Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-05-31
tion they have proclaims ed and esta blished

ODey ana pay!
Is it right to make tariffs for our inter
ests and not theirs?
Are the interests VI the Manila tobacco
grower to be decided upon hearings given
to the tobacco raisers Of the Connecticut
River valley?
Are these mountains Of iron and mug.
gets Of gold and stores of gold and hemp
bearing fields and fruit. bearing gardens
to he looked upon by our legislators with
covetous eyes?
ls it our wealth or their wealth these
Thugs are to increase?
There are other pregnant questions,
some OF which perhaps require little
examination and little study Of the re.
ports OF our commanders.
Had they rightfu'ly achieved their in.
dependence when hostilities began be-
tween us and them?
Did they forfeit their independence by
the circumstances OF the war?
On the whole, have they not shown
that they are fit for self.gCvernment, tit
u, Cuba, tit rs Greece, fit as Spain, fit as
any country to the south of us, from the
Rio Grande to Cape Horn, was when,
with our approval, those countries won
their liberties from Spain?
Gun we rightfully suhjugate a people
because We think them unfit for self.
government?
One Of the great mistakes OF many hon.
est people is the belief that Aguinaldo
has in some way imposed himself upon
the people of Luzon and the neighboring
islands against their will; that he is an
INSCRIPTIONS usurper, who forced his
authority on an unwilling people. This
notion IL corrected hundred times by
the testimony Of our officials. Aguinaldo
was as much the recognized leader Of his
people as kossuth was the recognized
leader Of the Hungarians.
Aguinalho came back to Luzon. He
found 30, 900 men in arms for liberty wait.
ing to receive him. He conquered, They
were poorly armed at first, but they got
the whole Of Luzon and the Visayas;
Of Spanish prisoners; other thousands
had the whole of the civilized portion OF
those islands under their command and
hemmed Spain into the city of Manila by
q line OF intrenchments extending from
water to water. But for what they did
the army Of Spain could have Withdrawn
itself from the neighborhood OF our fleet,
an3 could have held its own against our
military forces very likely to this mo-
mSKt.
,,rilse,y W. NJ. yPfa,idsnt. during all this
ties on the 5th Of February, 1899, the forces
OF the people OF whom Aguinaldo was the
~, as exclusively, az the American people
tsc1<l NJ, ~, ylNot1f tho Row.
olutionary war after the evacuation Of
Boston on the 5th day OF March, 1776.
They organized civil government 1t
is true Aguinaldo WAS declared in the be-
ginning dictator chief, as in three in
stances in South America Bolivar was
declared dictator. That happens in all
revolutions. While the conflict Of arms
ia going on, but simultaneously with the
dictatorship, Aguinaldo declared his pur.
pose to surrender US coon as peace and
order could he restored and liberty
achieved, and as fast as that happened.
peaceful and orderly local government
took the place OF military power.
Now, Mr.. President, there is no historic
fact more clearly established by historic
testimony than the facts
First, That these people we're aiming
at independence from the beginning.
Second. That they achieved inde-
pendence.
All, Mr.. President, that gentleman says
We are anointed OF the Lord. as the Jews
were anointed OF the Lord. But the Jew
ISL empire is forgotten. The sands OF
the desert cover the foundations OF her
cities. The spider spins its thread. the
owl makes its midnight perch in their
palaces. But still those little words.
Thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not
covet that that is thy neighbours; what.
eyer We would that men shall do unto
You, do We even 80 again unto them, ]"
slime through the ages, blazing and UNI
dimmed. Mr.. President, you may epecn'
late you may refine you may doubt; you
may deny. But the one foremost action
in our history, the foremost action in all
history, il the writing upon its pages
those simple and sublime opening SEN
fences OF the Declaration OF 1ndepend-
ence. And the mon who stand by 1t shall
live in the eternal memory OF mankind ;
and the men who depart from it, how
ever triumphant and successful in their
little policies, shall perish and be for.
gotten, Or shall be remembered only to
be Lespised.
You can not buy the liberties OF a peo-
pie from dislossessed tvrant, Liberties
they have bravely won for themselves in
arms. You can not buy sovereignty like
merchandise and men like sheep. The
King OF England kept, down to 1900, the
title oil Duke OF Normandy and King q
France. Could any other country or al
Europe together have bought France o
King George? ! won Ter what woulC
have happened il, instead Of acknowledg
ing our Independence, any time betor'
the French treaty France had bough
England out and undertaken to asser
her title to the United States. Thes'
questions have to Ike answered, net annie
the shouting and applause Of q po!itica
cam paign, not in party platforms, no
alone in q single campaign or q singl
generation. They have got to be answers
tc history, to the instructed conscienc
Of the civilized world when the passion
and the greed and the ambitions OF
single generation there will be to ther
} ut one answer.
Tie Declaration Of Independence
not SO much q declaration Of rights as
declaration Of duties. 1t prescribes rul
Of conduct for men in the same state