The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-30
Took Territory to Avoid War. Nc
Kinley Wars For Territory.
JEFFERSON TOOK IT TO FORM STATES
Mckinley Now SEXES It to Turn It Over to
Office Holders to be Exploited and
Plundered by Syndicates
and FayoriteS.
and FaYorites. "
(By the Associated Press.)

Western campaign itinerary tonigh, spoke
to an audience that crowded the Coliseum,
built to seat 10000 persons The speech
was made under the auspices of the Anti
Imperialist League, and attracted thou
sands who were unable to enter the
auditorium. The crush at the doors
when Mr.. Cochran, accompanied by Mayor
Harrison and others, arrived was so great
that scores of men and women tainted,
and both Mr. Cochran and Chieagos eX-
ecutive were jostled and half suffocated.
United States Senator Jones and his wife
were caught in the throng and only DIV
heroic efforts was Mrs. Jones rescn .
from injury
Mayor Harrison introduced Mr.. Cock
ran, who Immediately began an attack
on the expansionist policy of the Govern
ment. He said:
Stated in it's very narrowest compass.
the issue before the American people is
the right of his Government to seize dis
tant territory and govern it against the
will of it's inhabitants. not under our
Constitutional Government, but through
Cfficeholders to be named by the Presl-
dent, who will administer their functions
outside the Constitution and independent
ly of it's limits Upon the one side Inc
Republicans contend that inasmuch as
the extra constitutional powers are to be
exercised outside the United States, i'm
perialism, so far as this country is con-
carned. is net an issue of the campaign
and they go on to say that even IL 1t
were dangerous they would still be bound
to vote for it, because to defeat 1T by
the election of the Democratic candidate
would be to bring about money panic
and that would be too great price 10
pay for the security of Democratic lnstl-
tutions Now to that the Democrats
answer that such policy would be a vlo-
lation of the principles that government
derives its Just powers from the consent
of the governed and it would be infamous
to repudiate in our hour of strength the
principle which we invoked in our hour
CT weakness. We contend further that
despotic or arbitrary powers cannot be
confided to officers of a republican gov
eminent without endangering the IN
tegrity of democratic institutions. Their
preservation cannot endanger prosperity,
but must contribute to it's permanence
and to it's growth
.'Impcrialism is not the expansion of
our political system into new country. 1t
is the erection in distant lands by this
Government of another government
wholly distinct from it and radically diff
ferent from it, and therefore irresponsi-
bly, hostile to it, 1t means armies must
be put in the fields, that American lives
must be sacrificed and the lives of help
less people must be destroyed, and II the
resistance must be subdued now, their
resentment will be undying, Resentment
will seek opportunities and expression in
the future AS the man who Injuries
another expects revenge, even when none
is planned so the Nforeign government
which has robbed the government of its
birthright of liberty constantly fears the
resistance, even when none is planned,
and then must make preparation all the
time for conflicts in the field to ensure the
safety ps its own citizens. To think that
such a system should ever have been sub
mitted to the American people and at
tempted to be justified by the purchase
of Louisiana is perhaps the most extra
ordinary incident of our history.
"Outside of the naked fact that Jeffer-
son took territory and that Mckinley is
trying to take territory, there is no re-
semblance between the two policies On
the contrary, in every element that dis
tinguishes them there is a radical and
irreconciliable difference. Jefferson took
territory to avoid war. Mckinley is
making war to take territory. Jefferson
took contiguous territory to do justice and
avoid the provocations of war in the
future Mckinley is taking useless and
remote territory, which, if he succeeds
in subduing, will cause future contests
without number. Jefferson took territory
to incorporate it into the Union of States.
Mckinley is Selling territory, not s. ex-
pand our Constitutional Government over
it, but to turn it over to officeholders, to
be exploited and plundered by syndicates
and favorites.
Mr.. Cochran ridiculed the various argu-
ments of the Republican orators upon
the Philippine question and said if it
were profitable to take the Philippines it
would be equally profitable to annex
China.
1t was nearly midnight when Mr.. Cock
ran concluded After reviewing the eff
forts of the Boer ENJOYS to obtain recog-
milton at the hands of the Government
he said, referring to the relations OF
this Administration with the English
government
There was not an alliance. That
would not be the proper way to describe
it. 1t was a surrender of this Govern
ment to the control of the British For
eign Office
He maintained that if the gold standard
is not secure now 1t can never be made
secure by the election of Republicans.
In conclusion Mr.. Cochran said:
Il have no doubt how this campaign
will end / see on every side the proof
that Justice will triumph as it has always
triumphed in this country. ] cannot be-
Iieve that republic is in danger thai
is built upon all the virtue which human
ity has developed and which is in itseli
the supreme outcome Of Christian civil
ization That all men are equal before
law is the natural fruit OF Chrlstianity
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