The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-07-14
INTERVIEW WITH HON. CARL SChURz
M'Kinley is Responsible for the
Perfldious Attack
MADE on TaB PHILIPPINE NATIVES
Criminal Aggression A Costly
and Stupid Blunder.

A New York Herald man saw the
Hon. Carl Schurz at Lake George, N.
Y, recently, and quotes him as follows:
"In my judgment the coming political
campaign will be the most important
waged in this country since the civil
war.
"While the evil of slavery has been
disposed of, the no less if not more seri-
Gus evils of Imperialism are impending.
Not mere commercial, but a great
moral issue is to be decided. The Ameri-
can people are to determine whether
they will stand by the Declaration OF
Independence and the teachings Of
Washington and of Lincoln, or abandon
these to support Mckinley in his inn
perial policy OF criminal aggression,
conquest by force, perfdy to allies and
arbitrary rule over distant populations.
'The question, whether all that has
been done by Mr.. Mckinley in the way
of his imperialistic policy shall be ap-
proved by the people, if properly
brought before the voters, will, I think,
be decided against Mr.. Mckinley in this
election. However, as it is not mere
question of policy, but moral question
OF right and wrong, it will, like the
slavery question, never be put to rest
until it is settled Alright.
"Wly don't they dare to discuss the
moral aspect OF the imperialistc policy
if they feel themselves in the right?
Three different times l have challenged
them in public speeches to point out, in
the whole history Of the world, a single
act of pcrfdy ever committed by any
| republican government more infamous
than the act committed by Our govern
ment against Our Filipino allies. They
have never answered. am still waiting
for them to show me another instance
Of such knavish trcachery-and they
may have the whole campaign in which
to do it, if they can.
"When such immortality is one OF the
most important and most characteristic
features of the imperialistic policy of the
president, no one can deny that the is,
sue before the people in this campaign
is moral question. l am fully con.
vinced that when the facts are thor.
ougly understood this sort of policy will
be Indignantly spurned by the mora
sense of the great majority of the Ameri
can people.
There can be no question as to who
was responsible. 1t was our president:
war. He, Of his own motion, got u:
into it. 1t was noteworthy how the ad
ministration felt it to be necessary te
keep the people in ignorance OF the true
facts in the case by an arbitrary anc
unscrupulous censorship of the new.
service of which the following, which
has been frequently quoted, furnished {
fair illustrations:
Zone of the messages given out By
the war department read: Volunteers
willing to remain Representative Lent
found that in the original it read, Vol.
unteers unwilling to re-enlist, but willing
to remain until further transports ar,
rive
"The people have been made the vic.
tins of a confidence game" declared
Mr.. Schurz with energy. "They have
been fooled by sanctimonious cant dis
guising evil deeds.
"1f the American voters indorsc the
conduct of the administration in using
the services of the Filipinos as our allies
leaving them in the belief that they were
fighting for their own independence
and then robbing them OF that inde-
pendcnce as soon as their services were
no longer needed-thus bctraying our
allies in a most shameless fashion, and
turning what we had hcralded to the
world as war of liberation into war
of conquest, and of most trcacterous
conquest at that-then our moral credit
with the world will be gone forever
Unless the people at the polls discoun-
tenance this scandalous wrong no ono
will again believe in any profession ol
goodness or virtue we may put forth
1T is supremely important to the
American people that they shall moi
become unfaithful to the fundamental
principles OF their democracy; that they
shall not lose their high ideas Of liberty