The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18
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and danced 10 any tune which the apostles
OF slavery chose TO pipe. When. under JEFF
fersdh. the great West beyond the Missis-
sippi was acquired, when. largely through
the instrumentality Of Jackson, Florida
was added to the Union. the new provinces.
with their Indian populations. were gov
erned precisely and exactly on the theory
under which the Philippines are now gov
erned. President Jefferson secured the
Louisiana purchase just as President Nc
kinley secured the Philippines, and Andrew
Jackson warred against the Semfnoles
when we had acquired Florida from Spain
precisely as General Macarthur is now war
ring against the bandits among the Tagals
in Luzon. Unless we are willing 10 de-
prive Jefferson and Jackson of the need
of honor which has been held TO be pecu-
liarly theirs. We cannot deny the same high
praise to President Mckinley. At Kansas
City the men engaged in preaching the
gospel of dishonor and reputation solemn
ly asserted that imperialism abroad will
lead quickly and inevitably TO despotism
at home You men of Minnesota and the
Dakotas who are here this evening can
appreciate the fatuousness of that state
ment by the simple process of thinking
whether your liberties have been abridged
by the return Of the Minnesota and Da-
kota troops who won such honor for them
selves in the Philippines. There are
geometrical propositions so essentially alb
surd that mathematicians hold their state
ment to be equivalent to their REPUTATION.
So IL is with this proposition. If 1t were
worth while / would point out Its dis
honesty and insincerity. But, fragrant
though these are, its absurdity is so much
more Migrant that nothing need be said.
So II is with their cant about militarism
and intimidation and oppression at nome
as following what they are pleased to call
them on this proposition, because no seri-
Gus man thinks for one moment that they
believe what they assert.
ARMY Is VERY SMALL.
'The army we nave now is, relatively to
the population Of the country, less in size
than it has been again and again during
the last century and a quarter, in times
when we had only our own Indians TO
guard against. In Washington's admins
tration General Wayne spent some three
years in Ohio warning against the Tagals
of that day, with under him an army
larger in proportion TO the then popula-
ton of the Nation than all our present ma
tional forces, regulars and volunteers COM
bined, and there Is just as little hanger
from the evils of militarism now as there
was then. 1t is as utter folly TO talk OF
our liberties being menaced by the ex-
istence of a force capable of keeping oraeI
In our outlying possessions now as 1t would
have been TO talk of their being menaced
in the seventies by the soldiers who fol
lowed Custer and his fellows against the
Comanche, Apache and Sioux.
mo, our opponents mean nothing, and
know that they mean nothing, when they
prate about militarism and attempt TO say
that they favor expansion, but are against
Imperialism They used precisely the
same arguments six years ago against our
taking Hawaii that they now use against
our taking the Philippines. They pulled
down our flag in Hawaii just as they now
wish to pull it down in the Philippines. We
had to undo their work in HAWAII JUST as
in the end, but at an infinite cost OF Diood-
shed and woe, we would have TO do IN the
Philippines should they be successful In
this election. Yet not one of them now
would dream of saying that we were not
right about Hawaii. In fact. they would
not do so when, by a strange irony. the
Kansas City convention had to rely upon
the vote of Hawaii before IL could settle its
views on the financial system of our coun-
try
Kansas City convention felt that they had
to propose some policy, and what they
propose is that we should first give them a
stable form of government; second, IN
dependence, and third, protection from
outside interference. Well, what we are
doing now is precisely and exactly to try
and secure a stable form of government IN
the Philippines. and the chief oDstacle IN
our way is the support given to the bloody
Aguinaldian oligarchy by their sympathiZ-
ers among the people who were represented
in the Kansas City convention. Moreover,
now we %actually are seeing that no outside
nation interferes in the island. After we
have secured a stable government. we IN
tend to give them Self-government as rapid
" as they are fitted for 1t. Our opponents
saw that they wish now TO give them IN
dependence. To give independence now
would be precisely like giving independence
To the widest tribe of Apaehes In Arizona.
1T would mean the turning over OF the most
peaceful, law-abiding and prosperous part
of the population to be ~plundered by the
banditti who are following Aguinaldo.
I'm China we see at this moment the
awful tragedy that is following exactly
such a movement as that which the So
called anti-imperialistS have championed
in the Philippines. The Boxers in China
ere the precise analogues and representa-
tives of the Aguinaldian rebels In the
Philippines. Had we adopted the policy of
scuttle' in the Philippines, the policy which
our political opponents now champion, the
streets of Manila would have witnessed
such scenes as those of the streets of Pc
king. To allow the Filipino rebels to es-
ablish their own so-called government AMI
then to protect them against other civ
ilized nations would be exactly as If we
now sided with the Boxers in China, de-
manded for them the liberty to butcher
their neighbors, allowed them to establish
their own independent government, and
then agreed to protect them from the wrath
surdity than the Kansas City proposition
for dealing with the Philippines was never
enunciated by the representatives of a
political party.
QUOTED GEN. LAwTON.
"I would ask those who by their word
have encouraged the warfare of the Fill
pinos against us to recall the letter of
General Lawton, written just before his
death, in which he pointed out that the
blood of his soldiers Redeemed the hands
Of the men at home who encouraged our
foe abroad. Some years ago when certain
Fasteners were clamoring in the name
of humanity against the army officers who
varied TO protect the Western settlers
from the Indians, General Sheridan wrote:
i do not know how far these humanitar-
fans should be accused on account OF their
Ignorance; but surely ii is the only excuse
that can give a shadow of justification for
aiding and abetting such horrid crimes
The scheming politicians at Kansas City
have not even the excuse OF ignorance,
when they incite the insurgents to fresh
warfare against our soldiers with the base
hope that thereby they may further their
own political advancement.
There are doubtless many worthy and
amiable gentlemen of humanitarian ten
oencies, especially in the Northeast, who
oppose expansion now, as men like them
have always opposed expansion. In ISL,
when Louisiana was on the point of be-
irg admitted TO the Union, ana the coun-
try beyond the Mississippi-the country
now carved into the great States from
which so many of my hearers come-was
being governed territorially. a prototype OF
the modern anti-imperialist. the Hon.
Josiah Quincy, addressed the House of
Representatives in language that with very
slight variation might be used by his sue
cessors to-day. In a speech that would be
quite in place at the Kansas City conven-
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