New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-25
ANTI-IMPERIALIST RALLY.
EX-GOVERNOR BOUTWELL,, CARL SCHURZ
AND CAPTAIN O'FARRELL ADDRESS
COOPER UNION MEETING.

COOPER UNION MEETING.
The Anti ImperiaIist League expounded its doc
trines last evening before large audience In
Copper Union The hall remained well filled through
out the meeting and applause was frequent over
the platform the Nationa1 colors were draped, and
the following inscription hung in big letters
back of the stage:
No is good enough govern another man
without that others consent-(Abraham Lincoln
The speakers of the evening were Ex-Governor
George s. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, Carl Schurz
and Captain Patrick O'Farrell, of Washington
Ernest III. Crosby presided and IN opening the
meeting his mention of the Presidents several
times brought forth Kisses.
Before the meeting resolutions We're
read and adopted which condemned severely and at
length the Administrators policy in the Philip
pines. and ended by advocating that this policy be
made the supreme issue in the coming National
election. and that American citizens having the
good name and best interests of our country and
the integrity and perpetuity of free institutions
at heart unite in earnest effort to secure the
condemnation of that policy and the sternest pos
sble rebuke OF fits authors and promoters by de-
cisive popular vote
Ex-Governor Boutwell,. the first speaker, began
by reviewing the constitutional aspect of the ques-
tion He went into this carefully, and came to the
conclusion that the present policy in the Philip
pines is unconstitutional He began the second part
OF his speech follows:
am now 70 consider some of the pretexts that
poiIcy and doings in the Phiiippne Islands IF we
pass by Shakespeare. Milton and Pope our own
among the leading philosophical writers the
and weaknesses of mankind Holmes The has nsmeS
sin among the diseases that are catching. America
grabbing of thirst for the subjugafon Of inferior
races, all tributary to empire building the
Ing sin OF dead nations and the peril Of struggling
nations that yet exist
He described the present state of affairs in the
islands they in his opinion. and spoke of the
contention that the instruction is practically
Nhn h.
course on this state of facts with the of
action for which President Johnson was impeached.
And. further he said, IT express the opinion
that the fair minded historian will be able to
frame a better defence for President Johnson than
the historian or the casuist will be able to
offer in behalf of President Mckinley" He spoke
Of the contention that the islands thrust upon
US and argued against this view. After reciting
briefly the history of the Spanish war he said:
The fatal error was made on August TO- 1885, when
the President upon his sole responsibility, passed
OF April u and eXacted cession of islands TO the
United States and a footing in the Philippines,
cession Of the entire archipelago which demand
was eonsum IN by the Treaty of Paris. In the
the statement That our situation in the Philippine
and that we are under burden which we ought to
accept and TO carry as mankind forced to bear
famine? ''9'''e'''' u 10 eHDu'0 year OF
In offering a solution of the difficulty. he said:
The anti-imperiaHsts offer solution and the
the country: Let us keep the pledge which we have
accoTd to tb aha to SCI and let us at once
NINA 3 ea OF the PhIPpine Islands the opportu-
In closing he gave his ideas as to where "the
Fathers" would have stood the question. and
after describing the President as dictator and
holding the Republican party responsible he ended
mis- speech with the following words:
And ID thus party that became historically great
tator
thrown. and in its downfall the dictatorship will
to the head of affairs in the republic
Mr.. Schurz also delivered an elaborate argument
in condemnation of the present policy in the Philip
pines He fnterspersed his speech with challenges
10 opponents to answer his arguments and among
these challenges this:
Some time ne ago in public speech challenged the
whole history Of the world single act of perfdy
Infamous than that which has thus been committed
by our Government against our Filipino allies
Gay now renew II. | call upon them all-from
the highest TO the lowest-members Of the Cabinet,
the honor and the best interests Of the country
and the bishops to whom the moral aspects of the
Sase Sho o . be q some and the lay
show in all the annals of mankind similar
swer me if they can! And then let them tell me
what the responsibilities are, growing from such
conduct
Mr.. Schurz criticised Bishop Potters illustration
Of the Philippines as follows:
A most startling attempt justify the retention
habitants by bloody recently made
by the Bishop Of New-York, when he said in a
public speech on this matter: IF my son should
come to and say he proposed marry a Young
creole woman with seven children ! would call him
mad already contracted such marriage. 1 would
still try to sustain intimate relations with him
What we have done in the Philippines has estab-
Hshed just such relation that. and IL would be
a Of National modification if gave UP
responsibilities because find them difficult -
With due respect be il said, illustration could
be more unhappy. IL might fit the case if the
Creole with her children had run
after son. entreating him to marry her, or If
posal Of marriage. But what is the truth of his
tory? The poor woman is desperately struggling
is busy dscharging his Responsibility to the
children by killing them at rapid rate because
they kick against the forcible and shameful subju-
cation Of their mother.
lie referred to the recent Cuban postal frauds
and intimated that similar things had happened
in the Philippines. He closed with an appeal to
the people to show their opinions the Philip
pine question by overthrowfng the Republican
party at the polls next November.
The German steamer Albano came into port on
Wednesday night with cases of smallpox on
board PaveI Makunas and Osip Rodkunio both
Russians, and both steerage passengers. are the
victims. They taken with the disease about
week ago, and were at once isolated. The AL
banO has 7e3 steerage passengers aboard, but they
viii not be allowed to land until every precaution
has been taken. The patients will be transferred
to North Brother Island. and the other passengers
Hoffman Island for examination. Health officer
Doty Will release the Albano until she has been
thoroughly disinfected