
rs, and sooner or later blots him from Il
face of the earth.
!, 1t is tragical to give up the ideals
our fathers in forming this governmer
on To turn our backs to the declaration,
our own independence; to adopt towal
hit others policy against which the heroe
no of 177G SO valiantly fought; to say Il
IN statement we have deemed In mort
90 truth, that governments derive the
just powers from the consent of tt
q, governed, was glittering falsehood; I
"a besmear the mantel of American llbert
with the blood as-conanalInI1 S4ss
-.s1' \. .....e:a.ia7o. eydifs militia
ter lpower millions Of political slaves, Wi
W. no rights that we are bound to respee
3 to abdicate the place we have proud
for held for more than century as the fiji
Ira and most sincere of all the liberty 10
ing nations of the earth and take o
nm place beside the greedy despot wi
out recognizes no right in man that ply
cal force cannot take away, is indeed
ON many national tragedy.
But out of the gloom that enshrou
them there still is ray of light. Th
national tragedy is not yet nation
ted crime.
les For all that mas been done few on
are responsible. Soon the nation mi
lcal speak.
m In no hour of its existence has t
'ag- voter been compelled 20 face q me
terrible responsibility.
ete For the first time in all our histo
the ballot he casts must help to perp,
;lal uate this government as q simple
49, public dedicated forever to the freedo
AN of man whenever its influence is felt
IN. it will help to tear away from the
spired truths written in our own decla
uld alton of independence "that all m.
ing are created equal; that they are 9
lily dowed by their Creator with certain /
BE- alienable rights; that among these a
me life, liberty and the pursuit of hapl
rn- ness; that to secure these rights COVER
ments are instituted among men, deri
MS ing their just powers from the conse
ap. of the governed"
Do Which shall it be? Each for himse
lth must answer-answer to his conscienc
re-. answer to his God.
DID HORACE BoIEs.
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