Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-08-21
Filipino Niles
We're Betrayed
BOULDER BRYAN CLUB.

BOULDER BRYAN CLUB.
Its First Meeting Adarsssed by Thonas n.
Patterson and Others At Chautauqus
Thomas M. Patterson gave last night
at the auditorium In Texado park the
only exposition Of imperialism heard In
Boulder this year. Dolliver was adver-
tised to speak upon that theme, Blu. found
it convenient and polite to avoid 1t.
Champ Clark undertook to reply to
Deliver and, as Dolliver had said moth
ing, there was nothing for Champ to do
but tell stories.
Thomas M. Patterson never tells
stories. He is always an earnest speaker
even though he does not always convince.
He lays his ground work we'll and is able
at the last 10 reward the careful auditor
by a summing up which clinches the
argument and makes the demonstration
sure. @ e. D.
Norton Montgomery, the Democratic
chairman, called on Hon. Henry A..
Drumm, the Silver Republican county
chairman, to preside. Rev. ]. M. Dob
son of Rochester, N. Y, told of the faith
that was in him, after Henry had made
some remarks about the flag and other
articles of general utility. The Boulder
band was late, the wind was cold, and it
was OILS before Mr. Patterson was per.
mitted to speak. Mrs George had &C.
cupied only few of the minutes pre-
ceding 9:1s by singing "Holy City" and
the "Star Spangled Banner" Her mag
ni6cent contralto was never heard to
finer advantage. The audience demand
ed more and Mrs George responded with
some coon songs finely rendered.
During the meeting slips of pa.
per we're circulated in the audience
for signature 10 the membership rolls of
the Bryan club. Mr. Dobson was able to
announce that over 800 names had been
enrolled.
Mr. Patterson had no set speech but
adopted the argumentauve and CONVEX
sational style. He had government rec
ords to back up every statement and the
orator showed conclusively that the Nc
Kinley administration had pledged its
support to Aguinaldo and that he was an
American ally.
Mr. Patterson said that if the Filipinos
are as ignorant and vicious and savage
as our Republican friends have painted
them, the United States committed a
crime against humanity when it made
them our allies. If they are as Dewey
painted them, "More fit tor self govern.
ment than the Cubans," then they are
entitled to government of their own
choosing, under the protectorate OF the
United States. The Filipinos took 49,
900 prisoners during our war with Spain
and no act was committed that was in
derogation of the rules of civilized war
fare. This fact gives the lie to the
charge that they are inhuman monsters
Mr. Patterson showed by U. S. senate
official reports that Consul Pratt had
with the consent of the secretary of
state, entered into relations with Aguin.
aldo. subsequently ratified by acts and
words Of Admiral Dewey, by which the
Filipino leader was to become an Amer.
lean ally in exchange for our assistance
to free them from the yoke of Spain and
give them home rule the same as we had
promised in Cuba. Dewey. Pratt and
our consul at Hong Kong had been
memorialized by Aguinaldo and other
headers, had accepted the terms of these
addresses and tacitly consented that the
policy of the United States would be to
put the F,lipinos in possession ofthe is
lands after the defeat of Spain on that
soil, He showed bad faith, and laid
bare the hypocritical claims of Mckinley
that civilization demands bad faith on
our part to work out great good.
The speaker showed the difference be-
tween imperialism and expansion, one
being in pursuit of colonial acquisition
of subjects and the other the extending
of our domain to lands occupied by peo
piles whom we have raised to the rights
and dignities of citizenship.