The Forrest City times., 1900-10-12
FORREST CITY, ARK, FRIDAY AFTERNOON OCTOBER 2 19

| Ihat such a scheme as MT. McKinley is now oHering to the American people would De possible was foreseen at the time of inc l Louisiana purchase. The men who opposed sne eis,Id taklng oI the northwest territory were snted with prophetic vision. They saw ex- | against 1t. pe'Pe | Mckinley Unable to Overthrow If.
 The democratic party believes that Jeff | ierson voiced great truth, truth which | has borne glorious fruits this century for l civilization, which in operation has SO We contrast manhood to-day with ma mood before the birth of this republic it seems as IT we were speaking of different races and orders of beings and contemplating a wholly different planet. That which Jef- | Ierson mas founded on this soil cannot be | oyerthrown by Mckinley.
 | We md Whenever we discuss these mat | ters With the imperialist that he will give us any number Of different reasons. They are contraaictory. They are unsound. But | mat does not make any difference provided ] they make votes. He is engaged in an eff | fort 10 enlist the pirates and the mission aries, and to each one he offers the argu- ment which he thinks most effective. He tells the pirate there is plunder. He tells the missionary there is a chance to spread l the Gospel He tells the peaceful mer- chant there is an opportunity to increase .,''I do not think that you could ever find | that two reasons are given which can be reconciled with each other, and whenever policy. is distinctly infamous you will find that the alternative that is offered is a little | 1 the reasons that they have given as pa tiently as l could. 1 have endeavored to wade through the vague and vapory utter ances that they strewed around the path
 "They justify this policy, first, on the ground that there is money. in it, and trade follows the flag Next that there Is no money in it, but it is our duty benevo- | lent mission to send benevolent bullets to are told that we are entitled to these islands as indemnity for our loss in the war with Spain, and again that we must take them. not for indemnity, but to improve the inhab- l ttants by importing office holders, and then next that these office-holders must be bet | ter than our own.
 must have an improved civil service before we can go into the colony business with | hopes of success. That is to say, we are to import into the Philippines better order of civil service than we establish for our selves at home. Again the other argument IS that we should never have gone. into them at all. It was wrong to begin shoot l ing them, but having begun we shall have to go on until we shoot them into due
 Again, the other argument is that 1t was wrong to go in there. but Providence has intended us to stay. And. finally, we got there: that we ought to have gone away, but we are there, and we can't get out of it; that they are around our necks like Sinbad's old men of the sea, except that, unlike Sinbad's burden, they do not stick close and try to get away Now.
 
 can find any lcgic it is our duty to do so.
 An English Phrase.
 Trade follows the flag. That is the most attractive phrase in the whole reper- toire. It was not invented in this country. It was brought over to the custom house. IL was originated in English use and every English sympathizer has assumed it here. When has trade followed the flag? If trade follows the flag, England's trade with Canada ought to be greater than 1t is with the United States.
 Ac v,atf ter of foa af civ fhn E,r,cp 1fSt, flag was driven out of the United States and maintained in Canada, 1t has increased but little beyond the St Lawrence S and. and the & great until it exceeds her trade with all her colonies combined Trade does not de- pend on flag; trade depends on markets.
 But they tell us that they will establish a protective system for the benefit of the Filipinos and the Porto Ricans and our absolutely certain, and that is that you cannot administer protective system i, against dependency without perpetratine tyranny. We ourselves have laid down the rule that taxation without representation is tyranny. It was not against oppressive taxation or excessive taxation, but any tax. The very essence of protection is that the trade relations are hostile. conflicting that nations contending against each other; that every government owes to its people all the protection in the way of dis criminating tariffs that it can afford.
 Now, with protection against an inde- pendent country. all you can do is to inn , pose the discriminating duties in your own custom house and give your own producers the advantage in your own markets. You cannot give them any advantage in a for eign market, not because you do not want to, but because you are not able But as against dependency, you can give pro- lection to your native producers against the products of these countries everywhere.
 "If, for instance, a Connecticut, tobacco grower thinks that he could sell his to- bacco in France to great advantage, If 1t were not for the competition of the Phil , ippine producer this government has the lpower-and if protection be a legitimate principle 1t is its duty to give protection in the French market to the American pro- ducer while it has the. power-and it has the power All it need do Is to impose a heavy internal revenue discriminating tax upon tobacco in Manila and they can pro- hibit its manufacture and production al- "How can they be just. how can they be impartial, when we are contestants with them? How can you administer protection in our favor and against us at the same time? All the value which these items have according to the protectionist and access to their markets. Now. If we op- pose protection against them, and this gov | ernment should undertake also to give the Philippines protection against us to the extent we give the Philippines protection !, against the American producer they would , be conspring against their own citizens. They cannot at one and the same time give us protection and refuse 1t to us.
 } Either Treason Oppression.
 "If they give us the advantage they are robbing the Filipinos. If they give the Filipinos justice and the advantage they faithless to us. They must choose between treason to their own peo- pie and oppression to the weak depend- ents in their power. Whichever they do cannot be justice. And so we find when ever you analyze one of the spacious pre- texts you will find that 1t is always an attempt to reconcile the American peo- pie to wrong by promising them the pro- ceeds, the fruit of extortion and oppres- sion.
 But if they do give certain protected |, interests an advantage there is no doubt these favorites will make money. but gov ernment on this principle is not govern ment for protection. it is government for plunder. and here let me remind you, ladies and gentlemen, that government cannot profit if it is honest. There is no profit in government except for a rogue. "The only way a government can make money is by taxation. Now, the people are entitled under an honest government to a full return in some form of service for every dollar that is taken from them
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