The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-02

paper bureau, in winning more renoWn In
week than General Grant did in four
years of hard fighting, and he seems to be
the only man on this continent who boasts
of having with his own hand shot down
and killed a Spaniard that was fleeing
from the battlefield.
THE records at Albany show that the
governor got the Legislature TO pass law
taxing the franchises of corporations a
most righteous law. But the records also
show that at the demands of Tom Platt
and the corporations he convened the Leg
islature in extra session and had ii change
this law as the corporations dictated
g The policy which the administration
adopted toward the Philippines is exactly
the opposite of that adopted by jefferson,
by Jackson and later DemocraAc admins
tratons in acquiring new territory.
1T is not question of expansion at
all. 1t is solely and simply a question of
Imperialism and mlitarism. They are to
be subject colonies. We are going to
govern them with carpet baggers.
Let us look at the attitude Of the adj
r1infstration before tire treaty was ratf-
fed. The documents, the letters, the dis
patches on file In the departments at
Washington show that after Dewey
had sunk the Spanish feet at Manila the
administration thought OF having him
of keeping one island as a base for
our shipping, and it asked Dewey's opin-
ion as to which was the best
He recommended Luzon. Then abe Brit
ish minister waited on the President and
urged him to keep all of the islands and
to go into the colonial business with Eng
land.
you recall that the administration pa
pers told us in big headlines that Eng
land loved us so much she wanted us to
keep all the islands. II has since devel-
oped that Germany wanted to buy the
islands of Spain. England did not want
Germany for neighbor in the South
seas. She could not dictate German pol
icy as she could American policy; there
fore, IL she could not have the islands
herself, the next best thing was 20 have
them held by an administration which
She could control
Instantly the syndicates OF America
and the forces Of greed. rapacity and cor
ruption united in favor of that policy.
During the summer and fall of 1898 Agui-
naldos government applied repeatedly 10
President Mckinley for an expression as
to the policy that he intended to pursue
toward the Philippines. asking whether the
Philippine people were to be treated like
the Cubans. This was all they wanted
They were already cooperating with us
against Spain. They had hailed us as
friends and they simply wanted a dec
laration as to our intentions. But the
President having already secretly en-
barked upon a policy of Imperialism evad-
ed an answer.
Had he told them they were 10 be
treated like the Cubans not a man would
have been killed In the Philippines.
do you believe Washington was right
when he led his men over the icy hills of
Valley Ford? Do you believe the fathers
were right when they fought the battle
at Bunker Hill or fell at Lexington? DO
you believe Lincoln was right when he
etood on the battlefield az Gettysburg?
and prayed that government OF the peo-
pie, for the people and by the people
might not wither from the face of the
earth? Then join the free men OF Amer
lea in one supreme effort to again estab-
lish a republican government az Wash
ington to forever drive Hanna and the
syndicates from the temple and put an
end to imperialism, militarism and Nc
Kinleyism."
Il again read from the Governors
speech as follows: OF all idle chatter.
the talk of danger of militarsm is the
idlest.' Let us see. Heretofore our reg
ular or standing army has generally con-
sisted of from 1900 TO 5000 men. But
in December. 1898, about the time that
the President issued his order TO Gen
Otis 10 begin the war of conquest, when
the Spanish war was over, when we we're
at peace with the world. when nobody
was threatening u.s. when all that the
Philippine people asked OF us was that
we should treat them the same as the
Cubans. the President sent a message TO
Congress. asking TO have the regular army
increased 40 10000 men. What for? II
we were IN danger, why not call for vol
unteers? Volunteers fought the Revolu-
tionary war and founded this republic;
volunteers drove the English Off OF our
shores IN 1872: volunteers planted the
Stars and Stripes all over Mexico volun-
teers fought the greatest war for liberty
ever waged struck down slavery and ce-
mented this union; and In 1893 volunteers
came to the front and struck down the