New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-17

empire they want to hear the tramp Of armies
home. their thanks and their plaudts. The Re-
publicans want the drum to beat so that 1t can De
liberty to shine so brightly here that It will be
pie (applause) and that everywhere 1t should in
sptre people to fight to secure the right to govern
periai policy and yet If you vote the Republican
ticket this fall you will vote for imperial policy.
The Republicans say that we are Just raising
scarecrow, that we are trying 20 brighten the peo-
telling you what may be done we tell you what
has been done. for the Porto Rican law is framed
upon European ideas. not upon American prin-
Why did We. rebel. against Great Britain? Be-
cause she taxed us without representation and gov
S b pnyto Rsn hill lie ts%es Porto Res1s tT
representation and governs them without the CON
sent of the governed No king no despot. no
doctrine more DANGEROUS and more damnable than
that which underes the Porto Rican bill. (Cheers)
HIS PART IN THE PARIS TREATY.
They have tried to prove that secured a ratihca-
Senator viii say he voted for it because he ia
X9Ted it. but t fan by v9s + c Md nn
been ratified. that he would not have voted for it
that the Philippine Islands would not be held per-
manenty. But. my friends l am perfectly will:
the treaty. and if the Republicans are not will
their own Treaty let them admit that their Presi-
dent could not have carried his policy through but
Presidency But if I assume responsibility for the
ratification. the Republicans. ought TO assume
that responsibility for the making Of the treaty
and for what has happened since did not make
the treaty, l not responsible for a treaty that
gave independence 20 Cuba and denied it to the
Filipnos. The President is responsible for that.
and if he had given the Filipinos the same as
Of Independence that he gave to the Cubans
not gun would have been fired in Manila. and
those people would have been our friends to-day.
When the treaty before the Senate IL
necessary to reject IL to ratfy it, To reject IL
would be to throw IL back into the hands OF the
President To ratify 1t would be to place the sub
preferred TO trust the American people TO deal
honestly with the Filipino rather than to trust
the President to make another treaty That treaty
severed the chains of connection with the Filipnos
according European ideas. But that treaty could
not confer upon title to the FilipinOS because
we must deal with the Fipinos according 10 Amer
lean principles. and not according to European
ones. There never has been moment from that
time TO this when could not have promised the
Fiupnos independence and stopped. the and
respected abroad. (Applause) And when. heard
the ratification of the treaty urged the passage of
such a resolution, and that resolution defeated
by the vote of a Republican VtCe-President
MY friends, to-day do what the Repub-
lcan party ought TO have done. and platform
declares that we shall do It, And I have declared
that the first act OF my administration will be 10
call Congress together and ask Congress to do
what il ought to have done year and half
ago. Great applause.)
But, my friends, to the second objection they
say that there would be no war in the Philippine
Islands but for this campaign. They say but
for the hope of my election the Filipinos would Law
down their arms in despair. They do too much
honor. They say that have placed in the hearts
of the Filpinos the hatred of foreign DONNA ton
Oh my friends. If am guilty OF this charge then
who is responsible for the fact that our fore