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| engage pubic attention. Del1cVe so.
What is the meaning of the term? Not
| as our opponents say-expansion. The
terms are not synonymous. The Demo-
cratic party is not opposed, and never
has been, to expansion. The Democratic
party has been in the past par excellence
the exponent of expansion. The vast ter
ritory which has been added to the origi-
nal domain of the United States repre-
| sents the labors of the Democratic party.
THE purchase of Louisiana, vast ter
ritory from the Gulf to the Pacifc Ocean,
was the acquisition of a party from which
the Democratic party has grown. The
Florida purchase was made by the Demo-
cratic party. 1t was under Democratic
Administration that the Mexican war was
fought and another vast territory as a
result was added to the national domain
Out of this great empire many States
have been made. No, the Democratic
party is not opposed to expansion in it
self and OF itself Why, Alaska was
acquired under Johnson after he had been
worried and borne down and practically
inducted into the Democratic party.
4 False Issue Raised.
When the Republican earty talks OF
Imperialism as being synory nous with ex-
pansion they raise false issue; they make
wrong statement. The question is not
whether we shall acquire territory. but
where We shall acquire it, why we shall
acquire it, how We shall acquire it, and for
what purpose. II 1t were n question OF
bringing the possessions Of the British
Empire in North America under the Amer
ican flag the Democratic party would be
united almost to a man in favor of it. The
question at present is limited to the policy
of the Administration in the Philippines.
The acquisition of Louisiana and Florida
and New Mexico was another matter. 1t
was territory acquired pertaining only to
the Western Hemisphere. 1t was territory
where the people were suited to become
American citizens. 1t was territory suited
10 be formed into sovereign States Of the
American Union. And never before has
any considerable body been acquired by
the country unless it was intended in due
time to incorporate it in States under the
flag and Constitution of the United States.
Then comes the Republican party, in
this year of the Lords grace, A party
which always has been opposed to terri
toriai acquisition in the past, and assumed
to take, in the name of the American peo-
ple-to take by force of arms-a territory
with ten millions of people, not in the
Western Hemisphere, but thousands of
miles away, different people than our
selves, different race. Not that ii may
ment of the United States; the people are
TO be governed not as citizens of the
United States. as are the residents of Ari-
Zona and New Mexico, but to hold them as
subjects of the United States. For the
first time in our history the Republic is to
have a subject. We are to hold the terri
tory under our Jurisdiction without giving
the people voics in their government.
I'VE are to exercise the right to tax
them at our pleasure and without their
consent. We are to have the right 10
open their ports to our productions and to
close ours against theirs If we SO choose
That is what we call imperialism, and
il Is the opposition OF the Democratic
party to the policy of the Administra-
tion that makes the issue. They uay
laugh, and talk, and se0ff as they do
about it. Oh. how triflng, In the first
place, the presence OF crown or
sceptre is not necessary to Imperialism
] believe that a Government that pLS=
ceeds under the forE-4sf democracy to
exercise the characteristics CT an En-
Fire IS The worst despotism in the weld
No man believes that a King win ride
into cur midst. booted and spuTred.
during the lifetime OF any mal here.
Still, there must be a beginning when
the thing starts no one knows where it
may end. And the time may come when
we may have q monarchical form of
Empire to replace our republican insti-
tutions.
From Two Points of View.
81 will discuss Imperialism from two
points OF yiew-the view from which ii Is
regarded by the Filipino and the view
from an American standpoint Let US put
ourselves in the place of the Filipino
The Philippines had been possession of
Spain for generations. The islands had
been subject TO that country for years.
But it was an unwilling subjecticn. For
the Filipinos had been fighting for years
against despotisn. against foreign rule,
and for liberty. For long years they had
been waging war that they might have
the sweet boon of liberty. When Dewey
carried the day at Manila il was well
coined as the harbinger of freedom. AZ
ter our forces were landed they cooper
ated with the Filipino forces. the officers
conferring and acting together, and the
armies fighting in a common cause. Can
there be a doubt that the Fiiipinos be-
Ieved that liberty and independence
would come to them as the result Of the
victory OF our arms? They are familiar
with our history. They had read the Dec
laration OF Independence. Some of them
are familiar with the Constitution-more
familiar than some of cur own people.
They knew that there was nothing in our
history that gave authority for the es-
tablishment of a colonial form of govern
ment. and therefore they trusted ut
"Aguinaldo's construction was tina, put
upon the Constitution by the Supreme
Court of the United States. and he knows
more about the Constitution than some
of our officials. In our declaration of war
against Spain we had enunciated the
principle, true to the American traditions,
that II was war of emancipation, not of
conquest. The Filipinos fought and died
with our soldiers. fought as allies. Not
a word was said by an American officer
from :ne beginning to the end OF the war
with Spain that did not confirm them in
their faith that their independence was
pledged to them. After the war THEN
eyes were opened. With their hopes blast
ed and hearts broken, they turned against
US.
What are we to say about it? Shall the
American people condemn any other peo-
pie for loving liberty? Shall we object,
protest. oppose, when, were our own lib
critics threatened. every one Of US would
die to maintain it, In the old days the
Greeks, when they struggled for home
and native land, had our hearts, and we
sent them messages of encoura cement.
Through the hopeless struggles of Po-
land. always our sympathies have been
on the side of liberty. When the Cubans
were fighting Spain our sympathies were
with them. And although the Admins
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