Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-05-10
CRIMINAL AGGRESSION.
The Republican Policy of Expansion
Ia AZ Variance with Jcner-
honian Principles.

To Justify the criminal aggression"
of william Mckinley which has be-
come the settled policy of the repub-
Ncan party, It's advocates are com
PEELED TO malign the memory OF
Thomas Jefferson and his succeeding
American brethren Of the same states
menllke qualities by putting a false
construction upon their acts through
which alone this nation has grown to
be a world power, Senator Hohr
points out their misconception OF the
meaning OF expansion under the con-
Gtltution, and shows that their per-
version of the meaning has brought
them to imperialism, In his great
speech in the senate against the I'M
perialIstic policy OF the Mckinley adj
minlstraton and of the republican
party, the senator says
"To Justify the denial OF the equality OF
individual manhood and equality OF lhal-
vIdual states, the advocates OF the pollcy
~ imperlallsm are driven TO the sUNhse
animation that Thomas Jefferson dld not
believe Il nnd contradlcted II when ne pur-
chased Louisiana; that John quincy Ad'.IhS
Aid not believe Il and contradleted u Wheh
he bought Florida; that Abraham Lincoln
aid not believe II and cOntrndlcted II Wnon
he put down the rebollloni that Charle5
Sumner did not believe II ana cohtraulctuu
A when he bought Alaska, They say lhnt
because with the full ana prReueal con-
sent OF the men who occupied lheln tnoao
A.. ar
MED by spnrse and scattered populations
neither ownng II nor pretending TO own
~ not capable of occupying II or govern
ing II, destitute Of every single attribute
which makes or can mako u nation or
neople. those statesmen OF ours, doalgning
10 make the territory acquired INTO cquNl
states, 10 be- dwclt IN ana governed under
our constitution by men with rights equal
10 our oWn--that therefore you may get
nv purchase on by conquest an uHWllllnR
people, OCcupying uad governing thlehlS
settled territory possessing every ht'
tribute Of a national NE enjoying iree-
dom they have Themselves achieved th"t
YOU may cruPh out their national llci thul
YOU may overthrow tholr institutions mat
you may struggle thclr freedom lhat you
may put over them governors Whnm you
appoint and In whose appoint mont lh'y
have no voice, tuat you mnN nuke laws l"I
them In your interest ana not IN theirs
that you may overthrow theIr republican
liberty, ana ip doing this you appeal to the
example Of Thomas Jefferson nnd John
Quincy Albums ana Abraham Lincoln ana
CharlSs Sumner.
"rhomas Jefferson comes down IN MS
tory with the Declaration OF independence
I'm one hand and the titlu deed of Louisiana
An the other DO you think his LEFT hand
know not what hls right hand dId2 Do you
think these two Immortal transactions COM
tradlcted each other DO you think he
bought men llku sheep and pad for ihom
In gold? II la true the men Of the Declara-
tion held slaves jefferson felt the incon-
slstency, and declared that he tremblcd
for his country when he fClt that God was
Just hut he lived aud died In the oNpecta-
tlon that the Declaration would abolish
slavery, rs T. dit.
"ln every accc ssion Of territory to this
country ever made we recognized fully the
doctrine Of the consent OF tho governed
and the doctrine that territory 80 acquired
must be held Ia be made into states. The
men who say tEal Jefferson violated tho
doctrine of tho Declaration when he bought
Louisiana, and John quincy Adams when
he acquired Florida, and Sumner when he
made mis- great speech for Alaska, might,
with az much reason, justify rape by cit
ing the precedent Of every lawful marriage
that has taken place since the beginning
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