The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-29
CARL SCHURZ AGAIN
ON THE PLATFORM
He Addresses Noisy Audience at
Cooper Union-Remarks in In
terest of the Filipino.

BY Exclusive Wire from The Associated Press
New York. Sept. 2S.-CoOper Union
was not large enough to hold the
crowd which came tonight to attend
the melting of the Anti-lmperialists'
league of New York
The crowd was a noisy one and be-
fore the meeting was called to order
there were cheers for Mckinley,
for Bryan, for the full dinner
pail" and for Debs. Carl Schurz
was received with a tumult of
cheers. The first speaker Of the even
ing. Anson Phelps Stokes, dwelt upon
imperialism, and in the course of his
speech said:
"The Filipino war is the greatest
folly of any administration. We will
fail if we should gain the war. The
Filipino we cannot make citizens
without harm to ourselves, and we can
never make them subjects"
Carl Schurz was introduced and was
given another round of applause. He
said in part:
When you invite some other person 70 co.
orCrate with you in a common enterprises who
| that other person upon your invitation does So
| and renders elective service from which YOU
| profit; when you know that the other person IN
| rendering that service believes himself cut'tly!
| to a certain thing and expects that thing IN
case OF common success; when he tells you tha'
| he expects this thing so that YOU will under
| s. and it; when sou know that the other person
Y oud rot render that service il he believed mat
| the thing expected would not be forthcoming
| when knowing all this You continue 10 accept
the service in cooperation, leaving the oirer
person in his belief where il the honest man
| in the world that Wouiu not consider your con-
| duct as promise morally as binding aS il il
| had been written down and signed, sealed, ana
delivered. And what would you call a man who
| sought 10 sneak out Of such moral ubligatto
| ON the miserable Plea that it had not been Tor
| mally written down, and signed, and scaled, and
| delivered? What you would call him I leave In
| Your sense of honor; you would certainly regard
| him as a person obtaining yaluablcs under false
| prCtcnscs. unfit ion the company Of gentlemen.
| And that is the attitude i'm which President Nc
| Kinley has placed this great republic, Are you
Americans proud OF your country? Here stands
! the poor Filipino before you able TO say 10 YOU:
| "You have cheated me-" And YOU must cast
| down your proud eyes for you cannot answer
| Nay! The poor Filipino may say soemthng more.
| lie may say: "ln order 10 carry through your
| cheat You are now slaughterng us" And again
we cannot answer nay
Infamous Perfdy.
have again and again challenged the I'M
| pcrialists to show me in the whole history Of
| the world a single act Of perhdy committed
| by any republic more infamous than that com
mitted by Mr., MoKinley's administration against
| our Filipino allies, and | have received no an
| swer but siCkly snCer. Not one Of the impCr
| alsts has been able to point out in the his
| tory Of any republic since the world stands d
single act surprising in treacherous villliny thi-
| thing done in the name Of the great republic
sprung from the Declaration Of Independence
| the republic Of George Washington and Ahra
ham Lincoln, Where is the American having
| the honor Of his country truly at heart who
| will not hang his head in shame and contrtC
humiliation at this deep disgrace?
| And what a war il is, this war carried on