Evening star., 1900-08-10

to the direction of their constitutional COM
| mander-in-chief. In, the other case men
attempts to profeep %anss naters ee are ground a
| down by the rule of force applied not by
| the national army or state militia, but law
lessis ny murderous mob. Is not govern
ment by force exercised with less disastrous
| results oy our Boys in Blue abroad than by
the Red Shirts II h6pe? May those who
disregard the cohkent Of the governed. vio-
tute the methods of ahnperialism for those
| of the republic at home be expected to up
hold with sincerity thsl sanctity of the Com
stitutfon and of the declaration concerning
| the consent of tho GOVERNED abroad?
VIII the Malay Filipino fare better at
their hands than the Eorth Carolina negro
whom the Constitution takes specifically
under its protection. but whose consent or
dlssent In matters Of government is not to
| be expressed except 'at peril of his life?
Which organization tpresents more truly
and imperialism thai fosters the empire
and menaces the, repablic-the Red Shirts,
| lntlmidating. numbering and disfranchising
| the North Carolina negroes. or our army in
| the Philippines, seeking to restore order
| and protecting peaceful Fflipinos against
| the robber bands?
The pillars sustaining the Kansas City
platform are the Solid South and Tammany
| Hall. The Red Shirts are indignant that
| the Fflipinos consent to be governed has
not been obtained. and they uphold the
| CONSTITUTION man1ully-ln LuZOn. TAM
many Hall vigorously denounces official cor
| ruptiOn-in Havana.
| Annotated Kansas City Platform.
The anti-imperia.ism declarations of the
| Kansas City platform, If parenthetically an
| notated point out clearly and forcbly
| the dangers to the republic involved in Red
| Shirt assaults upon the Constitution and
the Declaration Of Independence that their
| ringing words may well be thoughtfully
| considered.
ANY government not based upon the con-
sent Of the governed dixie that imposed by
| force and fraud upon the negroes Of the
south) Is a tyranny, and to impose upon
| any people government of force Qike
that imposed by the Red Shirts upon the
negroes of North Carolina) is to substi-
| tute the methods of Imperialism for those
of republic.
The Constitution dnc!uding the war
amendments) follows the flag (and extends
to North Carolina and other negro-vote-
suppressing states). and no executive ina
ttonal or state) or Congress (or any state
| legtsature) deriving their existence and
| their powers from the Constitution can ex-
| ercise lawful authority beyond 1t or in
violation Of it (or of the thirteenth, four
teenth. ffteenth or any of its amendments).
No nation can long endure half republic
and half empire dn part of it's area ven
| Grating the Constitution and obeying 1t in
every detail. and in another part openly
and shamelessly violating and overthrowing
poTtIOnS OF the constitution by force and
fraud). Imperialism abroad will lead quick
ly and inevitably to despotism at home
| land the tyranny of Red Shirt Imperialism
at home will lead quickly and Inevitably
to the establishment of American imperial
| protectorates abroad, and to the corruption
and destruction Of the spirit of republican,
| Ism both at home and abroad. Our most
cherished institutions are in great peril The
very existence of our constitutional repub-
lie is at stake. The decision now to be rem
dered will determine whether not our
| children are to enjoy those blessed privi-
| leges of free government which have made
| the United States great, prosperous and
honored. The burning issue of imperialism
| growing out of the forcible overthrow of
| the Constitution in one section of the
Cnion) involves the very existence of the
republic and the destruction of our free in
| stitutions.'
Free Riots and Antf-Milttarism.
The German-Americans. who are i'm
pressed by warnings against the evils and
| dangers of large standing army and by
praise of the National Guard as a substi-
tute therefor remember that the Chicago
platform, reaffirrned at Kansas City, in it's
fIee-riot clauses Jcaters to those who saw
agely denounced the American militia also:
and they note that the combined effect of
these attacks upon both army and militia
and of practical mob rule in certain south
ern states is to point not to anti -mlitari rism,
but to free riot. anarchy and the complete
triumph of the forces of disorder.
The German-AmericanS are reasonably
opposed to a large standing army and to
the system of conscripton and heavy taxes
winch such an army involves But they
are also great traders, conspicuous in all
mercantile enterprises here as in Germany,
and they favor any expansion which tends
to build up foreign trade, provided the ac-
companyinG danger of militarism is re-
duCed to a minimum. OF course, there is no
standing army in existence, or proposed for
the United States which furnishes the
slightest reasonable ground of apprehension
on this score. The republic which after the
civil war absorbed into civilian pursuits
without the slightest jar or hitch and with
out the slightest perceptible danger of the
supremacy Of mlitarism eight hundred
thousand soldiers hardened in the military
mold by years of desperate struggle, has
nothing to fear from the army, insignifi-
cant in numbers and largely enrolled to
meet an emergency from civilian volun-
teers, which has developed from the war
with Spain. The German-American, shaken
in his belief in the sincerity of the anti
imperialism declarations Of the Kansas City
platform is the more ready to accept the
| republican claim that the G. o. P. is the
! true exponent Of practical anti-imperialism.
True Republican Anti-Impe riaIism.
Summarizing It's anti-imperialism achieve
ments. the republican party may be imag-
ined as saying:
'I freed nearly four million slaves; 1 pre-
and saved to republicanism and from i'm
perialsm the southern states; I expelled
French imperialism from Mexico: 1 ef-
fected the withdrawal of Russian imperial
ism from Alaska: elected Spanish colonial
Imperialism from both hemispheres: SUBJ
| stituted a republic for the imperialism of
| corrupt monarchy in Hawaii; l freed the
| Cubans from a most oppressive and de-
structive form Of Imperialism. and will
quickly enable them to enjoy in lieu thereof
self-government, republican in form: I
| freed the Porto Ricans from Spains des-
potic Imperialism. and have sent them re-
| joicing far along the path which leads to
American self-government: l relieved the
| Filipinos from the grinding. unbearable i'm
| perialism of oppressive. cruel Spain, and
| would long ago have blessed them with
| good and stable government in accordance
| with American precedents but for the pres
| ent hateful and unnatural warfare pre-
| cipitated under a misunderstanding of the
| American intention by the Filipinos them
| selves.
| The true anti-imperialistic policy of gov
| ernment is not that which sets up a pro-
| tectorate over our As!atic islands, binding
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