Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-13
IMPERIALISM NOT AN ISSUE.
Declaration of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Afr
ca and Chinn-Pensions.

Declaration of Independence-southA fri-
ca and Chinn-Pensions.
sThose who profess to distrust the
liberal and honorable purposes Of the
administration In it's treatment Of the
Philippines are not justified. Impe-
rialism has no place in it's creed or
conduct Freedom is the rock upon
which the Republican party was
builded and now rests. Liberty is the
great Republican doctrine for which
the people went to war and go for
which million lives were offered and
billions of dollars expended to make it
the lawful legacy Of all without tho
consent of master or slave. There is
strain of ill-concealed hypocrisy in
the anxiety to extend the constitutions
al guarantees to the people of the Phil
ippines, while their notification is
openly advocated at home. Our OPP
ponents may distrust themselves but
they have no right to discredit the
good faith and patriotism Of the ma
jority of the people who are opposed
to them; they may fear the worst form
of Imperialism with the helpless Fill
pinos in their hands; but If they do it
is because they have parted with spir-
1t and faith of the fathers and have
lost the virility of the founders Of the
party which they profess to represent.
'The Republican party does not
have to assert its devotion to the Dec
laration of Independence. THAT i'm
mortal instrument Of the fathers re-
manned unexecuted until the people
under the lead of the Republican par
ty in the awful flash of battle turned
its promises into fulfllment. 1t wrote
into the constitution the amendments
guaranteeing political equality to
American citizenship and it has never
broken them or counselled others in
breaking them. 1t will not be guided
in its conduct by one step Of princi-
pies at home and another step in the
new territory belonging to the United
States.
1.-THE country has been fully advised
of the purposes of the United States
in China, and they will be faithfully
adhered to as already defined. We are
grateful to our own soldiers and sail
ors and marines, and to all the brave
men who though assembled under many
standards representing peoples and
races strangers in country and speech
were yet united in the sacred mission
of carrying succor to the besieged, with
a success that is now the cause of a
worlds rejoicing.
''In the unfortunate contest between
Great Britain and the Boer states Of
South Africa, the United States has
maintained an attitude of neutrality
in accordance with its well-known ira
ditional policy. 1t did not hesitate,
however, when requested by the gov
ernments of the South African repub-
lies to exercise It's good Offices for
cessation of hostilities. 1t is to be
observed that while the South African
republics made like request of other
powers the United States was the only
one which complied. The British gov
eminent declined to accept the inter-
vention of any power.
1.-THE American people are profound
ly grateful to the soldiers, sailors and
marines who have in every time Of
conflict fought their country's battles
and defended it's honor. The survivors
and the widows and orphans Of those
who have fallen are justly entitled to
receive the generous and considerate
care Of the nation.
mot only have we reason for
thanksgiving for our material bless
ings, but we should rejoice in the
complete unification Of the people Of
all sections of our country, that has
so happily developed In the last few
years and made for us more per-
feet union. The obliteration of old
differences, the common devotion to
the flag, and the common sacrifices
for its honor, 30 conspicuously by the
men of the north and south in the
Spanish war, have SO strengthened the
ties of friendship and mutual respect
that nothing can ever again divide us.
The nation faces the new century
gratefully and hopefully, with increas-
ing love of country, with firm faith
in its free institutions, and with high
resolve that they shall not perish from
the earth