The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-30
COCHRAN TALKS FOR BRYAN
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islands and protesting the utmost af-
lection for them and the utmost regard
for their prospects He tells US that he
is opposed TO imperialism, and yet, he
is seeking TO establish a government
of arbitrary and unlimited powers he
affects to resent the assertion that he IS
introducing militarism into the United
States, and yet we find the army has
been quadrupled during his administra-
ton and a policy established which will
lead to further armament if it should
be successful at the polls
Now, 1 have no disposition 10
charge the president of the United
States with immortality or disloyalty-
prefer to think that he has fallen a
victim to high-sounding and misguid-
ing phrases which have often recon
ciled men of excellent disposition to
very questionable transactions.
Stated in its very narrowest com
pass, the issue before the American
people is the right of this government
to seize distant territory and govern
IT aga1Sst the win of its inhabitants,
not under our constitutional govern
ment but through officeholders to be
named by the president who will ad-
minister their functions outside the
constitution and Independently Of its
limits.
Imperialism is not expansion of our
political system into new country. 1t
is the erection in distant lands by this
government of another government
wholly dis net from il and radically
different from it, and, therefore, ire
concilably hostile to il. You may per-
ceive this is not expanding the scope
of our constitutional system, not the
authority of our government, but is ex-
panding the authority of our office
holders. expanding il so far as to make
which creates them. Such a system
can only be enforced against the re
SiStance of the nations. IT means ar
mics must be put in TIE field; that
American lives must be sacrificed and
the lives of helpless people must be de-
stroyed, and if the resistance be sub
dued now their resentment viii be I'M
| dying. Resentment viii seek oppor-
| tunities and expression in the future
AS the man who Injuries another eX-
poets revenge, even when none is
planned, so the alien foreign govern
ment which has robbed the people OF
/ its birthright of liberty constantly
| fears resistance, even when none IS
| planned, and then must make prepare
| tions all the time for conflicts in the
| field to ensure the safety of its owl
| citizens. To think that such a system
| should be submitted to the American
] people and attempted to be justified bl
| the purchase of Louisiana is perhap:
the most extraordinary instance in oul
history.
Not Like Louisiana Purchase
mo two transactions could have
been more dissimilar than the expan
| sion of Jefferson and the imperialism
| Of Mckinley. So much has been saiC
| on the question, if you will allow me
! viii state this evening, briefly as can
| the actual facts of that momentum!
! transaction that hereafter every per
son in this hall who will hear the sa
| cred name of jefferson used to JUS
| tify the deal of Mckinley will find tht
means of refuting the SANDER and o
confounding the person who discredit!
the most iIlustrious name in American
history"
! Mr. Cochran then reviewed the his
| tory of the Louisiana purchase, main
! tanning that to secure the free naViga
| ton of the Mississippi river to the gulf
| to which the United States was entitled
| by treaty right, but which right haC
| been practically nullif1ed by compiled
| lions between France and Spain Il
which the United States was not
/ party, Jefferson was reduced to the al
tentative of taking Louisiana, of taking
the whole by peaceful means or els
taking New Orleans by forcible means
/ He chose. the pathway of peace. anC
il was not the least of his contribution.