The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05
If STAMP McgINLEY'S POLICY
WITH CONDEMNATION, u
Such is the Advice Given by
Carl Schurz in a Speech at
Cooper Union" Mckinley
Policy is the Highest Conf
dence Game Ever Practiced
Upon & Free People

Arson Phelps Stokes, the mil
lionaire. and Hon. Carl Schurz,
the noted logician and anti i'm
periali>t, addressed a crowd at
Cooper Union. New York. on Fri
day night of last week. Follow
ing are some Of the striking
points made by the latter and his
speech il part;
Expansion means extension
of our constitutional system, to-
gcthcr with extension OF our
territorial area"
f" A personal monarch is not
required to make an imperial
government"
" The Filipino war is a bare
faced. cynical war OF conquest"
Spain could not delivera SOW
crcignty she had morally for
fcitel"
" The more successful we are
in making the Filipin0S 0us' sub
.icctS the more will our triumph
corrupt our morals"
a Democracy cannot rule
0therpeoplc without destroying
the very reason of its being"
" Imperialism has introduced
one of the most inSidiOuS prac-
tees of dcSpotic governments
a censorship of news"
"Let me say at the start that
| consider the manner in which
the imperialistic policy is being
commended by some persons to
popular approval, the highest con
fideuce game ever practiced upon
a free people. In my whole long
life | have never known of such
systematic use Of distortion, of
history. hypocritical cant, garb-
ling of documents and false pre-
tense" said Mr.. Schurz.
"The partisans of the admins
tration object to the word sim
perialiSm.' They pretend that in
extending our sway over Porto
Rico and the Philippines we
merely continue that sort of ter
ritorial expansion which has
been practiced by this Republic
from its beginning. This is a
mere iuggle with words amount
ing to a downright Justification
of history
After referring to the refusal of
the American people to annex
South Domingo because of the
belief that the country and its
present and prospective inhahi
tantS were not fit to come under
our Constitution, while they coulG
not be governed permanently
outside of it, Mr.. Schurz said:
"Expansion," then, in the his
torical and truly American sense,
means the extension Of our con
StitutiOnal system, together with
the extension of our territorial
area. In this sense we are all eX-
pansionistS, provided the expan-
sion be hOnorably effected. And
if in the course of events our
northern neighbors, people like
our own and practiced in self
government, should express a
wish to join this Union-a con
summation which our present
policy of imperialistic adventure
is apt rather to put off than to
bring Olive all would welcome
them with heart and hand.
Disgusting the character of i'm.
perialism is cultivated as a fine
art by its devotees. President
Mckinley himself recently fur
nished a sample of this, bold
enough TO make us gasp. In the
speech responding to the an
nOuncement of his nomination he
said: "To the party Of Lincoln
has come another supreme Oppor.
tunity which it has bravely met
i'll the liberation of ten millions
of the human race from the yoke
of Imperialism" There is poetic
genius in this sentence.
No, from whatever side we NAV
look at it, this Filipino war was
from the beginning and is a bare
faced, cynical war of conquest in
the words truest sense.
In the name of this Republic
the President bought a people
like a herd of cattle from de.
feated common enemy" against
whom by the side of our flag
those people had VIGOROUSLY
fought for their freedom and in
dependence! Yes, he did that
very thing, without even listening
to them, and he now asks the
American people to declare by
their solemn votes that it was
well done, and that they approve
it.
American citizens, ! appeal to
you III all sobernesS-what would
you have said three years ago,
before the imperialistic poison
had corrupted your blood-what
would you have said if anybody
had predicted such thing as
possible? There is not man
among you who would not have
declared such prophet fit for the
madhouse.