The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-04-12

only seventy millions of us and there
were seventeen millions OF them, and we
had whipped them; and OF course while
we were excited we couldn't expect to
look at things calmly. When men are
excited they talk about what they can
do and when they cool off they talk
about what they ought to do. Republic
cans say Mckinley didn't have any policy
until he went to Omaha in '9S and as he
went west he gathered the opinion of the
people. II he had asked me | could have
told him how vain it is to try to gather
public sentiment from the rear end OF a
railroad tram. II he had gone with me
in '96 could have convinced him that
the silver sentiment was overwhelming
IN every state | was in, but when the
election was over l carried nearly every
state | did not visit and lost nearly every
state where | made speech not that
lost the state because had visited it or
that carried one because staid away,
but this shows you cannot always guage
public sentiment by what you may see
at meeting. The man who says it will
pay to wage this war of conquest must be
prepared to put value upon each life
that is spent. Republicans, are you
prepared to put value upon human
life? noticed two items in the paper
the other day one was that Chauncy
Depew had made an eloquent speech for
expansion; and just below that was
another item that ship had just landed
in San Francisco with two hundred and
fifty dead bodies and that that made
thousand dead bodies that have drifted
back across the Pacific as result of our
war and the conquest carried on over
there. Republicans, are you prepared
to set value on the boys who have died
war OF conquest? I dare you to 60 be-
fore the country and put a value upon
one American life, and if you tell me you
can, tell me how much boy is worth
measured by trade, ask you whether it
is your own boy or somebody elses boy
you are selling for trade. When a boy
that she could rear her son for so noble
sacrifice, but what American mother
wants to raise boys at so much head to
exchange for trade. mistake the SEN
timent of the American people If they
will permit the republican party to defend
its policy on the ground that trade can
be bought with human blood. But
there are some people who are deceived
by the religious idea. There are people
who really believe that we are perform
ing christian deed, and when the pres
ident went out west last fall he used the
word Providence on an average of almost
two times to each speech. 1t is an old
game to lay onto Providence all the diff
ficulti9s and all the responsibilities and
then put the profits in your own pocket.
The man who goes into silent partner
ship with the Almighty and makes the
Almighty to blame for everything that
is done while he gets all the gsin-he is
not new man in history. 1t has been
done before. Whenever king was un-
able to explain to his subjects why that
particular family should reign, when be
couldn't explain it by reason he would
fall back on the divine right of the fam
lily. The divine right Of kings has been
a subterfuge of every monarch, and now
when the republican party cannot de-
fend its imperialistic policy on the
ground that II pays, on the ground that
this nation owes it as political duty, it
falls back upon the doctrine that God
commanded US to wage war of con-
quest proselyte by the sword and scat
ter blessings by force. The man who
says that God commands war OF con-
quest ought to be able to show either
that God communicated the fact to him
the fact to all men in some other way
be ought TO be able to take the Bible aud
show authority for it there or else show
some special dispensation to him; and
| yet republicans are going up and down
the land and telling that God commands
this when they cannot show credentials
4 to prove that God ever made them his
mouthpiece. don't mean to say tina,
God may not speak to the human race