Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-16

stToy tue property or foreign mer.,
chants. but let them alone This can
not and will not be tolerated.
ANARCHY will be tolerated nowhere.
China viii be taken under the control
of the great powers Of the world, and in
the same way the nations of the earth
would take charge of the Philippines
y do not know what we will do with
the philippines. The democrats have
a remedy that is always open to a par
ty on the outside. They say quit, no
matter what our responsibilities are
The republican party proposes to es-
tablish government there that is
stable, that provides school system
that is just and equitable. Our way
may be dark, but the nation is going to
stand by William Mckinley and give
civil liberty not only to these people.
but to those of all the darkened nations
of the earth.
CHAMP CLARK's ARGUMENT.
Hon. Champ Clark was then intro
duced by Hon. w. L. Read.
Mr.. Clark was greeted with great APP
plause. He remarked that he suspected
that this was republican audience.
He spoke in brief: II have always
said that Dolliver is the crack orator
Of the republican party. I will give any
man a hundred dollars who will tell me
what he believes. All of his party's
great leaders are in retirement. Reed,
for instance, has been retired because
he opposed the policy of the president.
II ask what light did Brother Dolls
Yer shed on this subject? have a
right to express my opinions and will
do so.
Il am not here to defend Bryan and
his views, but I am speaking for
Champ Clark alone.
In fighting this Asiatic propa ganda3
advocate the glory and perpetlity of
the American republic. / speak for the
cause of humanity. A greater question
has not beenSconsidered by us since the
first shot was fired at Sumter. We
have been entrusted, with the ark Of
human liberty and we must not prove:
recreant to that responsibility. Asiatic
jingoes think that any degraded speci-
men of the human race is competent to
become an American citizen by an act
of congress. But a man must have the.
right training to become fl to take part
in our glocious system. Liberty has
found its contamination in the Ameri-
can republic. From Germany and
England, from Cromwell and Pitt. we
inherit our freedom. That we might be.
free our fathers sustained the horrors
of seven years of War.
And now these institutions bought
1T a great price we are invited to jeo-
pardize by vainglorious war to in
crease territory. Broad expenses of
territory and good harbors do not make
ment nor labored mound, but men,
their rights and will maintain them
II am not an orator. Senator Pettus
says that an orator is man not held
to any fact or truth Iwish my friends
to be free. care nothing for the Phil
ippines and Aguinaldo. but do care
for Americans. The F'ilipinos are fit
for self government orSthey are not. If
they are, let them govern themselves.
if4they are not, we do not want them al
fellow citizens. We have many now
that are not strictly prime
The supreme court says that we can
not take territory to make states out
Of. We know nothing about the people
over there. How would you like to see
| two pig-tailed Filipinos sitting in, the
senate and duplicating the votes of the
senators in Iowa? Yet if the republic
leans stand blythe supreme court what
1 else can happen?
do not stand sponsor for Bryan's
4 views. thank God. however, that /
am not responsible for the death Of a
single American boy in the Philippines.
We did drag the republicans into
the Spanish war do not deny it. l
will tell You about it. William MeISin-
Hey is a fine gentleman but he is un-
4 stable The republicans sent word TO
1 us that if he did not send in the proper
4 message they would vote with us. The
i message came in and war was de-
4 clared. I did not want the war: Do1li-
yer did not, but when nation murders
our soldiers we must retaliate.
When the Spanish war closed we
could have occupied the most enviable
4 position in the world. We could, in ac-
cordance with our sacred promises,
have given the Cubans and Filipinos
3l3their freedom. But we did not do it.
We got down on the low level Of land
grabbers. Now the nations Of Europe
say to US, All hail. since you have es-
4 5chewed the declaration of lndepend-
lsence, the constitution, the doctrines of
4 Washington and Lincoln. We welcome
you to the society Of land grabbers.'
This is ourscondition. Do you like it?
In that good old book there is a SEN
4 tence which says: BY their fruits We
4 shall know them. Now what has this
Philippine propaganda done for US?
4 1t has sacrificed thousands of Ameri-
4 can lives; it has tremendously in
creased the pension roll. 1t has de-
stroyed freedom Of the press in the
Philippines by the most rigid press
4 censorship that can be maintained. No
1 party has ever attempted to do such a
thing before and succeeded. Why
should we not know what is going on
4 there: why should the taxpayers and
Il citizens not know the condition of af-
q fairs?
While the house of representatives
I was expelling Roberts from that body
the republican party was entering into
a treaty with the sultan of Sulu. who
Z haa three hundred wives. He is now a
republican official in the pay Of the gov
eminent. as is the keeper of his harem
Slavery is, moreover, established by this
same treaty. How do you olf soldiers
2 who fought for the liberty Of the negro
4 like such condition as that?
"Our government is based on the prin.
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